Welcome to today's seminar
Spring in Barcelona...Hello, and welcome to you if you have come to our "Easy projects with easy technology" seminar today, our first this spring.
We'll be emailing you a handout with the links from the seminar and here on this blog you'll find more on the things we'll be talking about this morning:
We will also be talking about using technology in the classroom in general terms, and if you are not that confident that you are computer-literate, here's a Technology 101 that you might find useful.
Let me also highlight the following post. It refers to young learners, but I think the same applies to your adult learners: if you are posting your students' work on the Internet, the issue of privacy is a big one.
See also this post for bibliography.
This session is one of eight in our annual teacher development seminar series.
posted by Tom at 8:12 AM
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In the bit of "blogging" the session allowed us time for, one of you said:
"Have you heard of a piece of software called 'HotPotatoes'? It lets you make exercises for students using a YouTube video..."
There certainly are things you can do with HotPotatoes, and easily too... My doubt about it is that "it lets you make exercises for students".
As I suggested in the seminar, I think your students should be "creating, not merely consuming".
With HP, the danger is that you do all the work...
Now, you could get the students to create the HP exercises -- that would be more like it...!
Loved some of your six-word bios, which Carolyn suggested as a creative writing exercise:
-Never made it to the gym.
-North, South, then East or West?
-A giver; loved life; lived freely.
-Often extremely tired in the morning.
-Successful artist becomes EFL teacher.
Hemingway wouldn't have liked it, but you could have got an adverb or adjective in that last one, which is one word short ,-)!
Here, the actual winner of the 6-word bio competition on smithmag.net, which Carolyn mentioned.
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