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I was asked by Sarah to come share some ideas with you for integrating technology into the classroom, so I thought I'd do it in Blog form. I will read this blog aloud to you as you read it on the computer screen. This will give you a short American English pronunciation lesson and allow you to work a bit at your own pace as well! I will organize this presentation in order from the easiest ideas to implement to the more complex. Here you can find a table of ideas if you would like my outline . BLOGS - AUSBILDUNG and WEITERBILDUNG Let's start with blogs! What are blogs? Who has used one before? Here are a few that I will now freely comment upon: http://phzh-zab.blogspot.com/ http://cpeblog.blogspot.com/ Blogs are easy to develop because they don't take an incredible amount of knowledge to set up, you can use them simply or in more complex ways and they help to foster informal communication outside the classroom. Keywords: developing writing skills / peer or instructor corre

Hello! I am now in England visiting the PHSH teachers. They seem to be having a very good time and learning a lot. They've had an outing or two and a tour of the town of Norwich. They've now been in two different classes. The only negative comment I heard was: English schools are rather traditional . So I'm wondering what this means and also if we can really say Swiss schools are different or more 'modern'! Right now I'm sitting here in a great workshop about using the Web. The possibilities are endless!!