Text-to-Speech

http://www.sitepal.com/ttswidgetdemo/

這是一個免費線上文字轉語音的網站，只要輸入文字便能將其轉為語音，且有多種語音特效及男女聲可選擇，可運用語言的學習上，將不懂得如何發音的單字、句子或文章段落輸入，便可輕鬆取得正確的發音，這網站的發音還滿不錯的，大家可以試試看。

Valentine's Day ~~~ (f)

Valentine's Day is on February 14th every year. This day is not just for the lovers/couples but also for friends. This is a romantic holiday for people. We can also show the kids some idea about love on that day. Here are some materials for the teachers.


# Useful Website:
1. Valentine's Day Games(Some games about the Valentine's Day for the Kids)
http://primarygames.com/holidays/valentines/games.htm

2. About Valentine's Day (Some easy introduction about the Valentine's Day)
http://www.holidayinsights.com/valentine/
3. DLTK's Holiday Activities for Kids---Valentine's Day Section
(Abundant teaching resources, such as worksheets, crafts, posters and so on)
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/valentines/index.htm

4. Valentine's Day (The origin of the Valentine's Day, suitable for the high level students)
http://www.history.com/topics/valentines-day

5. Valentine's Day (The origin of the Valentine's Day, suitable for the young kids)
http://www.thefunplace.com/valen/origin.html

# Love songs
1. I LOVE YOU - Celine Dion ( lyrics ) [for the older kids/the teenagers]


2. Linkin Park - Valentine's Day ( lyrics ) [for the older kids/the teenagers]


3. The Valentine's Day Song (A Love Story) acoustic. By Bryant Oden


4. Valentine Day Song - very romantic


# Video Clip
1. A Charlie Brown Valentine (1~3)
(1)

(2)

(3)

Hi, 2012

Hi, every one. the 2011 is about to the end. The new year,2012, is coming.
I wish everyone and everything would be better in the following new year.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, GUYS!!

☆ Wish you have another wonderful new year 2012 ☆

IXL 全英語的數學資源網

http://www.ixl.com/

這個網站雖然是教數學的，不過卻是一個全英語的網站，它按照每個不同年級來安排教學資源。

從學前到國中都有。當我們需要有不同主題或是跨領域教學時，這個網站也是很不錯的參考網站，可以結合英語和數學教學。

Christmas Is Coming!!

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Christmas is almost coming and almost everyone is preparing for the Christmas. Christmas is always the most popular topic used to introduce the culture and to teach English. There are plenty of data on the net. Here I also collected and edited some materials.

@ 聖誕歡樂包 the teaching materials for Christmas
http://jkshy.opendrive.com/files/52827657_U4omH_d480/Xmas.exe

@ About Christmas
http://www.shes.cy.edu.tw/xmas/xmas.htm


@ Video clip: the story of Santa Claus
http://youtu.be/5UPFX5oSgoA
http://jkshy.opendrive.com/files/52827630_xNm6B_3130/st.%20nikolas%20part%204.mp4[download the video clip here]

@ song: Jingle Bell Rock


@ song: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town


@ song: Joy to the world


@ song: We wish you a Merry Christmas


Celine Dion - So This Is Christmas (純欣賞)


Merry Christmas!!

Key English 英檢考試資源網站

http://www.keyenglish.com.tw/toeic_gept/index.jsp?main=0&second=5&explain=5

英檢考試在台灣可以說是非常盛行的活動，坊間也有不少的英檢用書。當然，網路上也有不少有關英檢的網站。

這個網站，有提供一些英檢的考題和資源，個人覺得還滿詳盡的，所以在這分享一下。大家就參考看看吧。

閱讀教學&重點整理的利器---心智圖 blumind

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在閱讀教學裡面，要讓學生學習理解文章或是書本內容，進而建構起自己的一套想法，總是需要一些方法的。

在以前，學到許多的理論與方法，例如，善用問題引導學生，故事地圖、故事泡泡之類的，而最近最夯的，莫過於心智圖的運用。

心智圖，其實不僅僅可以利用在閱讀教學上面，也可以引伸到寫作教學等，而且也可以用來幫助教導學生如何去摘記重點，這對訓練學生自主學習也有很大的幫助。

心智圖的軟體很多，像是Freemind或是Xmind等都是，但各有優缺。這邊我要介紹個人使用後，一個覺得不錯的心智圖軟體--- blumind。

相較於Freemind和Xmind，blumind軟體小，操作容易，免費，免安裝，可以將做好的心智圖轉為圖檔會出，雖然在功能上沒有Freemind和Xmind多，但對於一般使用者已經很足夠了。

有興趣的人可以到官網去多認識一點。

軟體載點:
http://blumind.org/downloads/blumind-1.3.zip