Easy language Exchange - Learning community - Language Exchange Online Creating Mobile Worksheets with QR Codes Published 14 September 2017 Nik Peachey continues his digital teaching series by exploring how QR codes can be used to create mobile worksheets. He provides simple steps to help you create them, plus a fun lesson activity download too! Many teachers underestimate the degree to which they already use technology, particularly in their lesson preparation. Taking a digital document and transferring it to paper to give to a classroom full of students (most of whom own some form of digital device that they could be using) to read and manipulate seems like an act of madness when there is a much better way to do this. The first step to this process is getting your documents online. Another simple alternative is to convert them to simple webpages and you can do this in minutes with telegra.ph. It’s simple to add links to other web-based resources from the page and you can also add images or embed video from YouTube to these documents just by adding a link. Creating QR codes is simple.
Home | SmartLanguageLearner.com A simple blueprint for making creative ESL worksheets Published 13 October 2017 Robert Dobie is an ELT teacher and owner of the popular ESL resource site, All Things Grammar. This article follows on from Three ways to get the most out of speaking activities and is the final in the series. In this post, Robert talks about how to create effective ESL worksheets. As language teachers, we are all very familiar with worksheets. We know one when we see one. Step One – Brainstorm: Take a large, blank piece of paper and make three columns. Step Two – Make Connections: Take a minute or two and scan the three columns. These three words, you may recall, form the basis of the instructions of my worksheet called ‘Scissors Crossword – Places Around Town’ [Before class, the teacher cuts out the crossword clues and gives one clue to each student to remember; the students then tell the clues (from memory) to their classmates]. You can see how I used this strategy in another of my worksheets called Grammar and Listening – Present Perfect.
imagination noun ▪ great ▪ active, creative, fertile, lively, rich, strong, vivid ▪ fevered, overactive, overheated, wild It's just a product of your fevered imagination! ▪ limited a movie of such limited imagination ▪ collective, popular, public a popular hero who inspired the collective imagination ▪ visual I was no good at art—I have a very poor visual imagination. ▪ artistic, cultural, historical, literary, musical, poetic, political, romantic It requires a strong effort of historical imagination to understand the Roman attitude to death. ▪ moral (esp. an education that stimulates the moral imagination ▪ human the powers of the human imagination ▪ pure ▪ have ▪ show ▪ lack Today's music lacks imagination. ▪ require, take It does not take great imagination to guess what happened next. ▪ use I don't have a picture of this, so you'll just have to use your imagination. ▪ captivate, capture, catch, excite, feed, fire, fuel, grab (esp. 19th-century writers fired the popular imagination with their tales of adventure. ▪ haunt
Incredible Ways to Improve Your Online Study Skills Gone are days when you had to travel a long distance to a traditional classroom to undertake your favorite course. Nowadays, with the advent of computers and dedicated online study software, online course and learning have made things completely different. It could be you have just enrolled in your first online course, which is pretty good, but do you have the skills necessary for completing the course? Does it need the same, less, or more level of commitment just the like the traditional classroom setup you are used to? There is no doubt that taking online studies can be incredibly convenient for many learners. 1. Online courses best suit people who want to advance their level of education while doing other things like working in an organization, but it is always challenging to stay motivated and demonstrate a high level of self-discipline, which are crucial study skills for online students. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Conclusion
Better than Digital Chocolate - Badges For Your Moodle Create Badges and Badge Systems Mozilla Open Badges is free software and an open technical standard. This means any individual or organization can create, issue and verify digital badges. Whether you are an educator who wants to implement a few badges in your classroom, or a professional organization creating a complex badge system, you help build the open badge ecosystem! Here are some resources to get you started. Tools for Creating and Issuing Open Digital Badges A number of online tools and platforms are available for designing digital badges and awarding them using a badge issuing system: These and other badge issuing platforms can be found on the community curated Platform Issuing Chart. Badges in Learning Management Systems The following Learning Management Systems offer integration with Open Badges: Badges System Design The following resources may be of use to new designers of badge systems:
Moodle Gamification, Badges & Mobile | Moodle User Guide When learners are engaged with their material, training effectiveness skyrockets. Gamification is one of the most effective ways to encourage learner engagement. According to market intelligence company Newzoo, there are more than 2 billion video game players worldwide and the video game industry is worth 100 billion today and growing. Progressive educators have caught onto this game by incorporating elements of video gaming into their instructional design. The approach taps into the human reward center to help build engagement. Gamification offers the learner the option to learn through failure as well, allowing them to learn by trying things, exploring if it works, failing and trying it again. Gamification stimulates two basic psychological human needs: the first is a need for competence (a desire to seek out control or to feel mastery over a situation) and secondly, autonomy (the desire to feel independent or have a certain amount of control over our actions). Gamification in Moodle