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Cool Sites & Tools

November 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Every week, I share my favorite finds in this weekly series! Test these tools out. If you want instant access to these fantastic websites connect with me on Google reader!
IGNITE: A New Way to Present
In a previous post, I shared my Pecha Kucha Youtube playlist. I now have added an IGNITE playlist. IGNITE is Tim [...]

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Great Site for Teaching Kids English

October 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments

When I first began teaching English to children at the beginner level of English proficiency in Germany, I had quite a challenge. You can read about my tips for surviving teaching EFL children in this guest post I recently did on Barbara Sakamoto’s Teaching Village blog. In the US I had taught English to mostly [...]

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What Did They Tweet? 9/06 to 9/13

September 16th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Is this your first visit, then I invite you to check out the rest of this weekly series, What Did They Tweet?, in which I post some of my favorite educational tweets.
If the mindmap is not coming out in the RSS reader, you can click on the image to go to the original mindmap.
Power of [...]

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What Did They Tweet? 8/31-9/06

September 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Happy Labor Day!
I have noticed the mindmap is not coming out in the RSS reader so I have included the image as well. If this is your first visit, then I invite you to check out the rest of this weekly series, What Did They Tweet?, in which I post some of my favorite educational [...]

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Getting Children Involved with Edtech

August 1st, 2009 · 14 Comments

The Problem
Although I have taught English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) for several years, I only began to teach very young children two years ago. You may have read in one of my earlier posts how my initial experience was quite unsuccessful with children climbing  on the wall, literally! However, I am not one [...]

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Tags: English Lessons · Tech Tips · What Works for English Language Learners