Working on Padlet with my students: Teens 1:

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CAE BCR:

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26th September

Reviewing some things:

• When inserting a link in your blog, after fixing the link, click on it and then click on "Change". Then check "Open link in a new window".
•  When you want to save an email in your gmail account, "pretend you want to print it; then cancel and right click on the page and choose "Save as" to save it.

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.