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Go4english: Moroccan Teaching Supervisors ICT Training Programme
Fancy listening to the best thinking around with interviews and podcasts from the UK's creative leaders? Visit our new site SoundbitesUK. Check out the interviews online or download and enjoy them later, read the comments, write some of your own. Have a good time!
Soundbites UK - http://podcastuk.org/
Windows On Our World
http://woow.phil-sllvn.co.uk/windows/
Coastal Landscapes, Environment, Farming, Human Cities, Human Rural, Rivers and Glaciers, Satellites, Maps and Air, Weather and Climate and more... Windows On Our World is a fantastic online image library of geographical photography for everyone everywhere. A joy to the eye and a great teaching resource.
Who is your hero?
My Hero is an interesting website that celebrates working heroes from around the world. The Teacher's Room is packed with lesson plans, tutorials, support materials, the '365 Days of Heroes' calendar, and the cool e-Create tool to create a unique index of your students' 'My Hero' stories.
http://myhero.com/myhero/
Creativity: find it, promote it
http://www.ncaction.org.uk/creativity/
What is creativity? Why is creativity so important? How can you spot creativity? How can you promote it? Creativity Home is a National Curriculum in Action website which offers practical ideas on how to promote pupils' creative thinking and behaviour. Check it out! Be original!
From A-gaskw to Zvezda Vechernyaya
The Encyclopedia Mythica offers descriptions and images of fascinating entities, myths, strange creatures, folktales and legends from many lands. It also comes with pronunciations, a bibliography, origin of months and days, and the Mythquiz. Think mythology!
http://www.pantheon.org/
Map learning
http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/
Do you ever use maps in your English classes? At MapZone you'll find lots of cool resources to teach children mapping skills using British Isles, Europe and World maps. There are interactive games, trivia, homework help, a Geography sections, and useful offline printouts. Enjoy!
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go4english.com: An innovative English language learning tool designed exclusively for the Arab World
TeachingEnglish - produced by the BBC and the British Council as a resource for teachers.

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