Vocabulary is easier to learn when it is relevant and when you can make associations or mental links to it. Word links is a great activity to build these connections. I am sure this activity goes by another name, but I have called it … Continue reading Word Links: A Vocabulary Game
The terms Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants were coined back in 2001 by Marc Prensky. This idea has been around for 14 years and the term still appears in blogs, websites, books and presentations. Are digital natives real, or are they … Continue reading Digital Familiarity: The myth of the Digital Native
Word Jumble is a great activity to introduce example sentences and it allows students to think about sentence structure. It appears in several activity books and I have come across it in various course books as well. In ‘Five-minute activities’ … Continue reading Word Jumble: Practicing sentence structures
The other day I was reading Anthony Ash’s post about mobile phones and ELT. The post was talking about if mobile phones are really a distraction and how they relate to classroom management. It talks about a place for mobile phones … Continue reading Seven ideas for using mobile phones in the classroom
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“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” Michael Altshuler [Image credit: Greedy Pics] A 60-year-old woman was arrested after exceeding her allotted three minutes of speaking time at a California city council meeting. She had the whole 3 minutes for her speech, while I have just about 20 seconds to introduce my guest today – Tekhnologic. 99.9% of readers will now ask: Why 20 seconds? 20 SECONDS: It takes a reader about 20 seconds to scan a blog post and choose “should I stay, or should I go”; A hug that… Continue reading It’s Time for PechaKucha: Do it with Style
