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Category Archives: elearning tools
Capture webpages beyond the screen
I love the Snipping Tool that MS Windows supplies. Just select the part of the screen you want to capture, highlight the part you need to, then press the email icon and send it on to the person needing it. … Continue reading
Posted in elearning tools, Linux, Microsoft, Productivity
Tagged cloud, free, linux, PDF, website
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iPad – teachers and parents in control
Earlier this month I went to a meeting about the introduction of iPads to my children’s secondary school and was astonished regarding how far iPads have progressed in terms of being more suitable for education. I have taught classes with … Continue reading
Quizizz – more versatile than Quizlet Live or Kahoot
Quizlet Live and Kahoot are great for generating fun quizzes for use in the classroom However, with those quizzes, if you have students that are absent for any reason, they won’t be able to participate and share the same challenge … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, elearning tools, Productivity, Quiz, Vocabulary
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Quizlet gets a new genre game addition.
I have been a great fan of Quizlet (founded 2006) for many years. As a language learning tool it can be excellent if done correctly. One teacher who does it very well in my opinion is Phrase Bot who provides … Continue reading
Automatic gapped selection of Academic Word List items
In October I wrote about studying the Academic Word List using Quizlet. To continue this theme, I can recommend the Academic Vocabulary website maintained by Sandra Haywood of the University of Nottingham in the UK. The part I find most useful … Continue reading
Posted in Academic English, elearning tools
Tagged academic English, AWL, flipped, Guardian
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Chromebooks vs iPads – the trend is clear. But why?
Having spent some years teaching with iPads, and teaching others to use iPads, I was sceptical as to how useful Chromebooks could really be. When I was asked by my daughter’s school to provide her with a Chromebook, I baulked … Continue reading
Thinking Inside the Box(.com)
Too many teachers and too few computers in the staffroom? This isn’t the way to keep the teachers at maximum efficiency and happy! At my college there was only one computer for up to 10 teachers in one part of … Continue reading
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Improving Reading using Smart Phones.
When you plan (or have) to use smart phones in class you are dealing with a relatively small viewing area. Asking students to read articles or PDFs can be quite awkward and counter productive with the students scrolling up and … Continue reading
A winning formula for a snappy, engaging, smartphone classroom
What if your class only had smartphones, not tablets or laptops? My students have a mixture of Android and Apple phones. So that eliminates using any app that isn’t on both app markets. Even so, I’m reluctant to request that … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Android phones, Cloud Computing, collaboration, elearning tools, iOS
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Android and Microsoft best tablets for sharing at schools?
If you are a teacher using a shared set of iPads (or, more to the point, the person who has the job of advocating and troubleshooting such an approach) over a whole school or between some classes, have you asked … Continue reading
Posted in Android, collaboration, elearning tools, iPad, Microsoft
Tagged eLearning, iPads, labs, schools
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