Monday, December 29, 2008
This isn’t exactly “EFL” stuff but it is very much “LIFE” stuff and since language is life…..I have to write about it.
I stumbled across this blog and the story of a man, a film maker who took a photo a day for 18 and a half years! YES, 18.5 years! The photos are collected at [...]
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
The DAVE “Bot” is HERE! Just click on the Questions or Replies below and have a great discussion with him. No typing necessary unless you want to ask some crazy or specific stuff. I think this is a great language learning tool – do you? Is it the future, or a piece of it?
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
I know I’ll take a lot of flak for this and I know it isn’t the standard way to go when talking about “teaching” (the standard approach being to talk about what is “good” teaching), however, during my years of helping teachers, I’ve come upon some warning signs that set off alarm bells and signal [...]
Today I launched Project Peace, a collaborative project where classrooms from all over the world can share peace videos of themselves. Watch the example videos there and download the songs/lyric cards and take pictures of your students. Put them together with the music and bingo! – you have a peace video. I’ll be adding up [...]
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Christmas Karaoke Voicethread!
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Get the Christmas Spirit! I put this up so we can share the gift of music and when others listen, they can also learn some English and catch the Christmas spirit. Let me know if you have a special request, I’ll be adding more songs shortly….
Once [...]
I love and use often, any kind of video in the classroom. Here is a presentation outlining some tips and also detailing the MANY kinds of videos that can be used – ranging from How To videos to Mr. Bean to classic instructional videos…so many types.
video in the classroom
Also, so many ways. Too many to [...]
