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(This post was updated in April 20, 2026.) I’ve been an environmentalist since, well, almost since birth. After describing how I became an environmentalist, you can find a list of products for yourself and your students in my environmental gift guide. My Experience as an Environmentalist Perhaps the reason
So many great ideas and resources for using Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality were discussed during Sunday’s #ELLEdTech Twitter chat that I decided to collate them into this blog post. I’ve divided them into the following categories: Articles about Using Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality, Teaching Ideas, and Tools that
When I was a kid, I had a toy called a Viewmaster. You put round cardboard cards, which had little color slides around the perimeter, in a slot at the top, then held it up to your face and toggled a lever to see all the pictures. And wow, the
When I taught my ESL Social Studies classes, I did not do anything special for Women’s History Month because it was hard enough to teach everything in the curriculum frameworks that I was supposed to follow. But I try and infuse my classes with information about women in history during
Happy Spring Festival! That is, Happy Chinese Year! Technically, it began Thursday night but Friday was the first full day it was celebrated in the U.S. It’s now the Year of the Dog, which is the second to last animal in the Chinese zodiac. Dog image in the style of
Teaching ESL can be a lonely job. Quite often, you are the only person in your school who teaches English Language Development to ELLs. But even if you’re not the only such teacher, too often the professional development that’s provided is aimed at regular education teachers to give them training
Being a co-teacher can be a joy or something to dread. Which of these actual teaching situations would you prefer to be in: Co-Teaching Scenarios Class A, a 4th grade Language Arts class The ESL teacher goes into the regular education class and sits in the empty desk next to
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. Tim O’Reilly Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/technology?vm=l What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. Tim O’Reilly Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/technology?vm=l You’re probably familiar with QR codes.
Martin Luther King taught us that the color one’s skin is not important. Rather, it is what kind of person you are that matters. I think a correlation of this belief is that it does not matter where you come from or what language you speak — what’s important is
Even though the new year has not yet begun and parts of the U.S are gripped by bitter cold, it’s not too early to think about how you will spend your summer vacation in 2018. If you are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, there are numerous professional development opportunities
Even though I don’t celebrate Christmas myself, this is a sentiment I heartily agree with. I wish you and yours a joyous holiday! Source: The ESL Nexus December 25, 2017
Transliterating a word from a language that doesn’t use the Roman alphabet can be tricky, especially when there is no equivalent letter in English for the sound in the original language. Such is the case with the Festival of Lights, the Jewish holiday more commonly known as Hanukkah, which began
