Over the past week I’ve been talking to a European company about being an online teacher of English. Everything seemed to be going well. They liked me. They wanted me on their books. These people seemed professional and fair. The internet is bristling with online language teaching sites. Most of them seem to be thinly [...]
The sessions for the 2011 round of EVOnline workshops aimed at EFL teachers have been released. Although you cannot sign up until the beginning of January it is a good idea to browse the available options so that you can decide which ones you want to join. The organisers recommend that you join no more [...]
Mike Marzio has been on my list of potential interviewees for a long time because of his innovative Real English video materials. But the reason that I finally got round to interviewing him for the Absolutely Intercultural podcast is that he has a personal project for which he needs to raise €30,000 to cover the [...]
Learn a bit of structured language and go out immediately into the real world to practice it, where real world really does mean real world and involves the students interacting with the public in libraries, cafes and parks. That’s the idea behind Languages Out There and in March I explored the concept with its founder [...]
I have justfinished a blended learning business English course which was an experiment to find out whether people would like to learn 50% in the classroom and 50% online.These were definitely in the pre-intermediate category. I had an extremely mixed group including cable fitters, fish processors, yeast factories, tourist office and ferry companies. I decided [...]
Often it is the simplest and least planned ideas which are the best. Ideas such as Nellie Deutsch’s Storytelling and cultures; an ongoing invitation to learners of English to practice the language by preparing and presenting their culture. Nellie and her colleagues support would-be presenters in preparing their slides and provide the technical support to [...]
Today I was at an art exhibition and maybe I will bring up the topic of the accompanying website at my next meeting with my English group. See if it tallies with their idea of putting art online or not.
When I developed this course I planned that some time should be spent during our face to face sessions familiarising the group with the ICT tools we would be using throughout the course. These are the LMS (Moodle), oral communication tools (Wimba) and elgg. Since the group all come from the same company I go [...]
Yesterday I had my first official lesson with my new group for the blended English course. I have designed the course to centre around a simulation whereby the participants will go through the planning stages of setting up an online business. Then you told me that you are in fact thinking of setting up an [...]
We are about to start the blended learning English course in which I hope to use Elgg as an integral part. It has just occurred to me that the exercise of choosing key words will be a really worthwhile language exercise in itself.
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