Tech or Treat: Spook-tacular Halloween Resources for the Classroom III
Back by popular demand—some really spook-tacular digital resources that are sure to creep out your students—in a good way, of course! Yep—it’s the updated version […]
Playing with Words to Overcome Writer's Block
Postpone that email. Postpone that summary. Postpone that assignment. Wait. That assignment's deadline is tomorrow. Another long night melts into dawn, dawn melts into a […]
An Infographic for Vocabulary
Photo by Miguel Constantin Montes from Pexels One question that I have always found difficult to answer as a teacher is "What method do you use to teach […]
Enriching Vocabulary
Photo by Matthew T Rader from Pexels Lately I have been thinking about how to enrich and expand learners' vocabulary. Yes, there are different vocabulary games (e.g Take […]
A Vocabulary Game for #ELT
Words, words, words! How learning vocabulary can be challenging for non English speakers! Quizlet , and other word cards are helpful but do become rather repetitive […]
Game review: Play for the Planet (ELi Publishing)
Here’s another resource from the giant box I was sent from ELi publishing. I saved reviewing this one until I actually had a good reason […]
H5P: Free Software for Developing Interactive Learning Objects
I’ve been wanting to learn how to develop interactive content for course design but didn’t have the time, money, or opportunity to learn the sophisticated […]
Wordwall for ELT vocabulary games
Wordwall is a recent find for me. I heard about it during this webinar on gamifying learning, which was quite interesting. I’ve since mentioned it […]
Ditch The Lists: Digital vocabulary instruction that works
Write and highlight the word, write the definition, give an example… YAWN! Vocabulary is critical to learning, yet it is often done in drill and […]
Using Google Translate in Sheets to Differentiate
Many teachers may have students in their classrooms that have a different home language than English. While this can be an advantage to the student […]
Bad Morphed to Good: Nerd to Cool: Lets Fall in Love
I think it was my Mom who helped me fall in love with words and language. As a parent, and as a teacher, you too […]
Book review: ELI Vocabulary in Pictures
This week I received a huge box of resources from ELI Publishing. The first book that caught my eye was ELI Vocabulary in Pictures, which […]
