For the SLA module, we are keeping a Teaching Diary, where we note down what has and has not been working in our lessons. From this we will focus on one particular issue that we would like to resolve, or one thing that is going well, but would like to improve further, to create a…
Step 1 Choose a character, write a list of curiosities and chose the most intruiging and interesting Think about the character’s appearance, profession and personality Step 2 Place the character in a specific situation Step 3 Answer the following questions: – where is your character? – what can they see under their feet? – what…
How to Write Beginnings After watching my tutor’s video lecture, I understand that the main objective of a beginning is to surprise the reader. Thinking about the first draft of my own short story, I believe I achieved that objective, with an attractive title (Provocations of Light) and a fantastical account, to draw readers’ attention….
Academia.Edu To Vodcast or Not To Vodcast: Potential and Limitations in the Foreign Language Classroom is an essay written for the module Introduction to Digital Technologies for Language Teaching, taken as part of the MA in Digital Technologies for Language Teaching, University of Nottingham. If you are interested, please feel free to read this work…
我有一个好朋友叫Naomi. 她是英国人。她学习社会学，我学习商业研究，我们一起学习了三年了。虽然我们没有学习同一门课程，但是我们还成了最好的朋友。 她个子比我小。（她经常穿高跟鞋！哈哈！）机身很苗条。眼睛大大的，头发又黑又多。她一说话就笑，大家都说她是个漂亮的姑娘. 她性格也很好，对人热情，也有耐心和冷静，喜欢帮助别人。 她是一个爱运动的人，特别喜欢跑步。 因为她常常参加马拉松，所以她的身份非常健康。她很聪明，工作的很认真。总是得到老板的赞美。 今年她有两个愿望。第一：回来我家串一下门。第二－：学好德语（她妈妈的母语） 虽然我不高兴跟她分开，但是我希望在英国她生活幸福，工作顺利！
I have just started to add teaching and learning resources to my Social Bookmarking tool, Symbaloo. In doing so I came across Teach Thought, which reports on the intersection of teaching, learning and technology. I was immediately attracted by a short post proposing a wild, hypothetical question – what would the world be like if…
新年快乐！羊年快乐！ Chinese New Year Wishes
Adam House, the host of TEFLCast, breaks down the fundamentals of online gaming within virtual worlds, and we uncover some striking parallels with the basic tenets of teaching and learning. Part Three Through popular online game Destiny, Adam introduces us to his avatar, Housis Maximus. An avatar is a virtual representation of yourself within…
What is TECW? As part of the Technology-Enhanced Creative Writing module, my fellow classmates and I are temporarily throwing away our teacher identities and becoming fully-fledged writers! It’s terribly exciting and terrifying at the same time. Exciting to be doing something new, fun and creative. Terrifying because I am suddenly not quite sure if I…