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  • App of the Month

     

    This new section features a free online app which you may find useful in your teaching. Each App of the Month review is written by a participant from our mLearning in Practice online training course, so the apps are tried and tested by real language teachers. Click on the links below to find out more about the app, and suggestions for ways to use it with your own students. We update this section every month, so come back regularly - or subscribe to our social media and the updates will come to you!

    2012

    • Flipboard: a magazine-style aggregator. Review by José Antonio da Silva in Brazil [May 2012]

  • Tool of the Month

    Tool of the month 

    Every month we feature a free online tool which you may find useful in your teaching. Click on the links below to find out more about the tool, how it works, and suggestions for ways to use it with your own students. You can also download a a pdf file about the tool to take into your training or teacher development sessions. We update this section every month, so come back regularly - or subscribe to our social media and the updates will come to you!

    2011

    • Glogster: a free multi-media online poster site [ January 2011 ]
    • Voxopop: a free voice recording discussion site [ February 2011 ]
    • PicLits: a free image with word matching site [ March 2011 ]
    • Twitter: a microblogging site [ April 2011 ]
    • Facebook: the famous social networking site [ May 2011 ]
    • Quizlet: a free flashcard site [ June 2011 ]
    • Infographics: visual representations of graphical data [ July 2011 ]
    • MakeBeliefsComix: create your own comic strips [ August 2011 ]
    • Muzy: creative visual blogs [ September 2011 ]
    • FlixTime: video productions from photos & videos [ October 2011 ]
    • Jog The Web: create annotated web guides [ November 2011 ]


    2012

    • aMap: create visual 'argument maps' [ January 2012 ]
    • Word Dynamo: create vocabulary matching games [ March 2012 ]
    • Pinterest: create online boards for your images and images [ April 2012 ]
  • Workshop Resources & Handouts

     

    We are regularly invited to give conference presentations and workshops around the world. You can find our workshops resources and handouts in this section. All of these resources and handouts are publicly available and can be reused under Creative Commons (see the bottom of this page for more on this).

     

  • Newsletter archive

    Newsletters 

    Our Teaching with Technology Newsletter keeps you up to date with the latest developments in online education and teaching with technology. Covering a variety of topics, and based on current research, we bring you the newest thinking and the most recent practical pedagogical developments. Browse the archive, which dates back to 2005.

  • Wikis

    What are wikis? How do they work and why are they useful for teachers? Watch this interview with Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly, which explains the wonder of wikis. The interview took place on EduNation in Second Life.

  • Communities of Practice

    What are communities of practice (CoPs)? How do they work and what principles underpin them? Watch this audio PowerPoint presentation to find out.


    CoPs PowerPoint video: Part 1


    CoPs PowerPoint video: Part 2

  • Note on copyright

    The following Creative Commons license applies to these resources:

    Creative Commons License
    Materials for teachers by The Consultants-E is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
    Based on a work at www.theconsultants-e.com.
    Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.theconsultants-e.com.

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