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 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
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 [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edMLxH2Z0E8&w=560&h=315]
Paper planes: First, have your students make some paper planes. Stand the students in two lines as two teams. For the competition, assign different classroom objects points (e.g. table 5 points, door 10 points, window 20 points). Ask the students in turns a question about what you are revising or working on. If s/he…
I’d like to introduce you another great tool that you can create content. Visme is yet another versatile tool that you can create powerful visual stories in the form of presentations, infographics and other visual content. It is free. You can checkout this quick video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxAroxawE0U Visme allows you to create various forms of content…
Yes, another school year is about to end and here you can find a few ideas how to finish it. Give each student a paper plate and tape it to their backs. Tell students to start to walk around the room and write positive things about each other on the paper plates. Don’t forget to…
