English Lessons
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Fun Video Project! Produce a TV Commercial for an Invention
In a previous post I outlined my 6 step process for implementing digital projects (1. Evaluate an example, 2. Assign the mission, 3.…
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Student Project: Problem Solution Videos
“A problem well put is half solved.” – John Dewey Now that my semester has ended I have some time to share…
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14 Tools and Resources to Get Students to Create Instructional Videos
“Animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in…
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20+ Ideas and Resources for Learning with Poetry
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost April is National Poetry…
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11 Apps to Learn with Poetry
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” – Rita Dove April is National Poetry month. Poetry is a great…
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Cool Sites, Effective Technology Integration, English Language Teaching, English Lessons, What Works for English Language Learners
Word Clouds Revisited! 35+ Activities, Web Tools & Apps
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper…
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English Language Teaching, English Lessons, Mobile Learning, What Works for English Language Learners
Emoji Get to Know You Activity
“Emoji and emoticons have developed to mean much more in language than the faces they represent.”- Lauren Collister (2015) For the past…
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Pump Students Up with Digital Icebreakers
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” by Plato Included in…
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Cool Sites, Effective Technology Integration, English Language Teaching, English Lessons, What Works for English Language Learners
15+ Resources to Inspire Writing with Digital Prompts
Included in the Digital Tips Advent Calendar and part of the Effective Technology Integration category “The pages are still blank, but there…
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Cool Sites, Effective Technology Integration, English Language Teaching, English Lessons, What Works for English Language Learners
Motivated to Write: 30+ Resources
From the Cool Sites Series “The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written…
