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Feb 08 2010

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Part Forty-Five Of The Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly

The first part of this post is my usual introduction to this series. If you’re familiar with it already, just skip down to the listing of new sites…

Here’s the latest installment in my series on The Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly. As you may remember, in order to make it on this list, the web tool has to:

* be easily accessible to English Language Learners and/or non-tech savvy computer users.

* allow people to create engaging content within minutes.

* host the user’s creation on the site itself indefinitely, and allow a direct link to be able to be posted on a student or teacher’s website/blog to it (or let it be embedded). If it just provides the url address of the student creation, you can either just post the address or use Embedit.in , a free web tool that makes pretty much any url address embeddable.

* provide some language-learning opportunity (for example, students can write about their creations).

* not require any registration.

You can find previous installments of this series with the rest of my “The Best…” lists at Websites Of The Year. Several hundred sites have been highlighted in these past lists. You might also want to take a look at the first list I posted in this series — The Best Ways For Students (And Anyone Else!) To Create Online Content Easily, Quickly, and Painlessly.

You might also want to look at The Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly — 2009.

Here are the newest additions:

DESIGN A DONUT: Dunkin Donuts lets you create your very own virtual donut and share it with others. Students can describe what they made and explain why they made it that way.

COMPOSE LYRICS FOR A BEAVER ON A FIDDLE: You can compose lyrics to a song being played by a beaver that fiddles, and see them displayed as captions while the music plays. You can then post your creation on a student/teacher website or blog for all the world to see — lucky them….

MAKE A BABY TALK: etrade’s “Talking Baby” commercials during the Super Bowl are famous annual events. Now you and your students can create their own talking babies by either using the text-to-speech feature or recording their own voices. Their creations can be posted on a student/teacher website.

CREATE MORE MUSIC: The American Heart Association has unveiled a web application that lets you create a “hand symphony” and send the link of your creation to a friend or yourself. It can then be posted on a teacher website or blog. It’s designed to promote the Association’s new hands-only CPR, and the site also has a one minute video demonstrating it.

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Feb 04 2010

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The Best Sites To Learn About Pandas

Pandas from The National Zoo and the Atlanta Zoo were sent back to China today. I thought it might be a good occasion for a quick “The Best…” list of sites about pandas that are accessible to English Language Learners.

Here are my choices for The Best Sites To Learn About Pandas:

U.S. Zoos Send Pandas To China is a Wall Street Journal slideshow about today’s events.

Meet The Pandas is an interactive site from Animal Planet.

Interactive map of giant panda habitat
comes from The World Wildlife Fund.

Check out the Creature Features segment on pandas from National Geographic For Kids.

National Zoo’s Panda Express is a video on the pandas’ return. It’s from CBS News.

New highways threaten giant pandas
is a Breaking News lesson for ELL’s.

Students can send a Panda eCard from the National Zoo, email it to themselves or a friend, and then post the url address of their creation on a student/teacher website.

Learn about pandas
at the San Diego Zoo.

Bye-Bye, Panda
is a slideshow from TIME Magazine.

Giant pandas head to China is a series of photos from the Sacramento Bee.

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Feb 04 2010

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The Best Sites For Learning About “Cool” Cars (& Designing Your Own!)

To have a little fun, and to cultivate some interest  — especially from my young male students — I thought a “The Best…” list on “cool” cars might be engaging.

I’m planning on having my English Language Learner students look through these accessible sites, identify which ones they found particularly intriguing, and explain why — in writing and verbally.  In addition, they can design their own cars and describe them.  The sites are listed in two separate sections — the photos, and the design sites.

It’s just a light exercise to do some day, probably after a day of taking standardized tests…

Here are my picks for The Best Sites For Learning About “Cool” Cars (& Designing Your Own!):

IMAGES OF COOL CARS:

Here’s a Time Magazine slideshow about The Plane That Drives.

Discovery has both a slideshow and a video about a flying car.

MSNBC has a video about an underwater car.

Breaking News English has an activity about the same car, and provides audio support for the text.

Ten Things You Should Know About The World’s Cheapest Car is a slideshow from TIME Magazine.

MSNBC has video about the Nano, the world’s cheapest car that sells for $2,000.

Not really a car, but I’m including a slideshow about motorcycles from Time Magazine — The Evolution of Harley-Davidson.

Here are three accessible resources on the new U.S. Presidential limousine:

You can see photos and a diagram of the new limousine created for Obama, and it’s pretty impressive, indeed.

Here’s another interactive graphic about the limousine.

Breaking News English has a good online lesson on the new Presidential limousine that will be unveiled on Inauguration Day.

The Shape Of Alternative Power is a slideshow from The New York Times featuring some pretty cool-looking cars not powered by gasoline.

Take a look at this slideshow of the all-electric Tesla Roadster.

Flash In The Pan is a New York Times slideshow of the recent New York Auto Show.

Here’s a CNBC slideshow of the 2009 Detroit Auto Show.

Here’s a CNN slideshow of the latest “concept cars” — cars the auto companies have on the drawing board for the far-future.

CNN also has a slideshow of cars that have been in science fiction movies. The site also lets you rank them and compare your choices with those of others.

Cars Of The Future is another engaging slideshow.

Here’s an online exhibit of Lowrider cars.

Forbes Magazine has a slideshow showing the world’s most expensive cars.

Which Cars Are Most Expensive? is another slideshow.

Here’s an audio slideshow from the San Jose Mercury News about the Tesla, the electric roadster.

I don’t know if I would call the cars in this next slideshow “cool,” but they are Very, Very, Very Small Cars.

The Boston Globe’s The Big Picture has a series of images of Formula One racing cars.

Take a look at 12 Of The World’s Strangest Vehicles.

Here are 15 of the World’s Strangest Limousines.

CNN has a video about flying cars.

Eye-Popping Car Designs is a slideshow from LIFE Magazine.

Here are some Insanely Decorated Cars.

Check-out 12 Cool and Unusual Limousines.

