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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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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IATEFL – On Classroom Ideas

I’ve just got back from the IATEFL conference, a huge sprawling monster of a conference. The best way that I can think of to reflect on what I’ve seen is to blog about it. The good thing is that loads of the conference is available online – where this is the case I’ll link to [...]

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#Rapal presentation Developing web literacy for literacy and language learners by Phil Bird on Prezi

Workshop for the RaPAL Conference – University of Greenwich – 16/07/2010

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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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