You can’t have fun teaching online without getting your hands dirty!!
As an online teacher, a great part of my work involves utilizing the best educational tools for my content creation, content delivery, or to encourage active learning with students. I will describe them based on the needs of online teachers and/or classroom teachers who wish to integrate what they do with online technologies.… Read the rest
Home schooling
I am a teacher and mother.These roles are interchangeable and they have become my way of life and guiding light to all inspiration and dreams. That’s why I feel that today’s thoughts about the future of our children are especially poignant on Mother’s Day around the world.… Read the rest
1) An image paints a thousand lessons….
Online teaching presents us with lots of exciting ways to practice fluency development with our students. Multi-media and the visual arts lend themselves perfectly to learning English online. We must make the most of what technology has to offer by brain-storming and experimenting with colleagues and students.… Read the rest
In many countries around the world schools are operating with minimal resources. Books and multi-media resources from big publishers cost a lot. Some publishers have moved online to sell e-learning products which still cost a lot. The good news is that nowadays we can access a lot of content for free or for low-cost subscription rates online.… Read the rest
As there are so many benefits to studying online, I decided to opt for the magical number seven so as to keep it all in perspective. This short-list can find a home in your working memory and be expanded upon whenever you are ready for more.… Read the rest
This is in celebration of National Poetry Month and springtime. My daffodil image is in honour of one of the first poems I learnt as a child called ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud‘. We are, perhaps, less lonely here in our cyber-cloud online, which just serves to enhance our ability to appreciate poetry in the modern age.… Read the rest
(Images created via Prezi)
As an online teacher, I am always developing professionally and seeking inspiration and know-how. Here is a list of books and resources for anyone aspiring to teach online, or for those already working online who want to continue learning from thought leaders in education.… Read the rest
“Come fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame”
William Butler Yeats
It’s time to let your students harness the wild winds of the web and immerse themselves in the extensive reading opportunities available online.… Read the rest
“You have brains in your head,
you have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
wherever you choose”.
~Dr. Seuss
Our students need to cultivate a love of reading to help them choose their own directions in life and to enrich their thinking skills and imagination.… Read the rest
Break Out of conformity, Unleash your Creativity, The walls are gone, Story-telling lives on!!
What can you do with more than one room to teach in and why would you need it?
If you think about collaborative learning or language games, you will soon get the bigger picture.… Read the rest