DESIGNING YOUR OWN COOL CARS:

Create A Ride lets you design your own race car.  Boys in particular will love it.  You can save your design with a special number, but it doesn’t provide you with a unique url address.  So to access it again you just have to go to the site and type in the the number.  Students can learn some vocabulary and write about their car.

It’s not a car, but Create the Honda lets you design the motorcycle of your dreams. Be sure to click on “Europe” to get to the English version of the site

In a related application, users can create their own Race-Car Driver and have him/her “say” a message using the site’s text-to-speech feature.

As always, feedback is welcome.

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Feb 01 2010

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The Best Movie Scenes To Use For English-Language Development

Filed under best of the year, video

I’ve seen a lot of movies over the years, and know a lot of good scenes that will work with English Language Learners. However, I don’t have an infallible memory, and I haven’t seen all the movies ever made.  So I figured that there must quite a few other lists out there of movie scenes that would work well with ELL’s, and, after some “googling,” I discovered that I was right.

This “The Best…” list is a “sister list” to The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL.  There, I share some good clips, as well as other resources, and tell how I use these kinds of movie scenes in the classroom.

My favorite way of using them is a technique called “Back To The Screen” that I adapted from Zero Prep: Ready To Go Activities For The Language Classroom by Laurel Pollard and Natalie Hess. I pick a clip from a movie (the highway chase scene from one of the Matrix movies, for example). I then divide the class into pairs with one group facing the TV and the other with their back to it. Then, after turning off the sound, I begin playing the movie. The person who can see the screen tells the other person what is happening. Then, after awhile, I switch the groups around. Afterwards, the pairs need to write a chronological sequence of what happened, which we share in class. Finally, everyone watches the clip, with sound, together. Students really enjoy this activity.

The movie scenes I share here are ideal for this kind of activity.  Some of them include video clips of the actual scenes from YouTube.  If you want to use those videos, but YouTube is blocked at your school, you might want to read The Best Ways To Access Educational YouTube Videos At School.

Of course, there are many other ways to use a video clip as a language-development activity. James Keddie has created a great site called TEFL Clips that shares video clips and different English exercises that can be used with them. Many of his ideas can be adapted for these video scenes, too.

If the scenes on this list can’t be found on YouTube, I just rent a DVD and show the scene.

Some of the video clips on these sites are not appropriate for classroom use, though they are a very small percentage.  So this post is for teacher, not student, consumption.

Here are my picks for The Best Movie Scenes To Use For English-Language Development:

The 50 Funniest Movies Scenes Ever (With Videos) is a good list that includes videos of the scenes, too.

Slapstick’s Greatest Hits shares several clips, including from “I Love Lucy” and the silent era’s Harold Lloyd.

What Is The Best Movie Scene You Can Find On YouTube? answers that question with a number of different clips — some inappropriate for classroom use.

Popular Mechanics has a great list of what they consider to be The Best Car Chases In Movie History, and include online video clips.

The Oregonian newspaper has a little different view of The Best Movie Chase Scenes, again including clips.

AMC’s Filmsite has an incredible list of different types of “The Best” scenes — best scary scenes, best disaster scenes, etc. It doesn’t include clips, but that’s what Netflix is for.

CNN has a list of The Best — And Worst — Movie Battle Scenes — without clips.

And here’s a list of The Best Martial Arts Movie Fight Scenes.

Movieclips has immediately become an indispensable website in my “teachers’ repertoire” of links. It has thousands of short video clips from movies and they’re not blocked by our content filter! And they’re available without registering — except for clips that have “mature” content. That in itself makes it a wonderful resource. But that’s only part of why I like this new site so much. What makes it a real winner is that that clips are categorized by theme, character, setting, mood, and more. They’re incredibly detailed.

This kind of organization makes it a gold mine for English Language Learners and their teachers. A ready-made video to teach vocabulary or an academic concept is at your finger-tips. Plus, they’re easily used for an activity like “Back To The Screen,” which I explain in The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL.

In addition, users can create questions about the clip that the site will host. That’s a nice feature, and an opportunity for students to write for an authentic audience. The only tricky part is that in order to do so you have to register for the site, which is easy enough. However, that also gives you access to the mature content clips, so you’d only want to have students use it under supervision.

Unfortunately, for now at least, Movieclips is only accessible in the United States and Canada, though they hope to open it up to other countries soon.

As always, feedback is welcome.

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Jan 29 2010

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The Best “Tech” Blogs For Learning About New Web Applications

In previous “The Best…” lists, I’ve shared many of the places where I find the resources I share in this blog.

Today, I thought I’d share a short list of the “tech” blogs that I’ve found to be the best for sharing new web tools that are coming online. They obviously don’t look at them through the lens of an educator, but I find it pretty easy to figure out if and how these new tools can be applicable to schools.

You might want to consider subscribing to them yourself if you are not reading them already. They are sources of great information. Of course, they post a lot, and most of what they write about is not particularly useful for teachers.   It’s very easy, though, to quickly glance at the posts to identify the ones that are.

Here are my picks for The Best “Tech” Blogs For Learning About New Web Applications:

TechCrunch

Mashable

Read Write Web

Webware

Go To Web 2.0 Net

Killer Start-Ups

Make Use Of

Alt Search Engines

Feel free to offer additional suggestions.

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Jan 28 2010

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The Best Sites To Learn About The Greensboro Sit-Ins (It’s The Fiftieth Anniversary)

February 1st is the fiftieth anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins. As a local television station describes it:

On Feb. 1, 1960, four black students at N.C. A&T sat down at the segregated lunch counter at the F.W. Woolworth store in downtown Greensboro and demanded service. The protest continued until July, when the counter was desegregated.

This pivotal moment in civil rights history is receiving the attention it deserves.

Here are my choices for The Best Sites To Learn About The Greensboro Sit-Ins:

The National Museum of American History has many resources, including videos and lesson plans, on the sit-ins.

The Woolworth Sit-In That Launched a Movement is from National Public Radio, and provides audio support for the text.

