by David | Software, Tips, Tools
Sometimes you have an image in a JPG format where you want to remove the (usually white) background, in order to make it transparent. You might want to do that in order to make mini flash cards, or so that you can layer the image over the top of another (and still see...
by David | Phonics, Templates, Tips, Tools
I’m currently in the process of making new flashcards for my classes, and just discovered a useful resource of free EFL flashcards. EFL Flashcards has a few dozen lexical sets of flashcards, that cover a broad range of topics. While I want to continue to create...
by David | Apps, Technology, Tools
Today, I want to share with you a handy little Mac app I’ve been using, called CloudMounter. What CloudMounter does, is to bring all of your cloud storage services together into one place, making them easily accessible via Finder, as if they were hard drives...
by David | Alphabet, Games, Phonics, Tools
Today, I want to share with you a set of phonics ‘uno’ cards I made a while back. Late last year, I made a deck of phonics uno cards to test out with my Starter class. Unfortunately, my Mac hard drive crashed, and I hadn’t backed up the source file....
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 | 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...
