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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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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Integrating Edtech into lessons – An example

ESOL – Preparing for an Interview (Entry 3 / Pre-intermediate) There are loads of great examples of using new technological tools in the classroom, but I haven’t seen many detailed guides for including them in teaching, I thought that I’d like to share a lesson plan that I created for a lesson using Busbi/Flip cameras. [...]

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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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