Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters

Language Teaching, Teacher Education & New Technologies

My 11 from ’11

Blog post November 30th, 2011

Am taking up  Adam Simpson’s challenge, well, not really a challenge, more like an invitation but such a nice way to look back at what I have blogged about this year.  Adam said, “Choose the best 11” but I must confess I don’t write as many posts as all that. Some people seem to be able to churn [...]

Advance Organisers – How they Connect the Reading Experience

Article, ELT Methodology, SEETA Readings February 28th, 2011

Reading is a highly complex activity and, yet, in the foreign language classroom, it is often approached as if texts are just collections of words and grammatical patterns which students, if only they could analyse and decipher them, would be able to arrive at the overall meaning of the text. But, is this what happens [...]

Tradition Revisited & Revamped: “Something old, something new….”

Blog post, ELT Methodology November 21st, 2010

What are the good things you can draw from each of the approaches labelled traditional? How have you adapted them or changed them/renovated them and how do you integrate them into your teaching practice? The discussions during the #ELTchat of November 10 had us running in two directions: there were those colleagues who wanted to [...]

Animating Stories

Blog post, Tech Tools & Pedagogy Series October 27th, 2010

I have been playing with story animation tools for a long time, learning from colleagues’ blogs and links on Twitter.  Recent posts include Burcu Akyol’s  4-3-2-1 Action! Online Tools For Making Movies in the Language Classroom and Shelly Terrell’s presentation on Digital Storytelling which includes some excellent ideas. Here are a few additional ones, which [...]

Word clouds to integrate reading and writing

Article, Tech Tools & Pedagogy Series July 31st, 2010

Well, thank you to all who came to this webinar and sorry slides were rather unruly; here they are. kapitzvirt Word clouds View more presentations from Marisa Constantinides. Here is the link to my voicethread using a word cloud: please leave a comment or a further idea of how you could combine these two tools [...]