Shaun Wilden

Collage makers

A couple of weeks ago an IH colleague posted about an online collage site in the #czelt facebook group.

She mentioned using it in a first lesson to make a class picture. That got me thinking about how easy and for what purpose online collage makers could be used. A quick google shows a wide range of collage makers both paid and free to use. However I stuck with the suggested one, which was pictures2life. You need to make a free account to get the most out of it. Having done so you simply upload pictures and then choose a collage type. It’s as simple as that though you if you have more time then you can fine tune things. While there is no embed feature, you can download your finished collage.

Cambridge ESOL day links

You can download a pdf of the slides here – What’s the internet got to do. (right click and download)

Here are the links:

English grammar questions.

Collage maker

Oxford English Testing

Read more on Cambridge ESOL day links…

Could help with this please

On May 25th International House World will hold its second online teachers conference as part of the ongoing celebrations for 50 years of IH Teacher Training.

As part of the celebrations we intend to make aspects of the conference open to all, so watch out for details of that. We’d also like to have a running theme throughout the day based on the number 50.

Mentimeter

I came across http://mentimeter.com/ a couple of weeks ago from a facebook post. It is one of those sites that allows you to poll people during a session or class. Unlike a lot of similar sites it does not require any subscriptions, annual plans and nor does it cost the price of a text to vote. I have wanted to include voting in my talks for a while but for the all the aforementioned reasons it could never be effectively done. So simple it can work both for talks and in class (either online or face to face). Simply go to the site, write your question and you get a unique URL.

Belgrade Talk links

View from my hotel

The dancing and waving gifs were found using google (I goggled stick figures)

Eddie Izzard technology clip

Wallwasher

Linoit.com

12 excuses not to do your homework

Utrecht – Links and slides

These are the links I used to put together the talk on Extensive Reading last week.

Romeo and Juliet on twitter

Extensive Reading

http://extensivereading.net/

http://www.eltnews.com/columns/extensive_reading_listening/

http://iteslj.org/Articles/Bell-Reading.html

Extensive reading: why it is good for our students… and for us.

Sprachen Expo – Links from talk

Sorry it has taken a couple of days, I couldn’t get the slides to upload as the files are too big but you can download the pdfs by clicking on the links.

My other blog

As you may know if you follow me on twitter I started a new blog at the beginning of the year to post musings and thoughts about apps – I’ve changed the url so it’s now appedelt.com.

Playing with IBooks Author

So, it’s a few days since Apple once more set the Internet abuzz with a ‘game-changing’ app launch and at last Twitter has calmed down a bit as people take stock of what iBooks Author can actually do. I can see from the hashtags I follow that there have already been a fair few blog posts on the subject but I wanted to make up my own mind before reading what others had to say.