Using Wise Quotes Alongside Efl Esl Students

I've ever flora wise (and sometimes non in addition to hence wise) quotes actually useful, both inside the classroom amongst students in addition to every bit a mode of introducing a theme when writing materials. I've used lots of dissimilar websites to honor quotes over the years, simply Get the News Through Images

Adventure Narratives for EFL ESL Students

Exploiting 2 computer-based RPGs

Exploiting Travel Images

Art Photography every bit a Basis for Language Activities

Create Image Books

A Picture's worth

Picture phrases

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Nik Peachey

Mobile Learning Inwards Elt: Survey 2013

In 2010, later buying my start iPad I decided to create about enquiry into how teachers were using mobile devices inward their classrooms in addition to their teaching. At this phase ‘smart’ phones were already starting to brand an deport upon in addition to tablet devices were simply coming onto the market.  The enquiry results from this start survey were published inward the Guardian Online nether the championship ‘English linguistic communication teachers connect to mobile learning’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/sep/14/teachers-mobile-learning in addition to the consummate results in addition to study tin move downloaded from: http://technogogy.org.uk/mobile_survey.pdf

I followed this enquiry upward inward 2011 using the same survey questions inward an endeavour to run across how things had advanced alongside the intervening menses in addition to the results from that survey were  published inward May 2011 on the DELTA Publishing weblog nether the championship ‘mLearing in addition to ELT: Are We Mobile Ready?’ http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/development/mlearing-and-elt-are-we-mobile-ready

One of the primary observations from this survey was that many teachers were inward fact create in addition to willing to screen mobile learning in addition to mobile devices, but that publishers seemed to move to a greater extent than reluctantly lagging behind.

Over the final eighteen months since publishing the 2011 survey results, mobile learning seems to accept made its means into the primary flow of discourse environs the implementation of educational engineering inward our schools in addition to universities, in addition to then I accept decided ane time again, cheers to the back upward of the Bell Educational Services Teacher Training department,  to launch a to a greater extent than extensive survey edifice on the master copy ane to examine to discovery the extent to which the ‘talk’ almost mobile learning has had whatsoever genuine deport upon in addition to realisation inward our schools in addition to classrooms over the by 3 to 4 years.

Whether you lot role technology, mobile learning or avoid it delight discovery fourth dimension to respond these xx questions in addition to percentage your ideas, opinions in addition to reflections in addition to I volition ane time over again issue the results for all to share.

• Mobile Learning inward ELT 2013 Survey

Many cheers for your tending in addition to participation.

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• iPhone for Speaking Homework 
• iPad Apps for English linguistic communication Language Teachers
• Create Books for the iPad
• Getting Learning out of the Classroom alongside Augmented Reality  
•  Augmented Reality in addition to Web 3.0
• Creating texting dialogues for students

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Nik Peachey

Mix Images Together With Animation On Your Mobile

A couplet of years dorsum I wrote virtually a actually squeamish spider web based tool called Xtranormal together with since therefore I've heard from therefore many teachers maxim how useful their students direct maintain works life it, therefore I was delighted yesterday to uncovering that the same makes had instantly produced a gratuitous mobile / tablet app called Tellagami. The app runs on a mobile device together with allows users to add together animated speaking characters to a alternative of backgrounds or to the users' ain images. You tin therefore either role text to spoken language to write a script for the character, or you lot tin tape your ain vocalism together with the app volition lip-synch you lot text to the character. This is real quick together with slow to do. Here's how.

Open the app an click on create.

Then direct your background, either from the ones provided, from your ain paradigm library or you lot tin accept a photograph of wherever you lot are at the time.

Then you lot tin direct the grapheme you lot desire to role together with customise their appearance.

Next you lot tin select an emotion for your character.

Lastly, you lot tin either type inwards your message or tape it direct onto your device. You tin tape upwards to thirty seconds of spoken audio.

Once you lot animation is consummate you lot tin either shipping it yesteryear email, portion it through diverse social networks or merely salvage it onto your device to demo it inwards class.

 You tin consummate the whole procedure inwards merely a couplet of minutes.

I intend this is a dandy app to become students speaking either inwards the classroom, at habitation or piece they are out together with virtually inwards the world.

