Cultura Study Group

A blog for CI Uberlandia teachers. This is a space where we can share material from TTCs, tutorials and interesting sites we can use in class.

ActivInspire - E-board training videos

This is a series of screencasts I´ve produced to help our teachers get used to the new updated version software for the Promethean e-board. We used ActivStudio before but this vacations all our boards will have the new version, so here it is.
Watch High-quality tutorials here http://screenr.com/user/anamariacult

1. Exploring the TOOLBOX and the RESOURCE LIBRARY



2. Adding ANIMATIONS



You can find great animations @ http://www.sevenoaksart.co.uk/

3. Adding VIDEOS



4. Drag a copy (warmer activity)



5. Hiding Text / Hiding Images



6. Using the Camera to take screenshots.



7. Creating Captions




ActivInspire Manual

Activ Inspire Training Manual

Halloween 2009 - 2010

Use this video at the beginning of classes this week to advertise the HALLOWEEN PARTY.

Bookr Project: WHO AM I?

Este projeto foi desenvolvido pela teacher Polyana Vida com seus alunos de Teen3. Usando a webtool BOOKR, alunos criaram um livro online sobre WHO AM I? (Quem sou eu?)

Check them out, para virar a página, clique no canto inferior direito. Para ver na tela inteira, clique em FULL SIZE. The books are FANTASTIC! Good job!


E-board training - (Promethean)

These are two tutorials to help you consolidate what we have seen in our face 2 face training. If you can´t see the tutorial on this page, click on the links.

TUTORIAL 1: basic tools
http://recordings.dimdim.com/view/dimdim/5b42c550-3c57-102c-bbd7-003048944478



TUTORIAL 2: Creating flipcharts
http://recordings.dimdim.com/view/dimdim/56b4705e-3d08-102c-bbd7-003048944478

Thanksgiving at Karen´s place

We´d like to thank Karen from the bottom of our hearts for the lovely party we had last Friday. The menu was sublime and the company couldn´t be better. These are some of the photos I took but soon I´ll include the pictures taken by Gilson, Polyana, Lívia, and other cameras I saw there flashing around.

TDC 29 august 2008

As requested, these are the ppt. used during the Teacher Development course today.

Luiz Pedro´s presentations:

Ana Maria´s presentations:

Vocabulary learning tips.

As a student, as long as I remember, it's always been a pleasure for me learning new vocabulary. Therefore I used to have a notebook in which I took notes of every single new word I learned and tried to draw and, sometimes write sentences my teacher metioned in order to fix the new expression.Organising these words into groups came as an idea later on. First I just took notes of them disorganasedly, after some time, and realising these words came from different word groups (e.g.: adjectives, verbs, adverbs, nouns, etc) I tried separating parts of my notebook for each of these and, as time went by I had quite a considerable glossary with the exporessions I'd seen in class.This technique helped me a lot revising before my tests and also on the following semesters as I used to keep these notebook for years on.There are other techinques we can use to help us learn new vocabulary, I hope you've enjoyed this one, I promiss I'll bring you more!
Cheers!

New Co-Editor


Hi everyone!


As a result of the relevance of my personal blog subject I've been invited by Ana Maria to co-edit this blog with her. My contribution will be, as a matter of fact, to provide some useful hints you teachers can give your students on how to learn better and more efficently!


I Hope u all enjoy what's coming!


It's a pleasure caring and sharing with you this experience!


Cheers!