Traffic Light CV

Non-linear writing Some texts are easy – you start at the beginning, and you end at the end – but are there loads of texts where it’s much better to start somewhere else – sometimes that’s in reading (you could try something like this: Argos lesson). However, here I want to look at texts that [...]

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Skills Workshop

I recently posted about how one form of crowd sourcing in education was the use of resource banks. I’ve already mentioned talent.ac.uk on this blog, now I want to look at a similar resource – Skills Workshop. This is a fantastic site, jam-packed with resources, which has grown through one person’s initiative together with contributions [...]

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Narrative-based activity: Who Killed Angela Spelling

UPDATE: Since I originally wrote this post, the BBC Skillswise website has been updated considerably all the previous activities appear to have been retained, but new activities have been added and each section now has an explanatory video The recent ELTchat on story telling made me think about how I’ve used stories in class and [...]

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Collaborative writing – Etherpad back from the flames

  This post follows my musings on IATEFL last month, and is also perhaps inspired by the flurry of posts looking at technology in education: http://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/t-is-for-technology/ http://slife.dudeney.com/?p=730 http://managementspique.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/just-say-no/ Here I want to take an approach, show how I’ve used it and see what ideas people have got to improve it. As this post incorporates content [...]

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