Archive for the ‘language learning e-tivities’ Category
Storytelling for Dummies
Fun lovers are sure to appreciate this exemplary story
In: Digital Storytelling, Learning Language Teaching · Tagged with: writing skills
Teaching EFL to Very Young Learners, Part 2
While we were in the middle of exploring Cookie and Friends, I gradually introduced two more CD-ROMs, also by OUP. They are Tilly’s Word Fun 1 & Tilly’s Word Fun 2. Product Description Tilly’s Word Fun 1 – Topics Animals Face Family Food School Toys Tilly’s Word Fun 2 – Topics At home Body […]
In: Instructional Design, interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, TEYL · Tagged with: Tilly's Word Fun, Very Young Learners
Teaching EFL to Very Young Learners, Part 1
I started teaching my child English when she was 3y8m old. The software that we used was very positively accepted, and the child was required to provide her responses using the computer mouse and clicking. The CD-ROM Cookie & Friends by Vanessa Reilly, OUP, was amongst the very first. Product Description Provides a colouring activity […]
In: Instructional Design, interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, TEYL · Tagged with: Cookie & Friends, Vanessa Reilly, Very Young Learners
Structure of Human Development: Implications for Instructional Design
Piaget (1964) cited by E. L. Criswell (1989, pp. 35-36) developed the theory that children grow intellectually in stages: From years 0 to 2, children explore their tiny environments, and through physical exploration, learn that objects exist and do not change from day to day. This is the sensorimotor stage. This is a period of […]
In: Educational Technology, EFL/ESL CD-ROMs, Instructional Design, interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, Learning Language Teaching, Learning Styles · Tagged with: Chapman, coloring activities, Criswell, Dollaghan, Kenworthy, Miller, Piaget, Very Young Learners, Wilkinson
Digital Storytelling
A digital story is a personal experience represented in narrative format. The script is amplified by including video, music, still-frame imagery, and the author’s voice. A digital story typically lasts for two to three minutes. Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools p. 43 It must take ages to create such a story, but the idea […]
In: Collaborative Learning, Digital Storytelling, Educational Technology, groupwork, Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Learning Language Teaching, Web 2.0 Buzz Words, Web 2.0 Tools · Tagged with: Solomon & Schrum, writing skills
Is Teaching & Learning PURELY WEB 2.0-wise a Must?
| View | Upload your own A nice basic summary (in somewhat broken Russian, but that is not an issue, the content offsets this minor drawback) with a lot of unstated assumptions, though. The basic supposition is that the learners MUST do everything online, and the question that is unanswered is WHY they have to […]
In: Instructional Design, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL, Web 2.0 Tools
Setting up a Wiki for your Class
There are several websites that allow you to set up a wiki for your class quickly and easily, the most popular ones are PB Wiki Wetpaint Wikispaces
In: Using Wikis in EFL
What do EFL/ESL teachers tend to use blogs for?
Here is a quintessential summary of the ideas I have come across in my webquest. ELT teachers tend to use blogs to post links to interactive online quizzes for their students to do to post links to reading matter & downloadable materials for their students to explore to embed videos for their students to watch […]
In: Using Blogs in EFL
