So Anki is a flashcard program that you can download, and, while it doesn’t include the little games that Quizlet has, it does let you include pictures and sounds, even video clips, in your cards and calculates how well you’ve been doing on a particular card and brings up for review more or less often on that basis. I’ve been using it to review my phonemic symbols (which have become scandalously rusty…or at least my memory of them has)
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Say Hello Outside
90% of my classroom management takes place outside my classroom, seven minutes before class starts.
A small thing, perhaps, but it’s easy to forget, in the rush to craft that perfect grammar practice activity, or whatever, how important the first contact with your learners can be…every day.
TED Talks as a resource
A collection of over 500 lectures which are usually informative, often inspiring, and sometimes, yes, a little wacky. Ranging from 3 to, more commonly, close to 20 minutes long.
What I really like about these lectures as self-study tools for students though are the subtitles. Many of the lectures have the option to turn on subtitles in multiple possible languages (one of which is almost always English). This means students can easily watch the video without subtitles, then, when the language gets confusing they can go back and turn on the subtitles for the hard to understand section. Admittedly, they can often do this on their TVs too, but these subtitles, at least the English ones, seem higher quality than the ones often available on television, and the range of subjects means there’s likely something there any student might find interesting, and the nature of the lectures, as lectures, makes them especially useful as academic English or test prep practice.
Phonemic Chart Excitement
I wonder what it says about me that I’m really excited to have found not one, but two American English versions of the phonemic chart which was available only in British English when I first trained as a teacher.
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