Teaching with Digital Technology
Introduction to Electronic Village Online
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- Category: Mobile Learning
- Last Updated on 31. Mar 2014
- Published on 26. Feb 2014
- Written by Anabel Nowak
Electronic Village is a platform where teachers from all over the world meet online to learn new ways of teaching English and other languages using technology. There are many communities supporting EVO who keep in touch during the whole year, they work together on different projects. The site is very popular with language teachers, but there are other people working with them too. People at EVO organize many five-week seminars, all take place at the same time every year in January.
Writing ebooks in school
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- Category: Mobile Learning
- Last Updated on 26. Jan 2014
- Published on 26. Jan 2014
- Written by Anabel Nowak
This time I am writing about an easy way to get children writing in English. First of all you need a nice story in form of a game just like "The wonderful wizard from Oz"
Suggestion for a pre-task: The group could watch the film in their own language first and then play together in small teams.
Engineering English and Iron Lord
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- Category: Mobile Learning
- Last Updated on 03. Jan 2014
- Published on 03. Jan 2014
- Written by Anabel Nowak
The game
The Iron Lord is suitable to play with students of Mechanical Engineering with B1 or B2 English level not only because it is a nice change to “normal” English lessons, but because the game offers the possibility to apply language knowledge the way students will do in their future jobs. The Iron Lord is about a young man visiting his uncle in Namariel for the first time, the country has been converted in an iron land full of machines with a robot army. The uncle is taken prisoner soon after his nephew arrives, so the new visitor has to work out how machines function in order to save his uncle. The game challenge is not very big for students, they can play the game in a few hours time, and the real challenge will be the task afterwards.
Playing Agatha Christie in Class
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- Category: Mobile Learning
- Last Updated on 08. Mar 2015
- Published on 14. Dec 2013
- Written by Anabel Nowak
The queen of mystery can be played at school now thanks to the variety of games offered. My idea this time is getting students to play classic literature in their English lessons and practice how to become fluent in English. And perhaps teachers can get students to read other stories by Agatha Christie after they have played a game or two. Playing in class may be a nice way to start the year 2014. See also introduction to digital games for more information on using games at school.
Teach Sherlock Holmes
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- Category: Mobile Learning
- Last Updated on 15. Dec 2013
- Published on 23. Nov 2013
- Written by Anabel Nowak
Sherlock Holmes and his adventures are sometimes read at school, now we have the chance to play them. Three games: The Silver Earring, Jack the Ripper and the Testament are ideal to practice English skills while players travel in time. All players need to have is a fairly good command of English to solve the crimes; the level of English needed varies slightly. Students experience some English history while they walk in London around 1880 (read also Tips to use digital games at school)
Learn Vocabulary with two games
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- Category: Mobile Learning
- Last Updated on 01. Dec 2013
- Published on 17. Nov 2013
- Written by Anabel Nowak
Learning vocabulary through digital games at school is not easy, unless there are games made for it. Digital games should be fun, so it is not enough to just learn vocabulary when you play them; you have to get involved in some interesting task. I found the right mixture in Gardenscapes. The games have hidden objects and are a kind of adventure made for all ages, but for the purpose it is better to use them for school children and older. In Gardenscapes 1 the player has inherited a mansion with a huge garden, which has to be rebuilt with money he can earn by making home sales. During the home sales, the player has to pick hidden objects from different rooms according to what his customers ask for, they name an object, the player hears the word once and
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