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four
is the website for a PBS film and has many resources.

The International Civil Rights Center and Museum doesn’t have a whole of resources, but it’s worth visiting for it’s impressive opening presentation and for the fact that it’s opening its doors next week — on the site of the Woolworth store where the sit-ins took place.

Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch Of A Civil Rights Movement is a website set-up by the Greensboro local newspaper, and has a wealth of multimedia resources.

New Museum to Honor Power of a Sit-In Protest is the title of a new Voice of America Special English report that provides audio for the text.

The Legacy of The Greensboro Four is a video from CBS News.

A Participant Looks Back is a CNN video.

The New York Times has a slideshow titled Center Of Change and an accompanying article.

Protesters Reflect On Success Of 1960s Sit-ins is an article from CBS News.

A Brief History of the Sit In Movement is a slideshow from TIME Magazine.

Inside The Civil Rights Museum is a video from USA Today.

Greensboro Sit-In is another site with multimedia resources.

You might also be interested in:

The Best Websites For Learning About Martin Luther King
The Best Websites To Teach & Learn About African-American History

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Jan 26 2010

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The Best Sites To Learn About Australia

Today is Australia Day, which commemorates the first convict ships that brought immigrants to the continent to start the country. I thought I’d bring together a quick list of links about the country that would be accessible to English Language Learners.

I suspect that Australians might have some great suggestions to add to this list, so please include new links in the comments section of this post.

Here are my choices for The Best Sites To Learn About Australia (not in order of preference):

A Good Day To Be An Australian is a Wall Street Journal slideshow showing how today is being celebrated in that country.

English Listening Lesson Library Online has a ton of activities about Australia specifically designed for ELL’s.

Barnaby Bear Goes Under gives an introduction to the country.

Passport Australia comes from Channel One.

National Geographic has an Australia section.

Here’s a simple online presentation on the country.

Enchanted Learning has a page on Australia.

Dust Echoes and Stories of The Dreaming share aboriginal stories from the continent.

Discovery has a video of the Great Barrier Reef.

Mr. Nussbaum has a number of activities related to Australia.

Awesome Australia is a slideshow from MSNBC.

You might also be interested in The Best Sites To Learn About The Fires In Australia.

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Jan 24 2010

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The Best Online Collections Of PowerPoints For Teachers

PowerPoint presentations have certainly be abused in many contexts, and the classroom has been one of them. I really don’t use them much in my own teaching.

However, sometimes I’ve been able to find a good PowerPoint presentation that has already been created by another teacher; that’s related to a topic I’m teaching; and that’s accessible to an English Language Learner. I’ll sometimes then put a link to the presentation on one of our class blogs or my website for students to access.

I thought it might be useful to put together a “The Best…” list sharing sources of decent PowerPoint presentations that are free to use and are accessible to English Language Learners. All these sites cover most of the content areas.

Here are my picks for The Best Online Collections of PowerPoints For Teachers (Pete’s PowerPoint Station is clearly my number one pick, but the rest are not in any order of preference):

Pete’s PowerPoint Station

World of Teaching

Jefferson County Schools

Nebo School District

Graves School District

Gaston County Schools

Primary Resources

Here’s a list of 7 Search Engines for PowerPoint Presentations. I wasn’t too impressed with any of them, but if you can’t find what you’re looking for in any of the sites I listed in this post, you might want to try them out.

As always, feedback is welcome.

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Jan 19 2010

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The Best Sites For Learning About Nutrition & Food Safety

There have been a number of web tools that have “opened for business” in the past year related food nutrition and safety. I thought it might be useful to both my students and others to create a “The Best…” list related to the topic.

You can also find links to most of these sites — and more — on my website under Health.

Here are my picks — not in order of preference — for The Best Sites For Learning About Nutrition & Food Safety (and that are accessible to English Language Learners, of course):

Breaking News English has a lesson, including audio support for the text, titled Life Near Fast Food Restaurants Unhealthy.

Calorie King has a fairly accessible database on the nutritional content ofmany different kinds of food.  It would require some pre-teaching on what nutrition labels mean, though.

Fatburgr provides basic nutritional information on menus from popular fast food restaurants in a very simple and accessible interface.

The University of California-Davis has developed some wonderfully entertaining, informative, and accessible music videos about food safety issues. They’re closed-captioned, and many, if not all, are not sung very fast.

Here’s a slideshow called How Many Calories In A Thanksgiving Dinner? Not only does it show the different foods that compose a typical Thanksgiving dinner, but it also shares the calorie content of each one.

Eat, Drink, and Be Wary is the name of an interactive from the Sun-Sentinel newspaper in Florida.  It shows images and descriptions of various holiday foods. If you click on them, you’ll then see how much exercise you have to do in order to “work off” each food’s calories.

Food Fury is a fun game where players have to select which foods are important to eat every day and which ones should not.  It’s good for nutrition education and vocabulary acquisition.  It’s definitely accessible to English Language Learners of all levels.  The same site also has another healthy food game called Juice Jumble.

Stadium Nutrition from Aetna is an interactive exercise where you create a meal you’d eat at a baseball stadium and you’re then told its nutritional content.

Make Your Calories Count is a good tutorial from the Food and Drug Administration.  It demonstrates how to read nutrition labels on food products.  It’s probably accessible to Early Intermediate English Language Learners.

The Lunch-o-Matic game from PBS has players pick foods that help provide a healthy lunch.  It uses both text and audio.

The great Learning Edge computer-based “paper” has an audio and text article on “Men Don’t Eat Vegetables.” The Learning Edge has another one called Eat Less Meat.

Healthy Eating is a song from the British Council.

Get On The Right Track To Healthy Eating is a simple e-book with audio support.

Fantastic Food Challenge is another healthy food game — this time from Michigan State University.

The Incredible Adventures Of The Amazing Food Detective comes from Kaiser Permanente Health

Healthy Roads Media has some great web-based nutrition multimedia tools. You just have to scroll down until you reach the Nutrition section.

