[Speaking] MoveNote

Today I'm going to introduce MoveNote, a very simple tool for students to practice speaking. Regarding CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication), MoveNote provides a platform for asynchronous, speaking communication. Due to these two features, students can have opportunities to practice speaking in a more relaxing way without the pressure of real-time communication.

[Lesson Plan] Nearpod

[Quiz] Hot Potatoes

Hot Potatoes is a very, very, very, very, very, very powerful and free tool.
Teachers can use it to create various quizzes and exercises, including multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering, and fill-in-the-blank. Also, the exercises will be uploaded to WWW so that they can be widely-spread.

[Collaboration] TitanPad

If you are looking for an ICT tool that allows learners to do real-time writing, to work collaboratively, to edit with ease, and FREE, then TitanPad is the one that can meet your expectation.

[Collaboration] Edmodo

Speaking of online collaboration, Facebook may firstly strike to people of my age. When we were college students, we used it as a platform to discuss assignments or other student events. Doing teacher training internship, we organised student teacher works on Facebook group pages. Thus, it can be easy to think of Facebook as a collaboration  platform in teaching. In this post, I'm going introduce you Edmodo.

[Lesson Plan] WebQuest

In this article, I'm going to talk about a tool that I just learned in class. Teachers can share their teaching plan and materials with colleagues via it. It makes teamwork among teachers from different contexts possible. Also, with student pages, learners can read and follow the instruction on their own. That is to say, students can have the least interruption from teachers. It's neither blog nor wiki. Do you know what it is? No? Then click on read more!

[Material] Triptico

Triptico is one of my favorite tools introduced by my tutors. It's very versatile in making digital teaching materials, that is, it can be used to produce tasks and exercises of vocabulary, reading comprehension, creative writing, etc.

[Speaking] PodBean

Last week, we just had a look at VoiceTube that can be used for extensive listening. Apart from listening, speaking is also crucial in having good communicative competence. This time I'll introduce how to use PodBean to help students practice speaking.

The index of PodBean (Web)

[Blog] Free Technology for Teachers

I'm going to recommend a very nice blog entitled Free Technology for Teacher, written by Richard Byrne.

[Listening] VoiceTube

Thinking about improving students' listening skill?
Struggling with super tight school timetables? 
Tired of coursebook stuffs?

Extensive listening can be a better solution

How to guide EFL/ESL learners to do extensive listening

In my experience, high students tend to be interested in novel things, such as pop songs and current events in Western world. Thus, I used to introduce new English songs or video clips relating to core course to my students at school. I'd design some worksheets or questions for them to practice and learn from the authentic materials. Although it was motivational and popular among my students, this intensive practice depended much on limited TIME.