YOU are a story absorber and a story teller Andrew Wright At the moment, I’m working on the bios of the presenters, moderator roles, taking some notes, etc… Howevere, as usual, I have things around me to distract my attention. I came across with the article written by Andrew Wright and then I just came here…
I’m not a fan of doing Valentine’s Day activities in the class but this year I’m planning to do a song lesson. Next week is the first week of the second term in Turkey so this may also be good to break the ice. I’ve been playing with BiteSlide for some time. Here is what…
image from #eltpics via @mkofab In December, I had the chance to listen to Steven Krashen at YTU ELT symposium. He talked about the importance of reading, how he became a good reader and what narrow reading is. You can read Marisa Constantinides’ fabulous post on Dr Krashen’s talk here. That was the time I…
I’m doing something new this year. I’m moderating an EVO session DigitalStorytelling4Kids with great educators you know very well. Shelly Terrell, Özge Karaoglu, Marisa Constantinides, Esra Girgin, Jennifer Verschoor, David Dodgson, Michelle Worgan, Juan Uribe and our EVO Mentor is Elizabeth Anne. The next one is the “Story Sharing Web Conference” organized by British Council Turkey. I’ll…
I know I am a bit late for the following lesson ideas but for a while I’ve been a bit reluctant to write anything. I hope I will keep my blog alive in 2013 … Now here I go … A lesson for the next Christmas Christmas sounds like — Christmas tastes like —- Christmas…
The fifth mobility in our Comenius Project was to Calabria, a beautiful small town in the Southern Italy. Our main task was to perform the plays our students wrote based on their short stories written from the same story beginning. We watched the plays on Wednesday, 12th 2012. It was amazing to see how creative…
Two days ago, I got a call from a friend and learned that my journey in TEFL has been nominated and shortlisted as best individual blog in #eddies. It is just a great feeling to be on the list with most of my friends whom I met through blogging, twitter and conferences. I wish all…
I’m experiencing another post conference blues. I just came home from one of my favourite conferences. I started TESOL France from day 2. I met friends whom I had met before and missed a lot and I met friends who had been my online PLN for more than 2 years. The first session I attended…
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…
I just discovered a new site, Edcanvas where you can easily create online lessons adding urls of a site or videos from Youtube, text and image with web search, upload your own documents from your desktop or from your dropbox account. It is easy and looks promising. I was adding my students’ poems on my…
Schools started. I have new classes and I have classes that I know from last year. We started working hard. We, as the English Department of our school, prepared lessons to motivate our students. With my year 12 students, who will graduate and take the university exam, we read ‘Go and Open the Door’, a…
I found this activity hidden in one of my idea notebooks a few minutes ago while trying to organize my files. Ask students to write a question on a piece of paper. Tell them to fold it down and pass it to the next student. The next students will also write a question and fold…
