Ready to Resume!

Right... I'm now back in Italy and a week into my new job. I'm still in the process of settling down after the summer in Canada running CELTA courses and coming back to then attend the AISLi DoS Day conference a few days into my new job!

This is just to say to those few followers :-( Hahaha that I'm back and will resume blogging soon :-)... OK blogging may be too big a word for what I do with my humble blog, but still!!!

Moodle Moodling Moodler

Moodle.org is a great site which allows you to use their software to create online courses. This Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment is super cool! I did the ICTCert course in Moodle and it was really easy to use. There are tons of video tutorials in the following links if you want to learn how to use it.

Moodle Video Tutorials

Russell Stannard's Training Videos

2-minute Moodles

Enjoy!

I was browsing through Rusell Stannard's wonderful site Teacher Training Videos and I found his video on www.languageguide.org and I loved it. I love languages myself, I'm a very visual learner and so this is an absolutely fantastic site and not only for English but for many other languages. It's so exciting to be able to see and hear lots of basic vocabulary in other languages. Really easy to use and wonderful visuals and graphic quality too and FREE!!!! God bless the internet!

I'm back!!!! VISUWORDS v Visual Thesaurus

I really like Visual Theasurus and I bought it myself as I find it really useful when preparing vocabulary related lessons or training session on how to teach vocab. I recently came across Visuwords and I love it! It's very similar to Visual Thesaurus but I find that this one offers more visual support thanks to the left handside bar with a list of explanations as to what each colour and line represent. Visual Thesaurus is nice in the sense that if you buy it then the application is in your pc although some options are only available online. Visuwords, I don't know whether you can buy it, but the best thing is that it is free so all you need is an internet connection.

Well, have fun exploring it!

Big Move!

Hello,

I'm in the process of moving back to Europe and so in the middle of a very hectic time. I haven't had time to blog lately but this doesn't mean I will not do it anymore, on the contrary! I'll come back soon.

In the meantime, a big thank you for following my blog! I've been thinking that with hindsight I would've called it something different as with its current name not many people get to see it as it's got nothing to do with ICT and languages! :-)

Bye for now :-) and I'll be back soon!

Robert

This is a really cool tool. you can make 60 sec videos in a flash. Super easy and perfect for those snippets of video that you want to use in the classroom to add that little extra umpthhh! I came across this tool at the E-community. Ana D'Almeida used it to summarise the PicLits tool contributions.

Enjoy!

Here's the link: http://flixtime.com/

And here's a video advertising the Teacher Training Development Centre where I've been working for the last two years here in Singapore!