Get the word and help United Nations to help the hungry

This is your chance of practicing your English and helping the hungry to get some food.

FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com.

FreeRice has two goals:

1. Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

Getting your badge! Having fun with Mashups!!

More cool tools to create great looking homeworks.....

You can use some of these tools provided by flickr to create new ways to hand in your homework. These are tools that work with photos. We can make posters, or badges or many interesting things.

Now, let's find out what mashups are....well, according to answers.com ....

they combine content from multiple web sources with Web Integration.

mashups* that use Flickr images. Here is just a sampling of a few …

• Mappr - takes Flickr images and allows you to paste them on a map
• Flickr Color Pickr - lets you find public photos in Flickr that match a specific color.
• Montagr – create a photo mosaics from photos found on Flickr.
• Poster Maker with inspiration sayings (add in any picture and saying

I have to thank the people from Classroom learning 2.0 where i found these examples ... they are a great idea.

Want to go to the UK?

Hello, everybody! Happy New Year to you all! Wish you the best for the new year.

Well, how about a little project for the New Year?... British Council has a way to take you and two friends there. How? All you have to do is record a video explaining why learning English is important and upload it at Youtube .

The best video will win a four week work attachment in Naked, a famous and awarded advertising agency in the UK. among the other pries, there are four weeks English course in the UK and scholarships here in Venezuela but in Caracas.

Do you want to participate in this adventure and go visit Prince Charles, the Queen, ride a double deck bus or visit Abey Road?

This is how... go to Go Viral UK and read the terms and conditions. But hurry up this contest has been opened since November 2007 and will close on January 31 st 2008 in Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela. You will be competing against the students from Mexico and Colombia. Go Venezuela, go Maracaibo ... we can make it... if you need any help with your English or ideas on tech problems don't hesitate to ask me.

So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and make your dreams come true.

URBE.. Where dreams live!