An interesting Google Maps mashup. Find a place and write a story about it, then add a photo or two. Very easy to use.

¿Te acordás de aquellas viejas versiones sobre canciones de rock con mensajes satánicos? Bueno, no son tan viejas, hay versiones nuevas de los mismos rumores…. En este sencillo tutorial de Audacity (editor de audio libre muy interesante) en tono de humor veremos cómo incluir mensajes subliminares en tu propia música. Por favor, no usar para fines maléficos esta herramienta!! Una vez instalado Audacity, pensemos: ¿Qué tipo de mensaje subliminal deseo transmitir hoy? En mi caso, ...

I must confess that when I was first asked to review a DVD aimed at teaching Spanish to preschoolers, I was a bit skeptical. After all, who would want such...

While the examples might be in French, you could use this in any situation.

Today has been a busy day for some of us at school, with our annual EDL activities.As usuul, we hosted an LEA event for Y8 G&T pupils. Fortunately, unlike last year, I was not involved in the organisation of the event this year.We had 3 schools and ours involved this morning and then another 4 schools came along this afternoon. Each group took part in 3 activities, a European Awareness quiz, hosted by yours truely, ...

Gemma a primary school English teacher in Spain has created this wonderful digital big book using the free tool Issuu. It showcases pupils' descriptions of different monsters and could easily be adapted to practise other languages. I can see this working a treat on an interactive whiteboard. Just click on the page to zoom in. What do you think? Monster idea or what!

Unfortunately for those of us in the United States and many other English-speaking countries who have the occasion to write Spanish, our computer keyboards typically don't come with keys designated...

Last Thursday saw me traveling to the Institut Français in South Kensington, London, to lead a podcasting workshop on behalf of Apple. There I was joined by French teachers who were interested in using podcasting to enhance the teaching of French to adult learners. Below are a short summary of the three-hour session covering the most important topics we raised and links to the resources I mentioned in my presentation and subsequent workshop. Since it ...

Una nutricionista tiene una hamburguesa de Mc Donald's de 1996. ¿Se imagina el estado en el que está? No señor, no se lo imagina. (sigue...)

This week saw the Scottish Learning Festival, and of course the 10th edition of TeachMeet. There are plenty of people blogging about it, and my account with Google Reader has gone into overdrive trying to keep up with them all. I had a thoroughly good time but managed to take absolutely no notes whatsoever, unlike last year. The best bit of my day in Glasgow were by far the chats with other people. It was ...

Click to Play Oops. I crossposted the video above from the wonderful www.blip.tv , but then forgot to write the post which I wanted to accompany it. So apologies for the slightly... empty and pointless post! So anyway, the actual point of the story is that the video above was the first that I've taken using my brand new toy... ...the very exciting Flip video camera. And yes, it is very exciting, especially for a ...

The Dead Sea takes in water but there is no outlet to the sea. Thus, it is salty, bitter, and generally just... dead. People who are a dead sea are always taking, using up things and become bitter. Dead Sea people never give anything to another person and never share. There is no, "here let me show you," but only "let me take from you." Dead Sea people suck the life out of others. They ...