Using internet publishing tools and platforms

Would like to know how to set up a class blog or wiki? Or would you like your students to create an interactive poster using Glogster or a VoiceThread presentation with a collaborative set of recordings or simply combine some images with text with an intuitive tool called Tabblo?

Here's a page that Gavin and me have created for our TDU group -ICT for language learning that shows examples and includes tutorials of how to use these very tools & platforms.

Edublog awards for 2011

Nominations for the 2011 Edublog awards are now open. The purpose of the Edublog awards is to promote and demonstrate the educational values of educational blogs/resources. So I'd like to nominate these links as the ones I find most useful:

• Best teacher blog Film English
• Best educational use of audio / video / visual / podcast: Tefltecher 
• Best free web tool English Central
• Best twitter hashtag #ELTchat
• Lifetime achievement - Jamie Keddie LessonStream

Interesting stuff on the TeachingEnglish website

If the TeachingEnglish website isn't a place you regularly visit you might have missed out on these new goodies:

• video tip on the variety of ways you can use Flashcards with young learners
• a flashcard maker (you have to register on the site - which is free - to access this)
• webinars - the last one was on The learner-centred classroom and the next one is on Creative learning and teaching
• seminars - the last one on Digital literacy by Gavin Dudeney

An easy way to keep up to date with the latest on the TeachingEnglish site and the ELT world in general - and you're not allergic to facebook - is to visit the TeachingEnglish facebook page (or like it, so that our daily posts appear on your Newsfeed).

an easy to use video quiz thingy

fancy making an online quiz for your students?
join up for free: eslvideo, to make, and if you wish embed, a video quiz, for example

Changes to Cambridge Proficiency exam

According to David Petrie of  TEFLGeek "In 2013 the CPE exam is not only celebrating 100 years of tormenting language learners and confusing their teachers, but will also be metamorphasising into its latest incarnation". He then goes on to make a really thorough analysis of what those changes will be. So if you teach the CPE, check his post out!