Just found PAPER.LI via Demogirl's Youtube ChannelYou can make a newspaper from your twitter feed and visualize your own tweets and people you follow in a different format. http://paper.li/anamariacult

This last week, a colleague of mine, Estela, shared an amazing glogster she had come accross. This very creative teacher, webname sunrise651 (I'd love to find who this teacher is), from Bulgaria, has created several GLOGSTER posters to provide links to her students to study vocabulary and grammar.Instead of providing  our students with a boring list of links, making a glogster poster linking to exercises and other glog pages is simply brilliant. http://sunrise651.edu.glogster.com/glogs/sortedBy/date/?offset=30A Glog to provide exercises and games about FOOD:http://sunrise651.edu.glogster.com/food/ A Glog with links to Grammar exercises:http://sunrise651.edu.glogster.com/present-simple/

A fantastic presentation to watch. Watch up to the end when he talks about education. REALLY WORTH WATCHING. It's also a perfect example of using media to help presentations.Talk "How web video powers innovation"Click VIEW SUBTITLES to select the language.

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education | Video on TED.com via kwoutTake some minutes to watch this INSPIRING VIDEO.Quotations from the video to think about:"Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do." "A teacher who can be replaced by a machine, should be.""If children have interest then education happens.""There was photographic recall inside the children and I suspect it's because they were discussing with each other." "Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenom."(a self-organizing system is one where the system structure appears without explicit intervention from outside the system)

Apart from a few days ago, I had never tried to use the many cell phones we have available in the classroom to engage students. What I did was pretty simple, I asked my students to create mini dialogues with language we had just practised and then use their cell phones to record themselves performing it . Finally they would have to send the recording to me. I can't say it was a complete success but it sure got me thinking how to best use these mini computers our students seem to carry wherever they go.This post aims at sharing a few articles and videos I've collected about the topicCELL PHONES IN THE CLASSROOMARTICLES                                                                                                                                                  From Toy to Tool Using Cell phones as teaching and learning toolsHow to use Cell Phones to teach EnglishVIDEOSBuild your own custom video playlist at embedr.com

While browsing through my PLN in twitter, found this site MYONEPAGE suggested by @ozge to make online business cards where you can include links to your twitter, facebook, e-mail, web site and so on.After you create your card, there's even an embed code for publishing. How do you like it?http://myonepage.com/anamariacult

Sharing a simple Study Guide I've created for my students. It has links to various grammar and vocabulary exercises, ppts used in class and a video.

Yesterday, while talking to Andréa Borges, I showed her Joe Dale's blog which has concise posts full of links and wonderful ideas. That reminded me of a video from Teachers TV I watched some time ago where they show Joe Dale teaching French to his students. To watch the same video in Teachers TV, click on the link belowhttp://www.teachers.tv/videos/improving-your-presentations

I had alredy seen this tool via Russell Stannard @russell1955 but had never given it a go.It's incredibly simple, you register freely, and click to create your recording. Choose the option of the audio, give it a title and start recording. You can listen to a preview before publishing. As soon as it's published you're offered an embed code for publishing. During the sketcast you can record yourself while you draw and type.My trial was something simple to talk about my nuclear family HOW CAN WE USE THIS SITE WITH STUDENTS?have students record sketchcasts and describe their families, their bedroom, their house, a town scene, their city.students can also talk about any given topic you propose while they scribble.for groups, you can create a channel where all students can add their sketches.To learn more about SKETCAST, watch Russell Stannard's TUTORIAL

I decided to share one of the most pleasant activities I've been doing lately: TAI CHI CHUAN.Last year, during my cancer treatment, I was looking for some sort of meditation when I luckily found my old tai chi master. The movements are very smooth, gentle to the body and great for the soul. Specially when you're suffering the stress of such a serious disease, the peace of mind you get from the practise of TAI CHI , was exactly what I had been searching for.This is the trailer of a movie to be released "Masters of Heaven and Earth"