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http://www.glogster.com/flash/flash_loader.swf?ver=1285502229 I mentioned this activity in my previous post and today I asked my students tothink about their favourite objects and write how these object spend the day. While they were doing, I realised this would be great with glogster. So the next lesson, we went to the computer lab and my students created their first…
Last weekend I attended a 2-day-professional development workshops on etwinning for beginners. I must say I learned a lot. I’ve been registered etwinning with a hope to find a Comenius project partner for almost a year but attending the workshops I realised I knew nothing about the site. Etwinning gives teachers a wonderful opportunity to…
Eventually My Journey in TEFL is celebrating her 1st birthday in blogosphere. I’m so glad that I started blogging. I believe September is a very lucky month for me. I’m not going to reveal everything but many good things in my life all started in September. Everything started last year on 5th of September with…
image is taken from here This is a fun activity that I found from ESLCafe years ago and I love using it once every year. It’s even great to team your students for their group works. Group the students as the 1st child, middle child, youngest child of…
image taken from here I really enjoyed reading the posts of my PLN about their teaching approaches. I thought we have lots of things in common, the flexibility, being student centred, etc. However, I tried to name mine. I guess my teaching approach is more or less similar but let’s look at the classroom…
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. – Henry Ford In some parts of the world the classes have just begun and here we still have time to prepare ourselves for the coming year. We all have some tricks to begin the new term, some fun ideas to make…
Well, I told you about the wonderful experience we had with Berni and told that the whole thing was part of a professional development course. We started with advanced grammar and continued with getting students to write, use technology tools (blogs, wikis etc developing ideas), or the traditional way. The following day was about improving…
Dreams can come true. I have just learned it. It all started with a tweet. It was an ordinary evening with twitter when I saw Berni Wall’s tweet offering a week of teachers’ workshops in Yorkshire. First, I couldn’t believe my eyes. When I DMed her, I understood how serious she was. It was…
It’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere and that means schools are close and we are on holiday. That’s good because it gives us a chance to relax, read and have some ‘me’ time. That’s also good because during this time we can do something for professional development just attending some workshops, reading books, even cleaning…
I believe from the moment we enter the classroom, our aim should be to help our students see where their learning journey is taking them to so the first day activities are important to give them some clues too. You can adapt the activities below according to your classes. If they are new comers this…
Well, I’m not happy with the look of my blog. I used Blue Zinfandel Enhanced by Brian Gardne which is very modern,simple and easy to look and read. However, I wanted something more energetic and decided to make a change. Changes are sometimes very good and they save us. Don’t we change our hair colour…
Can you finish the following sentences so that they will be true for you? Without my PLN,… Twitter enables me … Social media is … If I weren’t blogging, … I love using sentence starters as a warmer, filler or a grammar/vocabulary activity. Whenever you feel you’re stuck in the lesson, dictate some sentence…
