I started blogging when I was doing some Moocs online some years ago.
I am still blogging about education and the use of technology in my job.
I am a life-long learner and love doing what I do.
Teaching well is important for achieving good results. Students can learn in different ways- sometimes also the best teachers can have some difficulties . What really matters is a good teacher who knows how to use technology and can cope with different learning situations and find good ideas and materials for learners. Technlogy is a tool which can help us: we do need to be able to analyze and focus on what we want to achieve.
I agree with what has been said in this post found on Twitter
The last years have been spent on helping Italian teachers to better their skills but innovation is not the use of nice smart whiteboards with internet access, innovation implies re-thinking our way of working and also integrating technology in our learning paths.
Great news: Learning about BLOGGING - A New Course starting in January
I did some webinars about blogging some years ago. I started using Blogger and also Edublogs for my online activities as I felt I should try to work in a different way.
I am looking forward to learning more in the next weeks. I would like to share this great opportunity for learning about blogging with students. I have just started a blog where I post some activities but I have not used it as a class blog.
I hope I will be able to learn about better ways for blogging.
Meanwhile I will check some more tips and ideas for blogging in ELT. I have read and learnt a lot about new ways of teaching and working online :
For more information about the course starting on 15th January check the blog online
The origins of Christmas trees can be found in the past and also in Europe we have a lot of traditions.
The main traditions come from Germany but it was with Queen Victoria that the Christmas tree became a tradition in most British families.
I found this useful page about the history describing this tradition :
For my blog created this year for my English language learners I am going to use this short video which will be given as listening activity and homework to my students:
Since I am teaching in a school of Art I would like my students to search paintings and pictures about this tradition online.
They could use the images they have found to describe them and speak about them.
Here are some nice paintings which could be described by my first year students:
Eastman Johnson [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
By William James Glackens [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Carl Larsson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The language structures will be related to descriptions of places and people. I expect them to tell me what's happening in the pictures and paintings and I would like my students to focus on adjectives that might describe what people might think and how they are feeling.
It might be interesting to check which images they like and why and how they chose them.
More and more I use Twitter to find resources and images for my lessons.
It is great for pictures and for descriptions. I must confess that I am learning a lot online
thanks to people.
We can learn more about other countries and get back into the past.
As winter draws in, leave out apples in your garden for ground feeders like blackbirds and fieldfares. Extra portions will be a really help on the chilly mornings! pic.twitter.com/cq3RFZGAXs
At 104 Grace Brett, member of a band of UK guerilla knitters, was thought to be the oldest street artist/yarn-bomber in the world #womensartpic.twitter.com/6kgpQ9vSQh
Today we can have many free whiteboards online to work in a collaborative way.
Teachers and learners can work together and share ideas, materials and more.
