The “Hole-in-the Wall” Project on TED by Sugata Mitra

In this TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) presentation, Sugata Mitra, Ph.D.,  Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK, and Chief Scientist, Emeritus, at NIIT in Gurgaon, India, proves with his “hole in the wall” experiments, carried out in some of the poorest parts of the [...]

Getting Students on Google Docs

This past week I had two of my groups use Google Docs.  My advanced ESL Research & Study Skills students used a spreadsheet in Google Docs to document their research question, their primary and secondary topics as well as a bit of personal information.  I chose a Google Doc spreadsheet  for this task:  1) to [...]

Forgetfulness – Billy Collins Animated Poetry

This clip which I borrowed from TEFL Clips is recommended as a conversation prompt for adult students. The website gives a lesson plan which includes vocabulary words and phrases pulled from the poem. The video poem lends itself to many possible extension activities which could include student performance or graphic renditions of comparable poems for [...]

Using VoiceThread for Monday’s Meeting of the Minds

Tomorrow is the first of the Advanced Oral Communications classes’ weekly “Monday Meeting of the Minds” during which students will discuss issues and events of American families and society.  VoiceThread will be used to facilitate the discussions.  Topics will center on issues that many of us in this culture are dealing with such as health [...]

Top Ten of Everything!

On Bloggled, see the top ten of everything!  Great piece for conversation in the classroom.  Very interesting!