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You can choose traditional or modern print styles: The world of IELTS. The Infographics Showcase - Data Visualization - Infographic Design. Data Visualization and Design. Cool Infographics - Blog. In Search of Future-Focused Learning Technologies. Featured Videos from TIME.com. Are you a new English language teacher. If you answered YES to any of these questions then READ ON this is important information for you.
How would it feel if, as you enter your new career, you had the support of other experienced teachers and could compare notes with other new teachers who are in exactly the same boat as you? Authors - mLearing and ELT: Are We Mobile Ready? As promised in my posting of April 8th 2011 I would like to share here some first insights into the results from my survey into Mobile Learning 2011 and what some of the statistical comparisons show when matched against results from the same survey last year.
Before I go into more detail I would like to point out that the results of this survey were gathered through self selecting responses and the survey being online and distributed through various internet channels including Twitter and various electronic newsletters and communities, would imply that the majority of respondents will all be to a degree among the more digitally literate and internet connected, so this can’t be taken as representative of the global community of EFL and ESL teachers, but does show changes and shifts within that demographic by comparison with the 2010 survey.
In terms of the people who answered the survey, there have been less responses this year, with a drop from around 500 last year to 300 this year. DotEPUB — download any webpage as an e-book. Moderator. Nnestwebinar2011 [licensed for non-commercial use only] / FrontPage. UK slashes number of trusted English language testers. UK immigration authorities have drastically cut the number of language assessment providers they deem suitable to offer tests to demonstrate the English skills of visa applicants.
Last month the UK Border Agency, which controls visa processing, unveiled its revised list of English language tests that will be accepted as part of visa applications to come to the UK to live, work and study. The new list will come into effect by July for applicants for work visas under the "highly skilled" Tier 1 or "general worker" Tier 2 categories and spouses or civil partners who are applying to join a partner in the UK. The list already applies to students who require visas under the Tier 4 category. More than 12 providers included since language testing was introduced four years ago as part of the points based visa system have been dropped, with just six remaining. The deleted providers include the Academy of Oriental Cuisine, in Leeds, and the College of Excellence, north-west London. Teaching English: PLNs - their value and use... Welcome to Language Garden. Tools for the 21st Century Teacher. Five Ways to Make Word Clouds from Text. Wordlings is a new service for creating word clouds from blocks of text.
Sign into Wordlings with your Twitter or Facebook account to have it create a word cloud of your posts. From Paper to Paperless – Marisa Constantinides – 18th April 2011. From Paper to Paperless – Marisa Constantinides – 18th April 2011 Brighton Online - IATEFL 2011 The Roving Reporter.
What a great way to ensure someone is in the audience! (just a joke, having my fun) TeachingEnglish. Jane Willis on the Importance of Gathering Data. Jane Willis on the Importance of Gathering Data Jane and Dave Willis (Credit: Google images) Jane, who has had the most influence on you?
Jane Willis: Professor John Sinclair. He would say to you, “Are you sure it works this way? How teachers help to rewrite coursebooks « Oxford University Press – English Language Teaching – Global Blog. 20 Terrific TED Talks for Language Lovers. The worst thing about educational technology is educational technology. This must seem like a contradictory title and an odd one especially coming from me, as I am an educational technology consultant and writer, but to be honest I stand by this statement and I’d like to tell you why.
Over the last ten plus years ‘consumer technology’, and by that I mean the everyday gadgets that we use for entertainment and communication in our homes, have become increasingly cheaper and at the same time progressively more powerful and easy to use. Personally, I believe this a really wonderful development and one that is really changing the way we socialise, communicate, access information, interact as a society and most importantly – learn.
Wall. PowerVocab for GRE and GMAT for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store. 4th Virtual Round Table -Janet's Presentation On Digital Storytelling. As promised during my 4th Virtual Round Table presentation on "Storytelling in the Digital Era" I have embedded the slideshare in this post for you to view it. You can link to the live sites from each slide. For viewing all the episodes to date of my "Idiomatic Digital Story", you can press on the IATEFL Brighton label here. I am hoping to come to the conclusion of this Evolving Idiomatic Digital story by inviting my students at the Lake School of English to come up with a suitable ending. If not, then I will have to get my thinking cap on rather snappily before April 17th!! Embedded below is the official Virtual Round Table 2011 Animoto Highlights.
BC Seminars: Jez Uden. ABC Countdown for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store. The 100 Most Common Words in English? It's great to learn new words and structures in English, but sometimes it's also a good idea to go back and review what you already know.
