EduCanon is such a straightforward and effective tool for making listening practice within and outside the classroom more interactive. If I had a pound each time I hear a classmate or tutor say the words "use authentic materials", I would be pretty loaded (I'm currently taking an MA in ELT if you don't already know). Yes, I'm on board with the whole idea...

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I have tingles for Thinglink! As they say "a picture speaks a thousand words", I can't stress enough how great this tool is. This website lets you upload pictures and make them interactive by adding tags (just like Facebook I suppose) and linking them to web pages or videos.  Thinglink will get your students to brush up on their reading and listening -...

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In the spirit of Valentine's Day, I thought I might share with you a fantastic online tool for Blended Learning called Blendspace. Flipping classrooms with blended learning has been quite a hot topic in the last few years, but not just because it's the hot new thing in education. It really does shake things up because with blended learning, you can balance out...

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A common doubt that we, language teachers, often have is whether our lessons allow enough production time for our students to produce meaningful output. For novice teachers like me, it's easy to fall into the trap of stuffing down exercises or "testing" previous knowledge. Collaborative learning seems like the doable way-out since it shifts the focus onto the learners and promotes features of...

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