The Top 100 Foods To Improve Productivity is an interactive from the British newspaper The Guardian.

The Food Pyramid is a good animated movie from Brainpop, Jr., though you have to subscribe in order to view it.

Good Guide, which I’ve posted about previously, rates products on health, environmental and social performance. They’ve recently added food items to the items they review (you can read more about it at this Webware post). Their ratings are a little different from the other sites on this list, and might be worth a look.

Still Tasty tells you how long different foods will stay safe to eat and what’s the best way to store them. It’s more appropriate for Intermediate ELL’s.

Mission Nutrition is yet another healthy food game. This one is from Kids Health.

Buy Better Groceries is an interactive graphic from the Washington Post.  It lets you choose from a variety of grocery sections. Then, you choose brand names from that product category. You’re then shown the different nutritional values of your choice, and you can compare that with other options. You can then fill-up a virtual grocery cart with your “purchases” and see a total nutritional information for everything you’ve “bought.”

The My Pyramid Blast-Off Game is a fun way for students to learn about the Food Pyramid. It’s accessible to Intermediate ELL’s.

CBS News has an impressive interactive on Diet and Nutrition.

Two Foods lets you easily compare the nutritional content of…any two foods. My Foodapedia is a similar site.

Why Americans Are Fat is an infographic that explains why knowing about nutrition is critical for our students.

Fizzy’s Lunch Lab is from PBS, and is designed to help kids learn healthy food habits. Most of the text on the site is provided with audio support.

The Nutrition Cafe at the Pacific Science Center has some neat activities.

Dole’s Superkids also has a bunch of neat activities and games. You might need to click on the “low-bandwidth version,” and that seemed fine to me.

Food Champs has a lot different leveled activities related to food vocabulary and nutrition. Most, if not all, of the site is accessible to English Language Learners.

You can play the Food Pyramid Adventure game.

Guess The Calories is another online nutrition game.

Dining Decisions is yet another healthy food game.

Play “Unmuddle The Meals.”

Start Making Choices has some good interactive guides on nutrition, as does Nutrition Explorations.

As always, feedback is welcome.

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Jan 18 2010

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The Best Places To Learn About (And View Video Clips Of) Teachers In The Movies

I recently received an email from Jay Sugerman, a fourth-grade teacher in Massachusetts, asking me if I knew of any places that had video clips of teachers portrayed on television or in the movies.

I thought it was a good question, and so decided to make a quick “The Best…” list.

I’d also be interested in hearing readers share which TV or movie teachers you feel are the best — and worst — role models out there. Please leave a comment if you have an idea. Also, please share if you have other suggestions of where to find similar clip collections.

Here are my choices for The Best Places To Learn About (And View Video Clips Of) Teachers In the Movies (I generally only included sites that also had video clips, though I’ve also included several good commentaries, too):

Sarah Ebner has compiled a nice list, with videos, of The 15 most inspiring teachers in films.

Sarah has also posted a listed titled The 15 worst teachers in the movies.

Here is Listicles choices for 9 Inspirational Movie Teachers.

You can see a short video collage titled Top 5 Best Teachers in the Movies.

10 A+ Worthy Movie and TV Teachers is the title of another list.

10 Best Movie & Television Teachers

The Onion has a list of 26 evil, awful, or just plain stupid educators in TV and film.

Here’s a good commentary titled Teacher Leadership, Hollywood Style.

The New York Times ran a piece titled Class Distinctions, a response to the “Freedom Writers” movie.

Rethinking Schools had a similar column, Freedom Writers: White Teacher to the Rescue.

This is an interesting analysis of teachers in the movies over the past sixty years. You can see a chart showing class, race and gender.

Feedback is always welcome.

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Jan 14 2010

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Part Forty-Four Of The Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly

Filed under best of the year, web 2.0

The first part of this post is my usual introduction to this series. If you’re familiar with it already, just skip down to the listing of new sites…

Here’s the latest installment in my series on The Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly. As you may remember, in order to make it on this list, the web tool has to:

* be easily accessible to English Language Learners and/or non-tech savvy computer users.

* allow people to create engaging content within minutes.

* host the user’s creation on the site itself indefinitely, and allow a direct link to be able to be posted on a student or teacher’s website/blog to it (or let it be embedded). If it just provides the url address of the student creation, you can either just post the address or use Embedit.in , a free web tool that makes pretty much any url address embeddable.

* provide some language-learning opportunity (for example, students can write about their creations).

* not require any registration.

You can find previous installments of this series with the rest of my “The Best…” lists at Websites Of The Year. Several hundred sites have been highlighted in these past lists. You might also want to take a look at the first list I posted in this series — The Best Ways For Students (And Anyone Else!) To Create Online Content Easily, Quickly, and Painlessly.

You might also want to look at The Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly — 2009.

Here are the newest additions:

MAKE A STORY COLLAGE: The Library of Congress has a neat Storybook activity. First, users have to answer some simple questions from The Wizard Of Oz, The Mermaid, and Aladdin (book excerpts are provided) and then you can make a collage out of the book’s characters that you can email and post on a teacher website or blog.

CREATE SUBTITLES TO SOCCER & TV PROGRAM VIDEOS YOU CREATE: I’ve written several times about the incredibly useful and fun Bombay TV, where you can create your own videos from cheesy clips and write subtitles (it’s my number one rated app on The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Videos (Using Someone Else’s Content) list.

Well, now it’s created sister sites where you can do the same with clips from old TV programs and from soccer games. They’re called Bombay TV 2, Futebol TV and Classik TV.

SEND AN eCARD WITH AN ENVIRONMENTAL MESSAGE: The National Building Museum lets you send some very informative Green Community E-Cards, which can then be posted on a teacher/student website or blog.

CREATE A TALKING POTATO-HEAD BASKETBALL: Yes, the title is accurate. Create it, make it talk with its text-to-speech feature, and post it on a teacher/student website/blog if you dare.