Today's activity comes from the Sporcle website and is a quick test to see if you know the 100 most commonly used words in the English language. Task: 15 Interesting Ways to use Web Conferencing in the Classroom. Connexion. Grammar lesson-planning template « what to teach? how to teach? why teach? to teach or… The Best Tools To Make Online Flashcards. Getting Video Tasks Online. I've been aware of 280Slides for some time now, but haven't really tried to use it much as I'm a very keen user of Keynote on my MAC, but this week I was looking around for ways to get video type lessons online and discovered what an incredibly easy and useful tool 280Slides is for this.
Basically 280Slides is an online tool for creating presentations. It works in a very simple way and has a very intuitive interface which is very quick to understand. It has a few basic themes and layouts and you can do all the usual things like adding text, shapes and images to your presentations. The two key areas though that I like about 280Slides are: Interesting Ways. How to Shut A Computer Down Safely ESL Gap Fill Exercise. Practical Writing – An Online Interactive Writing Experience. December 2010 – Volume 14, Number 3 * On the Internet * Ronaldo Lima, Jr.
Casa Thomas Jefferson Binational Center, Brazil <ronaldoj thomas.org.br> Process Writing Practical Writing is the name of a six-week, completely online course taught at the binational center Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasilia, Brazil. Some of the elements from the classic face-to-face teaching of writing taught at Casa Thomas Jefferson also appear in the online Practical Writing course. Google Shared Spaces : Create a Space. Celebr8uandmeDigitally Challenges. A day in the life of materials writers « Oxford University Press – English Language Teaching – Global Blog. In this first of a series of posts, English File authors Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig give us an insight into their daily lives, the writing process, and reaching out to the community of English File teachers around the world.
Over the years we have met a lot of teachers around the world when we have travelled to give talks or teacher training sessions and one of the things we’ve most enjoyed about travelling has been meeting teachers. We won’t be able to travel much in 2011 because of our writing commitments, so writing this blog will be our way of keeping in touch with English File teachers around the world. And of course teachers themselves will also be able to share their experiences and ideas with each other. We thought we’d use the blogs to tell you what we’re doing at the moment and tell you a bit about how we work, as it’s something we often get asked about.
In September 2010 we started work on the new edition of English File Elementary. LearningEdgeIndex. TeacherTrainingvideos.com. The Best Websites To Teach & Learn Life Skills. Here’s the latest in my “The Best…” series, which now numbers over sixty lists. This particular one, The Best Websites To Teach & Learn Life Skills, particularly goes along with two of my previous lists, The Best Websites For Students Exploring Jobs & Careers and The Best Sites For Learning Economics & Practical Money Skills. It probably also makes sense to use this list, too, in conjunction with The Best Health Sites For English Language Learners. Feed.nu - Blog to app generator. INDEPENDENT online. Going Digital, part 2. Some Pros and Cons of iPads for ELT. Monday 31 January 2011. Technogogy: Recent. Quizlet Beomes Embeddable! Backchan.nl - A Backchannel With Voting Features. Free online course:mLearning, an Introduction. Image source here I will be joining a short one-week mini course on mLearning run by the ConsultantsE and hosted on the South Eastern Europe Teachers' Associations on-line community.
The tutor will be Nicky Hockly, the Director of pedagogy at the Consultants-E. Recommended Link from Russel Tarr at www.activehistory.co.uk. Newsletter2. What would you like to talk about on Wednesday January 12th? Podcastingevo2011 : Podcasting for the ESL/EFL Classroom. Famous People English Lessons: Biographies and ESL Lesson Plans.
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Comic Master. Social & Emotional Learning After School. TRANSFORMING CLASSROOMS WITH HELP FROM TECHNOLOGY #edinnovation #education #edtech20 #edchat #lrnchat #esl. Top 10 Sites for Creating Digital Comics via @dkapuler #edinnovation #education #edtech20 #edchat #lrnchat #esl. Always On. Teach, learn ,play in XXI Century using free tools and applications Web 2.0 , social media eSafety - social networking. Jogtheweb. Jogtheweb. Help. Top 25 Sites of 2010 by David Kapuler #edtech20 #pbl #iearn #edchat #etchat #safedchat #lrnchat #efl #esl. How to Search The Internet Efficiently - 180 Free Technology Tip #8. Technology Tip Number 8 How to Search Like a Pro The internet is big, really, really big. eLearning Technology.