Sunday 19 August 2012

Integrate Blogs in English - Teacher Professional Development


Anna's reflections and archive: Web 2.0 Tools - Videocasts

Anna's reflections and archive: Web 2.0 Tools - Videocasts: What we looked at this week was  Moderating forums. The following was a very interesting statement: ' However, motivating students to use...

Anna's reflections and archive: Gamification - Professional Development

Anna's reflections and archive: Gamification - Professional Development: This week's tasks made me think a lot. The general idea of the reading tasks ( Play the Game , The School , Play the Game Because You Can ...

Anna's reflections and archive: First Plenary

Anna's reflections and archive: First Plenary: The Conference has started and now we are listening to the first Plenary Session by Adrian Underhill. Adrian started with a great joke about...

Anna's reflections and archive: Building your PLN

Anna's reflections and archive: Building your PLN: As a big fan of PLNs and PLEs, I got up early today to get to SECC by 8am for Nik Peachey's 'How to...' session. The conference centre is so...

Anna's reflections and archive: 12 Steps to Webinar Success

Anna's reflections and archive: 12 Steps to Webinar Success: This workshop with Sarah Milligan was particularly interesting to me. I have never given webinars only attended a few but I would like to ta...

Anna's reflections and archive: Closing Plenary - Fish!

Anna's reflections and archive: Closing Plenary - Fish!: Gavin Dudney started the final plenary and said that 50 000 people visited the site yesterday, 400 000 page views with Turkey surfing the si...

Anna's reflections and archive: IATEFL 2012

Anna's reflections and archive: IATEFL 2012: The conference finished and we are all back home and back to work. I spent one evening going through Youtube and found quite a few videos of...

Anna's reflections and archive: Virtual Round Table - Improving Your Virtual Prese...

Anna's reflections and archive: Virtual Round Table - Improving Your Virtual Prese...: Joe McVeigh gave a presentation on how to conduct a successful webinar. He is such a great presenter himself that all I wanted to do was to...

Anna's reflections and archive: Virtual Round Table - How to conduct a spicy webin...

Anna's reflections and archive: Virtual Round Table - How to conduct a spicy webin...: Heike Philp also held a webinar about how to present online. Actually Heike gave 20 tips but as some of the tips were the same as Joe McVeig...

Anna's reflections and archive: Developing Creative Thinking

Anna's reflections and archive: Developing Creative Thinking: The webinar organized by Pearson and hosted by Antonia Clare (co-author of SpeakOut ) was quite informative and useful. Apparently accord...

Anna's reflections and archive: Do schools kill creativity?

Anna's reflections and archive: Do schools kill creativity?: From the talk given by Sir Ken Robinson: At a drawing class: Teacher: What are you drawing? Girl: The picture of God. Teacher: But n...

Anna's reflections and archive: Web 2.0 Tools with MentorMob

Anna's reflections and archive: Web 2.0 Tools with MentorMob: I wanted to blog about Web 2.0 tools  I use in my teaching and professional development when I discovered MentorMob . This is when I thought...

Anna's reflections and archive: Academy Island

Anna's reflections and archive: Academy Island: Academy Island is a nice educational game developed by Cambridge ESOL. The main character is an alien who is on an island and has to go...

PLE PLN VLE- what is it?

This useful Prezi is made by Anna Conway

Thursday 16 August 2012

Critical Thinking Worksheet

This critical thinking worksheet for teachers focuses on helping students to develop arguments – all part of aMap’s critical thinking educational resources for helping teach critical thinking in classes across schools and colleges. To help teach critical thinking we also provide “pocket argument guides” perfect for use in the classroom. Check our pocket argument guides here!

The info is from this site.