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Monday 21 October 2013

I've spent a bit of time looking through various blogs related to language teaching. I found many interesting ones by current teachers providing advice, resources and general guidance. The most inspirational and relevant one for my teaching at the moment is Literacy, Languages and leadership.
The blog's author is a very experienced Spanish teacher of adults. She has responded directly to other teacher's questions and comments through the blog. As well as this she has posted many links to very useful resources and sites. She also delivers various talks and speeches and is evidently a highly motivational speaker as well as writer. There are posts about insights and advice for teaching adult courses in particular and the specific requirements of adult learners in terms of course content. As well as this there are posts and documents about the use of technology both in the classroom and as a tool for preparation. These include the use of skype in the classroom, tips on using social media and using Scibd.
My other find this week has been Pinterest. It is going to prove a really useful way of keeping any blogs or sites that I come across in one place as well as being a really useful way to find more through connecting with and finding others with similar interests. I have started to compile a 'board' of what I have found so far. I think it will be invaluable in directing me to resources, I have already come across a useful interactive online course for Spanish through my browsing. It is going to be important to use tools of this kind wisely though as I can see it getting to a point of overload with too many things and not knowing where to start!

 

1 comments:

Mandy said...

I'm glad that you have had a look at Pinterest, I have put some links on Moodle for you to consider how you might use some of the social networking sites in your teaching, I guess you have made a start. I'll try to follow you!

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