In this activity students listen to information about two people who emigrated to Dublin. They then have to create profiles of other immigrants based on the text from the listening. The activity is based on themes and images from the OPENCities project ww.opencities.eu
A collection of ideas for creating and exploiting personalised flashcards. You just need either an image of yourself that you can upload or a webcam that you can take a picture with. Then you choose the picture you want to put yourself into and upload your image. With a bit of resizing and colour adjustment you can have a set of your own personal flashcards in just minutes.
This is a text and some activities that I wrote for the BritishCouncil's LearnEnglish site some years ago: Computer games have been criticised for quite some time over a whole range of issues. Now, however, it seems that computer games have also become a feminist issue.
In a recent digital skills survey I carried out using Urtak I discovered that more than 50% of digitally skilled teachers don't feel able to utilise 2D and 3D computer games to achieve pedagogical goals (See survey), so I've been looking around and exploring some possibilities. The first of these is the Spore Creature Creator. Spore is a game which allows you to create creatures and evolve them along with their environment, all the way through to a space traveling society.
Delivering teacher development content at a reasonable price via mobile devices would seem to be a great way to provide teachers with much better development references and resources that they could easily access at all times and drastically increase the potential market and number of copies of these types resources sold. What’s more opening the market to mobile content through teacher development resources first, will put teacher in a much better and more confident position to be able to deal with learner content such as digital course books and other digital learning materials when they do inevitably start to arrive.
Second Life, Part 1 | Free Online Multimedia Training Videos from the University of Westminster. A collection of Second Life video tutorials I produced for Russell Stannard and the University of Westminster.
Over the last ten plus years ‘consumer technology’, and by that I mean the everyday gadgets that we use for entertainment and communication in our homes, have become increasingly cheaper and at the same time progressively more powerful and easy to use. Personally, I believe this a really wonderful development and one that is really changing the way we socialise, communicate, access information, interact as a society and most importantly – learn.
For me, one of the most underexploited and neglected areas within language learning is humour. How many course books have a section on humour? 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.
This lesson takes a process approach to developing writing skills. It is staged so that students are guided through the processes of collecting information and deciding how they will structure it within the text before they begin to write. They are then guided through the process of drafting, editing and redrafting the text to produce a final copy. Nik Peachey, teacher, trainer and materials writer.
The tasks are designed as small scale projects. You follow the instructions with each one and it should help you to create some form of teaching materials as well as help you to develop your technical skills.
This is a manual for EFL and ESL teachers describing how to use a number of web based tools and learning technologies to assist in language development. It includes instructions on how to use the t...
Intervue.me is a new website I have been using recently. It's another website that is based around the use of webcams. The site enables users to create questionnaires and then get the recipients of the questionnaire to leave video recorded answers. The site is very easy to use.
This lesson takes a process approach to developing writing skills. It is staged so that students are guided through the processes of collecting information and deciding how they will structure it within the text before they begin to write. They are then guided through the process of drafting, editing and redrafting the text to produce a final copy.
It's a really simple website which asks a simple question. The rest of the website has images with accompanying lists sent in by visitors to the site. Each person's list and image has about 10 items.
I’ve found that in class most students enjoy lessons based around songs or music. More recently I’ve been trying to discover and develop activities that students can do online to actively engage with the vast variety of resources that are available. These are six things that I have discovered so far. Each one links to an example activity that I have developed for students
As so many people are already familiar with Wordle, I thought I'd also share a few similar tools that can be used instead of or alongside Wordle with other web based resources to create useful learning materials for students. I've also added these here for anyone who doesn't make it along to the workshop.
This is an artcile I wrote for the British Council's Learn English site many years ago: When word of mouth turns to word of mouse… In December 1998, Iconocast gave the award for Internet marketing buzzword of the year to the term 'viral marketing', but what does it really mean?
In recent years content-based instruction has become increasingly popular as a means of developing linguistic ability. It has strong connections to project work, task-based learning and a holistic approach to language instruction and has become particularly popular within the state school secondary (11 - 16 years old) education sector.
This is a recording of a presentation I prepared for teacher trainers in Morocco. It was an attempt to explain what Web2.0 was all about and give them some i...
This is an introduction from Nik Peachey. He is talking about a series of blog postings he is writing for the DELTA Publishing blog at:deltapublishing.co.uk/development/
It’s around a year since the launch of the first iPad in the UK and almost a year since I launched my first research questionnaire on mobile learning in ELT.
The original questionnaire produced some interesting and surprising results regarding teachers’ attitudes and their openness to mobile learning, the results of which were published online in the Guardian Education section at: English language teachers connect to mobile learning
I recently spotted this very interesting site called Vyou.com which exploits video to create asynchronous conversations. I find it interesting because of the simple way it creates presence. As you can see below, it looks like the person (me in this case) is waiting ready for your question.
All visitors need to do is type a question into the text line below the video and the creator will get a message with the question and post a reply. You can try it if you wish by posting a question to me. I'm not sure yet how long it will take for me to answer though.
This document has been created to supplement a presentation that I am delivering at the AVELMEC ‘Social Networking Thriving as a Community of Practice’ online conference http://www.avealmec.org.ve/... by NikPeachey in How-To Guides/Manuals, Education,...
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