Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters

Language Teaching, Teacher Education & New Technologies

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 [...]

Using word clouds in class – a lesson plan

Lesson Plan, Tech Tools & Pedagogy Series February 10th, 2010

This lesson plan was produced during  the SEETA course on EasyWeb 2.0 tools run by Nik Peachey – many more lessons and lesson ideas can be found there but here is mine: The text was to be chosen randomly (in case you were wondering why I chose this particular one). Text source: A news item from [...]