Wordwall | Create better lessons quicker Hot Potatoes Home Page News - 2020-01-26 Agnès Simonet has released new versions of her excellent Hot Potatoes add-ons, along with those originally written by Michael Rottmeier, for version 7 of Hot Potatoes. You can find them at Potatoes 7 was released in 2019.. What is Hot Potatoes? The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Downloads Download Hot Potatoes for Windows from here: Hot Potatoes 7.0 installer (Hot Potatoes for Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10 as well as Linux under Wine, version 7.0.2.0). The older version 6.3.0.5 is also available for download. Download Java Hot Potatoes: Download Java Hot Potatoes which will run on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux or any computer running a Java Virtual Machine. When you first start up Hot Potatoes, it will ask you for your user name.
PZ's Thinking Routines Toolbox | Project Zero Welcome to Project Zero’s Thinking Routines Toolbox. This toolbox highlights thinking routines developed across a number of research projects at PZ. A thinking routine is a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking. PZ researchers designed thinking routines to deepen students’ thinking and to help make that thinking “visible.” Thinking routines help to reveal students’ thinking to the teacher and also help students themselves to notice and name particular “thinking moves,” making those moves more available and useful to them in other contexts. A vast array of PZ's work has explored the development of thinking, the concept of thinking dispositions, and the many ways routines can be used to support student learning and thinking across age groups, disciplines, ideals, competencies, and populations. To learn more about PZ Thinking Routines and their background, watch this video introduction. Background on PZ’s Visible Thinking
Games for Learning English, Vocabulary, Grammar Games, Activities, ESL Play Taboo Online Now Welcome! Happy playing! Did you like playing this game? Click NO to provide feedback Score Sheet This is where you can enter your team names, followed by a score for each round. These cards are meant to be played however you would like to. What Do Safe, Respectful and Inclusive Virtual Classrooms Look Like? As teachers head back to school—whether that is in person, online or a hybrid model—fostering a safe, respectful and inclusive classroom is as important as ever. How do safe and inclusive classroom practices apply to digital spaces and what can educators do to establish those norms and carry them out throughout the year? Just as you create safe, respectful and equitable physical classroom spaces, many of us are learning how to bring those best practices online. Get to know your students. Find engaging and creative ways for your students to get to know each other and for you to get to know them. Establish virtual classroom norms and practices. At the beginning of the school year, together establish virtual community agreements. Pay extra attention to students’ social and emotional needs. Provide a variety of ways that students can express feelings. Be aware of bias, bullying and online hate that can happen under the radar. Embrace new tools for new learning.
The Seven Best Short Films for ELT Students - Kieran Donaghy I’ve been writing lesson plans designed around short films for my website Film English for six years. Teachers often ask me how I find the short films I use in my lesson plans. The answer is quite simple: I’ve watched literally thousands of short films and developed an instinct for the type of engaging and simple short films which will work in the ELT classroom. In this article I’d like to share what for me are the seven best short films for the language classroom. The Mirror The Mirror is a short film by Ramon and Pedro which tells the story of a boy’s journey from childhood to old age. The Notebook The notebook is a moving short film by Greg Gray and is wonderful for introducing the theme of empathy. The Present The Present is a gripping short film with a wonderful twist by Jacob Frey which deals with the themes of empathy, teenagers and disability. Soar Soar is a delightful short film by Alyce Tzue which can be used to get students to predict and write a narrative. I Forgot My Phone
Word Search Descrambler Tools for Scrabble, WWF, and Other Word Games | The Word Finder 6 Ideas for Creating a Remote Community of Learners | Katie Martin As we move to remote learning much attention has been paid to teachers connecting with students, which is extremely valuable and important. In addition to teacher and student connection, peer collaboration is important for learning and social-emotional well-being. I wrote an article recently on how to align practices to the learning sciences and one of the key findings, collaboration and social interaction can be powerful learning experiences because they encourage deeper processing and engage the ‘social brain‘ is more important now than ever. While it might feel like you have more control by asking students to watch a video, or listen to you teach for an hour, I believe that creating the community of learners to connect and collaborate with one another will be what keeps learners coming to class and what will sustain more powerful learning over time. 6 Ideas to Connect Learners Remotely 1. 2. This collaboration can happen with or without zoom or computers for each student. 3. 4. 5. 6.