This guest blog post, jointly written by three Ecuadorian student-teachers focuses on a recent international vocabulary tournament using one particular browser-based tool, WordEngine. The idea for the post was submitted by Elizabeth Bekes, who is a teacher trainer and volunteer mentor for the Action Research Mentoring Project at the Universidad Nacional de Educación in the […]
Cobden 3: Our showcase room in Manchester Can you flip a summer pre-sessional? And how? These were the questions posed at the University of Sheffield over two years ago, in the quest for a solution to the (not unpleasant) issue of having more students than classrooms. Guest blogger Claire Basarich, alongside the Director of Technology […]
Teaching teenagers is not so easy as you could imagine, they get bored so fast and as teachers we are always looking for new strategies which can trigger their motivation, boost their interest, writes Mariella Sorrentino in this guest post. The etwinning project, entitled, ‘Teacher for a day’ was a successful attempt to make my […]
Every Thursday for next 10 weeks, the Learning Technologies Special Interest Group will be publishing a recording of a presentation from the archives. These will mostly be for Members only, accessible via the Members’ Area of the website. We will share news via our social media channels of the latest video every Thursday, with the […]
We have a plan. We have a poster. We are very excited about this. Our Pre-Conference Event (PCE) in Manchester next year, as previously announced on our social media channels, is going to take an in-depth look at Artificial Intelligence (AI). We touched upon this topic in our PCE in Liverpool earlier this year. This […]
by Sagun Shrestha Machinima Machinima is a word derived from machine animated cinema. It is a short-animated screencast video created in video games or multi-users virtual environments (MUVE) such as Second Life (See. Rainbow and Schneider, 2014; Shrestha, 2017). The machinima [i] that I am dealing with in this brief write-up are the ones created […]
by Anna Weninger Have you ever wondered what the fuss about AI is all about? Have you also wondered how you can REALLY use voice assistants in the classroom? Using voice assistants such as Alexa in the first place is anything but straightforward when talking about ethics in IT. However, even if you do decide […]
by Henno Kotzé and Ceara McManus As teachers of ESL and EAP in a university language centre in Australia, we often find that many of our students are not motivated to use English beyond the classroom. Because many are in nearly monocultural classes, they often revert to their first language with their classmates as soon […]
