Teaching Resources
The Oceans
20th October 2015In my first blog, The Night Sky, we considered language in terms of recognition. The examples we used were constellations, and the learning analogy was word maps. In this post I want to use a different space, the oceans, to reflect on the idea of boundaries...
Read More Teaching ResourcesStudents as Virtual Tour Guides
20th October 2015When we take our students on fieldtrips to visit a site, they often are curious about what they observe. We can foster this curiosity by getting students to use their mobile devices to...
Read More Teaching ResourcesThe Night Sky
15th September 2015'We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed...
Read More Teaching ResourcesCreating a Collaborative and Safe Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
15th September 2015During one of my English classes, I taught my adult German students how to use dictionary and translation apps. The next week, one of my students excitedly shared how she had used one of the apps to help her...
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