Using word clouds in class – a lesson plan
This lesson plan was produced during the SEETA course on EasyWeb 2.0 tools run by Nik Peachey – many more lessons and lesson ideas can be found there but here is mine: The text was to be chosen...
View ArticleTech Tools & Pedagogy II – Word Clouds
In this post, I am going to look at Wordle, Wordsift , Word it out and Word Mosaic and try to briefly compare them as I think they all have great potential for a variety of learning activities. This...
View ArticleWords from Context: of Logic & Connections
In his great taxonomy of language skills which appears in his well known book “Communicative Syllabus Design“, John Munby mentions “developing sensitivity to context clues”, as one of the microskills...
View ArticleWord clouds to integrate reading and writing
Well, thank you to all who came to this webinar and sorry slides were rather unruly; here they are. kapitzvirt Word clouds Word clouds from Marisa Constantinides View more presentations from Marisa...
View ArticleAnimating Stories
I have been playing with story animation tools for a long time, learning from colleagues’ blogs and links on Twitter. Recent posts include Burcu Akyol’s 4-3-2-1 Action! Online Tools For Making Movies...
View ArticleTradition Revisited & Revamped: “Something old, something new….”
What are the good things you can draw from each of the approaches labelled traditional? How have you adapted them or changed them/renovated them and how do you integrate them into your teaching...
View ArticleAdvance Organisers – How they Connect the Reading Experience
Reading is a highly complex activity and, yet, in the foreign language classroom, it is often approached as if texts are just collections of words and grammatical patterns which students, if only they...
View ArticleMy 11 from ’11
Am taking up Adam Simpson’s challenge, well, not really a challenge, more like an invitation but such a nice way to look back at what I have blogged about this year. Adam said, “Choose the best 11”...
View ArticleCompelling Readings for Language Acquisition
This post is long overdue but I thought it would make a fitting opening to 2013 as the talk I am reporting is one of the most interesting ones I followed in 2012 and adds to what many colleagues will...
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