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####magicteaching#coolactivities#motivated students#positiveresults#lerningtounlearn###### Many of our students love this symble nowadays, so....why not thinking of a cool ativity to incorporate it to our class. Reflecting upon it, I thought of an activity but before the procedures let's look into some facts about the origin of hash tags. I confess I was taken aback!! I got it from urbandictionary.com:"Hashtags are believed to have originated on Twitter but, interestingly enough, it is not a Twitter function. Some believe it began when the broken plane luckily landed in the Hudson River in early 2009, some Twitter user wrote a post and added #flight1549 to it. I have no idea who this person was, but somebody else would have read it and when he posted something about the incident, added #flight1549 to HIS tweet. For something like this, where tweets would have been flying fast and furiously, it wouldn't have taken long for this hash tag to go viral and suddenly thousands of people posting about it would have added it to their tweets as well. Then, if you wanted info on the situation, you could do a search on "#flight1549" and see everything that people had written about it."Suggested activity and procedures:1) First of all, to introduce the topic, I would have my students discussing about their beliefs regarding the origin of hash tags to see of any of them know about the facts.2) After I would ask them to carry on a research on the internet to know about the facts.3) Later on, I would ask them to take a picture (they're free to use their creativity), which would represent their expectations for the semester. Then they would create the hashtag for the picture.4) As students finish creating their hashtags, I would ask them to vote for the most creative one. As an alternative prodecedure, if students have a group on facebook, the teacher can ask them to upload their pictures and there can be a votation online. This way they can show their pictures and hashtags to families and friends! ;)For more interesting info on the topic you can also check these two links:http://pt.wix.com/blog/2013/11/o-que-sao-hashtags/http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtaghttp://top-hashtags.com/instagram/ This is the third activity I will share that can be useful for a first class. I call it EGG INTERVIEW. Check out the simple procedures below:This activity is aimed at elementary up students and groups around 8-14 students.Give each student 3 strips of paper where they should write down information about themselves (eg. married, university/school, sport). Then students scrunch the strips of paper into eggs and place all their eggs in a basket the teacher is going to provide them with. Later, students unravel an egg at a time and search out the author. Elementary and Pre intermediate students will make sentence like: Julia likes PIZZA. Intermediate and advanced sudents may make questions: Do you like PIZZA Julia?The student to get more correct guesses (authors) is the winner! Do you know how to say "firme e forte" in English?Alive and kickingE.g: How are you feeling after a long day studying for the test? Alive and kicking.Reference: Englishexperts.com If you
are going to work with beginners, one of the topis you are most probable to be covering in the very first classes is the ALPHABET. So here I suggest a simple activity to introduce or activate the topic. If you are working with other levels (pre-intermetiate or even intermediate) this activity can be great for a warm-up or wrap-up. Hope you and your students have loads of fun!ALPHABET HUNTProcedures;Have participants/students divided into small groups. Tell them you are going to give them 5 minutes to find one item within or outside the room (they may take pics of the objects if they are hard to carry!) that begins with each letter of the alphabet, in order. At the end of the time alloted, ask each team how far they got. The tem that got furthest, wins!!
