My English Pages

I’d like to share with readers the  posts I’ve read recently. They all carry insightful thoughts and creative ideas that I hope will be of great interest to teachers and educators.

Would da Vinci learn in Today’s Classrooms?
The habitudes that separate creative and genius minds from “the rest of us” and which are discouraged in our schools.
Failure is not an option but it should be!
Failure as part of the learning process.
T is for text
Using texts to teach grammar.- Very insight post and comments on how to use texts as the …

My blogging experience
All revolutions occured thanks to writing! Even when the internet appeared, writing took the most significant part of the magic of the web. The blogosphere revolutionized the web. Millions of blogs have emerged with billions of posts dealing with all parts of life from very personal thoughts to business-oriented information. Communication has shifted towards endless words on a screen. As this is my hundredth post,  I will present my personal experience with blogging. I will share what I have learned and what I was successful at.

Blogging
Blogging is becoming a very popular online writing tool.

Do you use a blog to teach?
This is a very informative, valuable slideshow that covers key concepts. It presents all the advantages that a blog can bring for teaching.

Google Wave
Google wave is an online application that allows for:

real-time communication
collaboration

Web 2.0 and EFL and ESL teachers
This is a video by Nik Peachey explaining what web 2.0 is all about and how it can be useful to EFL and ESL teachers.
He first starts by presenting what was the internet like before web 2.0 and then he shows how the internet is now a richer and more powerful tool at the hand of both teachers and students, enabling them to connect and share information in an unprecedented way.

Teachers professional development
Teaching is a life long profession that demands constant improvement of techniques and pedagogies. Professional development goes beyond the terms training and learning skills. It includes a definition covering formal and informal means of helping teachers not only to learn new skills, but also to develop new insight in the pedagogies and their own practices, and to explore a new or advanced understanding of contents and resources, and the use of technology to support inquiry-based learning.