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Using Word Clouds in EFL ESL
Learning technology teacher development blog | September 3rd 2008 by Nik Peachey
I've just discovered Wordle, which is a really useful site for creating word clouds. The word clouds are created by entering either a text, URL or del.icio.us username into a field. The site then generates a word cloud based on the frequency of key w read more
Multimedia Vocabulary Website
Quick Shout | September 2nd 2008 by Nik Peachey
Babbel is one of the few really effective vocabulary building websites that I've seen on the web. It's actually a social network and can help you to make friends for language exchange etc, but the core of the site is it's interactive multimedia vocab read more
Job search
Teacher Dude's Grill and BBQ | September 2nd 2008 by Craig
If anyone is interested in doing English lessons in the Thessaloniki area or would like to hire an experienced, qualified EFL/ESL teacher for the next academic year. I can be contacted at this email address; cpwefl2003@hotmail.com.To see my CV click read more
Create Your Avatar Image
Quick Shout | September 2nd 2008 by Nik Peachey
Last week I wrote a posting with some teaching suggestions based around the Face your Manga website. Some people were understandably put off by the ability of the images to make some rude gestures.I have since discovered the DoppelMe website which do read more
Carbon Calculator
Quick Shout | September 2nd 2008 by Nik Peachey
This is a really nicely designed site which helps you calculate the amount of carbon your family emits. The site looks great and is rich in vocabulary. It's probably more useful with more mature students as it asks for information like the amount you read more
Life as an Expat in Seoul, South Korea
Prospere Magazine | September 2nd 2008 by prosperewebitor
Katherine F Where to begin…My name is Katherine and I am a 31 year old expat living in South Korea. I’ve been here for about two months and this is my attempt to document some of my experiences living and working here as an ESL teacher. read more
Outside
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | September 1st 2008 by range
Spent the day working on a friend’s fence with his girlfriend, his father and my friend Yan. I enjoyed using the heavy hammer to bash the support brackets into the ground. I also enjoyed using the heavy hammer to destroy the old fence. It relie read more
Update on the Education Clip Library
Quick Shout | September 1st 2008 by Nik Peachey
I first wrote about the ECL (Education Clip Library) a few months back, but now I've finally got round to exploring it and I have to say it's a really impressive resource.There are about 5k + clips at present and once you are registered there is an read more
Intercambios—Language Exchanges
Language For You | September 1st 2008 by Mark Stoneman
A colleague at LADO International College, where I teach part-time, told me about an intercambios that takes place at a cafe in Washington, DC called Dos Gringos. People meet there to talk in different languages, giving some members a chance to pract read more
Irregular Verbs
Language For You | August 31st 2008 by Mark Stoneman
Irregular verbs present a great challenge for non-native speakers of English. Regular verbs would add an -Ed for both the simple past and the past participle. For instance, he cooks becomes he cooked or he has cooked. But many common verbs defy these read more
What are you doing differently this semester in your ESL class?
Compelling Conversations in the ESL/EFL world | August 31st 2008 by Eric18
What are you doing differently this semester in your English class? As a new semester begins, I face the familiar task - and pleasure - of selecting new materials and creating new forms for my oral skills class. One goal is to have students use the i read more
Painting
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | August 29th 2008 by range
We have been painting our apartment for the last week. It has been a long process and during this time, we have also thrown out a lot of stuff. The place is looking better. I’m sorry for the lack of updates, but I’ll go through a blogging read more
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Essential Wild | August 29th 2008 by Plant EO
Training Teachers to Use Blogger
Quick Shout | August 29th 2008 by Nik Peachey
I've written about Russell Stannard's Teacher Training Videos site before, and as ever it continues to be a fantastic resource. I'm now glad to say that Russell has published a series of videos on how to use Blogger and set up your own blog.Click to read more
A Virtual World for Facebook Users
Quick Shout | August 26th 2008 by Nik Peachey
Do you want to show your virtual EFL ESL students images, videos from YouTube or just chat with them all within a 3D environment that runs in your web browser. Well now you can.I've just been playing with Vivaty a new 3D virtual world that runs from read more
Text to Speech for EFL ESL Materials
Learning technology teacher development blog | August 26th 2008 by Nik Peachey
