A mix of online webinars, online courses and MOOCs.
EXPERT CORNER Last week, I had the opportunity to meet with the founder of a US-based Chinese Language textbook series called Better Chinese. The company produces a range of multimedia resources from pre-school up to college level, and provides its own online learning system. Better Chinese have developed their own pedagogy: * Student-Centric approach *…
Just completed an excellent free course with Open2Study Open2Study is a platform that provides a mix of free and paid-for, accredited and non-accredited online courses. O2S is backed by Open Universities Australia (OUA). The excellent free online course – Teaching Adult Learners – with a focus on Online Teaching, is a balanced mix of theoretical…
Useful stuff I’ve come across: An Ethical Island by Mia is a great source of infographics to stimulate your teaching and learning Edudemic is a cool website that connects education and technology Read the Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers for inspiration Check out Teach Thought for a deeper understanding of teaching, learning and technology…
I listened to this discussion led by Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) about the value and use of the CEFR for language teaching and learning. It’s of particular interest to me as I think about the content I am learning in Chinese class. At some point, I actually took the Trinity syllabus as a starting point…
This week I participated in an online webinar – Developing and Assessing Listening Skills at B1 and B2 Level. The participants were mostly teachers, from all around the world. The webinar provided great ideas on how to improve students’ listening skills for tests.
Definition, strengths and weaknesses of Communicative Language Teaching. Communicative Language Teaching presentation by the University of Colombo. Check out Teaching Helping Teachers for advice and support to teachers and learners in Asia. The Appeal and Poverty of CLT by Robert O’Neil (2000) discusses six fundamentally ‘trivial’ propositions inherent in CLT, the opposing propositions and gives…
I recently attended a CET webinar about using online games in the classroom (or as homework). The webinar features four games created and developed by Cambridge English Language Assessment. I’m all for, not only making lessons fun and engaging, but also using technology in the classroom, so I really enjoyed this webinar. The games…
As a member of Cambridge English Teacher, I often watch the videos they upload to CambridgeEnglishTV on YouTube. Comparing IELTS to HSK This video is about the IELTS Speaking test – an internationally recognised qualification in the English language. Whereas IELTS tests students ability equally across the four language skills, it is interesting to note…