My main achievement in this course

Well, what I consider my main achievement in this course is to be more confident to use various web2tools and feel more satisfied with them.

Lesson plans for English IV and V

I visited the Read Write Think website and I think we can use it with our students. For example, in English V, Unit Six: "Plans for the future", you can find a lesson called: A Poem of Possibilities: Thinking about the Future. It has many resources such as pre-writing questions, questions for reflection, a printing press in which they can make their newspaper to write there what will they be doing in 5 or 10 years from now. The site is in: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=943#standards

The other one I liked was a lesson called "Exploring and Sharing Family Stories", in which, after choosing a family member to interview, students create questions, interview their relatives, and write a personal narrative that describes not only the answers to their questions but their own reactions to these responses. These narratives are peer reviewed and can be published as a class magazine or website. I think this lesson will help to understand and review English IV, Unit Five, "To describe routines and preferences". It also has many resources like a worksheet contains basic questions, history questions so they can interview their family and write about that. The site is:
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=805

A recording

My activity in Scribd

Hello everyone, here it is my activity.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3112666/activity-of-May-and-Might

Work Day 5

The tools I chose were, the first one called PowerTalk that it is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows.

You just download and install PowerTalk and while you open and run the presentation as usual it speaks the text on your slides. The advantage over other generic 'Text To Speech' programs is that PowerTalk is able to speak text as it appears and can also speak hidden text attached to images.
Speech is provided by the standard synthesised computer voices that are provided with Windows.
I have already tested with my presentation. If one of you are interested in this tools, the site is:
http://fullmeasure.co.uk/powertalk/

The other one is Podesk and the site is: http://www.podesk.com/
Podesk is a dead simple way for independant content creators and producers to publish videos on the internet. It’s faster and easier than any other solution and you have total control over the ditribution.
You decide what to publish simply by dragging video from your desktop. Your video is compressed and hosted directly and instantly from your computer. Once published, you can access your video over a regular browser, or throught the podcast feed. Or if you are in a hurry, you can simply record from your webcam!
And You can also publish mp3 files and Pictures!

There are many more but I liked these 2 tools.

My blinklist

http://www.blinklist.com/Mar2006/