The Makey-makey is a wonderful little EdTech tool which I have barely scratched the surface on in terms of capability, but it has so much potential in the classroom. Essentially, the makey makey is a little circuit board that you can rig up to take the role of your keyboard by completing a circuit, so … Read more Edtech – Taking the Makey-makey into the classroom
Here’s a list of video links which work with the Tigerlearn ESL pack. It doesn’t cover all the topics within the pack, but it’ll get you started. Introductions Video 1.1 – Introductions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5qPS3balJg Countries and Nationalities Video 2.1 – Animaniacs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pOFKmk7ytU Video 2.2 – Where are you from? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHbPDdGCFs Numbers Video 3.1 – Counting with … Read more Video list for the ESL pack
Now that teachers are starting to come back to school and prepare for the next academic year, it’s a good time to get a discount on teaching resources, so get 15% discount at the Tigerlearn store until September 9th by adding discount code BACKTOSCHOOL at checkout. The resources in the store have so far been … Read more Discount code at the Tigerlearn store – get 15% off
Here are three videos I’ve put together for your ESL/EAL classes. They’re pretty simple and designed just to complement the Tigerlearn resource pack , rather than to be standalone. Here they are (you need to be in a YouTube-allowed country); Video 1 Video 2 Video 3
An ideal school would incorporate elements of positive education into the curriculum through altruism and opportunities to volunteer in the community. There are numerous critics to the idea of positive education. Eccleston, 2009 (cited in Paton, 2009, No Page) voices concern that positive education can lead to a ‘dependence on external emotional support’ while Spencer … Read more Why Altruism should be a core part of the curriculum
The Alien Code generator is a simple edtech tool which I use in the classroom as it always inspires intrigue in students when I use it. I don’t use it often, but I have used it to introduce tasks (part of a wider gamified approach), to introduce idioms and have students explain their meaning and … Read more Edtech – Using the Alien Code generator in the classroom
This year, I installed a Green Screen into my classroom for the children to use. It was simple to make – 3 strips of green fabric for the walls and a bit of green paper for the floor. Just like in the movies, a green screen is a great way to put your students anywhere … Read more Edtech – Using a Green Screen in the classroom
I came across blabberize when I was researching projects to do as part of a Roald Dahl based summer camp. Blabberize is a website which allows users to record their voices and have the mouth of a picture move along with the words. The kids had been working on the theme of bullying during the … Read more EdTech – Using Blabberize to get students speaking
Being a big fish in a small pond has its benefits. The BBC ran a piece this week identifying the benefits of being a big fish in a small pond. They used an analysis of the entire careers of famous footballers to come to the conclusion that sometimes it benefits people to be the most … Read more Interesting reads
Generators are particularly useful for teachers that want to save time. They do this by enabling tasks which are repeated to be done just once. Here, we look at some of the generators available on Tigerlearn.com and how they can be used. The automatic lesson plan generator Realistically, once you’ve been teaching for a while, … Read more Resource Roundup – The generators