Tuesday, November 24, 2009
I’m constantly cheerleading Voicethread! (just type in “voicethread” here and you’ll see what I mean!) Our voicethreads 4 learning are used by thousands! Still, I want more teachers to use voicethread with their students!
So in that same vein – I’d like to invite EFL Classroom 2.0 members / teachers, to try it out and tell [...]
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Jane Hart, bless her heart, runs a nice collection of THE TOP 10 TOOLS LISTS OF LEARNING PROFESSIONS. Check them out and lots of diverse entries. Here’s her own top 25.
I’m too late to participate but find my list for last year HERE. Here is my list for this year. The major thread/theme that runs [...]
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
This game, Guess Who’s Speaking, I designed using the Speech Archives and stock photos.
It could be a good listening activity for students (it provides repetition) and also a way to discuss stereotypes.
Basically, you first guess who might be speaking (these aren’t the real people but it is fun to think about this and gets [...]
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One of the hardest parts of being an EFL student is not getting enough opportunity to speak. In class, there are usually too few opportunities for really spontaneous and “real” production/output. Voicethread is a tool that offers this in abundance. Read all our blog posts about Voicethread HERE.
I’ve spent the last few hours on this [...]
Who Am I?
I don’t say much about my own professional (or personal ) life. However, I really believe and always encourage teachers to do so with their students. For many reasons, primarily to model and encourage students to speak about their own lives and beliefs – to create community within the classroom.
So in this [...]
RSS to PDF = Print your Blog!
Interested? View more HERE. Also – watch US Now for a fuller description of how technology can empower people.
As teachers, we are by default in many cases, operatives for publishers and textbook makers. We truly are! The textbook forms the learning process. It makes it into something different [...]
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
MIXTUBE
We have a lot of music here for language learning and teaching. Too much to even begin to list! (actually I have listed it HERE!)
However, here is one other hidden resource – our Mixtube list of Lyrics. A vast collection of great videos with only lyrics.
I find when teaching, a video with lots of imagery [...]
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Where is the chocolate man? Places.
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Commercials are great for teaching English. Not just for teaching media awareness but for specific language study. They are the perfect “engager” and way to start off and focus a lesson on a central point/topic. Commercials are short and powerful and trendy. The perfect media to use to [...]
Saturday, October 10, 2009
I remember “years” ago when I got out of teacher’s college and first began teaching overseas in the Czech Rep. There was no internet back then (92) nor satellite TV or even English TV. And only once a week did one copy of the European (do you remember that wonderful creation of the eccentric Robert [...]
Thursday, October 8, 2009
English Central is a new video site bringing “Voice” to learners. I’ve long written and promoted the use of both speech recognition and text to speech for language learners. English Central is at the forefront of this movement harnessing the power of new technology to facilitate language acquisition. It takes video language learning sites like [...]