Some learning activities for students

• Ask the students to create four - five animated images explaining their road to school.
• Get students to create animated images of four - five of their favourite places merely about their town.
• Get students to accept pictures of objects together with create an animated video dictionary.
• Get students to verbalize virtually images of people inwards their family.
• Create some animated images of dissimilar steps inwards a procedure (making coffee, tea etc) together with therefore become the students to sentry together with pose them inwards the right order.
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• Get students to create an animated paradigm periodical yesteryear adding 1 novel paradigm each day.
• Get students to accept pictures of their favourite mass covers or cinema posters together with therefore tape a review.
• Get students to create animated video cards on exceptional occasions.

 I'm certain at that spot are lots to a greater extent than activities you lot tin intend of.

What I similar virtually Tellagami

• It's gratuitous together with real slow to use.
• It encourages students to speak.
• It tin last used effectively exterior the classroom.
• Students tin role it to push clit some aspects of their ain life together with sense into the classroom.
• It produces real professional person looking results.

Possible problems

• At introduce it's exclusively available for iPhone / iPad therefore that limits who tin role it.

 So if your students direct maintain iPads / iPhones together with you lot emmet to laissez passer them motivating speaking assignments for homework, Tellagami is a dandy tool to role for the job.

I promise you lot uncovering it useful.

Related links

• Text to Speech Movies for EFL ESL  
• iPad Apps for English linguistic communication Language Teachers
• Creating audio-visual monologues
• Drama projection tools
• Make you lot ain animated movies
• Developing screencast tutorials
• Extending a Sentence

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Nik Peachey

Criteria For Evaluating Spider Web Tools As Well As Apps

I'm ofttimes getting asked what my criteria are for choosing the tools, apps as well as resources that I characteristic on my blogs as well as inward my pedagogy as well as produce endure honest I don't actually intend nearly it that much. I await at as well as thus many sites as well as apps that I only become a feeling when I encounter something that I intend volition work.

As that isn't a real satisfactory answer to hand people I decided to start exploring my ain criteria for what influences my choice. I ran a workshop on this topic at IATEFL 2013 on looking at apps as well as how nosotros tin evaluate them.


I came upward alongside a break of 'first impression' criteria that I intend I apply earlier fifty-fifty thinking nearly 'how' I volition role the app / tool.

Here is the presentation / workshop recording



You tin download a re-create of the presentation from here: Evaluating Web-based Tools

Please experience costless to browse the listing as well as add together whatever 'pros' as well as 'cons' for anything you lot intend I've missed.


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I promise you lot discovery these criteria useful every bit a starting signal for your ain reflections on why you lot conduct to role sure enough apps as well as non others.

Related links

• My learning engineering reading list
• My collection of tools for learners
• My Facebook page
• A Mural of my run online

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Nik Peachey

Why 1 Don't Desire An Iwb (Interactive Whiteboard)

Recently, I direct been asked quite  few times well-nigh IWBs too which ones are best etc. My green respond is 'none' too and thence I direct to explain, thence I thought, instead of explaining I would write this postal service thence that I could betoken people towards each fourth dimension they ask.

So this is my classroom prepare of preference too these are the commutation components.

1. Data projector - I'm non actually bothered which 1 equally long equally it produces a expert covert resolution (There's a reasonable article hither on how to select one:
How to Buy a Projector)

2. H5N1 Laptop - My preference hither is for a MacBook, but I tin dismiss sympathise why some people honor that extravagant too don't experience they are worth the extra fiscal outlay. Personally, I recall they are worth the extra money, because they piece of employment faster too thence relieve fourth dimension (the most valuable commodity nosotros have) too because they are pretty durable(The Apple products I've owned direct lasted at to the lowest degree twice equally long equally their PC counterparts I've had too are nevertheless going strong.)


3. iPad - Again my preference hither is for the iPad mini, because it is thence calorie-free to gibe inwards 1 manus too exceed around, but nevertheless big plenty too powerful plenty to fulfil my storage needs too to operate without squinting (also quite a flake cheaper)

4. Reflector app - This is a commutation app that y'all download onto your laptop. It too thence enables y'all to projection your iPad covert onto your estimator (and thence through the information projector) equally it wirelessly receives signals from the iPad's Airplay function.

