I’m very excited about the new feature of Quizizz. It now allows teachers to prepare lessons on Quizizz. You can prepare your whole lesson there; warmers, tutorials, explanations, reading passages and then if you like to ask a question, add a poll, you can do so. It still has the ‘gaming’ option. You can follow…
Since the schools closed, I’ve been reading articles, watching webinars, attending short courses to tackle with the difficulty of remote teaching. As we all were thrown into the big ocean of online teaching in March, we tried to save the day using the knowledge and tools we already had. However, things have changed now. We…
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: How to Teach Online…
We are all getting ready for a new school year, which will be totally different from what we are used to. Waiting for this term, I realised I’m more confident than March. I’m leaving here a very quick and handy ‘Getting to know you’ activity which I’m planning to use on the first day of…
Jamboard is an online interactive whiteboard tool that can easily be used to in distance learning. The App can easily be reached from Google Drive. Click on Jamboard and you’re ready to create your first board. Tap the orange + to start. Now you are ready to use the board. Choose the background. I really…
Suddenly we all went online.. The techy, the old school we are all on the same boat, trying to sail safely to the shore. Language teaching will not be complete with student interaction. We need to find ways to make students more productive instead of keeping them in front of the screens pretending they are…
My guest post on Larry Ferlazzo’s blog My Corona Days’ experience as Guest Post: Teaching An Istanbul English Class Online During The Time Of Corona https://t.co/SmZyPNlXZ5 via @Larryferlazzo — Eva B. (@dream2edu) March 25, 2020
The new normal is the remote learning until we enter our classrooms again. Online classrooms will also give us a chance to interact with our students, to participate the lessons actively. If we just follow a PowerPoint presentation or the lesson material, they will pretend that they are in the class but they will find…
Zoom, an online conferencing tool that can be handy during these crisis days.
Quizizz is a free online tool to create games for your classroom. It enables the teacher to conduct student-paced formative assessments. It is almost similar to all the other Web 2.0 tools. First sign up, then start creating your quiz. Once you create the Quizizz, you can assign it as homework or host it to…
Assign a student to stop you. Start counting the alphabet silently. When the student stops, you write the last letter on the board. Tell them they will write a word beginning with that letter. Once they’ve written their word, tell them they will continue adding new words starting with the second letter of each word….
The recording of my talk, entitled ”Using short film in the lower secondary language classroom” at IATEFL YLTSIG 2019 Web Conference, Day 2
