2. Links for teaching higher levels
The first page of links for teaching was getting a bit crowded, so we have added a second page. This page has more links about teaching older students, or students with a higher level of English.
But make sure you still check both pages!
But make sure you still check both pages!
Exploiting Video
Action Research Toolkit
English Grammar
Imagine that! A website all about English Grammar. It can help you to learn grammar to improve your own proficiency, and it also has English Grammar Lessons for you to teach from.
English Grammar Reference and Exercises
Ego4u is a nice site with clear explanations and interactive exercises (they will mark and correct for you). Good place to find grammar rules, and somewhere to send your students for practise.
It's a German site, so make sure you link to the right section.
It's a German site, so make sure you link to the right section.
ESL Conversation Questions
Sometimes you want your students to practise their skills and talk about or write about something, but your mind just goes blank. This Web Page has lots of ideas of topics.
Teacher Training Videos
Teacher Training Videos is a site well worth visiting, run by Russell Stannard. It contains free teacher training videos for incorporating technology into teaching.
The first video at the top of the home page is a video about how to use the site.
The first video at the top of the home page is a video about how to use the site.
Kalinago English
Karenne Joy Sylvester is an Edu-blogger who writes mostly about "Teaching Speaking Using Technology : Today's English Language Classroom ". An example of one of her posts was "10 Speaking English Activities using TED.com".
TED.com is a site with videos of people sharing "ideas worth spreading. As it says: "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world".
By the way, TED stands for "Technology, Entertainment, Design".
TED.com is a site with videos of people sharing "ideas worth spreading. As it says: "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world".
By the way, TED stands for "Technology, Entertainment, Design".
Do Lectures
Another website with videos of excellent talks to watch, listen to, and get your students to watch. Talks that inspire. Well worth a visit.
77 ways to learn faster, deeper, and better
Random Idea English
Random Idea English "is aimed mainly at advanced students of English as a foreign / second language, although it will hopefully also be of some interest to teachers. I intend it to be a mishmash of lessons, exercises and the occasional opinionated rant about the English language."
Nik Peachey sites
Nik Peachey is one of my fabourite Twitter network people. He has a number of sites, and his interests are Education and Technology (often called Web 2.0).
Daily English Activities is a site with very practical ideas.
Nik's Learning Technology Blog is another. An example of a recent interesting post here he explains how to use a site called Tricider to use Crowdsourcing Knowledge with his students.
Learning Technology News is a site with lots of up-to-date information, frequently added to as he searches through what others are saying.
Nik's Quickshout has tips and help, great practical ideas and not too wordy.
On Nik Peachey's YouTube Channel you can view videos demonstrating and explaining all sorts of strategies and ideas for using technology with your students.
On Blogging and Social Media is another of Nik's sites, and explains in easy details how to make use of tools such as Twitter (for example).
Daily English Activities is a site with very practical ideas.
Nik's Learning Technology Blog is another. An example of a recent interesting post here he explains how to use a site called Tricider to use Crowdsourcing Knowledge with his students.
Learning Technology News is a site with lots of up-to-date information, frequently added to as he searches through what others are saying.
Nik's Quickshout has tips and help, great practical ideas and not too wordy.
On Nik Peachey's YouTube Channel you can view videos demonstrating and explaining all sorts of strategies and ideas for using technology with your students.
On Blogging and Social Media is another of Nik's sites, and explains in easy details how to make use of tools such as Twitter (for example).
Twitter
Twitter can be a very useful educational tool.
Of course, it is blocked on the IPG Internet, because it is 'social networking', but not everyone uses it that way. There are a great many ESL teachers and trainers who use Twitter as an educational network, and they simply post about good things they have found and interesting things they have done. A lot of my best links have come from there.
Simply go to twitter.com, and sign up for a Twitter account. You can choose to have your 'tweets' protected, so people can't follow you or read what you say without first asking your permission. Then you need to do some searches on key words that interest you, and 'follow' those people. When someone is really interesting, you can look at who they follow (and who else follows them) and find other people to follow.
If you need some help with this, feel free to talk to me (Ruth) but you will need to have access to your own Broadband service.
Some of the links listed here are what I have discovered through using Twitter.
Of course, it is blocked on the IPG Internet, because it is 'social networking', but not everyone uses it that way. There are a great many ESL teachers and trainers who use Twitter as an educational network, and they simply post about good things they have found and interesting things they have done. A lot of my best links have come from there.
Simply go to twitter.com, and sign up for a Twitter account. You can choose to have your 'tweets' protected, so people can't follow you or read what you say without first asking your permission. Then you need to do some searches on key words that interest you, and 'follow' those people. When someone is really interesting, you can look at who they follow (and who else follows them) and find other people to follow.
If you need some help with this, feel free to talk to me (Ruth) but you will need to have access to your own Broadband service.
Some of the links listed here are what I have discovered through using Twitter.
My BrainShark
This is a site that allows you to create presentations and share them online or by email (etc) with your voice added. It's free, and it looks really interesting (I haven't tried it yet.) There is an instructional video about it on Teacher Training Videos.
ELT Chat
Copy/Paste
This is a fairly academic site. Peter Pappas writes a lot about "Project Based Learning". He says he is "dedicated to reliquishing responsibility for learning to the students."
Study Notes for Literature
The Pink Monkey has study notes and guides for a great many literature titles studied in High School and College.
Poetry Slam
Poetry Slam is a kind of competition for poetry - maybe something useful to try in your classroom. As always - change and adapt the idea to suit your class.
Paper.li
This is a newspaper style site with the title "The Martin Sketchley Daily". The site includes news stories, but also a section on ELT experiences in Education, and Stories of things that happen in educational situations.
Edublogs, which is now Edte.ch
Tom Barrett was writing a blog called Edublogs, and this is a link to one of his posts (written in 2008) about Using Google Forms in the Classroom. The information is still there on the old blog, but he has a new site called Edte.ch. A recent post was titled "How do we change a cultural fascination with grades?" He is a fairly academic writer with ideas that are not necessarily practical in the Malaysian situation.