A mobile app is a computer program designed to run on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.Apps are usually available through application distribution platform, which began appearing in 2008 and are typically operated by the owner of the mobile operating system, such as the Apple App Store, Google Play, Windows Phone Store, and BlackBerry App World. The term "app" is a shortening of the term "application software". It has become very popular, and in 2010 was listed as "Word of the Year" by the American Dialect SocietyI have been using a number of apps in my classes but I will list below some that are really resourceful for classroom management and general study.1) Coin Flip full free : Wanna flip a coin for a hard decision? This app let you select your favorite coins and sport backgrounds to try your luck. Beautiful coins from 28 nations and different beautiful backgrounds to choose. Students love it!2) Random Student Picker: This app is designed for teacher who want to quickly and easily pick students at random to answer questions, complete tasks or join groups. Classes can be added by entering names or copying and pasting. 3) I love English (English videos): English Conversation Listen" is a helpful app to practice english conversation for everyone. With more than 1 english channels categorized in 6 levels, you can strengthen your english speaking and listening skills perfectly.4) Too Noisy Lite online: As the noise level in a classroom increases beyond an acceptable level the noise level meter dynamically indicates the level of noise, and the background graphics within the app change to reflect the noise levels.What about you? What apps have you been using in class? Share with us! Every year the Oxford Dictionaries announce the word of the year. So, the new SELFIE is VAPE which was the word chosen for its significant use in 2014.To explore this set of words that are year after year incorporated to the English language, I found this quiz (link below). There teachers can have students enriching their vocabulary and also practicing these new items by asking students to role play situations where they have to use a given number of words. Very good activity for advanced and upper-intermediate students!http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/11/word-of-the-year-2014-quiz/Let's now wait for the word of 2015!!!! A teacher's attitude, behavior, language and teaching style can do a lot to make or break a good student. Best teachers encourage learning, effort, motivation and curiosity .There is a famous sentence that says " we teach what we are" so we have to nurture a positive atitude towards our students results since the very first classes. Praising is the best way to get this.The best teachers know that one of the essential elements in encouraging a student to do better is praise. Students, just like all other human beings regardless of age, like to be praised. Publicly praising a student also has the added benefit of encouraging other students to strive. However, if you think that it might have the opposite effect of alienating some students, you can try private
praise by calling a student after class and praising him/her for a job well done. Thinking of that, I share with you below some sentences that you should incorporate to your classroom language so that you can make sure you are praising your students and avoind so many repetitive Very Good! For every achievement, effort, good attitude, your students deserve one praise.Try these ones!Some Ways To Say "Very Good!"Im happy to see you working like that.Youve just about mastered that.Im proud of the way you worked today.Thats the best youve ever done.Youre doing that much better.Couldnt have done it better myself.Now thats what I call a fine jobYou must have been practicing.Youre doing beautifully.Superb!Keep it up!Youve got it down pat.You certainly did well today.Tremendous!Youre doing fine.Good thinking!You are really learning a lot.Keep on trying.You outdid yourself today.Ive never seen anyone do it better!Good going!Im very proud of you.Good job, (individuals name).You figured that out fast.Thats really nice.Its a pleasure to teach you when you work like that.Clever!Thats great!Way to go!Now you have the hang of it.Congratulations!Youve got your brain in gear today!Wonderful!Super!Youre on the right track now.You are very good at that.Thats coming along very nicely!Youre doing a good job.Thats quite an improvement.You are learning fastYou make it look easy!You really make my job fun!Youre getting better every day.Thats the way!Nice goingSensational!You havent missed a thing!Thats the way to do it!Keep up the good workNothing can stop you now.Thats better than ever.Outstanding!You did very well!Youre really improving.Right on!Youre on target now.Im impressed with your progress! Incredible job! Awesome job!- See more at: http://www.incredibleart.org/files/praise.htm#sthash.MAc0O25o.dpuf
