Facilitating Speaking Practice (Youku video – Vocaroo introduction for my students. The Youtube video with subtitles is here. I couldn’t figure out how to get my subtitles on the Youku video, which was a real shame as my students cannot access Youtube. Working on it!) I am currently responsible for helping my students practice and…
两个月前我参加了孔子和北京国际汉语学院安排的外国汉语教师来华研修班。 我采访了这个活动的参与人。我们讨论的话题是学习和教语言。 采访4:来自印尼的叶秀荟（我的同学）。 Two months ago, I participated in a workshop for foreign Chinese teachers, organised by the Confucius Institute and Beijing International Chinese College. During my time, I interviewed some of the participants about their interest in studying and teaching langauges. The fifth interviewee was my class-mate from Madagascar, Miyali. Friends outside of China…
Survey Monkey: A Test from karinapearl I start as I mean to go on. That is, I am trying out digital tools with my guinea pigs, sorry, students (!) from day one of the first semester. I currently have two groups of ‘sophomore’ students (I had to double-check the meaning – it doesn’t exist in…
两个月前我参加了孔子和北京国际汉语学院安排的外国汉语教师来华研修班。 我采访了这个活动的参与人。我们讨论的话题是学习和教语言。 采访4:来自印尼的叶秀荟（我的同学）。 Two months ago, I participated in a workshop for foreign Chinese teachers, organised by the Confucius Institute and Beijing International Chinese College. During my time, I interviewed some of the participants about their interest in studying and teaching langauges. The second interviewee was my class-mate from Indonesia, Olivia. Friends outside of China…
Inspired by Sandy Millin’s post about taking sketch-notes, a more creative form of traditional note-taking, and a Beijing-based friend who uses sketch app’s to promote her business, I downloaded the Bamboo Paper & Paper 53 apps to my ipad mini. The first result of which you can see above. Not exactly detailed, but colourful enough,…
上个月我参加了孔子和北京国际汉语学院安排的外国汉语教师来华研修班。 我采访了这个活动的参与人。我们讨论的话题是学习和教语言。 采访3:来自苏丹的杨欣然（我的同学）。 Last month I participated in a workshop for foreign Chinese teachers, organised by the Confucius Institute and Beijing International Chinese College. During my time, I interviewed some of the participants about their interest in studying and teaching langauges. The second interviewee was my class-mate from Sudan, Sara. 中国朋友，请去优酷看视频.
Visual Storytelling As a regular user of online presentation tool Knovio, I was invited to test their new app for mobile phones. The Knovio team envisage users of this portable tool to document and present information in the form of visual stories. My first attempt at using Knovio Mobile was very intuitive, and by uploading…
上个月我参加了孔子和北京国际汉语学院安排的外国汉语教师来华研修班。 我采访了这个活动的参与人。我们讨论的话题是学习和教语言。 采访2:来自尼日利亚的杨ZiZi（我的同学）。 Last month I participated in a workshop for foreign Chinese teachers, organised by the Confucius Institute and Beijing International Chinese College. During my time, I interviewed some of the participants about their interest in studying and teaching langauges. The second interviewee was my class-mate from Nigeria, ZiZi.
Netiquette for Teachers Last weekend, I had the privelige and honour of guest presenting on Karin Heuert Galvao’s webinar Netiquette for Teachers. Karin is the Director of iStudy Interactive Learning, an online language teaching portal, based in Brazil. And Netiquette is something I have ample experience in, from my first online learning experience with the…
上个月我参加了孔子和北京国际汉语学院安排的外国汉语教师来华研修班。 我采访了这个活动的参与人。我们讨论的话题是学习和教语言。 采访1:来自越南的杨明秀（我的同屋）。 Last month I participated in a workshop for foreign Chinese teachers, organised by the Confucius Institute and Beijing International Chinese College. During my time, I interviewed some of the participants about their interest in studying and teaching langauges. The first interviewee was my room-mate from Vietnam, Yang Ming Xiu.