ONLINE COLLABORATIVE WRITING USING WIKIS.

As teachers we have to know that we can try or implement new ideas, new websites or new things that we can use it as a tool with our students and, of course as benefits for them to develop their language skills. According to the reading it says that at first it was a little bit weird and maybe dificult for learners try to discover or the pourpuse of the wikis use. Then, they explian that students star to enjoy writing in the wikis section, they audience who read their paragraph's. Teachers says that they have found many benefits and pros for all of them. Students can work by joing there with different classes or even do different schools. 

According to the reading it says that there are many wikis at the Internet it beacomes famous for the benefits that provides students. Teachers and students can create their own wikis for free. It is easy to learn and to use. These tool is pretty useful beacuse students can develop their writing skills by many proyects that the teacher can provide at wikis.

Creative Ways to Use Authentic Material

 It's no good trying to get your students fascinated by a text on the latest art movie if they are all fans of action films. You might as well save your time and energy and just use the text book!

Aren't authentic materials too difficult? Yes they are, but that's the point! Your text, written or recorded, is likely to be too hard, even, in some cases, for advanced students. The trick, regardless of the text used, is not to edit and grade the text, but to grade the task according to your students' abilities. This is for three reasons: most importantly, it reflects the kind of situation your students may face in an English-speaking environment, it saves you time and energy (more of an added bonus than a reason) and lastly it encourages and motivates your students when they can 'conquer' a real text.

When used correctly, authentic materials provide the flavor your class needs to complement the use of textbooks, worksheets and other foreign language teaching materials!
Maybe you’ve heard all about the activities you can do with authentic materials and how they increase student achievement, but you haven’t ventured to try them yet.
If it sounds a little intimidating, not to worry.
When people first think of authentic materials they usually assume that we are talking about newspaper and magazine articles. However, the term can also encompass such things as songs, web pages, radio & TV broadcasts, films, leaflets, flyers, posters, indeed anything written in the target language and used unedited in the classroom.

The materials used, will of course, depend on the 'usual' factors:

• topic
• target language area
• skills
• students' needs and interests

Using Internet-Based Children's Literature to Teach EFL (TESL_TEFL)

Hollywood and Disney may be coloring TV and the movies. But thanks to interactive websites with free children’s book and stories, the charm of princely tales and brave knights continues to endure.
For kids, children stories are the window to the outside world. Stories continue to make kids dream of great adventures, heroic princes, and beautiful princesses. And, a bit about ogres and monsters that heroes must battle to keep the world safe.

This paper explores some of the issues surrounding the development of Internet services in public library children's services. It notes that IT services have generally been undeveloped in children's libraries and that this trend must not continue with networked computer services. It recognises that the lack of net‐worked computer service provision in children's libraries may lead to them seeming ‘irrelevant’ and ‘old fashioned’ to their users. The paper focuses on literature and literacy issues in relation to information and communication technology (ICT). It notes that few libraries have been using ICT to support their literature‐based services.