Walking into

My students at school travel quite a lot. Usually around September or October. As in the English classes they are grouped according to their language level, we have a collection of students from different classes; classes which travel at different times. You can imagine how hard it is to organize those periods. One week [...]

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Learning and Teaching

I’ve been working with different Social Media in my SMiELT workshop, and I’ve been constantly asked how to use those tools for teaching EFL. I’ve been unable to answer that question. I AM unable. The thing is I’m on holidays, I’m not teaching at the moment. I’m not in contact with students. I simply cannot [...]

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Do and understand

I think I’ve already said I’m slow. I hardly ever fall in love at first sight. I need to explore different angles.
When I started to explore delicious I thought the value was the obvious one: I could access to my bookmarks from any computer. The thing was… I mostly use just one computer.
First I discovered [...]

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Who teaches what

Needless to say, it’s not my specific task as an EFL teacher to introduce web applications to my students. I wish they already knew how to use them; I don’t teach them how to handle a pen, or on which side of the paper they should write; they already know how to write [...]

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