My Teaching English blog
Nik Peachey

In this section you can see the latest postings from my personal blog.

More on Autonomous Online Learning  
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In my last blog post here, I wrote about a new project I had started using a blog and publishing online activities that students can work on autonomously.

Autonomous Online Learning: Can it work?  
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I've just embarked on an experiment to find outif students are willing and able to develop their English working autonomously online.

Creating Word clouds  
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I've just found a wonderful free tool called Wordle. It's a really useful tool to help teachers or students create word clouds based upon the frequency that the words appear in any give text.

Karaoke to get your students singing songs  
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A couple of months back I posted a message about a new karaoke website I had found which you could use with students ( http://www.redkaraoke.c

Social Networks and the Web 2.0 Revolution  
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Social networks and, what has been described as 'Web 2.0' , are having a profound influence on the way that online learning can be delivered, particularly for language teacheing / learning.

Video conferencing for EFL 2  
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Since my first posting on video conferencing, it seems that a whole wealth of other really useful sites have come to my notice, so i thought I'd share a few here.

 

Excellent Resource for EAP  
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I've just spotted this wonderful new resource for helping to prepare foreign students for study in the UK.

Video conferencing for EFL  
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I've just found a really wonderful free video conferencing tool, that allows you to make video calls live, send video emails, make group conference calls and even create a video feed.

Using Karaoke with your students  
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Hi All,

Wikis for collaborative writing projects  
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The last few weeks I've been having a look at wikis and thinking about how I can use them both for teacher development purposes and also for students.

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