The question of this post has been o my mind for some years. Fortunately now, some answers have emerged because I have been taking a course on Web Science at the University of Southampton which aims at shedding some light to attendants where the web came from, where it is now and where it may go.Needless to say that the World Wide Web has changed the ways we communicate, collaborate, and educate. We increasingly live in a Web-dependent society in a Web-dependent world. The Web is also the largest human information construct and it is growing faster than any other system we know about.As educators, we need to understand the current, evolving, and potential Web so that we can get the most of it in our classes. If we just standstill, things change at the speed of light and our teaching practice may become out of date. It is our role have an awareness of current and emerging research questions for Web Science.In brief words Web Science is the study of the social behaviours in the Web at the inter-person, inter-organizational and societal level, the technologies that enable and support this behaviour, and the interactions between these technologies and behaviours.Take some some time and have a look at this dense but cutting edge topic. Feel free to share any comments with me or make any questions if you will.To start I invite to watch the TED talk :Tim Berners-Lee: The next web | TED Talk | TED.comhttps://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web On the following days I will be writing about a set of activities I've been designing to start classes with a positive mood. The first activity I will talk about is about the hit Rude by the band Magic. Teachers can play both the videoclip as well as the lyrics because there is no swearing or 'undesirearable scenes for teens'.Procedures:Pre-listening activity; in groups of 3 or 4 I woud ask students to make up a list with words related to marriage and wedding party.While-listening-activity; Ask student to check the words they saw or listened from their lists.The 'wow' moment for this activity is reserved for the Production Stage. My idea is to separate the class in two groups and ask them to propose the teacher to marry them for the semester or even the year. To do so, they should talk about their strenghts, expectations and what they are going to do to make the relationship work. Lots of fun and creativitity for this first day of class!!! This activity is great to be used with teens and adults. It's a very good tool for the teacher to evaluate how students perceive their sef-steem. I like to use it as a warm-up but it can be a good wrap-up too.Procedures:1) Teacher asks student to say what the most important things in the worldare for them and give one adjective to describe it.2) Before the class the teacher will have stuck at the bottom of an empty box a mirror. then, in clas, after this brief discussion, every student in turns will be invited to open
the box and see his/her reflection. They should also say one adjective to describe them. Before I invite them to start opening the box, I usually say that inside the box there is something very important for me in the world. 3) If you want, as a follow-up, you can have them sitting in pairs to discuss how they felt when they saw their reflection and so on but usually the activity is always very rewarding for both students and teacher.
regiao?A solucao do abastecimento urbano foi anunciada pelo proprio governo federal, atraves da Agencia Nacional de Aguas (ANA), ao editar, em dezembro de 2006, o Atlas Nordeste de Abastecimento Urbano de agua. Nesse trabalho e possivel, com menos da metade dos recursos previstos na transposicao, o beneficio de um numero bem maior de pessoas. Ou seja, os projetos apontados pelo Atlas, com custo de cerca de R$ 3,6 bilhoes, tem a real possibilidade de beneficiar 34 milhoes de pessoas, em municipios com mais de 5.000 habitantes.O meio rural, principalmente para o abastecimento das populacoes difusas aquelas mais carentes em termos de acesso a agua, podera se valer das tecnologias que estao sendo difundidas pela ASA (Articulacao do Semiarido), atraves do uso de cisternas rurais, barragens subterraneas, barreiros, trincheiras, programa duas aguas e uma terra, mandalas etc.Enquanto isso, o orcamento do projeto de Transposicao nao para de crescer. No governo Sarney, ele foi dimensionado com um unico eixo e tinha um orcamento estimado em cerca de R$ 2,5 bilhoes. Na gestao Fernando Henrique, ganhou mais um eixo e o orcamento pulou para R$ 4,5 bilhoes. No governo Lula, saltou para R$ 6,6 bilhoes. E, agora, no governo Dilma, chegou na casa dos R$ 8,3 bilhoes. Como se trata de um projeto de medio a longo prazo, essa conta chegara facilmente a cifra dos R$ 20 bilhoes nos proximos 25 a 30 anos.Notas do blog:- O governo Dilma mudou a politica de apoio a construcao de cisternas que vinha sendo tocada pela ASA atraves do projeto Um Milhao de Cisternas para o Semiarido. Para acelerar a producao de cisternas (gigantes caixas dagua que guardam a agua da chuva), as placas de cimento foram trocadas por pre-moldados de polietileno que podem deformar com o calor, custam mais que o dobro que os feitos com a materia-prima anterior, nao utilizam mao-de-obra local na sua confeccao (nao gerando renda) e tem manutencao mais complexa do que se fossem feitos de alvenaria. As organizacoes sociais criticaram a tomada de decisao centralizada, sem questionar quem vem executando e se beneficiando da politica publica na base.- No ano passado, a Policia Federal e a Controladoria Geral da Uniao constataram um desvio de R$ 312 milhoes em verbas do Departamento Nacional de Obras contra as Secas (Dnocs), que poderiam estar sendo utilizadas para diminuir o impacto da estiagem deste ano.Como disse, o problema (que nao e novo) nao e de falta e sim de distribuicao. De agua, de decisoes, de recursos. Enfim, de cidadania. E nao causada apenas pelo velho coronelismo, que foi travestido de modernidade, e ainda assola a regiao. Mas pelas novas politicas de desenvolvimento, produzidas sob a justificativa do progresso e da renovacao, mas que mantem tudo como sempre foi.
