Using YouTube Videos In Class

There is no doubt That incorporating videos in our classrooms is a powerful tool in the hands of teachers.Videos provide variety to our input materials and further enhance the learning process of students.
Yet not all teachers have access to the blessing of the internet or even those who have it won't guarantee undisturbed connection.
One way to avoid such mishaps is to save videos on your laptop and hence make the materials available at any time.
Save2pc is software program that helps download and save videos for future use.
How to use it.
Just download the program and install it on your PC and then you will have a window like the one above.

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Games to Build up Your Vocabulary Skills.

Vocabulary.co.il is an excellent website dedicated to helping users build up their vocabulary skills.Users have fun playing myriads of educational games, but , learn and improve their language skills as well.

Teachers using the IWB can also pick and choose amid variety of games to use in class.

Read the Text for me

1. vozme is free web-based tool that helps learners to further practise their pronunciation. Users can generate a clear audio file from almost any written materials or from their own. Just feed in your text and the program generates a voice that reads the words aloud.

2.readthewords is another simple online 'text to speech' program that enables users to feed in a text then play it as an audio stream. Users can also save their audi files for future use.

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Is it Embarrassing to Use the Net in Class?

Unfortunately YES.At times using the net can be a bit embarrassing due to unsuitable content of some websites. There many interesting and very useful sites that can be used in class to maximize learning. However, these very interesting sites contain annoying ads, at times with offensive images.

As such, teachers should take the necessary precautions prior to using some sites. One way to get rid out the annoying ads and, hence have some sort of control of the page content you intend to view is using some blockers.

www.adout.org does this job quite well but it is blocked. So, using Mozila Firefox as a browser together with adblockplus can serve

How to block annoying ads and images on a site:

First open Mozila Firefox, go to Tools, select ads-on, type in adblockplus, install it and restart your browser.

Is It Embarrassing to Use the Net in Class