by David | Alphabet, Phonics
One of the first mistakes I made when I began teaching phonics, was teaching the wrong letter sounds. Because most of the videos on YouTube either use incorrect letter sounds or they mix up long and short sounds (thereby potentially confusing children), it was an easy...
by David | Apps, Technology, Tools
Creative Book Builder by Tiger Ng ($4.99) is an app for Mac, iPad, and Android that allows you to easily create professional looking eBooks. But they’re not just the typical e-Books that you might be familiar with. That is, a PDF or ePub document with image and...
by David | Training, Video
Here’s a live class video I found on YouTube. While it isn’t my teaching style, think there’s usually something we can learn from watching any other teacher’s...
by David | Phonics, Starter, Technology
Here’s an interesting free phonics teaching app called Phonics Builder by Maple Leaf Learning. You’ll get an idea of its application from the video above. I’m thinking of giving it a try in my Starter classes because I would normally use a...
by David | Technology, Tips, Tools
In one of the language schools I worked for, the classrooms had Promethean whiteboards installed, running the ActivInspire software. Despite the software being discontinued, its actually still quite popular, having been used in many traditional classrooms around the...
by David | Software, Technology, Tools
Today, I want to write about the final part of my workflow for using my iPad as an ‘interactive white board’ (IWB). Before my Mac hard drive failed and I switched to using a Google Chromecast (see this article for a description of that process), which...
