Websites


 * Recommended Websites**

//Please add websites you would like to recommend to other participants below.// //Please give the name of the website, the full link, a brief description of its contents, and include your name and school in parenthesis.// //I've included some that were recommended to me by English A1 Online Workshop participants plus some of my own.//


 * BBC UK Podcasts** [] Free podcasts--just about everything (Ryan McMahon, Port Moody Secondary, Canada)


 * BBC 4 In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg** [] A history of ideas (great for ToK and some good stuff for literature too (Linda Olson, LPC UWC HK)


 * Bibliomania** [] Free classics and critical literature (Vani Anand, Singapore International School, Jakarta)


 * FreeTech4Teachers** [] Free teaching resources and lesson plans for teaching with Technology (Ryan McMahon, Port Moody Secondary, Canada)


 * Project Gutenberg** [] Provides free e-books (Timothy Wagner, American International School, Ho Chi Minh City)


 * Shelfari** [] A social network for people who love books (Jean Melek, Gems World Academy, Dubai)


 * TED Talks** [] Free videos. Good for ToK and occasionally English A1 (Linda Olson, LPC UWC HK)

Personal Brain []. This is a software program that allows you to create Mind Maps-AKA spider web diagrams--which provides a different perspective by which to take notes. Try the program before you get your students to download the program.