Category: English
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BRAZTESOL SP – Opening Keynote
Such a pleasure to be ther in São José dos Campos for the opening Keynote. Here are the slides for the presentation:
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IATEFL 2015 in Tweets
When you get home from a conference like IATEFL, it is hard to find the time or recover full-spirit to write posts that truly reflect what we’ve experienced and the highlights of the ELT world. This time, I took the risk to simply tweet what I found relevant. From the tweets, I can now visualize…
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Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Interactive Lessons with Office Mix
I have a confession. I don’t have much of a patience to watch a long tutorial video. In fact, videos for me are only compelling when they are telling stories, engaging me, teaching me something super relevant. In general, tutorials are informative, but I find most of them boring. However, I’ve just watched a 30-minute video…
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On the mLearning Productivity Radar – Slack for Teamwork
WhatsApp groups proliferate by the minute. We use it for family and friends groups, with travel buddies, and nowadays we’ve even turned it into an essential team communication tool to make conversations more dynamic and fluid. However, the tool, meant to be tailored especially for social purposes might not be the one you need to…
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On the mLearning Radar – 5 effective Ways to Play Around with Interactive Images
I’ve been a fan of thinglink for a while, and sometimes I just take it for granted that there are many educators out there who haven’t come across it or don’t really know what it does. It is a powerful free app that turns images into interactive spaces for learning. Besides being an mlearning powerhouse,…
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Professional Development: Cultivating rather than Training
Last Tuesday, November 18th, I had the pleasure to present in a Cambridge University Press panel at the BETT Leadership Summit. Here’s the full version of my very condensed talk about a topic that is dear to me. In the past, when I thought about teacher training in the Educational Technology realm, it was in…
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Teacher Observation: Less Teaching More Flourishing
This week I observed a class that made me realize how simple changes can impact on how students interact, learn and do things. The teacher told me about all her challenges with the group, teens that come to English classes just after their regular school hours – sometimes even without eating lunch. She mentioned her…
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Think ACTION in the Classroom for Great Student Response
Please, don’t get me wrong. In a blog post I wrote about the trap of asking too many questions in the classroom, I make a point in avoiding the many questions we ask, mainly to our teens. However, I know that many educators are now questioning it because, in fact, inquiries in the classroom can…
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Weekly Treasure: Coding Resources
Lately, I’ve been following with interest the discussions on coding and how it can help our learners to develop new competencies, critical thinking, collaboration, and, mainly, a culture of trial and error in which failure is seen as a step towards success. I really wish my kids’ school had this vision…However, it doesn’t seem that…
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13 Learning Principles that Games can Teach Us
According to Paul Gee, there are 13 learning principles that we can pick from games, divided in 3 main categories: >>EMPOWERED LEARNERS – Agent/co-design principle: what you do matters, it affects the game – Customization of the experience for the learner; good games allow you to solve problems in different ways; they invite the gamer…
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Hot Topics in Ed Tech
I had the pleasure to be in Goiânia for a talk sponsored by Richmond to talk to local teachers about the trends in Ed Tech. It was a very pleasant morning with a group of motivated and interested educators. Here’s the presentation: Ed Tech Hot Topics in ELT from Carla Arena As I pointed out…
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From Submersion to Emergence in ELT
Conferences are made of connections, gatherings, new acquaintances. The BrazTESOL International Conference in João Pessoa was no different, except that it was totally different for me. The premises of the Bilingual School Cidade Viva were amazing, with great infrastructure for an international event. The people working there had a special vibe, very solicitous always, and…
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QR Codes na Sala de Aula – Ao Infinito e Além
No outro post sobre QR Codes, focamos principalmente em como começar sua utilização em sala de aula. Na verdade, esses códigos, cheio de informações que nós podemos criar, nos dá a possibilidade de transformarmos, remixarmos e darmos vida aos livros didático, além de adicionar o elemento curiosidade em nossas aulas. O aluno curioso foca a…
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When a Dear ELT Friend is Not Here Anymore
Some people have such a strong and memorable presence in our lives that it is almost like they are immortal, or maybe they really are. They imprint some of them in us. When they are gone, at least physically, it is almost as if our hearts immerse in silence, and our minds process in such…
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Professional Development: YOU in Charge
As an educator and teacher trainer, I always suffer from FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). I’m sure we all do in a way or the other, when we say how fast our kids grow, how short time is compared to all we have to do, how much we have to learn with so much on…
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Tools to Enhance your Presentation Skills
The art of presenting is one that challenges us, educators. We are always finding ways to refine our skills, not only to make the classroom experience a more significant one, but also to share what we do and learn with others. One year ago exactly I wrote a post, Manifesto for Conference Presenters after attending…
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TESOL 2014 – Snapshots
I could be here focusing on the interesting ideas that I learned from presenters in the TESOL Conference 2014, but having the snapshots, quick notes I took during some sessions, might give you the chance to come across interesting references, links and people that will inspire you. Some topics that caught my attention: Many Intersections…
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TESOL 2014 – mLearning: From Mobile to Learning
TESOL 2014: From Mobile to Learning from Carla Arena My presentation in TESOL 2014 was part of a great multicultural colloquium about mlearning contexts around the world. Even in such different contexts, such as in the US, India and Japan, there’s still so much in common, mainly in terms of iPad rollout programs and infrastructure…