Tag: Being a Teacher
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Flipped Classrooms for the EdTech Loving TESOL and TEFL
So, by now you’ve probably heard of the “flipped classroom” or “flip teaching“. (If not, keep reading!) The idea is that the students do more of the active learner role: first they learn and study on their own, at home or in a study space, possibly with video lessons prepared by their teacher or by […]
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Mystery Location Calls, Hangouts and Skypes
So this morning I led the above Hangout and I promised a list of the links I mentioned… so here they are: What Mystery Location Calls are: Cybrary Man’s Mystery Location Call – http://cybraryman.com/mysterylocationcall.html Mystery Hangouts for Foreign Language Teachers – http://mysteryhangouts.blogspot.jp/ Infographic – http://www.slideshare.net/dambrosio7/mystery-hangout Breaking Down Classroom Walls with Google Hangouts: One Classroom’s Mystery Hangout Journey […]
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Teachers and Snowflake Moments
Reblogging my article from LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/teachers-snowflake-moments-erin-noxon Teachers and Snowflake Moments Ever look at snowflakes? Actual snowflakes? I hadn’t as a child. I grew up in Florida, in the southern part of the United States. In the city I lived in, it never snowed. Once, when I was in Kindergarten, they had a “snow event” so we […]
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Maps for Mystery Hangouts
If you don’t know what a Mystery Hangout/Mystery Skype/Mystery Location Call is and you are a teacher… especially a geography, language, or world cultures teacher… then you are missing out. Essentially it is a real-time 20 questions game between students in two different classrooms. You can only ask Yes/No questions and each side takes turns. […]
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Article Review – Action Research in TESOL Teacher Education
DelliCarpini, M. (2012). ACTION RESEARCH – BUILDING COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY SKILLS IN TESOL TEACHER EDUCATION. Language Learning & Technology, 16(2), 14–23. Retrieved from http://llt.msu.edu/issues/june2012/action.pdf Summary of article: The article is an action research project trying to directly find an understanding of why there is a gap between teacher candidates’ knowledge of educational technology and their […]
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Help #edtech and #ict friends! I have to meet tomorrow to justify use of edtech and #GoogleDrive use at school again!
I want to have as many points as possible! I am again facing critics who just want to keep to the blackboard and chalk standard and I need to explain not only “Why Ed Tech?” but also “Why Google Drive?” If you have a moment and you can go to this Google Doc: http://goo.gl/oAzF1q Please […]
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#Change, #Cherries, #Curriculum and #Collaboration… its a #newschoolyear
So my favorite cherry tree on campus (not my favorite tree in the world, mind you, but my favorite tree here at school… what, you don’t have lots of favorite trees? Get some!) is blooming… and that means that it is the time of year when everything changes, for better or for worse. One of […]
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First George Takei and now Michelle Obama too… on how you know you must be a teacher…
I love George Takei. Since I was in the movie theater with my dad and watched him fly around that Huey with all that “transparent aluminum”, and then, later, listened to him speak on so many important issues… I just love him. I also love Michelle Obama. I think she is an amazing woman of […]
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Ode to School Lunch and those who provide me with it
The featured image in this post is that of Fuwa-Fuwa OmuRice, one of my favorite dishes at my school’s cafeteria. It’s delicious, and, I always compliment the lunch ladies each and every time. So, I’ve been a teacher long enough now that I work with a colleague who could have been one of my […]
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#EdTech Niche… #Geek who likes to integrate #Tech for #LanguageLearners?
So, I have been working hard lately to figure out what my purpose is in doing what I am doing (i.e. EVERYTHING). I think I have uncovered various places where more communication needs to exist between interested parties. One are that needs a lot of help seems to be language teachers. I think that the […]