I have the pleasure to share with Life Feast readers my most recent book"Developing the 4 Skills with Webtools"As the title says, I've selected 45 webtools according to the skills they could be used to foster: SPEAKING, LISTENING, READING and WRITING activities for language teachers.The book also includes LINKS to several examples of the proposed activities.My special thanks to Shelly Terrell, David Deubelbeiss and Kiran Budhrani who kindly allowed me to link  and mention their work.

Suppose you have created a ppt to use during a presentation. After presenting it, you would like to share it in your blog. Then, what you can do is record yourself presenting using a tool such as AUDACITY , upload your ppt at SLIDESHARE and then synchronize the sound with the slides.It's a great exercise for anyone who would like to rehearse before a presentation.This is a SLIDECAST I created after presenting at the Braz-tesol conference in 2008. After sharing it at twitter this last week Luiz Reikdal asked me how to do it.Ppt Blog Talks 2008 View another webinar from Ana Menezes This is a TUTORIAL showing how to do it. First, upload your ppt to slideshare, then go to MY UPLOADS, click EDIT below the presentation you would like to add an audio to, click CREATE SLIDECAST , add an mp3 audio previously recorded and synch it with your presentation.

To present challenge #8, I elicited language students could use to write a comment expressing their opinion. At home, students were asked to use LIVETYPING to write their opinions about the statement "Some people spend fortunes on their pets". These are some of their writings:LiveTyping.comLiveTyping.comLiveTyping.com

I'd like to thank Andressa Cardoso for the invitation to present a session with her this coming August in a conference in Argentina. We've decided to talk about how WEB 2.0 can transform the "homework experience".I'm also using the opportunity to meet Argentine Webheads, teachers I've been in contact with since 2006 but never had the chance to meet f2f. Argentina, here we go.

Close to the end of the semester, the aim of a lesson was MAKING COMPARISONS.Ex: way bigger / a great deal bigger / not any bigger / considerably bigger / no bigger , etc.I decided to ask my students to use the new language learned to compare two items of their choice: two people, two places, two sports ...These are some of their avatars and their recordings:More recordings can be found at the SCHOOL WIKI

I haven't posted for quite some time, huh?But it's been for a good reason. July is a school holiday in Brazil and my husband and I decided to go on a trip with the kids. Our travel destination?  We started off in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, historical town, home of wonderful houses, steep streets and great food. Then, we got away from the cold weather to discover the wonders of the paradisical Santo André beach, in Bahia. Our last stop was Trancoso.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YByW23xjq54

This weekend, teachers all over the world have a great chance to listen to outstanding teachers during 3 days FOR FREE! I have already chosen the sessions I'd like to attend, have you?.July 29, 30 and 31This is the SCHEDULE . Choose your time zone and check the sessions you can attend.Check the PRESENTERS. (Carla Arena, Bruno Andrade, Cecília Lemos, Shelly Terrell, Janet Bianchini , David Deubelbeiss and many other teachers)You can REGISTER here.Don't miss this great opportunity of professional development!

Tonight, my husband asked me to subtitle a youtube video he would like to show during a talk so it was time to try a site I've heard about recently: UNIVERSAL SUBTITLES.It's incredibly easy. You sign up, click CREATE, ADD SUBTITLES, watch pieces of 8 seconds and start typing the translation, you then sych it , review it, and can share it via facebook, twitter, send it to people via e-mail or even grab the embed code for publishing.

This is another great tool we can use to share presentations. You upload your powerpoint to KNOVIO , record your video presenting the slides and VOILÁ , your presentation is ready.You can send it to people via e-mail, grab the link and also share it via facebook and twitter. I wish the site provided an embed code for publishing. :(The audio quality was not good though.This is a short presentation (18 mins) about 20 different ideas for using EDMODO with students.http://go.knovio.com/account/829/link/233

This is a great way to share tweets with the same keyword or hashtag.1. Click on SETTINGS at the bottom of the animation image2. Type the Keyword or hashtag, select the animation type, speed. Click SAVE SETTINGS.3. Click SHARE to grab the embed code for publishingFirst, I tried one with the Keyword "anamariacult", my webname.Then, one with the hashtag #EdmodoCon , a Virtual Conference taking place next week, 10 August.