Category: ESL EFL
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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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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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#TeamTeaching #EFL #ESL Introduction to Class and Introducing Myself – Lesson 1 for the Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66hniaLUQ7E This lesson is the first we do in the school year. It is a presentation where the students have to introduce themselves through a show-and-tell activity. It is part of the first overall unit, and I will post more parts of this unit as I go on. This lesson was developed in cooperation with…
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#TeamTeaching #EFL #ESL Introduction to Space Lesson – Lesson 1 in the Space Unit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrrAn2yKyV8 This lesson is the first in our Space Unit. It is designed to be a background activation/engage unit to begin their learning on Space. This lesson was developed in cooperation with my partner teacher at my school, and I’d love to thank her by name, but as of late, she doesn’t want the online…
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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…