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Archive for March, 2011

FUN WITH WORD CLOUDS

March27

This post comes as a result of David Dodgson’s presentation: Not Just a Pretty Cloud: Using Wordle in the Language Learning Classroom – 4th Virtual Round Table Conference. He has challenged us to create a word cloud from the content of our blogs (interesting to see the most common words you use). So here is my [...]

POETRY DAY

March20

21st March is World Poetry Day and you can use it  with your students. You can read poetry, talk about famous poems and poets or even encourage your students to write their own poems. Here are few ideas you may find useful. They are short, adaptable and hopefully could lead to further work with your [...]

“Seeing is believing… Or seeing is knowing..?” PART 3 & 4

March10

Yesterday, Brad and I posted the first part of the blog post series on the Perception in Classroom and if you enjoyed the reading you can find more of the stuff in the following post. Just a note on what was in the previous post: http://tinyurl.com/46ta8lu . 1)   Dig deep into the etymological roots of [...]

“Seeing is believing… Or seeing is knowing..?” Guest post by Brad Patterson

March9

. Twitter is so cool! Two months ago I’d never even tweeted, nor had I blogged.  Now I have an awesome PLN, and I’m collaborating with Vladimira, a great new friend from Slovakia on this 3 part series on:  “PERCEPTION IN CLASSROOM”. We hope it creates a few sparks, and will give us all a [...]