Posts Tagged ‘technology’

High Tech Ideas for Low Tech Classrooms: VoiceThread

May 23rd, 2010

Some time back, Anita Kwiatkowska encouraged me to start a new series. I’ve actually been thinking of this idea for a few months, when OUP asked me to do a series of presentations about using technology in teaching young EFL learners.

Moving Your Kindergarten into Web 2.0 with 5 Different Tools (by Özge Karaoğlu)

Mar 9th, 2010

by ozge.

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Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know “If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow” John Dewey Kindergarten has always been the place to make friends, paint pictures, tell stories, play games and have fun while learning. Wooden blocks and legos have always been favorites in [...]

Teaching High School in Croatia (by Arjana Blazic)

Mar 5th, 2010

by ArjanaBlazic.

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To teach is to touch a life forever. I have been trying to enhance my teaching with the new technologies since 1997 when I created my first web page while attending a seminar on New Technologies in Modern Language Teaching in Finland. But everything I did over those twelve years was nothing compared to what [...]

21 days, 5 cities, 1000 teachers, and 20 computers

Mar 3rd, 2010

by Barbara.

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In February, I talked with approximately 1000 teachers in Fukuoka, Okayama, Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo as part of the OUP Teaching Workshop Series. Workshop titles were assigned to fit an acronym. I was the “I” in K.I.D.S.—Interactive Ideas for Keeping your English Classes Relevant for the 21st century. The challenge for me was how to [...]

Raising a Digital Native in Argentina (by Jennifer Verschoor)

Dec 17th, 2009

by Barbara.

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All parents have to make a very difficult decision when they have to decide which school they are going to send their children to. In my case I decided to send my 4 year old daughter to a regular school in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The school was not bilingual but had English as a compulsory [...]

Learning Lessons in Thailand (by Rob Newberry)

Nov 3rd, 2009

by RobinThailand.

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Part of the series: Stories from the Front Lines of EFL I teach in an International School in Bangkok. The “internationality” of the school is an interesting term, as there really are two languages spoken here — English and Thai — and not necessarily in that order. There used to be signs posted around the [...]

Teaching Kindergarteners in Turkey:Enjoying Every Minute of It (by Özge Karaoğlu)

Oct 1st, 2009

by ozge.

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Part of the series: Stories from the Front Lines of EFL “To teach is to touch lives forever.” Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to be an English teacher! It was because my mum was my kindergarten teacher. She was so creative, engaging and inspiring that I wanted to be a teacher [...]