Phone blog your Progress, Part 2: E-skills at Carlton NLC

Further to the post, Phone blog your Progress, here are some interesting phone blogs kindly shared with us by staff from Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre (CNLC). They were asked to describe how the teaching and learning in their ESL classes changed in 2011 with the introduction of internet and the projector into the classrooms. The CNLC ipadio player: The following phone blogs or ‘phlogs’ can be heard by clicking the little red + icon in the bottom right corner of the player (found as you move your mouse over the Read More …

Music videos at the Reservoir Baptist Church

I went down to the Reservoir Baptist Church, where Yvonne and Paula have been wrestling with the machinery.. to get it under control. Internet, printers, the data projector.. and extension cords!  I was hunting around for more musical sites and found this one: Lyrics Training which actually has cloze activities at multiple levels for some videos.  We hooted in the Merrilands teacher room because  the Chris Isaak video is so suggestive. Would this motivate your students, distract them or upset them?Here’s one that might be more suitable: ABBA plays “Money Money Money”. Plus Read More …