Loom - Screencast on Chromebooks, Macs, and PCs Loom is a free screencasting tool that works on Chromebooks, Macs, and Windows computers. Loom is a Chrome extension. With Loom installed you can record your desktop, an individual tab, and or your webcam. Loom recordings can be up to ten minutes long. Applications for Education This is the time of year when you're likely to be introducing some new tools to your students and or your colleagues. Timelines The language used by teachers to explain time reference, particularly of verb forms, can be confusing for the students. Timelines are neat devices that can be used to clarify our teaching language. Timelines enable the communication of sophisticated concepts to the lowest level of learner, and can prompt sophisticated discussion amongst higher level learners. This article is a basic introduction to timelines. What is a timeline? What is a timeline? Timelines are diagrams that illustrate the reference to time made by a given piece of language. Why use timelines? Timelines are used to: Simplify linguistic explanation Reinforce the understanding of a concept Illustrate the differences between verb forms and other language items Help students with a visual learning style Provide a reference point for students Encourage awareness of how language refers to time in different ways What does a timeline look like? The basics A horizontal line represents the basic line of time.
When Kids Have Structure for Thinking, Better Learning Emerges | MindShift | KQED News Amidst the discussions about content standards, curriculum and teaching strategies, it’s easy to lose sight of the big goals behind education, like giving students tools to deepen their quantitative and qualitative understanding of the world. Teaching for understanding has always been a challenge, which is why Harvard’s Project Zero has been trying to figure out how great teachers do it. Some teachers discuss metacognition with students, but they often simplify the concept by describing only one of its parts — thinking about thinking. Teachers are trying to get students to slow down and take note of how and why they are thinking and to see thinking as an action they are taking. But two other core components of metacognition often get left out of these discussions — monitoring thinking and directing thinking. When a student is reading and stops to realize he’s not really understanding the meaning behind the words, that’s monitoring.
25 ideas for using WhatsApp with English language students | Oxford University Press Philip Haines is the Senior Consultant for Oxford University Press, Mexico. As well as being a teacher and teacher trainer, he is also the co-author of several series, many of which are published by OUP. Today he joins us to provide 25 engaging and useful classroom activities for language learners using WhatsApp. There are three main obstacles to the use of technology in ELT. WhatsApp or similar messaging services can help overcome these obstacles. Many self-confessed, techno-phobic teachers that I know use WhatsApp on a regular basis in their private lives, so already feel quite comfortable with it. Here are 25 ideas of how to make good use of WhatsApp for language learning. Like this: Like Loading...
Fingerprint Alphabet Art - Easy Peasy and Fun If you need a way to keep the little fingers busy and learning at the same time give this fingerprint alphabet art a try! Learning the alphabet can be tough so fun approaches are always welcome wouldn’t you agree? This post contains affiliate links. There’s a fingerprint creation for every letter and some letters even allow for more creativity – all you have to do is dip those little cuties in finger paint or fingerprint ink pad press them down on a sheet of paper (or a few times in some cases) and do some doodling with a black (and other) marker to give the little characters life! Fingerprint Alphabet Art So we’ve got A – apple (but you could totally do an ant, acorn and maybe even an aligator!). B – bee (I’m thinking butterfly would work out too, ball without a doubt and a balloon – that one would be adorable). C – cat (carrots and chicks come to mind too and I’ve seen quite a few adorable fingerprint chicks on Pinterest. D – dog (a duck too). E – elephant (you could also make an eye).
EclipseCrossword - the fast, easy, and FREE way to create crossword puzzles in minutes English verb conjugation: past tense, participle, present perfect, past perfect ESL Warm Up Activities with Free PowerPoint Download | English Teaching 101 I use games and fun activities to warm up my class before the lesson begins, to break the ice or even as a time filler. Warmers bring energy to class and definitely fills the time with more learning when the lesson runs shorter than expected. Below are some of the games that I have been using in my ESL class. I decided to make them available for free again so I hope you would find them useful in your class. Disappearing Words In this simple activity, students are shown a word, phrase or sentence that disappears in 2 seconds! Game Type: Individual, Team Give Me 5! The teacher calls out a student to give 5 things on a given category in 30 seconds! Game Type: Individual Word Snake Each team makes a line near the board, then one student per team comes up to the white board and writes a word. Game Type: Team YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: No-prep ESL Vocabulary Games for Young Learners Hidden Pictures Hot Seat Game Type: Pair, Team Categories Guessing Game Game Type: Pair, Group Pelmanism Sleeping Pandas
The Ultimate List of Free Grammar Games | Psychowith6 Grammar and writing can be a tedious subject to teach. Fortunately, there are so many amazing free games available to make teaching them fun. Until now, you had to Google your heart out to find them. No more! Below is an organized list of FREE grammar games for teaching parts of speech, punctuation, sentences and writing. More Grammar Game Sanity None of these games are online games. Free Parts of Speech Games Adverb & Adjectives Game – Players must correctly identify adverbs and adjectives and use them in sentences to keep cards. Go Fishing for Grammar – Play Go Fish with parts of speech cards. Grammargories – Students compete to write words for parts of speech the fastest. Jenga Review – Students have to answer a corresponding grammar question before placing it on top of the tower. Play the Bag Game – students win a point for each part of speech (drawn from a paper bag) used correctly in a sentence. Noun and Verb Charades Parts of Speech Bingo Parts of Speech Tic-Tac-Toe Solve It! Nouns Verbs
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Zaption – Zanslöst bra! I tisdags var jag i Ronneby och föreläste för gymnasie/komvux-lärare om flippat klassrum med förmågor i fokus. Under föreläsningen hade jag inslag av interaktion, bl.a. fick pedagogerna möjlighet att själva, med hjälp av den digitala anslagstavlan Padlet, synliggöra olika metoder och verktyg som de använder i sitt klassrum. Ett av namnen som kom upp på vår padlet var Zaption, en av deltagarna berättade att Zaption är ett fantastiskt verktyg när man arbetar med flippat klassrum. Zaption ger användarna en möjlighet att dela flippar, men även en möjlighet att lägga in frågeställningar inne i flippen, vilket gör eleverna mer aktiva under tiden de tittar. Jag blev nyfiken och ville ta reda på mer. Nu blev jag givetvis så nyfiken att jag var tvungen att skapa ett konto på Zaption. Du får en rundtur i form av en flipp när du loggar in, här får du en kort överblick över de funktioner som finns och hur du ska göra för att använda verktyget. Då får jag fram några olika alternativ. Ps.
Present simple and present continuous Examples I play tennis every Sunday. I’m playing hockey now. Remember! We use the present simple to talk about routines – what you do every day or every week. Be careful! For the present simple, add ‘s’ or ‘es’ for he/she/it. We say... I wake up every morning at 7:00.