Text to Speech (TTS) technology has come a long way in recent years and this is nowhere more evident than on the Read The Words website.I've just been having a look at the site and trying to decide whether it has real potential for helping EFL ESL st read more
Make Your EFL ESL Yearbook
Learning technology teacher development blog | August 25th 2008 by Nik Peachey
As ever I'm a fool for technology which can make images entertaining and personalise them, so when I saw this I couldn't resist it.Nik Peachey or Austin Powers?This site is called Yearbook Yourself and is based around the concept of the end of year s read more
Another Great New Karaoke Site
Quick Shout | August 25th 2008 by Nik Peachey
Getting ESL EFL students singing songs is a great way to improve their pronunciation, so here's another great karaoke site (the 3rd in a month) that has been brought to my attention.This one is called Karaoke Party and is a little different, for a co read more
Social Networks and the Web 2.0 Revolution: Part 2
Quick Shout | August 24th 2008 by Nik Peachey
Back in July08 I published a presentation on my YouTube channel called 'Social Networks and the Web 2.0 Revolution'.The presentation attracted quite a lot of attention and comments, one of the main one being a request for the links to the sites I men read more
Content Stress is Best
Speak English Better | August 24th 2008 by Ric
As a general rule,▪ Stressed words in a sentence are considered content words. These include nouns (e.g. kitchen, Peter), (most) main verbs (e.g. visit, construct), adjectives (e.g. beautiful, interesting), and adverbs (e.g. often, carefully).▪ N read more
News Videos for EFL ESL Materials Design
Quick Shout | August 24th 2008 by Nik Peachey
Great new for those of you who like developing authentic EFL ESL materials around news clips.CNN is now making available an embed code from each of it's video news clips, so we can now embed these into blog pages or online multimedia materials and de read more
Conversation tip #15: Seek to Understand
Compelling Conversations in the ESL/EFL world | August 24th 2008 by Eric18
Seek to Understand Have you ever seen two emotional people talk past each other? Both talk and neither listen. Both want to tell the other, and don’t want to hear – or understand – what the other person is saying. This happens too often in str read more
Uploaded New Learn English Video - Sports
Good News from Israel | August 24th 2008 by Jacob Richman
Hi Everyone!I uploaded a new Learn English video to the Internet.The topic of the new video is Sports.The address is:http://www.learn-english.co.il/videos/index.htmlThe updated page also contains past videos that I uploaded.Feedback is welcome.Have a read more
Fantastic Free E-Books for EFL and ELT
Quick Shout | August 22nd 2008 by Nik Peachey
Wow! This is like having a complete ELT library at your finger tips and it's all free! PDF Geni is search site that gives you free access to PDF e-books all of which are freely available on the web.It isn't limited to ELT and can be used to search fo read more
Manga images for EFL ESL
Learning technology teacher development blog | August 22nd 2008 by Nik Peachey
Many of our younger and even older students are exposed to and enjoy 'Manga' type cartoon art work. 'Face Your Manga' is a site which enables you and your students to easily create manga type image avatars, so I'd like to explore a few ways we could read more
How much do you hate/love me?
Huntress Di - Hear Her Roar | August 20th 2008
...I tacitly ask my ESL students. Mid-course teacher evaluations were handed out. Students were anonymously surveyed, results went to my supervisor.It's not like I was fearing the loss of a paycheck (it's a volunteer gig), but I've been anxious to di read more
Teaching English using mobile phones
Teacher Dude's Grill and BBQ | August 20th 2008 by Craig
A couple of days ago I mentioned an idea for using audio tours as the basis for an efl/esl lesson. The actual lesson plan was for more advanced students and perhaps would not be useful for many teaching situations. So here is another idea which can b read more
Playing and Watching Sports
Compelling Conversations in the ESL/EFL world | August 20th 2008 by Eric18
Have you been watching the Olympics? What has surprised you the most? Why? Who has inspired you? How? The Olympics reminds us of heroism, sacrifice, excellence, and beauty. It can also spark many conversations. Although I have not had the pleasure of read more
Teach Abroad: Simple ESL Tips for Every Lesson
My Several Worlds | August 17th 2008 by Carrie
Some of these tips might seem obvious, but I’m always surprised at the number of new teachers I meet who forget to include these simple tasks in each lesson. If you like these tips, you might also like: 20 Great ESL Teaching Tips 1. Teach the read more
How do you teach the difference between “make” and “do” i…
Compelling Conversations in the ESL/EFL world | August 17th 2008 by Eric18
How do you teach the difference between “make” and “do” in your English classrooms? What do you do? What do you make? What’s the difference, anyway, between “make” and “do”? These simple words cause lots of confusion for English lan read more
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