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Nik Peachey
August 3, 2020 6:04 AM
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Good teaching is good teaching, whether it is done face-to-face or online. As a teacher, you will already have many skills and strategies that you can bring to teaching online, whatever digital tools you choose (or are asked) to use. And as a language teacher, you already know how to engage and motivate your students. You also know that you need to give your students opportunities to listen to and practise English. In this paper, we look at tools, techniques, and activities that will enable you to use these essential skills in your online teaching.
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Nik Peachey
from Tools for Teachers & Learners
February 25, 2020 2:59 PM
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One of the first and most obvious things you’ll have to adapt to when starting to teach online is the change in space. As a teacher at the front of the classroom you have a three dimensional space to work in.
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Nik Peachey
from Learning & Technology News
September 25, 2019 7:03 AM
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For many students listening is the hardest of the four skills to master. Unlike reading, listening happens in real time and it can be hard to control the speed of the information coming at them.
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Nik Peachey
from Learning & Technology News
June 30, 2018 5:30 AM
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Coaching is becoming an increasingly popular development activity, particularly in the field of business management, but what does it have to offer educational development and particularly teacher development?
In this webinar, Nik Peachey looks at some techniques and processes that are commonly associated with coaching and explores how we can apply these to our work in teacher development.
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Nik Peachey
September 17, 2017 2:19 AM
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Nik Peachy explores how you can get your documents online, sharing tips for using QR codes. There's a fun lesson activity to try with your students too!
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Nik Peachey
June 3, 2017 11:51 AM
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In this post, Nik Peachey introduces his upcoming webinar with MaWSIG. I had been thinking about writing a book for years. A few times I put together proposals for books and expectantly sent them off to publishers, only to be disappointed. Even more times I started to write my book and then just lost momentum…
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Nik Peachey
from Learning & Technology News
May 12, 2017 9:38 AM
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In the first of a series on self-publishing, author and digital publishing specialist Nik Peachey explains how to crowd-source funding for a self-published e-book.
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Nik Peachey
April 10, 2017 11:04 AM
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David Nunan talks about the issues involved in how to decide at which age to start learning a second language. He also talks about blended learning and how technology can help younger students to become more autonomous learners.
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Nik Peachey
from Learning & Technology News
March 2, 2017 12:34 PM
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The slide deck from my keynote presentation at the NELTA 2017 International conference in Kathmandu.
Thanks to British Council Nepal for their kind support and hospitality.
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Nik Peachey
February 17, 2017 10:10 AM
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Creativity or rather the lack of it is becoming and increasingly important issue within a global context of increased emphasis on standardisation and testing within educational systems. In this webinar Nik looks at a new British Council publication that seeks to redress the balance and help teachers to interject an element of creativity into the English language classroom.
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Nik Peachey
February 16, 2017 11:20 AM
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In this workshop we explore a range of digital tools and teaching techniques that teachers can use to utilize the presence of digital devices in the classroom and make them productive. The workshop will show how we can use these devices to enable digital collaboration and develop a range of traditional and digital literacies in ways that are not possible in the analogue classroom.
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Nik Peachey
from Tools for Teachers & Learners
February 2, 2017 8:00 AM
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This book has been written and designed primarily with English language teachers in mind though the majority of the resources and tools contained in the book will have much wider use than just language teaching.
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Nik Peachey
November 24, 2016 8:28 AM
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How many syllabi include the ability to tell or understand a joke? Yet understanding the sense of humour of a people is a key element of understanding the culture and language and perhaps even more importantly of developing relationships with people from that country.
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Nik Peachey
from Learning & Technology News
March 31, 2020 12:38 AM
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Expect inspiring discussions about creativity and innovation in the classroom, recommendations for handy apps to use, as well as hidden pitfalls to avoid when using tech in the classroom.
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Nik Peachey
December 9, 2019 4:46 AM
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I think it’s hard for anyone to deny that at present we live in polarized times with an increase in extreme views, extreme politics and extremism in religion...
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Nik Peachey
April 30, 2019 4:18 AM
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Missed our Gallery Walk at IATEFL 2019? Participants and experts came together to discuss the future of classrooms. Find out more on the blog!
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Nik Peachey
from Learning & Technology News
July 11, 2017 10:27 AM
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Edited by Alan Maley and Nik Peachey
This publication has a twofold aim – to help students learn a language creatively whilst at the same time raising awareness of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through bringing together a range of innovative ideas for teaching creatively and addressing these key issues.
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Nik Peachey
from Learning & Technology News
July 31, 2017 9:40 AM
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So if the students aren’t going to change to suit us (and after all, why should they?) we need to start changing the nature of the classroom and how we work within it, to exploit this ability to work across these parallel planes of digital and physical reality that our students inhabit.
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Nik Peachey
May 16, 2017 5:58 AM
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In his second article in a series on self-publishing, author and digital publishing specialist, Nik Peachey, explains how to get on with the task of writing and structuring a book.
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Nik Peachey
April 25, 2017 10:49 PM
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This is a speaking task that encourages students to empathise with other people and try to understand them better. The activity uses a number of visuals of migrants and the students have to imagine they are the person in the picture. The activity is based on themes from the British Council OPENCities project.
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Nik Peachey
April 2, 2017 6:15 AM
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We're delighted to welcome back our presenters Kirsteen and Nik for another IATEFL Online. We would also like to welcome Roohi to the team. Our presenters will be doing live interviews from the IATEFL Online studio - starting at around 10.00am (UK time) on each day of the conference. Tune in on Monday 3rd April for the start of our live coverage from Glasgow.
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Nik Peachey
March 2, 2017 12:27 PM
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This carefully balanced set of studies and practitioner research projects carried out in various learning contexts around the world highlights cutting-edge research in the use of digital learning technologies in language classrooms and in online learning. Providing an overview of recent developments in the application of educational technology to language learning and teaching, it looks at the experience of researchers and practitioners in both formal and informal (self-study) learning contexts, bringing readers up to date with this rapidly changing field and the latest developments in research, theory, and practice at both classroom and education system levels.
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Nik Peachey
February 17, 2017 10:06 AM
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In this webinar, we invite Nik Peachey, winner of the 2016 British Council ELTon award for innovation in teacher resources to talk about using digital video.
Video is one of the most powerful mediums for language instruction and learning and your students' access to the tools to view, create and communicate with video through mobile devices has never been better. Are you making the most of this opportunity for your students? Come along to this webinar, share your ideas and get some new ideas for how to exploit digital video with your students.
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Nik Peachey
February 16, 2017 10:30 AM
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There is an assumption that persists in the educational community that more mature teachers are much more difficult and reluctant to be trained on the effective use of educational technology. To some degree, I think this assumption has been built on by the digital native vs digital immigrant myth. But as someone who has trained teachers of all ages all over the world I would say that, from my own experience, this hasn’t been the case.
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Nik Peachey
January 13, 2017 11:04 AM
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In a world where anyone with an internet connection can access, create and share information, opinions and beliefs, it has become increasingly important that students are not only able to assess the credibility of sources but also to look more deeply at the underlying motivations, beliefs and bias of the creator.
Thinking Critically through Digital Media enables teachers to use authentic materials and digital tools combined with motivating communicative tasks to develop students’ abilities to function as critical and well informed digital citizens.
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My article for OUP
My article for OUP