Recently, an online teacher friend of mine, Mark Bain, was reflecting on his blog on what teachers can do in one-to-one classes while their students are reading or writing. A situation that many tutors are in and find challenging. Here is my reply:
I’ve read your post with interest because I had similar thoughts when teaching [...]
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Second Life is a 3D virtual world in which you can move around freely with your Avatar, a figure that represents you in this world, interact with others and build complex three dimensional objects. It is called a serious game and there has been a lot of hype about it. So, last year, I signed [...]
Someone on Twitter mentioned a new Web 2.0 tool that they liked. The tweed went on like this: “Now I’m thinking of how to use it my class” This reminded me that we educators should be careful not to use technology as an end but only as a means. I think we teachers, especially those [...]
As language teachers, we often use timelines to explain and practise verb tenses. Dipity is a wonderful tool that can make timelines really fascinating and engaging for students.
You can search for interactive timelines on different topics (history, films,science, celebrities, etc.) or even better, you can create your own timeline about your life or an event [...]
This is one of a series of courses about technology in the classroom organised by Nüans Publishing, Ankara taking place in Bursa. Today‘s seminar was about digital storytelling and podcasting and was presented by Derya Erice, who is, like me, also a member of the Webheads – an international vibrant group of educators interested in [...]
I have signed up for IATEFL 2008 as an online participant (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language). There are 17 courses for ESL/EFL teachers to take — all very interesting. I will have to make some difficult decisions. My priorities are:
Learning Technologies
Materials Development
Learner autonomy
Testing, Evaluation & Assessment
Business English
Weekly meeting with the Webheads, an international dynamic group of teachers using technology in the classroom. We meet regulary every Sunday in TappedIn. These meetings are very valuable to me as they are not only fun but also very informative. Especially but no only for online teachers, such online communities of practise are very important [...]
I attended a presentation by Jeremy Harmer, the popular ESL writer and teacher trainer, in Second Life. It took place in EduNation. He talked about how teachers can keep themselves motivated. One important point he made was to leave your comfort zone and learn and try out new things. I think this is not only [...]
Today, I went to an ELT (English Language Teaching) seminar, which was organised by several publishing houses (Cambridge, Oxford, Longman, Macmillan, etc.). The venue was the private primary school ?lkbahar ?lkö?retim Koleji. The presentations were interesting and lunch was great.
The most interesting presentation for me was the one about IWB software (interactive whiteboard). It was [...]