A seca que castiga dezenas de municipios do sul do Piaui tem provocado perdas e muito sofrimento para os moradores da regiao. Com a falta de chuvas a grande maioria dos acudes secou e tudo o que foi plantado se perdeu. Muitos moradores encontram dificuldade para conseguir agua para os animais e tambem para o consumo domestico. A seca de 2012 ja e considerada uma das mais devastadoras das ultimas decadas.No municipio de Dom Inocencio, a 615 km de Teresina, a situacao e ainda mais critica. Ate mesmo na zona urbana falta agua e a populacao e obrigada a pagar pequenas pipas improvisadas em carros particulares para abastecerem as casas. Se na cidade a seca tem feito estragos, na zona rural os efeitos sao ainda maiores. A escassez de agua castiga tanto homens como animais.Na localidade Poco Danta o drama para adquirir agua e facilmente percebido. Seu Ivanildo Dias, 66 anos, utiliza uma carroca com dois vasilhames para transportar agua de um pequeno acude localizado a cerca de 2 quilometros de sua casa. A tarefa e ardua e para auxiliar no servico ele paga um rapaz para encher as vasilhas e empurrar a carroca durante uma subida no percurso ate a casa.Durante o tempo que moro aqui eu nunca tinha visto uma seca como essa. relata seu Ivanildo. Ele conta que nao choveu para enverdecer a caatinga e assim os animais precisarao ser alimentados com racao industrial. Desanimados, muitos criadores ja estao vendendo o criatorio. Um saco de racao ja esta custando R$ 48,00 em Sao Raimundo Nonato, principal polo comercial da regiao. O valor devera aumentar ainda mais nos proximos meses. Em epocas normais o preco varia entre 30 e 35 reais.Nas localidades do interior inocentino nao se houve outra coisa que nao seja lamentacoes dos sertanejos. Em 2012 nao teve milho verde, nem feijao, nem melancia, a perda foi de 100% nas plantacoes. Na semana passada, prefeitos da regiao de Sao Raimundo Nonato, entre eles o de Dom Inocencio, se reuniram com o governador Wilson Martins para pedir ajuda. Um plano emergencial, elaborado por tecnicos das Secretarias Estaduais de Defesa Civil, de Desenvolvimento Rural e do Ministerio da Integracao Nacional preve o envio de carros-pipa, aquisicao de cestas basicas, gas de cozinha e sementes para os municipios afetados. Para evitar que a populacao de Vitoria da Conquista e regiao sofra com o racionamento de agua, em virtude do terceiro ano consecutivo de estiagem no semiarido baiano, o Governo do Estado tomou decisoes importantes.Entre elas, a imediata suspensao de captacao de agua das barragens e dos rios que as abastecem (Agua Fria e dos Monos) para fins de irrigacao.Relatorios da Embasa ao titular da Sema, Eugenio Spengler, constataram que as duas barragens, responsaveis pelo abastecimento de agua na cidade, tem apresentado grande reducao no nivel de agua.Spengler esteve nesta segunda (23) em Conquista, onde conversou com o prefeito Guilherme Menezes e participou de uma reuniao na unidade regional do Inema para tratar das acoes do governo estadual.A previsao e de que nao deve chover nesta regiao nos proximos 90 dias. Neste
momento, o consumo em Vitoria da Conquista e superior ao volume de agua que chega na barragem.Se continuar desta maneira, teremos agua apenas por mais 80 dias. Temos que controlar a captacao de agua e equilibrar isso. Estamos intensificando a operacao que comecamos ha 15 dias.A captacao de agua dos rios e na barragem devera ser feita, exclusivamente, para consumo humano, afirmou o secretario, amparado na Lei Federal no 9433/97, que preve esta acao em caso de escassez hidrica.A partir desta terca (24), uma operacao desencadeada com apoio da Policia Militar ira fiscalizar as propriedades rurais que ja foram notificadas nas ultimas semanas.Mais de 95% dos donos de propriedades rurais aqui da regiao nao possuem outorga (autorizacao) para captar agua utilizada na irrigacao. Estes terao as bombas e equipamentos hidraulicos apreendidos, disse Spengler.
