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 [...]
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I’ve been investigating many new “chatterbots”, artificially intelligent characters that can help students practice and learn English online. Dave our wonderful chatterbot is under the knife but I think I’ve found a way to keep him on life support at least. You can still keep him company HERE.
However, I’ve designed the first prototype of
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I’ve been back again to Russel Tarr’s marvellous ClassTools site. On the site, you can very easily make all sorts of presentations and games. Just click and check out the games on the side of the site. The one above I made in 2 minutes! Just get an embed code. [...]
As a post-methodist (and not of the religious kind!!) I’m really big on getting students producing language and talking. CO2 is what I call it. Comprehensible Output for 2 people (communication). We all need to give our students more CO2 – forget the oxygen!
In that vein, I’ve promoted extensively both Voicethread and Voxopop. Two [...]
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One thing I’ve become convinced of as a teacher, is the fact that WE can be our own worst enemy. Meaning, somehow our own experiences, our 1,000s of hours in the classroom observing teachers, have conditioned us to “be teachers” and that this gets in the way of the success of our language [...]
I’ve been engrossed of late with how I might use voice recognition technology in the language classroom. I might test drive it this semester — I’ll walk around the classroom “wired” and as I speak, all the students will see it come up in script on the screen.
This really isn’t intended for the very fluent [...]
Saturday, February 14, 2009
I’ve blogged about this previously but now want to provide for those who haven’t seen it, my full thoughts about the “future of learning”.
Presently, schools don’t get it and that’s why so so so so much learning is actually not school based! Yeah, think about that. Emperical studies have shown that kids learn everywhere, all [...]
