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..that is: I’m ready to test Moodle in up to three of my classes. I’ve taken down my personal website and installed Moodle 1.9.x (weekly whatever) on it. So far I’ve already started a course for the book I’m reading in an English class. Two history courses (on industrialisation and the First World War) will be [...]

Over at his blog, Sean Banville tips his hat to several teaching colleagues who, despite their full time jobs, create free English lesson plans for us. Definitely worth a visit! Aside: Sean’s websites themselves are full of great free lessons! Bookmark It

Have you ever wished you and your students could collaborate online by … … sticking notes to fridges? … rearranging those notes? … commenting on these notes? I know I have. So I was very excited when Opera Software introduced Unite into their browser.  Unite offers several applications running in your browser. One of them is the Fridge, which ...

From those whom I follow on Twitter these interesting links emerged today: Comics Top 12 Sites To Watch Videos That Are Better Than YouTube Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators (free ebook) Moodle Hosting (Free basic Moodle hosting. I have no idea how good they are, how nice they will play in future or else. I just thought you [...]

Let’s face it: reading is necessary for learning. However, reading a text and comprehending or creating meaning from it are two different things.  To help students you can show them various strategies that will help them get along. Quite a number of those strategies have been collected here. Some even with videos! Bookmark It

This past week, I assisted all 135 of my high school students to set up blogs for all of my classes. I was amazed at the positive response. Most students only use My Space for all of their social networking needs, and did not even seem to realize that setting up a blog outside of My Space was even an option at their disposal. Our school is very ...

I have a second year class studying Information Systems at Intermediate 2. We are currently working on the Using Information unit, and to be honest it can be pretty dry. Over the past week and a bit the class have been learning about the 4 functions of an organisational information system (i.e. Gathering data, storing [...]

… you suddenly realise, right in the middle of a lesson, that the text you gave to your students is way too difficult? Let me explain the situation. I’ve, well, inherited, a class from a colleague who claimed that said class was really good and advanced. Right in the first lesson I realised that my colleague obviously [...]

If you’re in NC then you know most of the state has been shut down due to a winter storm. I’ve been here for at least 20 years (WOW) and have learned that 2 inches of snow is reason enough for people in the South to lose their minds! Nevertheless, I believe in safety first and I’d be devastated if a school bus filled with students went sliding ...

Ok, the headline is lame. But still, it is nice to listen to David Crystal talking about how new inventions in media changed and still change language: As a side benefit, the video links to Global from Macmillan Education where you might find some useful elessons. I did. Bookmark It