In my month themes I wrote I’d like to do something related with the Oscars as we all know the nominees now. Today I assigned my students to prepare small talks on it. For these short presentations my students will have 3 minutes to talk. I prepare a rubric to mark their presentations too. They…
Twitter enabled me to reach many links and resources and delicious is another tool which makes my teaching life easier these days. I try to bookmark the interesting articles, lesson ideas and tools. There are so many great things on my delicious list now and I can prepare a lesson wherever I am. I don’t…
Types of Dictations for EFL Classrooms I started a ‘train the trainer’ course in January. At today’s session, we looked into some listening activities and dictation techniques. As a teacher, I have never liked doing dictation in my class. It’s something I neglected. The only one I use is the wall dictation AKA the running dictation…
I decided to publish a monthly series. I’ll try to set myself a goal and choose themes which will help my students to know more about the world. February will be a great month to start because of the Winter Olympics. Sport has always been my favourite. I never miss watching Olympic Games, World…
I wasn’t a technology enthusiast. I wasn’t even on FB. I just wanted to blog for my classes. While doing it, I started my journey in the cyber world. I didn’t know anything about twitter nor PLNs. I learned twitter is a wonderful arena for sharing links, knowledge and starting collaborations. I met wonderful educators who…
Glogster has become a very popular tool with my students. They loved it and used it very often. It is a great tool and I believe it enhances their creativity because of that I often assign projects with glogsters.I think glogster is great because they can add text, image and sound and then they can…
When we feel that students are bored, we tend to change the pace and move to a more energising activity. This one is something like that. However, I use it as a gap filler or an fun activity after I introduce the new topic. It sounds a bit childish, though it always works with…
In the early years of my teaching I was not sure if I was able to achieve my goals as a teacher then I started getting feedback from them at the end of the year. Until a group of students wrote how I failed that year and actually it was too late to do anything….
Yes, I’m soooo thrilled that some of my students have been doing great jobs on their own on the blogosphere. This year we read The Great Gatsby with grade 11. They had to prepare a project trying to relate a topic with all the lessons they were taking. As they were the language department students, we…
When I read Shelly Terrell’s post, I immediately wanted to write about my personal theme song. It was actually something that I wanted to do after I assigned my students with mini projects but having lots of things to do, I just put the idea back to one of the shelves in my brain and now…
The idea is an inspiration from a student of mine who added a comment on the class blog to the link I added there and Ken Wilson’s asking on twitter if there were any Elvis fans out there and then I thought ‘yay, I have great ideas for the first lesson of the new decade. We…
As I mentioned many times before, it’s been a very fruitful year for me. I learned so many great things and luckily I managed to apply most of them. I started blogging I’m on twitter joined some Ning groups I started using web 2.0 tools I started a wiki project We had our first classroom…
