Classroom application If you want to discuss a recent event with your class, and you want another perspective it is
Category: Lesson plans
The best commencement speeches ever?
Lesson plan for last weeks of school! It is the time of the year when you realize there was so
Barack Obama’s Westminister speech
Lesson plan: Watch this historic speech Obama held in Westminister and then read the newspapers comments listed below. Based on
Teaching cultural differences, “Two sides of the fence”
Write an article on your blog where you address one of the challenges raised in either movie. Trying to escape
How to Write an Essay: 10 Easy Steps
It is time to write exams and here is some advice to my students on writing essays. Topics: Analyze and
Elaborate on and discuss a number of international and global challenges
Seems like a tall order for students to be able to both elaborate and discuss a number of international and
School lumps by ability, not age
A novel approach to education with no grades and no grade levels. The RISC Approach to Schooling is a revolutionary
Obama’s statement on death of Osama bin Laden- writing a newspaper article
[cnnvideo url=’http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2011/05/01/sot.obama.bin.laden.dead.cnn’ inline=’true’] Objectives: Imagine you are attending this press conference and have a deadline to write about this historic
Writing better blog posts
Here are some useful tips I found at the Edublogger web-page on how to write better blog posts and get
Students creating content online – Live Internet Radio Show
Assessing students’ communication skills In Norway the students get two grades in the class called “International English”assessing the students communicative
Who speaks English?
Competency goals: One of the competency goals in “International English” goes like this: Give examples of other varieties of English
How to make a splash in social media
Take a look at this 3 minutes presentation on TED. Do you see any areas where you as students could
The media’s role in international society
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive
Google tools and bloom’s revised taxonomy
Via the page Free Technology for Teachers I found this website by Kathy Scrock. There are so many different ways
This is just the coolest moment to be a learner right now!
In this moment our kids can learn pretty much whatever they want whenever they want! This is a shift we
