BOSTON 2015 C1 CELTA JANUARY 5 - JANUARY 30

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Comment by Petrina Cox on January 27, 2015 at 8:54am

I'm really looking forward to the webinar today! I'll definitely be there, as long as there's electricity and Internet working :)
(this Boston Blizzard is pretty to look at (from inside a warm cozy house) but I am not fooled! lots and lots of shoveling is inevitable! -_- )

Comment by Petrina Cox on January 27, 2015 at 8:52am

Form completed :)

Comment by Matthew Noble on January 26, 2015 at 10:48pm

Hello Everyone,

Pretty underwhelming so far, eh? Just a bit of snow floating down rather gracefully. We won't be see anything resembling anything like a 'STORM' until early tomorrow morning, sound like.

A few things about input sessions going forward this week. Since we're losing one day, we'll need to crunch a bit. We're going to lose the "Using Technology and Multi-Media in the Classroom" as a face-to-face classroom session. Wednesday we'll do 1) Testing and 2) Grammar Analysis Workshop.

It's OK to miss an actual input session on the course, as long as we do something to show that we made up for it in some concrete way. So, I'd like to try a bit of an online mini-input session on 'Tech & Multi-Media' during this blizzard-break. If you can't get online and miss out on what it is before Wednesday, don't sweat it!

OK, so here's the plan:

It will have 3 elements:

1)

Tonight I'm sending out a 'Pre-Survey' as a Google Form. Think of this as your lead-in/warm-up for this session. The aim is to get you thinking about and reflecting on using tech in teaching...as well as have you look at some great websites for teaching and learning (and answer some easy quetsions as you sort of 'skim' and 'scan' that list of sites.

THAT IS HERE: http://goo.gl/forms/BEpp8kdeUt

Try to complete it by noon tomorrow! The sooner the better...:)

I'll send out the results of that tomorrow before Part 2 (see below)

2)

At 3:30pm tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon I'm going to have a 'live' class or webinar on the topic of the input session

**Details on webinar location and procedure to follow**

This of course depends on internet connections holding up, electricity working, etc.! But hopefully you can make it!

Again, I'll send out the link and directions on how to join the site and enter the 'classroom'. It'll be a 45-minute live session with video, audio, a 'whiteboard', slides, etc. We'll talk about using tech in class, explore some more sites and apps, and have a bit of fun! :)

If you'd like to see what this kind of webinar looks like, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_LDyHOYi_M

(Again, don't stress out if you can't make it to my live webinar, but try your best to join in! It'll be a good!)

Fingers crossed that it's possible at all...

3)

Finally, after #1 and #2 I'll post a short video on YouTube (probably tomorrow evening) and send you the link - a video in which I'll sum up some of the important points made, review some of the key points, and suggest further ideas and share more resources for you guys to use in the future (or maybe in your TP9s, a bit if appropriate?!).

Questions? Ask 'em here.

BE WARM BE SAFE ENJOY YOUR BOSTON BLIZZARD (esp. if you're from a place like Barbados! ;) LOL)

Comment by Matthew Noble on January 24, 2015 at 11:27am

Spot the mistake in my post below: "in all it's relative clunkiness"....it's a VERY common native-speaker 'mistake' (not really an 'error' b/c I know very well the difference between [its] and [it's]!...though sometimes called a "performance error").

Comment by Matthew Noble on January 24, 2015 at 9:55am

FYI to all trainees:

I'm "snowed in" and will be online most of the day working on my DELTA and other projects. I had an idea, so I just created a Google Doc which you all have access to...it's a 'page' you guys can use over the weekend to help and share about your work. (SEEING AS YOU'RE LIKELY ALL SNOWED IN TOO!)

I figure it would be much better than this wall, in all it's relative clunkiness.

No compulsion to do anything, but it's here for the using: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cxWeDwppq-fvogvoYeG2DNFWX5gXbPI...

Cheers and stay warm ;)

Comment by Matthew Noble on January 23, 2015 at 11:36am

Tom, I thought of you when I saw this. It's a webinar... http://worlded.bmetrack.com/c/v?e=64349A&c=A72D&t=0&l=8...

Comment by Tom Hudson on January 23, 2015 at 1:30am

need a good video of a formal setting with a boss, teacher, or some professional of some sort communicating a surprise - pg 98 of the upper intermediate book thanks tom

Comment by Matthew Noble on January 22, 2015 at 10:56pm

That should go here then: http://ihworld.com/video/60_tips_best_gadgets_for_teachers

Comment by Rachel Soule on January 22, 2015 at 9:57pm

Hahaha. I also had this one that didn't make the cut:
teachPad (for teachers)
-automatically records your lessons and provides feedback on quality
-corrects you aloud when you make a mistake during class
-has a terrible sarcastic personality but is brutally honest

@Joe good lesson idea. You should definitely use it for TP8 grammar.

Comment by Matthew Noble on January 22, 2015 at 9:48pm

That reminds me of the "Chevrolet CELTA", a bit like a Yugo...

https://sites.google.com/site/englishdroid2/the-profession/chevrole...

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