MAKE A SNOWFLAKE WITH A MESSAGE: Flurrious lets you design a snowflake, write a message that goes along with it, and then send it to yourself or a friend so you can get its url address to post on a student/teacher blog or website. The site says it will donate $1 to UNICEF for every snowflake sent, but I can’t really tell who’s behind the site to confirm that claim.

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Jan 12 2010

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The Best Sites To Learn About The Earthquake In Haiti

(NOTE: With a few exceptions, I’ll probably stop adding many new specific sites to this post since many of the links lead to special pages set up by news organizations that continually add new photos, graphics, and video resources.

I’ve got to say that among all the news organizations, I have been finding that the New York Times photo blog “The Lede” has had the best quality material, along with the most up-to-date. It has excellent multimedia resources along with short text information, and is doing a great job of scouring the web for great stuff.

I wouldn’t say it’s the best place for English Language Learners to go because the lay-out isn’t very attractive (CNN works best for student self-access), but I’d suggest teachers keep on checking The Lede for specific photo galleries and videos that they might want to show in class or specifically ask their students to view.)

I’ve just heard about the earthquake in Haiti, and it sounds terrible. I thought I’d pull together a quick list of related-sites that are accessible to English Language Learners.

I’ll be adding to it but, for now, I’ve divided it into three sections — ones on the earthquake itself, ones that provide general information on the country of Haiti, and a few that provide information on how earthquakes work.

You might also be interested in The Best Websites For Learning About Natural Disasters.

Here are my choices for The Best Sites To Learn About Earthquake In Haiti (I’ve started putting the newest updates on top in each category):

THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI


A Tent in Port-au-Prince
is a panoramic view of life inside a tent for a Haitian family. It’s from The New York Times.

Eyewitness in Haiti is a slideshow from LIFE.

Haiti: Three Weeks Later is from The Boston Globes’ Big Picture.

The New York Times has posted a panoramic view inside the devastated Cathedral in Haiti. You can certainly get a sense of the strength of the earthquake by looking at it.

Two new infographics just came out showing which countries are giving how much to help victims of Haiti’s earthquake:

One is from the British newspaper The Guardian and is quite easy to understand.

The other is from GOOD Magazine and looks far cooler, but the information is not particularly accessible (at least to me).Stephen Downes also points out that Canada’s sizable contribution is not included in it.

Major Earthquake Hits Haiti is a collection of all Washington Post photos on the disaster. The Post also has a special page on the quake that’s regularly updated.

Hope for Haiti Event Raises Millions is a Breaking News lesson for ELL’s.

CNN has an incredible 360 degree video from Haiti. I have never seen a 360 degree video before. Thanks to Jerry Swiatek for the tip.

The Big Picture has The Faces of Haiti.

Here’s a good interactive map.

The BBC has a very interesting interactive map and information on relief supplies getting to the island.

The Washington Post shares an infographic, What Caused The Quake.

“Understanding The Haiti Earthquake” is an excellent infographic.

The New York Times has finally joined most other major news organizations and created a separate page for their multimedia productions on the earthquake, and they’re superb.

The Times has also created a special photo gallery called Haiti’s Earthquake: A Photo Gallery.

Haiti Six Days Later is from The Big Picture.

Haiti Quake Day 6: Steps Toward Normalcy is a video from The New York Times.

TIME Magazine has a special page with resources on the earthquake.

Haiti: World rallies round earthquake victims is an interactive graphic from Agence France Presse.

Haiti’s Earthquake, Close-Up is from Newsweek.

Haiti: One Week Later is from the Denver Post.

Here’s an updated interactive from The Associated Press.

The Sun Sentinel has a special page on the disaster.

The Wall Street Journal has a special page on the quake.

The Miami Herald has numerous slideshows on the earthquake.

The Los Angeles Times has several audio slideshows.

Disaster In Haiti is the special CBS News page on the quake.

In Haiti, Slow Relief is a New York Times video.

MSNBC has a new interactive on the earthquake.

Crime Rises as Aid Awaits Distribution is a New York Times slideshow.

Before and After is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.

On The Scene In Haiti is another slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.

USA Today has a useful Interactive map of Haiti and the earthquake zone.

MSNBC has several heartbreaking videos, but also one showing a successful rescue.

Haiti: Most Haunting Photos is a slideshow from LIFE.

Death Toll Mounts After Haiti Quake is a slideshow from The New York Times.

Earthquake in Haiti: Port-au-Prince is an interactive from The Guardian.

Haiti 48 Hours Later is from the Big Picture.

5 Ways to Teach About Haiti Right Now are lesson plans from The New York Times. Here’s another lesson from the New York Times.

The New York Times has a multimedia interactive map on the damaged areas.

The Telegraph has aerial and satellite images of the destruction.

Earthquake Rocks Haiti is a slideshow from MSNBC.

Haiti Rocked is an interactive map showing damage and is from the Wall Street Journal.

A Closer Look At The Destruction in Haiti is an interactive from the New York Times.

Haiti Earthquake is a video from The New York Times.

Thousands Feared Dead In Haiti is an extensive slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.

The Denver Post has images from the area.

Earthquake In Haiti is from The Big Picture.

Earthquake Devastates Haiti is a series of photos from the Sacramento Bee. The Bee also has Earthquake devastates Haiti, part 2.

Haiti Earthquake is a slideshow from The Associated Press.

Haiti In Ruins is a lesson for English Language Learners from Breaking News English.

Here are before-and-after photos of the Presidential Palace in Haiti.

Major Earthquake Hits Haiti is a slideshow from The Washington Post.

Haiti Earthquake Aftermath is a video from The Washington Post.

Pictures of Devastation is a slideshow from TIME Magazine.

Haiti Quake Devastates Capital is a video from The New York Times.

Fierce Earthquake Rocks Haiti is a Wall Street Journal slideshow.

Screaming All Around Us is a video from MSNBC.

Earthquake Hits Haiti is a New York Times slideshow.

The BBC has a slideshow titled In pictures: Haitian earthquake.

MSNBC has an online video clip titled Quake Hits Haiti.

