Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters

Language Teaching, Teacher Education & New Technologies

Making a Machinima in Second Life – in 19 Steps

Second Life, Tech Tools & Pedagogy Series January 14th, 2012

For the next few weeks I will be working and helping moderate the MachinEVO course in Second Life, one of the TESOL EVO courses. We are all hoping to learn how to record Second Life and to create recordings which will be useful to our language learners. There are already more than 110 participants on [...]

Survey on the use of Social Networks for Foreign Language Teachers

Blog post August 6th, 2011

Dear PLN, Many of you are aware that since earlier this year,  I have been involved in an EU funded project – aPLaNet – whose aim is to help Foreign Language Teachers develop and maintain their own PLN in an autonomous way. Creating one’s PLN takes time, effort and commitment,  and those of you reading [...]

The New Twitter and why I don’t like it

Blog post June 25th, 2011

For months now, the “new” Twitter has been warning me that I should switch to that, because soon I will have to one way or the other. Today there was a severe warning You all know how I love Twitter and what I think about its value and role in forming my PLN!  And, on [...]

One Year of Blogging

Blog post August 28th, 2010

I have great reason to celebrate: one year of blogging! Well, one year and something…. Although this post is rather late, mainly due to a really heavy teaching schedule in July and August, I have been thinking about it and writing bits and bytes whenever I had a few minutes. On the 1st of July [...]

No Comments – a very short post

Blog post June 4th, 2010

A friend got me a little worried earlier this week – she said “I almost never have anything to add to your posts” and wondered what it is that others do to generate comments. Should I be worried? Is there something that I am doing wrong? If so, how can I do better? My worry [...]