Using humor in the classroom

“Because I know that a good laugh eases tension, increases creativity, … I will do almost anything to get the class rolling with laughter — voice inflections, exaggerated facial expressions and movements, hilarious personal stories (of which I have way too many), ridiculous examples…and I encourage my students to do the same.”
— Kaywin Cottle, Speech Communications teacher (NEA Facebook)

12th September

Storytelling

Some of its benefits:
http://www.prokerala.com/kids/activities/storytelling-to-children.php

• Storytelling is an activity that can transfer emotions and feelings and also can boost thinking capacity.
• We can use it to help children  increase the memory capacity
• They get to know about various places, practices in life, relationships etc., through stories. 
• Most of the stories depict good and bad characters. Listening to stories will help children to have an idea of accepted style of behaviors and must to avoid acts.
• Story telling introduces lot of new vocabulary to children.
• It can enhance the listening skills of children.

Google Drawings

More catch-up

Here's a Thinglink I prepared to use with my CAE students as a trigger for arguments they will need for writing an essay on the impact of communication technologies on our lives.

Catching up on the class I missed!

Using Movenote

Here's my first Movenote presentation. I'm planning to use it with my Teens 1 students for revising the language of physical descriptions. After watching the presentation, the students will be encouraged to produce their own descriptions to be shared on Padlet.

July 4th: More GOOGLE Apps: DRIVE

• Enabled Labs in Gmail

• July 4th
• "Unsend an email"
• Very user friendly
• Very useful function
• I'd recommend it to all those who, like me, are always in a hurry and have to send emails frequently
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• "Canned Responses"
• Very user friendly
• Very useful function
• I'd recommend it especially to those who need to save time when sending  business emails providing information, and to teachers providing feedback on students' homework (You can customize the canned message, of course)
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Review: GMAIL Are these statements TRUE or FALSE? Write your answers in your blog. You can view recipients' contact information from the message you are writing. T You can choose to give priority to some messages T You cannot embed emoticons but you can embed pictures F You need to save your "drafts" by clicking on "send later" F Docs from your Drive can be attached directly T Web addresses and email addresses can be inserted by clicking on the same icon T You can add "labels" to your messages to organize them T You can customize your Gmail from any browser T Theres's a "priority box" to help you find most important messages T Previous emails can be sent as attachments T You can send photos taken by any device via Gmail T