In the last few months, and mainly thanks to social media like Facebook and Twitter, I have been meeting and interacting with a good number of colleagues about all things digital in general and foreign language education. There is great excitement in the air about either integrating ICT into educational programmes or, “going all the [...]
Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters
Language Teaching, Teacher Education & New Technologies
Pecha Kuchas with your students
Blog post, ELT Methodology July 21st, 2009
What it is “Pecha Kucha (ペチャクチャ?), usually pronounced in three syllables like “pe-chak-cha”) is a presentation format in which content can be easily, efficiently and informally shown, usually at a public event designed for that purpose. Under the format, a presenter shows 20 images for 20 seconds apiece, for a total time of 6 minutes, [...]
My Twitter
Blog post July 19th, 2009
Twitter started out with the simple question “What are you doing?”, a teacher’s dream for realistic writing using the Present Continuous! In 140 characters, your response to that question was supposed to keep you up to speed with friends, family and colleagues around the world. Twitter in Plain English Millions of users do just that. [...]
My first blog post.
Blog post July 1st, 2009
Here is my first blog entry on my first English blog, mainly inspired by the blogs of the many colleagues I recently met on Twitter. By reading their posts, I realized that a blog post does not have to be long or complex and that it is a great tool for my own development. The [...]
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