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| Box of Tricks » Technology and Education Updated : Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:50:02 +0000 Reviewing Apple’s iBooks Author Apple recently announced the launch of its free iBooks Author desktop application, which – they claim – “allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book — for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:13:55 +0000 Macmillan Teachers’ Day – Alicante It was a real privilege to be invited once again by Macmillan to deliver the keynote speech and a seminar at the Alicante Teachers’ Day on Saturday 21st May, where I was delighted to be able to address and meet so many committed teachers of English who were giving up their Saturday morning to keep [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 22 May 2011 18:03:05 +0000 Collaborative learning with Pen.io Being able to create and share content is one of the main advantages Web 2.0 technologies offer educators and learners alike. Pen.io is a writing tool that simplifies this process and allows you and your students to create and maintain a work portfolio that can be published and shared on the web. My 6th Form [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 08 May 2011 10:57:55 +0000 Creating a blog video task with quiz I am a real fan of WordPress, which is, in my opinion, the most flexible and reliable of all self-hosted blogging platforms (hosted WordPress is also available). One of the reasons why WordPress is so flexible is that there are thousands of plug-ins offering additional functionality. On this occasion I will be using a video [...] Publ.Date : Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:49:23 +0000 ICT and Languages Conference 2012 Technology in the MFL classroom is the Marmite of many MFL teachers, who either love it or loathe it. Funny thing really, given how much ICT has helped not just to enhance, but to transform the MFL classroom for the better. The ICT and Languages Conference takes place on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th February [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:37:11 +0000 Announcing the winner of a brand new Lenovo ThinkCentre M90z A couple of months months ago I was fortunate to be contacted by Ivy Worldwide acting on behalf of Lenovo. They sent me a brand new Lenovo ThinkCentre M90z for evaluation purposes and agreed to send another computer to one of Box of Tricks’ readers. The only instructions given to me were to devise and [...] Publ.Date : Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:04:06 +0000 Triptico – an essential resource for the interactive whiteboard Triptico is an excellent resource for teachers to use in conjunction with their interactive whiteboards that currently contains around 20 different interactive resources – all of which can be easily edited, adapted and saved for later use. Because Triptico is an application that runs in your computer (it runs on Adobe Air, so it’s compatible [...] Publ.Date : Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:14:41 +0000 Teaching and Learning with Social Media: A Case Study In my role as teacher of languages, I have sought to study and understand how the social aspect of Web 2.0 can be harnessed to strengthen the teaching and learning of MFL. Most interesting to me was the transformative potential of blogs, Web 2.0 applications and social networks, not only to enhance existing practice, but [...] Publ.Date : Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:21:54 +0000 Voki Classroom is nearly here Voki has featured in my teaching for several years now, having proven itself a very valuable tool to encourage speaking in the foreign languages classroom. Many other teachers have also realised that Voki can be very valuable, not only to encourage and motivate reluctant learners, but also as an assessment tool. As a result, [...] Publ.Date : Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:27:38 +0000 One iPad… to start with Many of us look at schools in which there is 1:1 iPad or Netbook implementation and drool with envy. “If only our schools were as innovative” or, let’s face it, “as rich, as these other schools” we think to ourselves. However, the other side of the coin is that many teachers also see iPads as [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:15:07 +0000 |
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TESOL Certification for teaching english abroad in non-native English speaking countries.
