5 Tasks to Teach Yourself to Teach with Technology

Some months ago I had a plan to write a book of tasks to get teachers using technology. As with so many of my plans and ideas, time and circ...

So Ask Me a Question

I recently spotted this very interesting site called Vyou.com which exploits video to create asynchronous conversations. I find it interest...

Do you need to teach or learn Maths in English? Here's Math TV.

If you need to learn or teach Maths in English (CLIL) you will probably need to know how to say some terminology in English. Here you have M...

Grow Your Own Personal Learning Network

Well this is my first blog posting for quite a while, but I'm hoping to have a lot more coming up very soon. This is just a quick postin...

SOZO EXCHANGE-VIDEO ENGLISH LESSONS

Video lessons, 6 episodes , origin and meaning of English Idioms,pronunciation practice, on line listening quizzes, how to improve pronuncia...

Letter Generator.- ReadWriteThink

This website has a lot of free resources for teachers and students , from lesson plans to interactive grammar games and tools. I have chosen...

Lyrics training

A teacher told me about this site after another talk about "Using blogs in the classroom", and it's great. As they say, "...

3 Tools for Exploiting the Wifi During Presentations

Coming as I do from a background in language teaching that emphasises that the teacher should shut up and get the students to do the talking...

English Listening Lounge ELL

As they say: "Listening is a natural way to learn English; it is fun and it works. You can study when you want: anytime, and any place....

PREZI - The zooming presentation editor

  Prezi is a new tool to create stunning presentations. It's free for teachers and students and it's really easy to use. I have don...

IT'S WORTH KEEPING AN EYE ON THAT BLOG

I have received this award from two different blogs "Mis clases" by Ana Concejero and " Anna's blog " by Anna Moral...

3D Computer Games with Young Learners: Spore

In a recent digital skills survey I carried out using Urtak I discovered that more than 50% of digitally skilled teachers don't feel abl...

"English Language Listening Library Online (ELLLO)

A colleague from Sitges ( Thanks a lot) told me about this site after one of my talks to teachers on "How to use Blogs in the classroom...

Creating Social Polls and Questionnaires Using Urtak

I discovered Urtak a couple of weeks ago and took an instant liking to it. Urtak is a web based social polling application that enables yo...

A Tick List of 21st Century Digital Skills for Teachers

I've just been brainstorming digital skills that I believe are required by teachers in the 21st Century. So far I've come up with 45...

"Learn English while watching videos"

Learn English while watching videos.- A speech recognition platform that allows you to practice SPEAKING with any video you choose and then ...

ESLJOKES.-The funniest way to learn English

Alison Wooder an ESL/ELT teacher, teacher trainer,  writer and co-founder of  ELTpublishing   has created this great site where you can...

Real English video lessons

A great site done with methodology, with more than 50 video lessons, where you can first watch the video without subtitles as a listening ex...

Cropping YouTube Videos to Create Activities

Using YouTube videos with students can be really great, but finding a video with the exact language you want and at a suitable length with t...