Secretaria do Meio Ambiente promove atividade em comemoracao do Dia da AguaNoticia Postada em 20/03/2012 as 17:26:49 hs por: Secom - PMVCCerca de 200 alunos da Escola Municipal Maria Celia Ferraz participaram, nesta terca-feira, 20, das atividades de educacao ambiental em comemoracao do Dia Mundial da Agua, celebrado em 22 de marco. Alem de palestras e exibicao de videos tematicos, foram promovidas brincadeiras ecologicas. O evento e realizado pela Secretaria Municipal do Meio Ambiente, por meio do Modulo de Educacao Ambiental. Ele pretende atender estudantes de quatro escolas municipais ate a proxima sexta-feira, 23.Segundo a coordenadora do Modulo de Educacao Ambiental, Ludmila Araujo, palestras, oficinas e outras acoes ligadas ao cuidado com o meio ambiente sao realizadas nas escolas ao longo de todo ano. A proposta e estabelecer um contato direto com os alunos e trabalhar para que a tematica agua faca parte do dia a dia das criancas e da escola e que, com a realizacao da acao, elas possam vivenciar o assunto de forma ludica e assim permitir uma efetiva acao de educacao ambiental.Para a diretora da escola, Daniela Costa, o trabalho desenvolvido com as criancas e fundamental para alcancar outros membros da familia. E preciso que essas criancas aprendam na escola para passar para os pais a importancia da qualidade da nossa saude em relacao a agua.Os alunos aprovaram a iniciativa da Secretaria Municipal do Meio Ambiente. Maria Eduarda Matos, aluna do terceiro ano disse que aprendeu muita coisa: Temos que cuidar e economizar agua. Ja Nicoly Santos, 7 anos, lembrou a importancia de nao poluir os rios. O que chamou mais a atencao de Taina Alves foi o uso adequado da agua: Eu aprendi que nao devemos desperdicar agua e que ela e boa para lavar as frutas e as verduras. E Yasmim Freire completou: Para termos agua limpa para lavar os alimentos nao podemos jogar lixo nos rios.A atividade ainda ocorrera durante toda a semana nas escolas municipais Antonia Cavalcanti, localizada no bairro Pedrinhas, Mozart Tanajura, no Vila America, e Padre Aguiar, no bairro Patagonia. A coordenadora do Modulo de Educacao Ambiental explicou que estas instituicoes foram previamente definidas e selecionadas por regioes, buscando, sempre que possivel, atender toda a cidade. Fotos: Arthur Garcia/Secom PMVC ...Quando seca um Rio,E a Natureza gritando.Dando sinal para o homem,Que nao esta aguentando.Com a degradacao da NaturezaA Terra esta definhando...Nilton Goncalves Menezes Agua e VidaComemoramos no ultimo dia 22 de marco o Dia Mundial da Agua. A agua e sem duvida o liquido mais precioso de nosso planeta. Sem a agua, a vida nao existiria. Seres humanos, animais, e plantas, todos precisam da agua para viver e crescer.A agua para o nosso planeta e como o sangue para nosso corpo. A exemplo do sangue que leva os nutrientes, oxigenio etc. para as celulas do organismo em todos os tecidos do corpo, a agua transporta os nutrientes para os milhares de organismos vivos na Terra.Da mesma forma que aproximadamente 70% da superficie terrestre e composta por agua, 70% do nosso corpo e tambem constituido por agua, tendo o sangue seu principal distribuidor.