7.0 Quake Racks Haiti is from CBS News.

CNN has a special page on the quake, including multiple videos.

The Associated Press has a video on the quake.

Haitian Earthquake is a slideshow from MSNBC.

MSNBC also has a video report.

Devastation in Haiti after earthquake is a slideshow from The Miami Herald.

Here’s a list of charities helping victims in Haiti. MSNBC has a video describing relief efforts. Here’s another similar video.

The Red Cross has information on how to help victims of the earthquake.

CBS News has a video of the quake’s aftermath.

Huge earthquake devastates Haiti has short, accessible text from the CBBC Newsround.

Strong Earthquake Hits Haiti is a slideshow from Yahoo News.

The Atlantic shares several articles (Should We Call It ‘Looting’?) wondering if racism is involved in the use of the word “looting” in Haiti.Several of the pieces they share are quite good, though would have to be modified for English Language Learners. I particularly liked a short post from the Chicago Tribune, titled Are the ‘looters’ in Haiti really that much different from you and me? The writer asks:

What wouldn’t you do if members of your family were dying? If you thought you could save them with a little humanitarian freelance redistribution of resources?

As several of the writers mention, this brings back memories of Katrina. In fact, in our ninth-grade mainstream English classes, we give students the assignment to respond to the famous two pictures of an African-American man “looting” a grocery store, and a white couple “finding” food in a grocery store..

INFORMATION ABOUT THE COUNTRY

A Look At Haitian Art is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.

Haiti: Life Before the Quake is a slideshow from LIFE.

CNN has an excellent interactive giving basic information and history on Haiti.

MSNBC has an interactive timeline showing Haiti’s history.

The Associated Press has developed an interactive giving background on Haiti.

Haiti Fast Facts comes from CBS News.

Poverty in Haiti is a New York Times slideshow.

Haiti’s Twin Crises is an audio slideshow from The New York Times.

UNICEF has a number of accessible features about Haiti.

The BBC has a multimedia feature on Haiti.

The Miami Herald has an audio slideshow on the country’s struggles..

Haiti’s Human Wreckage is an audio slideshow from the Miami Herald, again reviewing previous disasters.

Here’s a very accessible graphic providing information on Haiti.

Here’s a slideshow on Haiti’s history.

Haiti’s Legacy of Environmental Disaster is a video from The New York Times.

When Haiti Was Young is another slideshow from LIFE.

Haiti’s History of Misery is a slideshow from TIME Magazine.

Here’s a useful report on Haitian Immigrants In The United States.

Haiti: History of a beleaguered country is an interactive graphic from Agence France Presse.

Just about everything in the media is highlighting the horror of the earthquake, and the misery of Haiti’s past. Here are two sites where teachers can find important and positive aspects of the Haitian tradition that can help students understand it’s important past:

Haiti in Ink and Tears: A Literary Sampler is from The New York Times.

Haiti: A Poor Country With A Rich Culture is from National Public Radio.

Teaching About Haiti comes from Teaching For Change.

Did you know that Chicago was founded by a Haitian?  People from Chicago probably know this, but it was news to me and I think it’s pretty neat.

Here’s a reprint from a newsletter from the Smithsonian:

Honoring Haiti
After going ashore in New Orleans following an injury at sea, Haitian sailor Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable made his way north to avoid being captured as a slave. He established himself as an accomplished trader, and then built the first permanent home in an area around Lake Michigan called Eschikagou. This trading post was later renamed Chicago. In 1968 Du Sable was officially declared the Founder of Chicago and a stamp with his image was issued for the 150th birthday of the city. As Haiti recovers from the devastating losses caused by the earthquake, we hope you will take a moment to realize the impact this small island nation has had in so many places around the world.

Haiti’s Hidden Treasures is a video from The Wall Street Journal showing clips taken in Haiti eighty years ago of musicians in that country (when the U.S. was an occupying force).

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT EARTHQUAKES

The Associated Press has an interactive on earthquakes.

Understanding Earthquakes
is an interactive from CBS News.

Shaking Latin America is an interactive from the Wall Street Journal showing the history of quakes in the region.

What Causes Earthquakes? is an interactive from MSNBC.

Measuring the Magnitude of Earthquakes is an interactive from CNN.

How Earthquakes happen is an interactive from the BBC.

Why Earthquakes Happen is an interactive from The Guardian.

Here’s an Interactive Earthquake Primer.

The BBC has a very well-done interactive titled Earthquake rescue: How survivors are found.

Top 10 Deadliest Earthquakes comes from TIME Magazine.

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Jan 11 2010

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The Best Resources For Learning About Human Trafficking Today

The United States Senate has declared January 11th to be Human Trafficking Awareness Day, and President Obama has declared the month of January to be National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.

Here are my choices for The Best Resources For Learning About Human Trafficking Today (and are accessible to English Language Learners):

Here’s an accessible interactive map and fact sheet about human slavery around the world.

Is there still slavery today? is from the CBBC Newsround.

Here are three videos I’ve moved from YouTube to Edublogs TV so they can be visible through school content filters:

About Human Trafficking

Modern Day Slavery

Slavery and Human Trafficking

5 things you probably didn’t know about modern day slavery is a short fact sheet.

The Veiled Commodity is a short film that deals with slavery’s past and present day issues.

There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History is an article that would need to be modified for ELL’s.

Sex Slaves In America is a video from MSNBC.

Human Trafficking In America is a huge series by the Kansas City Star.

Human Trafficking is an online video by The World Bank

Sunitha Krishnan fights sex slavery is a TED Talk. It’s generally not accessible to ELL’s, but portions of it might be usable.

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Jan 09 2010

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The Best Sites For Online Photo-Editing & Photo Effects

Over the past few years, I’ve been accumulating links to — and experimenting with — various online photo editors and sites for photo effects. There are certainly a zillion of them out there.

