I spent some time attending courses at FutureLearn this summer and I found them very useful and inspiring. As the coming academic year will most probably be a more hybrid system, these courses will be helpful to you too. So if you haven’t attended them, have a look at those courses:
Teaching Young Learners Online
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In my previous blog post, I wrote about Substack and Canva as newsletter creation tools. I think they can be a powerful tool in the English language classroom. By getting creative and thinking outside the box, we can use newsletters to improve our students’ language skills and keep them engaged in the classroom. Here are…
In the next academic year, I’m planning to teach my students how to benefit from AI and show them that it’s not here for them to cheat and if they can learn how to use it, they will benefit from it a lot. Last year, I used ChatGPT to create lessons and exercises. I…
Smore is an online flyer creator but it looks very versatile and we, teachers can use it in many ways You can design a flyer to invite people for an event you or your school created describe a product create a class newspaper or a school newsletter compiling students board on one topic and embed…
Improvisations part 2 Sometimes I adapt activities from TV shows, games, etc. The following activity is from a drama group called ‘Mahser-i Cumbus’. While watching their performance, I usually find great ideas for my classes. It sounds a bit confusing but it really is fun. Student A stands up and mimes. While miming she makes…
Reading Tara Benwell’s blog post was so much fun that I immediately wanted to create my own list. See my kids grow up I want to see them grow up and find the right job and the person for them:-) Learn Italian I have always wanted to learn Italian but I can’t find the time,…
A few years ago I was able to recall phone numbers, important dates and names easily. I never felt the need to jot down dates, shopping items on my agenda. However, things are not the same anymore. Perhaps I can easily put the blame on my smart phone which does all the job for me…
