Tag: socialmedia
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mLearning Activity – Trending Topics and Classroom Bonding
Trending topics, those hot topics of the day or sometimes the hour, are everywhere on social media. They represent what is ruling the world for different tribes. So here’s a very simple activity I’ve done with my students that has long-lasting, impacting effects in our classroom because of the emotional connections it enhances. Trending Topics…
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IATEFL Recording – Collaboration: Going Beyond the Teacher’s Room
Knowledge management. This is an essential topic when we consider an educational system. I work for a language school with around 200 educators. Here’s the recording of my presentation in IATEFL 2011, in Brighton, which is my account of failures and successes in helping our teachers make the move to a collaborative endeavor beyond the…
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Share, Learn, Connect
Last Friday, Erika and I had been totally taken out of our comfort zone. For the first time, we presented a Pecha Kucha. A presentation format in which we have 20 slides sliding through automatically in 20 seconds! In 6 minutes and 40 seconds, we were challenged to deliver our message. Even more demanding was…