I finally decided it was time to narrow all the links down into some kind of “The Best…” list, and have divided this post into two sections. The first part lists sites where you can upload your own images and, with no registration required (or, perhaps, in one or two instances, an extremely minimal registration process) easily edit the photo or add effects. The second section lists sites that I’ve specifically used with my English Language Learner students. These sites let you easily grab an image off the web, lets you add add a speech bubble to it, and then gives you a more or less permanent url address for your creation that you can post on a student or teacher website/blog.

I’m sure I will have missed some applications out there, so feel free to share your suggestions in the comments section. I suspect there are also additional “categories” photo apps out there besides the two I’m using.

Using my categories and criteria, here are my choices for The Best Sites For Online Photo-Editing & Photo Effects (they tend to be fairly similar — with a few exceptions that are primarily “resizers” — so I’m just going to list the links and not describe each one):

PHOTO-EDITING & EFFECTS FOR UPLOADED IMAGES:

Tuxpi

Change Images

Aviary

Fun Photo Box

Thumba

Big Huge Labs

Dr. Pic

Pic Resize

Rsizr

EasyCropper

Pixenate

FotoFlexer

Be Funky

Picnik (I had meant to include this one I originally, but reader Brenda Hallowes pointed out that I had not. Thanks, Brenda!)

PhotFunia is suggested by reader Ann Carnevale.

Pixlr

Citrify

SITES FOR ADDING “SPEECH BUBBLES” TO WEB IMAGES:

Bubblr

Caption Bubble

Picbite

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Jan 06 2010

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The Best Sites For Learning About Weird-Looking Creatures (And For Making Your Own!)

Weird-looking critters always generate high-interest from students — English Language Learners and mainstream alike. Reading, writing, and talking about them are excellent language-development activities, and I’ve listed some good accessible sites on this list.

In the second part of this post, I share some sites that — believe it or not — let students also easily create their own weird-looking animals. First designing, then describing (along with talking and listening) them also provide good language-learning opportunities.

Here are my choices for The Best Sites For Learning About Weird-Looking Creatures And For Making Your Own!):

LEARNING ABOUT THEM:

19 Insanely Weird Animals is a slideshow from LIFE Magazine.

The weirdest animals on Planet Earth comes from the British paper The Telegraph.

MSN has some of the World’s weirdest animals and Weird Animals That You Can Travel to See.

Weird New Animals From Antarctica’s Deep Seas is from National Geographic.

Nick Baker’s Weird Creatures is a show on the Smithsonian Channel, and you can see many clips on their site.

The Web Ecoist has several good resources, including:

The 9 Strangest Animals on Earth

Nine Outstanding Expanding Animals!

15 of the World’s Strangest Animals

20 Scary Animals

The Weird Animal Express is a student-created site.

Strange, odd and beautiful creatures is from a Florida newspaper.

CREATING YOUR OWN:

With Animal Mix-Up you can create a bizarre creature, email the link and post it. English Language Learners can not only use it as an opportunity to describe their creation, but the design process itself provides an excellent opportunity for vocabulary development. There are a lot of choices for creature modifications, and their accompanied with visual and text descriptions.

Build Your WIldself is from the New York Zoos and Aquarium. Instead of explaining it here, I’m just going to suggest you read a post from Kevin Jarrett which explains it in detail.

The Switch Zoo is another similar site. However, you can only print-out creation, not save it online.

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Jan 04 2010

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The Best Sites To Learn About The World’s Tallest Buildings

The opening of the world’s tallest building in Dubai this week, I thought a “The Best…” list on the topic of the world’s tallest buildings might be timely.

Here are my picks for The Best Sites To Learn About The World’s Tallest Buildings (and are accessible to English Language Learners):

A Brief History of the World’s Tallest Buildings is a slideshow from TIME Magazine.

Burj Dubai: the world’s tallest building
is an interactive graphic from The Guardian.

Skyscrapers From Around the World is a slideshow from MSNBC.

World’s Tallest Building in Dubai
is a video from MSNBC.

We Build This City: Skyscrapers is a short online video from Discovery about New York’s tallest buildings.

Dubai Opens World’s Tallest Tower
is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.

The History Channel has a short video showing the day the Empire State Building opened eighty years ago.

Live Science has a slideshow of the World’s Tallest Buildings.

Here are several more slideshows of the world’s tallest buildings:

Fox News

Family Education

Discovery News

Business Week

The Skyscraper Museum in New York has several features that would be accessible to English Language Learners. One is a digital representation of downtown Manhattan called Viva. Another is a similar presentation called Viva 2, which highlights the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center. A third page compares the tallest buildings in the world. Lastly, there are a series of particularly accessible features called Cool Stuff.

Building The World’s Tallest Skyscraper is a really nice interactive from Portfolio.

World’s Tallest Building Opens In Dubai
is an exercise for English Language Learners from Breaking News English.

World’s Tallest Building Opens In Dubai is a video from The Associated Press.

The World’s Tallest Towers is a nice interactive that’s actually on the website of the Dubai tower.

The Transamerica Pyramid Building is the iconic skyscraper in San Francisco. The Sacramento Bee has published a slideshow and chart on it.

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Jan 04 2010

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The Best Sources For Interactive Infographics

Interactive Infographics are online representations of information or data that usually allow the user to “interact” with it and the data that is visualized.  They’re generally created by newspapers for their websites, and often, though not always, are accessible to English Language Learners.   In fact,  they can be an exceptionally accessible way for ELL’s to learn complicated information that might ordinarily not be comprehensible.

I’ve posted about quite a few interactive infographics over the past three years. And I’ve posted The Best Interactive Infographics — 2009.

I thought readers might find it useful to learn which sites I have found to be the best sources of good interactive infographics. In addition to listing them here, I’ll be adding a section on them to the Teacher’s Page of my website.

The links on this list will take you directly to the Interactive Infographics page of the named newspapers.

