The topic for this post was prompted by a question posted some time back in a Facebook group and by my own experience of teaching online in the last few months. The teacher who posted the question had received a request to provide online language lessons, but her clients were not keen on using Skype. So […]
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Make your own multi-media reading materials
There’s a wide selection of good quality self-access sites available to language learners these days. News in Levels, for example, offers learners reading and video material that is updated on a daily basis. I’ve been trying out a newish web tool that allows teachers to deliver to their learners attractively presented multi-media reading material in a […]
It’s ‘busy work’ getting learners to do homework
The aim of the well-attended pre-conference symposium at the IATEFL BESIG Annual Conference in Bonn – organised as a workshop followed by a panel discussion – was to offer delegates some ideas and strategies for encouraging learners to take their English studies beyond the classroom. In the panel discussion, Marjorie Rosenberg reminded us what homework […]
Sometimes using no technology is better – Hands up if you agree!
This post is adapted from an article published in Business Issues, the IATEFL BESIG Newsletter, Autumn 2014, Issue 88, and is reproduced with the kind permission of the Editor, Julia Waldner. In the Cert IBET course I moderate, one of the ten weekly modules is given over entirely to the use of ICT and blended learning. We […]
101 ways of keeping track of it all
may bring back fond childhood memories of Walt Disney’s animated classic with the cute Dalmatian puppies and the wonderful Cruella De Vil. For social media devotees, it may also bring to mind the kind of posts we see so often on Twitter or Facebook. The ones that draw our attention to blog posts, or online […]
A BESIG Weekend Workshop
The first thing we did when I became the IATEFL BESIG Web-coordinator (a position now ably filled by Claire Hart) was to form a BESIG Online Team (BOT) to introduce and manage a much wider range of web activities for both SIG members and non-members to enjoy. One of the initiatives we introduced back then […]
