Miss Henstra's Classroom

This week we are due to make a draft for our very own eTwinning project and submit it to peer review. I was inspired by a wonderful project I linked to last week, from the ESL times:  http://projectsineso.blogspot.nl/search/label/Radio%20podcast   (link in Spanish). To start off my draft, I decided to make a mindmap (I had too many ideas and not enough structure). Below, you find a presentation of this mindmap, using the great tool Mindmeister Your browser is not able to display frames. Please visit Theme: The impact of climate change in different European countries // Title: Your future, our future. on MindMeister. Theme: The impact of climate change in different European countries // Title: Your future, our future. by Miss Henstra The mindmap turned into almost a complete draft in itself, but I've decided to present it here on my blog in a more conventional way as well. Title Climate Change: My Future, Your Future, Our future Theme Climate change and i...

While browsing the eTwinning projects and related ICT tools I felt a little overwhelmed. There are so many tools and they all look great, so for now it feels like I am collecting ideas at a really high speed without a practical idea of how to use them. I will talk about the tools more in upcoming posts, after I have had some time to try them out ans assess their usefulness. The projects I saw were also interesting, but many of them were very impractical for my teaching situation. I am a secondary school teacher and my subject is English - doing a project together with other subjects such as geography or the sciences is not yet possible in our school situation, so I need to make or find a project that focuses mostly on language skills and also, very importantly, will help my students along to reach their goals for this year - it can't just be fun to do! One such project that really spoke to me was the "Hotel rules" project which you can find here: https://twinspace.et...