Get students practicing by embedding EnglishCentral videos

I was speaking with a few teachers this weekend and found out that though they are enthusiastic supporters of EnglishCentral, they didn’t know that they could embed EC videos on their moodle and get students practicing the videos right there!

Yes, it is that simple. Put them on a class wiki or your blog. Teachers won’t get use of our Teacher Tools or be able to track student progress / get reports without signing up as a teacher (do so here in the Academic Use area). However, your students can speak the videos as much as they want – and that’s the point, practice.

It’s easy to embed the videos.  Just go to the video detail page and click the embed icon. Grab the code and put into your page as html. Then students simply click  and study the video lessons.

Here’s how the video detail page looks and here is an example video lesson. Click it and start studying!


EFL 2.0 Gems – Our 24/7 teacher

One of the nice things about a computer is that it never tires (also frustrating, always there tempting us). No greater example than our teacher bot on EFL Classroom 2.0. She’s pretty, smart and also wants to talk about Christmas these days (just select the questions below her to speak about Christmas). She’s a wonder and I’m glad I took the initiative to develop her for language learners all around the world.

Hours of fun. Post up your own “gems” from her responses. Also, try the Ghost Writer version of the same mark up language. A wonderful Harry Potter way to practice writing.

Get more gems in this ongoing series HERE.