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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” or “teacher” has always encompassed all of the above to a greater or [...]
Here are two machinima (videos produced in Second Life) that illustrate some of the educational uses of Second Life, a 3D virtual world. Enjoy!
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 immersive virtual world sounded just like the right thing to engage students and provide a safe [...]
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 and converts your new blog posts automatically to podcasts. This ususally [...]
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 relax a bit and be creative.
Had to right that boring letter or have [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]