Free online tool to help you with pronunciation

by David | Tips, Tools

Here’s a little known website and app that I recommend to many people who ask me how to pronounce a word: Forvo. Forvo provides crowd sourced pronunciation for tens of thousands of words across different languages, by speakers of different nationalities and...

Using virtual reality in the young and very young learner classroom

by David | Tips, Tools, Video

    I recently discovered virtual reality / 360 degree view videos on YouTube. Similar to drone footage, I think these types of videos would make a wonderful way to introduce a new theme or topic. Simply search for your topic and virtual reality and/or 360...

NXPowerLite Desktop Review – A powerful Microsoft Office file compression utility for Mac or PC

by David | Tools

  A while back, I wrote about how I had to compress a PowerPoint document to less than 10MB in size so that I could share it on my website. It is a workflow I’d hadn’t needed to do before, so I was surprised to learn that it was possible to...

High quality Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word templates for English teachers

by David | Templates, Tools

Today, I want to share with you a website (Tekhnologic) that has a large collection of very high quality Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel templates. They were designed by an English teacher for English teachers. While many of these templates are more applicable...

Convert (almost) any file type to (almost) any other file type

by David | Tips, Tools

  One of the recent challenges I’ve had is viewing on my Mac the Microsoft Publisher files that many of my colleagues create. There actually aren’t many tools to complete that workflow. One, is that you can convert the Publisher files to a PDF...

Using fake money in the EFL and ESL classroom

by David | Games, Templates, Tools

Kids love using realia. Recently, I was in Taipei and found some ‘realistic’ fake money (as much as it can legally be). I wanted to buy it, however, I was unsure of the legality of traveling with fake money into another country. (I know, you see fake money...