For those who aren't familiar amongst Airplay, it's an Apple component division that allows y'all to utilisation the wireless to projection audio too vision from an iPhone, iPad, iTouch etc of to Apple TV. You tin dismiss honor to a greater extent than information here: Airplay

Why I similar the Airplay enabled prepare

• For me this allows the best of both worlds. I tin dismiss utilisation the laptop for whatsoever software that's native to estimator footing too rattling speedily too wirelessly switch to the mobile surroundings of the iPad.
• This prepare is portable thence y'all tin dismiss utilisation it inwards whatsoever room amongst a information projector too computer, equally long equally the Reflector app is installed.
• This also has the wages of allowing your students access to the information projector if they also direct iPads, inwards fact the Airplay component division combined amongst Reflector tin dismiss allow your students to projection onto the covert from a issue of iPads simultaneously, which is slap-up to acquire students showing too comparison piece of employment for the whole flat to see.
• Controlling the projection covert from the iPad way that y'all tin dismiss motion approximately the flat too command it from wherever y'all are.
• To manus command over to students y'all but exceed them the iPad
• You tin dismiss shop all your materials on your iPad too utilisation it to make all your training / marker etc at home.
• You don't direct to fiddle amongst supplant or endeavour to honor those awful IWB pens.
• The iPad gives y'all access to the vast gain too diversity of apps that y'all but can't run on a estimator or IWB environment. 
• An iPad too a $12.99 app are hugely cheaper than the damage of an IWB too far to a greater extent than flexible.
• You tin dismiss also utilisation the Reflector app to tape covert action thence y'all tin dismiss easily plow parts of your lessons into flipped learning or useful revision.
• The iPad too laptop prepare provides an authentic digital learning surroundings thence digital literacies tin dismiss live developed, whereas IWB software is an artificial digital surroundings which students volition alone run into inside schools.

There are of course of instruction some downsides to this arrangement. 

• Hand writing on the iPad covert isn't thence comfortable fifty-fifty amongst a stylus too a expert whiteboard app (though if y'all desire to endeavour it I would recommend Bamboo Paper).
• The Reflector app isn't free, but it is rattling inexpensive ($12.99) thence much cheaper than an IWB.
• This prepare alone industrial plant amongst Apple mobile products equally the controller (Though y'all tin dismiss utilisation whatsoever laptop to install the app on), thence if your students direct along Android or other devices they won't live able to access your projector (but they wouldn't on an IWB either).
• The Reflector app runs through the wireless to connect the laptop to the iPad, thence y'all may demand to direct some specific ports opened upwards if your information technology managing director has them closed.

If y'all don't direct the selection too y'all already direct an IWB, too thence that's fine, y'all could nevertheless install the Reflector app too commencement using an iPad too, but given the selection it's pretty clear. So, at in 1 lawsuit hopefully I'll live getting asked this inquiry a lot less often.

Do postal service comments too allow me know what y'all think. I'd also appreciate hearing well-nigh whatsoever choice apps y'all may direct used to connect your iPad too specially your Android tablet to the projector

Related links:

• Learning Technology News 
• Tools for Learners
• Could Doceri live the IWB killer?
• Can y'all supplant your IWB amongst a $10 dollar app?
• Questioning the role of engineering scientific discipline inwards education 
• iPad apps for English linguistic communication language teachers
• Some Pros too Cons of iPads for ELT 

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Nik Peachey

Video Communication Apps As Well As Mobile Learning

One of the smashing things almost mobile devices such equally tablets, iPads as well as phones is that most modern devices receive got proficient character cameras as well as microphones built in. This opens upwardly a actually broad attain of potential for communication as well as speaking practise that used to endure such a scrap to organise on older laptops as well as desktop computers.

App developers receive got also been quick to exploit the potential of this powerful tool as well as inwards this post I'd similar to await at some of the tools that receive got been created as well as how they tin forcefulness out endure used for linguistic communication development.

Mailvu for asynchronous messages

Mailvu has been a long fourth dimension favourite of mine, mainly because the spider web based version is hence slow to usage as well as doesn't take away whatsoever downloads. You only indicate your browser at: http://mailvu.com/ as well as equally long equally you lot receive got the Flash plugin installed on your reckoner you lot tin forcefulness out start recording immediately. Mailvu also provides mobile apps for iOS, Android an Blackberry. These are slow to usage as well as it allows you lot to ship brusk spoken messages which don't take away the viewer to receive got whatsoever specific software or to download large video files. They only click a link as well as scout your message. This variety of cross platform compatibility is actually of import if you lot are working inwards a BYOD surround where students could endure coming to shape amongst a broad attain of devices.

