Category Web 2.0

Teachers Teaching Online MOOC

June 29, 2014 · by · in Online Teaching, Web 2.0 · Leave a comment

For anyone interested in teaching online, WizIQ is currently offering an excellent MOOC called Teachers Teaching Online (TTO). For me, the timing of this course is perfect: I’m trying to transition from full-time to part-time classroom teaching and to expand into teaching online and writing. You can attend the classes live and contribute to the […]

BC TEAL Conference: Using blogs to teach writing

May 25, 2014 · by · in Web 2.0 · Leave a comment

A theme that emerged from Day One of the BC TEAL conference was the innovation occurring in EAL classrooms to meet the needs of a changing student body and the expectation that teachers will incorporate Web 2.0 tools in the classroom. A great example of this is NorQuest College instructor Bonnie Nicholas’ use of blogging to […]

Lingua.ly: A personal assistant for learning vocabulary online

April 8, 2014 · by · in Web 2.0 · Leave a comment

Many millennia ago when I was studying Spanish and Japanese, I dutifully recorded new words into my vocabulary notebook and dutifully reviewed them. It was a good system, but I’ve recently discovered a tool that works better in the digital age, and should therefore appeal to my students. It’s a free Chrome plug-in called Lingua.ly. […]