Presentation with emotion: Movenote

           

Introduction:

This post aims at English teachers of middle schools or higher level of students. It involves 6 parts:

1. What is Movenote

2. How does it work? (with my example)
3.How is it linked to ELT

4. How is it used in English teaching

5. Limitations of it
6. My ideas

7. Sources of information

Word cloud: Tagul and Wordle

My word cloud
Try hover over the keywords!

Introduction of this post

This post is aiming at English teachers of all abilities of students. It includes seven parts which are:

1.What is word cloud?

2.Tagul-my favourite word cloud generator

3.How to use Tagul? (with my video tutorial)

4.My ideas on using word cloud in classrooms

5.Connections with English learning

6.Pros and Cons

7.Sources of information 

Record your screen: Screencast-O-Matic

See my demonstration of Screencast-O-Matic before we go deeper!

Introduction:

This post is aiming at teachers who are teaching students of middle schools or higher level. It includes six parts:

1.Why Screencast-O-Matic
2.How to start without confusion
3.How to teach English through it
4.Connections between screen recorder and English teaching
5.Advantages and limitations
6.Sources of information (Copyright)

Recording your online classes with your computer is easier than you expected. There are many online tools available, for instance, Jing, Camtasia, Mac screen recorder and Screencast-o-Matic. Today, I am going to introduce Screencast-o-matic.

Mobile learning tool: Nearpod

My Nearpod

First, let's explore Nearpod by experiencing my Nearpod!

Introduction

This post aims at English educators of students of all levels. It consists of six parts:

1.What is Nearpod?

2.Create your own presentation

3.Links between English teaching and Nearpod

4.Ideas on using Nearpod in English teaching

5.Advantages and limitations

6. Sources of information

Can Twitter help teaching?

Introduction:

This post aims at educators of middle schools or higher levels students. There are six parts:

1.What does Twitter do?

2.Advantages of using Twitter to teach English

3.How Twitter supports English teaching

4.Limitation of using Twitter for English teaching

5.My thought and ideas on using Twitter to teach English

6.Sources of information

Blended learning: Blendspace

Introduction

This post is targeting educators of all levels. It includes 7 parts:

1.What is Blendspace?  How does it support ELT?

2.How educators find it?

3.Try it out

4.My example

5.Limitations

6.My ideas on using it to teach English

7.Sources of information

Collaboration Webtool: Tricider

INTRODUCTION

This post aims to serve the needs of educators of middle school or higher levels of students. It includes 8 parts:

1.What is Tricider

2.Outstanding features

3.How to use it

4.How it may support teaching in English classroom in China

5.Limitations

6.My ideas on using Tricider to teach English

7.Sources of information
8.My Tricider

WebQuest: Your Forecasting Future

Introduction

This post is targeting educators of all abilities of students. It includes 7 parts:

1.What is Webquest?  How does it support English teaching?

2.Parts of a Webquest

3.A good example of Webquest: Your Forecasting Future

4.How to make a webquest yourself?

5.Limitations

6.My ideas on using it 

7.Sources of information

What is WebQuest?How does it support English teaching? 

WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. In another word, it is an online activity where a teacher gives out a quest and some certain websites for students to visit and gain answers or responses to the quest. 

WebQuest has been widely applied to many educational institutes, for example, universities (where the first WebQuest was created), high school, language schools. A WebQuest can be created using various programs, including a simple word processing document that includes links and website.

WebTool: Kahoot!

Introduction:

This post aims at educators of all levels of students. It includes 7 parts:

1.What is Kahoot!

2.How does Kahoot! support English teaching

3.How to play Kahoot!

4.How to create a Kahoot! game

5. Limitations

6.Ideas on using Kahoot! in class

7.Sources of information

Review: My favourite blog

Introduction:

Good day everyone! The weather in Warwick is amazing today.  Being in great mood, I feel like sharing with you my favourite blog ---Ozge Karaoglu's Blog (http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/). 
In this blog, I will tell you what qualities a good blog should have by analysing Ozge Karaoglu's Blog.

This blog is aiming at educators for middle schools or higher levels of students. It includes 5 sections:

1.Qualities of a good blog

2.How do blogs support English learning

3.Ideas on blogging to improve English 

4.Limitations of blogging for English learning

5.Sources of information

Basics: Blogging (not required in class)

        Blogging 

Definition: online journal or dairy

Difference from website: time stamps (in reverse chronological order)

Reason of using blog in ELT:

Memory jogger/ remind

 Reflection

Connecting with other teachers (share resources)

Teaching portfolio (qualification, experience)

Teacher’s/ students’ blog

Class blog

Reflection: Weblogs (not required)

REFLECTION

After reading "Weblogs: a tool for EFL interaction, expression, and self-evaluation Previous studies: blogs foster development of ELT skills "

Before this paper

Blog was just a socialising tool

Now it is a helper

That prompts process writing off school 

Teachers and students

all leave their words 

Formal or not

Comment has its use 

Starting: First ICT Experience (not required)

FIRST ICT EXPERIENCE

It was a Friday when I first learnt about you

I thought we would do Facebook

But we did Blogging

We shared, we thought and we tried

I believed

We could wait until the end of year

But you said

Let's start now and handle it with care

Class blog, teacher blog, student blog

Start it, Save it and share it

Show it to kids 

and change their lives