Educreations, Showme, Screenchomp are simple and multifaceted for the language classroom. These free screencasting apps have multiple possibilities, ranging from recording students’ dialogues or letting them freely talk about a subject as they show on the screen what they are exploring. There’s drawing, typing a text or inserting an image while recording. The students can […]
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mLearning Activity – Trending Topics and Classroom Bonding
Trending topics, those hot topics of the day or sometimes the hour, are everywhere on social media. They represent what is ruling the world for different tribes. So here’s a very simple activity I’ve done with my students that has long-lasting, impacting effects in our classroom because of the emotional connections it enhances. Trending Topics […]
Taking Learning Into a Visual Experience Through Infographics
Evolving, progressing, developing. Not always an easy task, mainly for very busy English teachers who have heavy schedules, different groups with varied age range and levels of proficiency. But still, they are up to the challenge of after a long day of work to come to a Teacher Development Course to keep improving to become […]
mLearning Resources
It is a great pleasure to present for the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG about mlearning and ways to transform our classrooms. mLearning Resources from Carla Arena Here are some spaces that you might want to check if you are interested in mlearning and its latest developments: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/08/29-ipad-resources-tutorials-and-guides.html 32 Interesting Ways to Use an IpodTouch in […]
School of Open for your Learning Movement
Openness has always been dear to me. Open source learning. Open minds and voices. Open courses. Open=opportunities for growth, connections and constant movement. I just got to know about the launching of School of Open, so here’s our chance for immersion in the wild magical world of openness. The School of Open has launched! Take […]
Letramento Digital – Uma Conceituação
A conceituação do letramento digital é ampla, principalmente em inglês. Já em português, com uma pesquisa rápida, é possível perceber que o tema ainda se restringe muito ao meio acadêmico, mas parece ser, no entanto realidade distante do dia-a-dia da sala de aula. Uma aproximação que alguns professores buscam em sua prática, mas ainda tateando, tentando […]
YOU are genius
That’s what educators and learners should understand.Everybody has a very special talent, something to share and contribute to the world.We should all be part of a culture of sharing and collaboration for something bigger than our own talented world, to take knowledge and understanding to a new dimension. We need to understand how our contributing […]
The Big Bear, Online Learning and Connections
I’ve been following #etmooc with interest, but with the hectic first week in our Electronic Village Online about neuroscience in Education (#brainELT), I haven’t been much of a contributor, but an active listener. What I’ve been trying to explore with much interest and anticipation is how a MOOC develops, unfolds, how conversations start and persist, […]
Unmissable Professional Development Opportunities
January 14th. A date to remember for two very good reasons. It is the launching of #etmooc , with an amazing line-up of organizers, the wonderful team of “conspirators ”
Learning by Retrieval – Forget Highlighting
Highlights everywhere with different marker colors. Blue, orange, green, yellow. The most common sense studying strategy my kids’ teachers use with their pupils. I’ve always wondered what the meaning of all that was, as my kids tend to highlight almost everything! I’ve questioned myself what the connection was between disconnecting parts of a text with […]
Educators as Designers
I’ve always had a deep fascination for what was aesthetically beautiful for the eyes and pleasing for the mind. Design has always mattered for me, and it has guided me personally and professionally as a principle of good living an a people connector. I’ve always believed in its engagement power. And unconsciously I understood that […]
Some Bags Away – Living a Better Life in 2013
How about starting 2013 lighter, getting rid of things that have passed by,that are out of fashion, that don’t do us any good.How about starting the year of 2013 cleaning up,feeling a sense of detachment from small things for bigger deeds,donating for the needy ones, for example.How about starting 2013 decluttering to leave room for […]
What’s your Trademark?
Nice chat yesterday evening with my sister. She was talking about how great she feels right now, taking charge of her own life, with new projects, good bank account balance, and all, and how she has this accomplishment feeling after her coming back to Brazil, having lived for so many years in Boston. As we […]
Post-itING – Make Post-Its a Living Learning Object in your Classroom
Think of three ways of using post-its in your classroom to enhance learning. Write them down in three different post-its. Then, try to come up with two more ideas based on the first three ones and add them just below the three first ideas. Do you feel how they can come alive for learning? So, […]
A Professional Life Changer – Welcome to The Electronic Village Online
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On Our Vulnerability and Strengths
Today I don’t want to talk specifically about the classroom, our teaching practices or ideas for our academic world. I ‘m with this thought marinading over and over for the past days, and it all came to full circle this morning after watching and feeling deeply touched by researcher Brene Brown. The main point of […]
On the Ed Tech Radar – Online Moderation Learni.st
I’ve just had a very enjoyable time, looking through resources and exploring Learni.st, a powerful curatorial tool for educators. It is like “Pinterest for Educators”, but the layout is cleaner and it has more sharing capability. Plus, it can become a very interesting way to encourage students’ autonomy, giving them choice to go through the […]
Edit Teaching – Homework
Oh, this is a very touchy aspect of our teaching… When have we innovated in homework assignments? We generally have the same language structure for homework instructions, “do pages x and z, ex. A, B and C for next class”. In our edit teaching mode, what if we did it differently for a change? Some […]
Edit Teaching – Cards
Today I observed a sample class and was just reminded about the many uses we can have for a deck of cards. How about using them to add some movement to your class? Just by handing out one single card to each student, you make an eye brow raise. Students are immediately hooked. What can you […]
Edit Teaching – Word Harvesting
Did you roll the dice? How about ending your class differently this time? Before it starts, post a lot of random words around the classroom. You can even ask your students to help you. Let curiosity mount! And make it a kinesthetic moment of your teaching hour. In the last 5/10 minutes of your class, […]