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Boost Interaction In The Classroom With Socrative
Socrative from socrative.com is a polling and pop quiz app for mobile devices and computers. It runs in any browser, and has an Android client and an iOS client. When you register as a teacher you get...
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The Blame Game
A post on my Facebook timeline featured part of a TEDx presentation about the evils of fast food marketing to children. The relevant clip is here. You only need to watch until 12.18. The presenter,...
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Salsa
Salsa is an Open Source syllabus creation tool from Utah State University’s Center for Innovative Design & Instruction. There’s no registration or requirement to submit an email address. The...
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Book Review: Absolute Monarchs
Absolute Monarchs, by John Julius Norwich, is the rollicking roller-coaster ride of the sometimes rapacious, sometimes reprehensible, sometimes ridiculous, sometimes retiring, but sometimes redeeming...
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What Is A Scientific Theory?
To most people, a theory is a hunch or a guess about a particular event, phenomenon or situation, e.g. “My theory is that he’s seeing someone else”. Although, why we use ‘theory’ is a mystery when we...
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5 Online Collage Makers
In this post I’m going to briefly review 5 online collage makers. Collages are a fun and efficient way to show a series of related images, keeping them together for easy storage and insertion into...
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How To Make A Strong Password
Everyone needs to know how to make a strong password, especially in light of the recent Heartbleed Bug scare. As more and more personal information goes online, it’s important to protect it from prying...
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Mailbox: Innovating The Inbox
Mailbox is an email app for smartphones developed by Orchestra, and currently owned by Dropbox. Mailbox introduces a new way of dealing with your email inbox on a mobile device and promises to help you...
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Look Up – If You Want To
The video ‘Look Up’ is a poem against what the author sees as the dominance of smartphones and social media into our lives, and the consequent erosion of ‘real’ communication. While I do share some of...
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Is Your ELT Class A Presentation?
Do you consider?your ELT class a presentation? Because, that’s basically what it is; think about how most classes run. In a presentation’s most basic form, you have … the Introduction, “Today we’re...
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KakaoGroup
In this post, part of a series looking at how to get started with technology in the classroom, I’m going to introduce KakaoGroup, a sister app to the hugely popular KakaoTalk, and part of the Kakao...
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Why I Dropped Dropbox For Google Drive
I’ve been using Dropbox?for a few years and have been very happy with it. However, I want to explain why I dropped it?for Google Drive. I’m a fan of Dropbox and heartily recommend it whenever the...
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How To Interest Korean Students In English
Recently, I had an English education student ask me how to interest Korean?students in English. I rattled off a few reasons which I was fairly sure were true, having read something about it somewhere....
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The Extended Classroom
I?ve never liked the phrase flipped classroom, it sounds almost rude, dismissive. It sounds like ?Get lost classroom, we don?t need you any more.? I much prefer extended classroom. Extended classroom...
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How To Opt Out Of Facebook Ad Tracking
Following Facebook’s announcement that they will start allowing access to user data, there has been a lot of confusion as to what it is they are actually doing. Facebook are not “selling your data to...
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The Mistake Game
One of the things that prevents Korean students from speaking is their fear of making a mistake and losing face in front of their peers. But, if you don’t make mistakes, you don’t learn. So, why not...
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Personalise Activities With Google Forms
As you may have already read, I?m a big fan of Google and their?products. I try to find new ways to integrate them into my teaching; preparation, communication, and within the classroom itself. In this...
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How To Teach Large Numbers In English
Whenever my students have to say large numbers in English, i.e. numbers in the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions, they immediately start counting up on their fingers; “chun, man,...
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Why Educators Should Care About Ubuntu
Modern educators have to be concerned about a great many things, and that list seems to be growing every day. From student eating disorders, to providing science-based education, to the lack of IT...
View ArticleThe Game of Two Halves
This game can be played with groups, a whole class game, or as a class team game, regardless of the number of students you have. Try to divide the groups or teams as evenly as possible, but it doesn’t...
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