YouTube Dictation

This blog has been a bit sparse recently, but that’s been down to getting to grips with a new job. The upside of this is that I am having to experiment with a few new techniques, which I can then share here.  I am now teaching functional skills, building up the writing skills of students [...]

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SmartNotebook Lesson Activity Toolkit

Introduction I’ve blogged about SmartNotebook before – here and here as I find it to be such a useful resource. Now someone else has blogged about me hassling people with it: http://vle.barkingcollege.ac.uk/techblog/?p=2582#more-2582 I thought it was time to highlight some of the new features in Smart Notebook v.10. It’s not particularly new, but it’s a [...]

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Using digital video recording with ESOL students

This is an action research project I carried out for the Subject Learning Coach Training programme, on the use of video recording in the ESOL classroom. I’ve been starting to learn Framemaker and have created a PDF that you can download here: VideoActionResearch. Aims and Objectives: I planned to investigate the value of digital video [...]

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Tarsia

At a recent Subject Learning Coach event we were shown a tool called Tarsia. It’s a tool that you can use to create all kinds of jigsaw activities – you could use it for pretty much anything. The way that it works is that you choose a shape that you want the jigsaw to be [...]

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