"Going to" Future Video
I prepared this video to present "going to" future in xtranormal which is a website that allows you to create videos. I am sure your students will love it because my students love watching videos.If you want to use this video please click here.


I like using technology in the classroom and I use them as surprises. Especially my 4th grade students love surprises and they always wait for my next surprise. It motivates them a lot. Hope you like it and use it in your classroom too.

Creating Sound Files

Dear all,

I found two useful websites for you to create your own sound files. They are totally free and they don't ask for a membership.The first one is called AT&T. AT&T gives you the chance to make speeches of a female or male characters from different natioanalities. You can chooe from the box if you want an Italian, French or a German accent.I recommend you to listen to the files first before you download them. It reads some words very quickly. So you need to put a comma between the words to make it slower.The second one is vozMe.In this site the choices are limited with a male and female voice.They sound more like a robot but it is still free and a useful tool if you are preperaing a powerpoint and you want an alien or a robot to talk :) I prepared flash games and powerpoint presentation with these tools and. Hope you find them useful ,too.

Moose Song

It's a very nice energizer from CISV. You can do it with your students to have fun together.

Karaoke Party

Listening and singing songs is always fun for everyone.

You can suggest your students karaokeparty.com to improve their pronunciation and listening skills or you can give it a try yourself just for fun. I tried myself and it was so much fun. All you need to do is:
•To go to the website http://karaokeparty.com
•Choose a song.
You should have flash player in your computer. Choose allow in your screen. It’s time to sing along. It’s totally free but limited for free users. You don’t have to register but if you do you can get a score for your singing, but you need a microphone. Doesn’t it worth to give it a try?


Hope you like it:)
P.S: I found this piece of information in Nik Peachy's website.

How to Praise Our Students

I was looking for something different yesterday but I came across with 101 ways to praise a child. I started to question myself "Do I praise my students? Do I do it in a proper way or Do I always use the same words?" My answer is most of the time I use the same words. That's why I liked this suggestion.If you want to visit the website click here. Some of them are not very suitable to use in the classroom but you can choose. Here is the list that you can use to praise your students.

101 Ways To Praise A Child

Wow. Way to go. You're special. Outstanding. Excellent. Great. Good.Neat. Well done. Remarkable . I knew you could do it. I'm proud of you.Super Star. Nice work. Looking good. You're on top of it. You'recatching on. Now you've got it. How smart. Good job. That's incredible.Hot dog. Remarkable job. You're Beautiful. You're a winner. Youmake me happy. Hip, Hip, Hooray. You're important. Magnificent.Beautiful. Fantastic. You're on target. You're on your way. How nice.You're Spectacular. You're Darling. Super. Super Job. Beautiful work.Good for you. Nothing can stop you now. Dynamite. You're fantastic.Awesome. You're precious. Fantastic job. You've discovered the secret.Bingo. Great discovery. You're a real trooper. Marvelous. Terrific.You're growing up. Outstanding performance. You tried hard. You figuredit out . What a good listener. You're a treasure . You mean a lot to me. You're a good friend . That's correct. A big hug. What an imagination.You learned it right. You're incredible. Now you're flying. Bravo.Beautiful. I like you. I respect you. You're sensational. Phenomenal. A+job. Hooray for you. You're unique. You care. Creative job. You belong.You brighten my day. Super work. That's the best. You made my day. Ilove you! Beautiful sharing. You mean the world to me. You're important.You've got a friend. You're a joy. You make me laugh . You're A - Okay -my buddy. I trust you. You are perfect. You're wonderful. A big kiss.Exceptional performance .

P.S. Remember, a smile is worth 1000 Words!

One more from me. I learnt it from a teacher trainer once I atttended a seminar. Especially when the students give wrong answers you can encourage him / her by saying: "That's a very good but not totally correct answer." My students already memorized it and they repeat it together with me :)

Digital Natives

Today I prepared certificates for the first ten 5th grade students who contributed our wiki.I wrote "Congratulations. You've turned out to be a digital native." on their certificates.Tomorrow I'll give them and tell the meaning of digital native which is a new term for my students. I'm sure they'll like their certificates.This wiki study is new for them so they need motivation.Today I also updated our wiki because we had some technical problems. One of my students deleted some of his friends writings while trying to write his by mistake. So I created new pages for each student and wrote a new task for them which is about school system. I also included one example for them.Some of my students have already started writing their new pages.