NATECLA Reflections

Last weekend saw the NATECLA conference at Warwick University, I was lucky enough to be able to attend this through my involvement in the British Council’s ESOL Nexus project (more on that at a later date) as they are the main sponsor of the event. I went along with Mike Harrison and Amanda Wilson to give [...]

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Natecla Presentation – Using Digital Recording with ESOL Students

Here’s a link to the presentation that I used in my session at the NATECLA Conference 2010, containing all the links I mentioned during the workshop: And here are a couple of links on my blog which relate to the subject: http://classroom201x.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/integrating-edtech-into-lessons-an-example/ http://classroom201x.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/using-digital-video-recording-with-esol-students/ New ideas The session went well, I think – mainly because the [...]

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Cliffhanger Studios for ESOL – Digital Storytelling Resource

Digital storytelling is increasingly being used in language teaching; as is usually the case, Wikipedia is quite a good source of information on this topic. There are loads of online tools out there that you can use – I’d recommend having a look at Nik Peachey’s blog as well as @europeaantje ‘s toolshed site. Here [...]

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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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