February has started with two grand events: Groundhog Day and Facebook's tenth anniversary. The first one expresses our urge to see winter days being over, and the second proves that Facebook still has a long way ahead; at least, it is my belief. February is also the month to celebrate Safer Internet Day, on 11th, and Saint Valentine's Day, on 14th. The latter had three posts: St. Valentine's Day lesson tips, a thinglink created for this topic; Happy Valentine's Day, a poster announcing the activity at my school, and, finally, A look on St. Valentine's Day, this month's most viewed post, with an animoto that has recreated the activity and showed how the school community reacted to it.
This month, I've also dedicated some posts to reading and ELT: a diagram with Strategies for close reading, a cartoon about Books vs Technology, a site for young kids to learn English, ESL games+, which was also on the top of the week views, 45 ways to avoid the word 'very' and Adjectives with the endings ED or ING.
Thinking of the topics I usually approach on my 11th form classes, I've dedicated some posts to The World of Work and Environment: What makes you come alive?, Would this be your dream job?, About Environmental hazards and Take aim at climate change. Technology was also one of the topics approached, besides the Safer Internet Day and Facebook's anniversary, mentioned previously: How well are we connecting? and The Outernet. Bullying was not forgotten in Bullying is everywhere and neither were teachers with this Passion-based learning post: 'When you teach what you love and share what you know, you open eyes, minds, hearts and souls to unexplored worlds.'
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| Image via Smashing Magazine |
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