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educational resources
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ESL / EFL teaching
“QuickTips” is a small weblog managed from Italy and written by an Italian EFL teacher.
Italian education is far from being technologically ready to face the web 2.0 revolution, but its will to improve and to learn is great and real. I teach English to Italian young learners and this has helped me a lot in surfing the web, improve my ITC knowledge and merging it with my everyday teaching. But if most of the teachers among the Internet users do speak English, many others don’t. There are still too many really good teachers in my country who use the Internet and the pc just to write or send emails ignoring its many useful tools and the wider possibilities given by the Web. And as the Internet in the English language spreads among the English-speaking world teacher net, it inevitably shrinks the possibilities to be better managed by the many others who can’t speak English at all…
I love this comic
The main aim of this blog is to (prevent our computer to react like that
and….) suggest further ways to explore the ITC and the Internet, realize their power and mix it with education. In my posts you’ll find ome useful applications, websites, tips and software that I’ve found while surfing the web and which I believe to be able to improve the teaching and the ITC knowledge of my many Italian colleagues in order to teach English and other subjects in a more positive and modern way. That is the primary reason why this blog is written in Italian.
Moreover, CLIL – Content Language and Integrated Learning - is a teaching pratice which is gaining a lot of success and enthusiasm among our Italian students: it is a cross-curricular lesson consisting of a special class taught by two or three teachers of different subjects who cross the content of a topic involving different points of view and using the English language as well. Though being an English speaker is not compulsory for every teacher involved in the project, a bit of English knowledge is still useful to manage those kinds of classes in a more efficient way. I hope this little blog will help.
Can’t you speak Italian?
If you are an Edublogs user and don’t know Italian, please notice that every post of this blog contains a great deal of references to web apps, websites and tips written in English. Most of the categories are in English and every link points to outer posts in the web that you will certainly find easier to read, being them written in English as well. So, don’t step away but follow the picture, the tip and the link. I’m sure you’ll find something useful for your computer, for your own blog and for your teaching.
Coming soon: a useful Sitemap













June 27th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
ciao
ho creato un percorso con tinymap ma non riesco a capire come posso cpiare e incollare la cartina ottenuta in un qualunque documento (megli ose word) mi puoi dare una mano?
grazie in anticipo
rossana
June 27th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
ciao, sposto il mio commento di risposta al post di TinyMap:
http://quicktips.edublogs.org/2008/03/19/tinymap-disegnare-su-google-earth/
October 30th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Ciao anna, ho passato l’intera mattina (di sciopero) a visitare i tuo blog che trovo utilissimo, i miei complimenti, dunque. Insegno francese, vorrei quindi chiederti se conosci, se hai incontrato nelle tue ricerche, blog didattici in merito a tale lingua. Ti ringrazio.
Arianna
October 30th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
ciao arianna, grazie:) in merito al francese, conosco questo qui:
http://stepfan.free.fr/
può essere un punto di partenza per altri blog didattici anche perché contiene davvero tanti link. appena trovo qualcos’altro di appropriato, lo inserisco nel blog, promesso.
October 31st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Grazie infinite, vado a visitare il sito che mi hai indicato
October 31st, 2008 at 6:17 pm
di niente
spero ti sia utile
March 6th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Good luck with this! I know that you are familiar with our site (podcastsinenglish.com) but we are also doing a blog now to try and encourage teachers to use the Internet as a learning tool – it’s amazing how many still shy away from IT…
March 6th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
hi Jackie and thanks. it’s a honor to have your comment here on my page. I’ll put a link to your blog
October 13th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I love the easy way I could read this in english? Is there an easy way to make my English website readable in other languages? I love that idea! I make games for the MacMillan McGraw-Hill Reading Series Treasures for USA, as well as putting some of the best reading/language arts sites that I find from all over the world.
I like what I’ve read here- and especially the fact that I COULD read it- the option to change the language was so prominent.
Have a nice day!
~~~~~~~~ sharnon007
October 14th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Hello. As far as I know, there could be 2 ways: using the Google Translator tool (you can read about it and how to install it in your blog here) or the useful Wibiya, a tool bar with many functions including the translation.
Thanks for stopping by!