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Exeter Online - Join us online for the 42nd IATEFL Conference
Exeter Online is now live! Featuring news, views and interactive coverage with video presentations, reports and interviews from Exeter. Don't miss this year's Conference - visit the Exeter Online website.
Exeter 2008 - 42nd IATEFL Conference online
Earth Day bags
photo: NASA Glenn Research Center (NASA-GRC)
What about a 'cost-free environmental awareness project in which students decorate paper grocery bags with environmental messages for Earth Day', on 22 April? Check out The Earth Day Groceries Project for details and templates. Borrow, Decorate, Deliver, Report, and celebrate! In April or any time of year!
NEN Gallery
Do you keep looking for nice images for your classes and teaching materials? The National Education Network Gallery offers not only photographs but also sounds and video clips which can be downloaded for free for educational use.
photo: National Education Network Gallery
I am an artist
picture: Mo Gen 2004; photo: Nancy Durrell McKenna
Paint & colour, clay, fabric & fibre, drawing, construction, print. Ever thought of teaching a bit of art in the English class? I am an artist is 'an interactive website with factsheets, weblinks and interactive games on a wide range of visual arts topics'. How cool is that!
For newbies
In our increasingly wired world, tech words abound! Aggregators, feeds, VoIP? No idea? Check out Webopedia - an online dictionary for computer and Internet technology definitions, and get up to speed!
www.webopedia.com
Language of the Month
http://www.newburypark.redbridge.sch.uk/langofmonth/
Newbury Park Primary School in the UK has come up with a brilliant idea to help children take an interest in one another's languages. Language of the month offers video clips of children teaching a few useful phrases in their home languages. Interested? Check out the resource pack and activities booklet for more!
More English Language Resources
If you are a learner or teacher of English, LearnEnglish has something for you.
Search English - a news, information and networking tool for English language teaching professionals.
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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