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You still don’t use technology in your classroom?

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If your answer to the question above in the title is “No”, watch this video by David Truss. If it is ”Yes”, watch it anyway

If you cannot watch YouTube in your location, watch the blip.tv version.

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Teacher: facilitator, mentor, guide…IT specialist?

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Teachers are often asked to re-evaluate their roles and alternatives like facilitator, mentor, friend, learning partner, guide, et.c, etc. are suggested. I don’t like this discussion too much because the way I understand, interpret, use and try to live the  expression “teach” [...]

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Second Life for Education

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Here are two machinima (videos produced in Second Life) that illustrate some of the educational uses of Second Life, a 3D virtual world. Enjoy!

 

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Why I decided to teach in Second Life?

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Language teachers are always on the outlook for ways of motivating their students and helping them to learn faster and retain more. Naturally, I wanted to find out what that hype over Second Life was all about. A 3D [...]

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Authentic listening material

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Odiogo, which I have installed on all my blogs, is a wonderful tool to make podcasts out of your blog posts automatically. Once installed, which is extremely easy, you don’t have to do anything anymore. Odiogo receives information about new blog posts through RSS [...]

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Who says assignments are boring?

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Through Twitter I found this beautiful little tool called Wordle. I don’t know whether it is useful but it’s definitely fun and looks good. After a long day typing text and being serious it might be just the right tool to [...]

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Why do we use technology?

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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 [...]

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ELT Seminar in Bursa - IWBs

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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 [...]

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