Each week we scour the internet to find great resources to share on our various social networks (@TESOL, @AmericanTESOL, and @ESLWebinars). These are favorite ESL and Education Technology posts, infographics, videos, lesson plans, and research for May. In the comments feel free to share your favorite posts related to teaching English with technology. Check out our past favorites here.
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Recommended Edtech and ESL Posts
- @JackieGerstein recently published, Video Game Design with Elementary Learners, full of useful tips who for getting children to create a game and achieve some ELA learning objectives.
- The Immigration History Research Center has made available three sets of free curriculum for making and teaching about Immigrant Stories.
- Simple English Videos (@VickiVideos) recently published the video, ‘Before long’, ‘Long before’ & Big, Huge, Massive. In this Q & A, Vicki and Jay answer viewers’ questions about the English phrases “before long” and “long before” and also explain how we use the words ‘big’, ‘huge’ and ‘massive’.
- Students are not usually excited about writing an academic paper. Find tips to motivate your students to write in the article, How to Help Students Fall in Love With Academic Writing.
- CommonLit, a web tool with fiction and nonfiction texts for 5th-12th grade classrooms, has recently added a new feature, Browse Books. Teachers can supplement book units with short passages to encourage discussion.
- Biteable is a new web tool we just discovered to help students create professional videos and animated presentations quickly.
- Many teachers are wrapping up their classes. Check out this post, End of Year Checklist, to make sure you do it right!
- Learn English Europe has published an article with 5 tips for maximizing your potential as an English teacher.
Picture from Pixabay, https://pixabay.com/en/board-technology-computer-1311166