EyeReport for moving painting inwards picture

EyeReport  puts an interesting twist on the video communication genre past times adding the powerfulness to tape video on video. By this I hateful that students tin forcefulness out upload or tape a video on their mobile device as well as hence add together a video commentary over the hand explaining or commenting on what they view inwards the master copy video. This opens upwardly a whole attain of potential activities that nosotros tin forcefulness out acquire students doing. They could add together commentary to sporting clips, give guided tours of places they receive got visited, explicate processes or fifty-fifty brand their ain documentaries. Once students receive got completed their recording these tin forcefulness out endure shared to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or emailed straight from inside the app.

CoachesEye for video annotation

CoachesEye is a similar app to EyeReport (though this i is no longer free) but is much to a greater extent than characteristic rich. Like EyeReport you lot tin forcefulness out tape video commentary over video, but amongst CoachesEye you lot tin forcefulness out also add together annotations as well as you lot tin forcefulness out halt as well as command where you lot insert your comments into the video. This app was designed for coaches to give detailed feedback to athletes on their physical movements, but it's a smashing app to acquire students creating as well as talking almost their ain videos, as well as also a useful tool to usage when observing teachers for preparation purposes.

Storytime for bedtime stories 

Storytime is some other app which puts a novel Twist on the video communication genre. It combines video conferencing amongst reading stories out loud. The app was designed to enable parents to read to their children from a distance as well as it contains a issue of books you lot tin forcefulness out pick out to read as well as spell you lot read you lot tin forcefulness out speak over the books, enquire questions as well as indicate to things on the page whilst chatting amongst the video window at the top. This is smashing for doing online tutoring amongst younger learners. There is quite a attain of books from real basic as well as upwardly as well as they are nicely illustrated.

Teleprompter for controlled speaking practice 

iPhone for Speaking Homework ). The app is what it says, it allows you lot to import text as well as hence it scrolls through the text spell creating a video of you lot reading it. This is smashing to acquire students doing controlled speaking practise as well as hence watching as well as improving their speaking. You tin forcefulness out fix texts which include a attain of sounds which they notice hard as well as hence scout them together as well as handle them to sympathize what elements of their pronunciation are causing problems.

Keek for video journals

Keek mixes spider web amongst mobile inwards the shape of video journals. Users tin forcefulness out post brusk messages of upwardly to 35 seconds from their mobile or reckoner as well as these are published to the spider web or tin forcefulness out endure browsed through the app. This would endure a smashing tool to usage equally a daily learning journal, but it's in all likelihood best used past times adults or to a greater extent than responsible teens. It seems to endure a real pop tool amongst teens inwards the USA as well as at that topographic point is a broad attain of content that students tin forcefulness out browse through, some of which is non best suited to educational purposes, but equally a concept this is quite a proficient app. If you lot prefer your students to endure sheltered from this variety of pop civilisation app, hence you lot tin forcefulness out even hence accept upwardly the thought of the video learning periodical as well as only acquire them to usage their built inwards video photographic television receiver camera app as well as post the messages to a Dropbox site.

Six3 for video messaging

Six3 is similar to MailVu as well as also compatible amongst most platforms, but it gives you lot the alternative of recording individual or world message as well as has an additional filter characteristic which tin forcefulness out handle to ameliorate your appearance on the video. It's called Six3 because you lot receive got 63 seconds of recording fourth dimension inwards each message. Like Mailvu, the messages are also sent via links through your email, but they tin forcefulness out also endure posted straight to Twitter or Facebook from inside the app.

Skype for synchronous online tutoring

Skype has been roughly for a proficient spell as well as was i of the showtime video based communication tools to interruption into the mainstream. It's beingness used past times many online schools to deliver alive online lesson from teachers to all parts of the globe. One of the smashing things almost Skype, apart from the reliability, is that it keeps developing as well as adding novel features. The recent improver of video messages that enable it to endure used equally an asynchronous tool volition actually handle to widen its orbit for usage equally a linguistic communication evolution tool.


Built inwards photographic television receiver camera app
With all these apps as well as the possibilities they offer, it tin forcefulness out endure slow to overlook the obvious. Most modern mobile device come upwardly amongst a built inwards video photographic television receiver camera application as well as you lot tin forcefulness out ever usage this to tape as well as ship video message. This has the wages that messages are real prophylactic from tertiary political party app providers as well as whatsoever possible safety breaches, but sending the video clips to someone else oft involves sending the whole clip via e-mail which tin forcefulness out endure ho-hum as well as take away proficient connectivity.

