How to create your subtitles

VisualSubSync is a subtitle program for creating and modifying subtitles. You only have to download from the net because it is free. You can also get your portable version to take in your USB memory.

Once you have created your subtitles, you can watch the video with them (two different files) when you play the video with the program VLC. If you prefer to embed them in the video file and just create a unique video file, you should use FormatFactory.

It is really much easier to do than it seems. Let's use it!

Here you can see this video with Basque subtitle: Zer egin eta zer ez egin sare sozialetan

Video projects in the classroom

MovieMaker is a free video editor if your operating system is Windows. MovieMaker is a quite intuitive and easy software that allows us to insert images, videos, music and voice recording in your projects. If you are working with very heavy files or your project is long, you should save your project from time to time. The reason is that your computer can crash, and then you will lose all the new changes you have done in the project. You can find a very good tutorial of MovieMaker in this site. It is a very complete material, made by Goio Ramos, a teacher from Ugao Eskola. He prepared the site in Basque in order to be a useful tool for teachers.

AudioPal

AudioPal is a web 2.0 tool. We can create an audio message for your website in 3 easy steps. You can record your voice by phone, by micro, you can use the text-to-speech option or upload the audio file from your computer. 

It is very easy!

AudioPal creates your audio file and sends you by email. It is not necessary to register. 

New year, new ideas

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 Here again prepared for the new school year. We met last Monday and spent a good time. Although the technology didn’t work as it should, we could manage to fulfil our task.

In this first session we have learned about DESCRIPTION. It is a topic that is learnt in all levels of education.

Here I share the presentation we saw. I hope to be helpful. 

Monday, 27 May

This Monday is the last class of this year so we will comment on what you have done this school year, we will assess this seminar and we will talk and decide about next year´s proposals.

This Monday we are going to have a look at these two websites: Film English and Cookit. In the first one you will find planned lessons step by step around short films. The second one relates history with cooking showing us recipes all along history and how they have evolved since then.

In this website they also show  Picture Teller which is an interesting tool to create presentations. Have a look to this Delicious Fruit Salad

Diagnostic Evaluation

Ebaluazio Diagnostikoa

Publish at Calameo or read more publications.

Publishing texts with Calameo

This seminar we will learn about the Diagnostic Evaluation oral tests: who, what, how, when... and we'll also learn to publish documents with Calameo! Here is a sample:

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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If we have got time we may have a look at the flashcard maker in Teaching English British Council

Interactive games and activities

How are you getting on? I look forward to seeing you all!

Tomorrow's seminar we'll examine some of the interactive games and activities on

Woodlands-Junior  and we'll learn how to use google reader.

Google reader from Michael Sammartano

Monday 18th March

This week we will have a look to The teacher´s magazine

We will do some activities from this magazine. Apart from that we will go on with Voicethread and show the the "HEAR and SAY" activity and how to use it in a lesson.
Orange Questionare

Trying trying with voicethread

Voicethread again

Three years ago Ann F. presented voicethread! Here is the post she wrote about it. Perhaps we may review this application. Here are some voicethread examples:

 We may remember how to create our presentations using this Voice thread tutorial

Handa´s Surprise

This is a short story about Handa. She is a girl who wants to take some fruits to her friend Akeyo but watch what happens. You can revise numbers from 1 to 7, fruits and animals in Africa. we will do an activity related to this story. I hope you enjoy it!

Have also a look to these two new sites: TES, Teaching resources and Berritzegune Nagusia English Zone where you can find some resources. 

Stories for children

Here are some websites where we may get stories for kids (text and audio)

English for children

Agendaweb

Learn English kids. British Council

In addition to that, we'll record our own story with podomatic straight away!

Our podcasts in podomatic

Here is My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes in podomatic. Would you like to record your favourite story with audacity and then upload it onto podomatic, for instance? We'll try that next seminar! Other than that, since Marivi asked me about where she could store/share documents with other teachers, I've thought that we might explore dropbox, a file hosting service which is very useful for that purpose.

Happy New Year!

Next Monday we'll have our first seminar this year! You'll see the new toilets (and the old computers!)

Here is an English-Guide with resources for vocabulary, listening, grammar... activities.

We could deal with timelines with timetoast, Here is a sample I've created about a Russian poet I've just discovered. The application is very very easy! We'll also discuss the contents of our next seminars.