WebQuest.Org: Home Teaching with Twitter: how the social network can contribute to learning | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional I am senior lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton and have been an advocate for the past few years of teaching using blended learning - integrating online learning activities alongside face-to-face teaching. Two of my courses on Victorian literature feature a number of assessed online discussion forum activities. They get 100% participation - much of it enthusiastic. Online learning spaces are neutral - just like a 'real' classroom is. It's what you do in them that matters. I use face-to-face classes as a spur to take our study of any given topic further online, thus extending it into areas of reflection and research not possible within the constraints of a seminar discussion. The important question to ask regarding e-learning is: What does an online space make possible by way of teaching that my class couldn't do face-to-face? I've only recently joined Twitter, but before I had a Twitter account I tried teaching with the spirit of Twitter.
Index English Vocabulary Exercises GrammarNet Essay Writing Workshop | Learn To Write From An Expert Poetry Day: 10 British Actors Read 10 British Poems Today is National Poetry Day (October 2) in the UK, and the Brits have always done pretty well at providing the world with poems and people who are good at reading poems, here are 10 poetic moments, provided by some of our favorite actors and actresses. Starting with Benedict Cumberbatch reading “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats: And, getting our Anglophenia big two out of the way early, here’s Tom Hiddleston reading W.H. Auden’s “As I Walked Out One Evening,” which uses the folk ballad tradition to draw comparisons between the streets of a city and the fields of the country, with the city clock reminding one and all that natures cycles of birth and death are never too far away: While we’re out for a stroll, here’s Jeremy Irons reading “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth. Which leads us neatly, into the First World War poets, such as Wilfred Owen. Owen was greatly influenced by Siegfried Sassoon, as a poet and a fellow soldier. And finally, a rare treat.
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English Club Teacher Introductions | Learn Real English [video src=" width="400" height="300" ][video src=" width="400" height="300" ][video src=" width="400" height="300" ] Meet AJ Hoge | Open Player in New Window Download the Text for this Video Meet Joe Weiss | Open Player in New Window Meet Kristin Dodds | Open Player in New Window The Poetry of 'Doctor Who' Shakespeare is stuck for a rhyme for TARDIS. Poetry has come to play a large part in the way Doctor Who tells a story. If, for example, you wish to add an unsettling undercurrent to a cozy situation, why not have some children recited an eerily specific poem in a spooky way? Or sing a little song with dark lyrics? And if you want to suggest gravitas, simply throw in an apposite quote from some classic verse. Both approaches suggest that the events that are about to unfold were always going to unfold, because in the future (or the past, the Doctor gets about), they are already legendary. Here are as many examples as we could think of: “The Beast Below” A society that rides around on the back of a star whale will probably have its own nursery rhymes, and so it transpires for the remnants of England. A horse and a man above, below; One has a plan but two must go. And one at the end: In bed above we’re deep asleep, While greater love lies further deep. But that wasn’t the end of it.