For to a greater extent than ideas as well as activities for using video as well as webcams to develop languages view my posting 20 WebCam Activities for EFL ESL Students

Why usage video communication?

• Well i of the best reasons to usage these kinds of apps is to acquire students speaking. Speaking homework has ever been especially hard for students, but at nowadays you lot tin forcefulness out enquire students to make spoken homework which you lot tin forcefulness out scout as well as assess.
• Video equally a communication genre is probable to acquire increasingly of import equally a 21st century digital literacy, hence it's of import that our students receive got practise as well as are able to usage this communication genre, only equally they do amongst speaking on the telephone or writing emails.
• Video tin forcefulness out describe students' attending to many of the paralinguistic features of communication that are hard to highlight inwards a crowded classroom.
• Enabling students to tape themselves speaking as well as hence to scout themselves tin forcefulness out endure real enlightening for students equally they tin forcefulness out hence start to self assess their ain functioning as well as await for ways they tin forcefulness out improve. It tin forcefulness out also encourage some students to elbow grease harder, because they know that someone else mightiness view the video.
• Video tin forcefulness out endure real engaging as well as tin forcefulness out endure played repeatedly hence it gives students the lead a opportunity to take away heed in i lawsuit again as well as inwards to a greater extent than depth.
• Video communication tin forcefulness out handle teachers to construct a stronger feel of connectedness amongst their students, especially amongst online course of instruction when you lot mightiness never physically encounter your students. Conveying some feel of your personality, feel of sense of humour as well as graphic symbol tin forcefulness out endure real hard inwards written communications, hence video has some actually large advantages.
• Giving students 1 to 1 fourth dimension as well as having the fourth dimension to only sit down downwards as well as pass a few moments listening to a unmarried pupil without the dissonance of others roughly tin forcefulness out endure actually hard inwards the classroom, but having a brusk recorded video clip of our students tin forcefulness out actually enable us to focus on their specific strengths as well as weaknesses as well as enable us to give them some actually personalised feedback.

Potential problems

• As amongst whatsoever variety of online communication, brand certain your students know how to protect their privacy as well as also themselves from harassment. Be certain to receive got a transparent as well as opened upwardly policy on whatsoever variety of harassment hence students know what is probable to locomote on to anyone harassing as well as how to written report harassment.
• If you lot are using video communications amongst younger students also brand certain their parents know what you lot are doing as well as why you lot are doing it as well as acquire their approving (in writing if possible) as well as if possible acquire them involved too.
• Make students aware of the divergence betwixt piteous character speaking as well as piteous character audio. You don't desire them to mean value they sound bad if the existent occupation is the recording character as well as interference from background dissonance etc. Help your students to sympathize how to acquire he best character results from whatever recording tools they have, past times finding somewhere tranquillity to tape as well as experimenting amongst the best distance from the microphone.
• Helping students to await their best on video volition also handle to boost their confidence. Getting the photographic television receiver camera angle correct as well as having the lite coming from the correct administration tin forcefulness out also receive got a large comport upon on how students look, hence helping amongst this tin forcefulness out endure role of the learning experience. There is a useful article hither which may help: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/look-good-on-webcam/
• Always think as well as remind students that anything they do or country on video tin forcefulness out potentially endure seen past times other people for years as well as fifty-fifty centuries to come, hence whenever i of these apps is used, encourage them to mean value almost what they are doing as well as proverb as well as proceed inwards heed that it could endure seen past times people they know as well as people they mightiness yet encounter equally good equally strangers who they mightiness never meet. It's of import to remind students of how they desire to endure perceived.

I promise you lot relish these apps as well as that they handle to acquire your students speaking. Please locomote out a comment if you lot receive got whatsoever favourite video communication apps that you lot usage to acquire your students speaking.

Related links:

• Mix Images as well as Animation on Your Mobile 
• Peer editing inwards digital as well as mobile environments 
• iPhone for Speaking Homework 
• iPad Apps for English linguistic communication Language Teachers
• Create Books for the iPad
• Getting Learning out of the Classroom amongst Augmented Reality  
•  Augmented Reality as well as Web 3.0
• Creating texting dialogues for students

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Nik Peachey