In April 2010 I attended a talk by Laura Patsko at the IH Prague Conference about storytelling in an adult classroom. This week I finally got round to adapting it to make use of some #eltpics (pictures for teachers by teachers which can be used under a Creative Commons licence) and thought I would share the presentation [...]
A couple of weeks ago we were talking about films in my teen class. I asked them to write the names of a few English-language films they knew on the board. The five, normally completely apathetic, teens (2 girls, 3 boys) then proceeded to fill every last centimetre of my 1.5 x 3m board with [...]
This is a summary of the 9pm BST #eltchat on Twitter from Wednesday 6th April 2011. The topic was: How can participants at conferences best ensure that what they learn lives on and spreads? The chat involved people with a large variety of experience regarding conferences, ranging from none at all to serial presenters, as [...]
I’ve just finished my second lesson with the beginner I’m teaching and blogging about (read the first post to find out more). For homework he had to practise the alphabet using the audio file I had sent him previously. We started the lesson by using my laminated letters to randomly practise, and he got all [...]
This is my take on the tools presented by Niall Creaney during the closing plenary at the PARK Conference in Brno on 2nd April 2011. If you have a problem with any of the links, please let me know in the comments. The tools are: Twitter Blogs Google Reader Social bookmarking Glogster Prezi Dropbox Evernote [...]
This is the post to accompany a talk I gave at the PARK language school conference in Brno, Czech Republic on April 2nd, 2011. You are welcome to download the presentation, especially if you want to see how the Powerpoint games work (you can’t see this in this version of the presentation). Please credit me [...]
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