The Big Project

I use this Directory to find Worldwide  news in English  and read them with my students, but as they say, The Big Project is a directory of ...

Creating online learning with Riddle

On the surface Riddle is a great free tool for creating a variety of quizzes and polls that can have rich media embedded into them, but whe...

Creating illustrations and infographics for ELT tasks

Draw.io is one of my favourite tools and the one I use most for creating graphics and infographics. As someone who doesn’t draw very well a...

Brainstorming and polling with AnswerGarden

AnswerGarden is a very simple tool for creating short answer polls and displaying the answers as word clouds. It’s really simple and quick ...

10 reasons why you should buy my book

Over the last year I have been working on the first in what I hope will be a series of books to help teachers exploit new technologies in w...

20 + Things you can do with QR codes in your school

QR codes are possibly one of the most underused useful features of new technology. Perhaps one of the main reasons for this is that many peo...

Managing the digital classroom - Using a backchannel

In my first post in this series - Getting students' attention - I mentioned the use of backchannels. This post should give you more inf...

Managing the digital classroom - Getting students' attention

Competing with a computer or mobile screen for students' attention can be a challenge at best and at worst extremely frustrating. In thi...

Using Scribd to monetise your writing work

Many writers like myself start writing blogs for free and sharing our work because we dream one day of becoming professional writers or at l...

25 maps that explain the English language

Libby Nelson offers us a great work about the origin and the evolution of the English language  from the Vikings to the 21st century explain...