Here are my picks for The Best Sources For Interactive Infographics:

The Boston Globe

The Wall Street Journal

TIME Magazine

The Cleveland Plain Dealer

The New York Times


The Denver Post

Kansas City Star

USA Today

The Sun Sentinel

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

MSNBC

Wilmington News Journal

Star Telegram

The Guardian

Star Tribune

Orange County Registe
r

The Agence France Presse has great interactive graphics. However, they’re difficult to find on the web. I’ve recently discovered that MSN News hosts the most recent ones. However, they’re not permanent url addresses, and disappear after a few weeks.

St. Louis Today

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Jan 02 2010

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The Best Sites To Learn About Los Angeles

I’ve compiled several “The Best…” lists on various U.S. cities, including ones on New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. I also have one on California.

Since many of our students, particularly my Spanish-speaking English Language Learners, visit Los Angeles frequently, I thought it might be useful to put together a quick list of accessible sites for leaning about L.A.

Here are my choices for The Best Sites To Learn About Los Angeles (and are accessible to ELL’s):

EL Civics has a Los Angeles Photo Tour and Lesson.

Lingual Net has a video “Los Angeles: My City” designed for ELL’s.

The Travel Channel has a Video Overview of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles: Portrait Of A City is a TIME Magazine slideshow.

Travelego has a short video called About Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Landmarks is the title of a National Geographic slideshow.

Los Angeles: 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours is a slideshow and article from TIME Magazine.

PopuLAtion is a video series from the L.A. Times featuring some of the more eccentric characters in the city. If you click on “Browse” you can access all of them.

FACT Monster has some relatively accessible text giving basic information about the city.

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Dec 30 2009

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The Best Art & Music Sites — 2009

I’ve posted quite a few art and music-related sites over the past year — enough to warrant their own end-of-year list.

Before I identify individual sites, though, readers might find it helpful to review some “The Best…” lists I’ve also posted during the past twelve months (you can find related lists I posted in 2007 and 2008 at “The Best…” lists):

ART:

The Best Sites To Learn About Diego Rivera

The Best Ways For Students To Create Their Own Online Art Collections

The Best Images Of Weird, Cool & Neat-Looking Buildings (& Ways To Design Your Own)

The Best Collections Of “The Best” Pieces Of Art Ever Created

MUSIC:

The Best Places To Find Lyrics On The Web

The Best Places To Get Royalty-Free Music & Sound Effects

Not “The Best,” But “A List” Of Music Sites

In order for a site to make it on any of my lists, it has to be free and accessible to English Language Learners.  Finally, it has to provide a good language-development opportunity, too.

Here are my choices for The Best Art & Music Sites — 2009:

MUSIC:

Creative Kids Central has a number of very engaging online activities related to classical music. I particularly like its “talking” and musical story on the 1001 Arabian Nights and its online video game on the composer Brahms.

KissTunes is a great web tool that lets you make some music and lets you give it a name and describe it. Then, you get a url address for your creation where others can then leave comments. You don’t even need to register! I’m definitely adding KissTunes to The Best Online Sites For Creating Music.

Using Songs In The English Classroom by Hans Mol, a teacher in Australia, is a short article that was  published in Humanising Language Teaching Magazine.  It gives a very good overview of different language-development activities that can be done with music.

English Child Songs has a ton of ….children’s songs in English that are sung with animation, and also show the lyrics.

ART:

Harcourt has an excellent Multimedia Art Glossary that provides audio support for the text in addition to visual images.

Matisse For Kids is an online interactive from the Baltimore Museum of Art.  It’s accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners and, even though it doesn’t have audio support, is a very engaging guide to artist Henri Matisse’s work and art in general.

The Art of Storytelling is a site from the Delaware Art Museum that allows you pick a painting, write a short story about it, record it with your computer microphone, and email the url address for posting on a student website or blog. It’s extraordinarily simple, and extraordinarily accessible to any level of English Language Learner.  No registration is required.

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Dec 30 2009

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The Best Sites For Learning About The Winter Season

Since I posted The Best Sites For Images Of Fall Foliage (& For Teaching About The Season), I thought it might make sense to create a similar list for the season of winter.

I’ve divided this post into three sections:

Sites that are specifically designed to help English Language Learners develop winter-related vocabulary

Exceptional winter images

Opportunities for winter-connected online creation of content

Here are my choices for The Best Sites For Learning About The Winter Season:

VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT:

Here’s an online video from English Class 101 that gives a good introduction to winter words.

Students can take an online vocabulary quiz here.

EL Civics has a nice beginning lesson on winter.

Bogglesworld has plenty of useful printables.

Here’s a “talking book” called Alfy’s Snow Day.

How snow forms is a neat interactive showing…how snow forms.

IMAGES:

Wacky Winter Weather is a slideshow from TIME Magazine.

Snowy Scenes is from the Boston Globe’s Big Picture.

Winter weather is from the Sacramento Bee.

Students might enjoy 12 Awe Inspiring Snow Sculpture Themes.

Winter approaching is from the Sacramento Bee.

Storm Blankets U.S. East Coast is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.

Snowmen Around the World is a slideshow from LIFE.

Snowball Fights: Around the World is another LIFE slideshow.

Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is a title of a series of images from The Big Picture about an incredible event in China.

Ice and Snow Sculptures is a slideshow from TIME Magazine about the same festival.

Winter Weather Sticks Around is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.

Cold Spell Wallops Europe, Asia is another slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.

Scientists create the world’s smallest ’snowman’
is the title of an article (and photo) of the….world’s smallest snowman.

Record Snow Across Asia is a TIME Magazine slideshow.

CREATE ONLINE CONTENT:

You can virtually cut and design a snowflake, write a message on it, and email the link to a teacher or friend at Snow Days.

Flurrious lets you design a snowflake, write a message that goes along with it, and then send it to yourself or a friend so you can get its url address to post on a student/teacher blog or website.

The site says it will donate $1 to UNICEF for every snowflake sent, but I can’t really tell who’s behind the site to confirm that claim.

BONUS GAMES:

Winter is an online video game that offers good English-language opportunities, as I’ve written about before. Here’s the walkthrough.

Winter Escape also provides good language learning opportunities. Here’s the Walkthrough.

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