Designing multimodal activities for language students Busy? Same here. I was working on a new set of multimodal tasks for assessment, but, as usually happens, I came up with something extra – a new idea to add to my favourite…
Remember Kodak’s slogan, ‘You Press the Button, We Do the Rest’? Kodak’s goal was to let amateurs take pictures without worrying about the technicalities. The process was simple: customers simply took their pictures, sent their cameras to the Kodak factory,…
Creative thinking has become a buzzword – much has been said about it, with many strategies and frameworks shared, some applicable, others suited only for a parallel universe. So, I’ll keep the intro short: this post shares a twist on…
I’m excited to invite YOU, the reader of this blog, to join the masterclass I’ll be delivering next Friday, September 27, on AI and multimodal storytelling for GTEFL by Gallery Teachers – an exclusive FREE invitation. Storytelling and Story-Based Activities,…
or How to Quickly Make Your Materials Interactive Technically, I should start with a catchy introduction. But I doubt I can top an AI platform’s pitch for their AI-powered feedback tool (spotted their ad on Facebook yesterday): ‘I showed this…
With so many new AI-driven tools popping up, it’s easy to get lost. Is it even possible to try all of them? Well, is it even necessary? During a recent CPD session for in-service teachers, I was asked to define…
Sound Effects for ELT: A Sound Way to Energise Your Language Classes Or, a sound start to the new year after a relaxing break! A few weeks ago I was trying to find a good fluency activity that would make…
It’s Saturday. Your long-awaited day off at the very end of the year. A new ELT-related article pops up in your blog news feed. C’mon, it’s Saturday! Who reads blog posts on weekends, anyway? Go to Card 2. Sounds fun, I’ll…
As the followers of this blog know, I’ve been exploring generative AI (genAI) for quite a while to find areas where this technology may be useful for language teachers and help us do something that was quite challenging, if not…
So tomorrow is Shakespeare Day, remember? Have you prepared your arsenal of tried and tested activities yet? Or has the Bard become totally irrelevant? I’ve recently had an amazing podcast experience taking part in the British Council podcast on the…