1. Vanessa Núñez
BRICK BY BRICK, BLOG BY BLOG

2. What can you do with your blog?
• Share files with your students (powerpoints, videos, .doc, .pdf,
etc)
• Create a new tool for students with special attention
• Improve vocabulary or grammar structures learnt
• Share documents with other teachers
• Celebrate a competition and publish the winner
• Communicate with your students (writings, exams,
assignments, etc); Facebook.
• Create a list with your favourite web pages and share it
• Create a blog for Homestays
• Create a ‘book’
• Share photos

3. Are you ready?

4. Why should I create one?
• Your students will love it.
• You’ll save time in next years.
• You’ll have a ready to use tool at any moment.
IT’S EASY AND FAST!

5. Useful Links and Webpages:
GAMES for Primary
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Primary FUN ZONE
Trig's website (Grammar Games)
Educat365
Incredible English Kit GAMES 2nd Edition
Literacy Zone
Incredible English Kit GAMES
Learn English Kids
ESL Games
Games to learn English

6. Useful Links and Webpages: Skills
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Boggles World(Young Learners)
Adele's Corner (Kids)
Grammar Activities (Bluebloc)
Advanced English Page
Grammar Exercises (English 4 u)
Verb Conjugation
Irregular verbs
Reading and listening activities
On-line Dictations
Free exercises (Agenda Web)

7. Useful Links and Webpages:
Listenings, movies, podcasts
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Free AUDIOBOOKS
Free AUDIOBOOKS II
Listen and watch (Elementary Podcasts)
Movies activities
Ideas worth spreading
The Guardian Podcasts

8. Useful Links and Webpages:
Pronunciation
• Pronunciation for everyone!
• Interactive mouth picture
• International Phonetic Alphabet (Advance, Proficiency)

9. Useful Links and Webpages:
Reading
• Free E-Books for Primary
• Free E-Books for Kids
• Tales

10. Useful Links and Webpages:
Cambridge Exams
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Amazing site to prepare FCE!!
FCE: Use of English and Reading
FCE Listenings: activities to improve!
On-line FCE exams
YLE Flyers
YLE Movers
YLE Starters
GAME for STARTERS

11. ‘MOST LOVED’ LINKS
• WarmUpsFollowUps
• Movies Segments
• An easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign
languages skills through the music videos and lyrics of your
favorite songs

12. Let’s continue!

13. IS IT DIFFICULT?

14. How can I start?
Choose a free online blogging platform, there are many:
• 1. WordPress.com
• 2. Blog.com
• 3. Blogger
• 4. TypePad Micro
• 5. Jux
• 6. Tumblr
• 7. Posterous Spaces
• 8. Blogetery
• 9. Weebly
• 10. LiveJournal

15. 1) Go to blogger.com and sign in

16. 2) Create a new blog

18. 3) Enter your new post (entrada)

19. 4) Interface

20. Get used to using the new interface,
it’s easy!

21. 5) Customize your blog

22. http://btemplates.com/

23. Choose the template you prefer
and download it

27. Make it different!

28. Widgets for your blog
• http://www.widgetbox.com/
• http://www.springwidgets.com/

29. Tutorials:
• SLIDESHARE: Upload documents you can see on your blog
• DROPBOX: Upload documents your students can download

32. Questions?
• For further information, please do not hesitate to contact me:
vanessanj@gmail.com
v.nunez@begues.manyanet.org
Blog: teachernessa.blogspot.com

33. Last but not least:
THANK YOU!!