CDLP – a wonderful adult listening site
CDLP – The California Distance Learning Project, is one of the many governmental sites leading the way towards free online learning resources. It doesn’t have a lot of “flash” but it has an abundance...
View ArticleTeachers helping Teachers
Sorry to keep returning to talk about my course book – Teach | Learn. However, I want to mention a few things and make a request. I put a lot of work into this book – mostly to prove a few things. A) A...
View Article5 lessons for educators from “The King’s Speech”
One of the nice things about the small city I moved to recently, is that it has a wonderful theater downtown, minutes from my house. Every Sunday, they have a $5 showing and tonight they showed “The...
View ArticleTeaching with a blank piece of paper
Even now, this late in the day, a blank sheet of paper holds the greatest excitement there is for me — more promising than a silver cloud, and prettier than a red wagon. - E.B. White I’ve just returned...
View ArticleGuessing Games
A short post about a very BIG topic – Guessing. Along with prediction, it is a very important skill in any English teachers arsenal and one that can be used with great effectiveness. Last night, was...
View ArticleBests Posts 2010-2011
I’d like to share as the year comes to a close – My best “Teaching Advice” blog posts. Also, my best “Practical Teaching Posts”. [Next - I'll outline the Best posts about "Language". ] Note: all posts...
View ArticleIt’s Not A Box – Synectics
My university recently hosted the ICE (Imagination / Creativity / Education) Conference. Instead of giving a presentation and being all concerned with that – decided to join many of my student teachers...
View ArticleKeeping the ideas flowing….
I think that the godhead, the soul, the core of the new technology paradigm is “the pipeline of ideas”. We now have the ability to correspond, share, connect, learn with, learn from, engage so many,...
View ArticleThe benefits benefits benefits of repe repe repetion
Over the length of my teaching career, I’ve changed in many ways. I think my journey mimics a lot of ELT teacher’s 1. I have slowed down my delivery and instruction considerably. I used to just screech...
View ArticleSimple Tasks For Teaching
Recently on the EFL Classroom 2.0 blog, I posted 3 lists of 50 tasks that teachers can use in their teaching – asking students to do them and “practice” language, the skill that is language...
View ArticleVideo: Going To Pieces
I’ve long been a big fan of using video creatively in the classroom. My work with speech recognition and EnglishCentral proves that. However, I have a long history of not only making 100s of video...
View Article5 Favorite & Fabulous Video Based Lessons
As a language teacher, I love video! Students do too, so it’s a happy class when a video is being used. I’ve pounded the pulpit before on the benefits for video in the language learning classroom....
View ArticleSymmetry – a great video vocabulary lesson
Symmetry is an outstanding video to teach basic vocabulary to English language learners. Plus, the important related concept of “symmetry”. One example of the hundreds of video based lessons with...
View ArticleBest “Love” Video Lessons
It’s Valentine’s time and a great opportunity to do a lesson about “love”. Actually, any time of the year is a good opportunity to fashion a lesson on this universal theme! Here below are my most...
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