Presentation January 27 2010

Here's a brief summary of my presentation "Websites for teachers and teaching"

Steve Pinker Lecture

Steve Pinker - professor at Harvard - gives an interesting talk about the way language reflects human nature. He explores metaphor, taboo words and the language of bribes and answers interesting questions such as why we fill in a form by filling it out.

University of Edinburgh

The lecture is also available via iTunes.

Academic Earth

This great website offers you access to full video courses from some of the world's leading universities.

There are videos on a range of subjects from the poetry of John Milton to Ancient Greek History.

Here's the link - Academic Earth

Chalkdust101

You might find some good ideas on the Chalkdust101 blog

Secondary Level EFL

Have a look at this videos from the University of Oregon - Shaping the way we teach English: Secondary EFL. It's the first part of the series - the rest can also be found on YouTube -

Website

Here's a list of websites that can help teachers create their own games, etc., on line.

Word Connect

What2Learn

Ideas to inspire

Classtools

Super Teacher Tools

YouTube Edu - MIT

Here's a link to the MIT course Listening, Speaking and Pronunciation.

YouTube Edu - MIT

YouTube Edu - UOregon

There are a series of videos from the Universty of Oregon now available on YouTube. The course is called Shaping the Way we Teach English.

Here's the first video -





YouTube Edu

Jeremy Harmer

Jeremy Harmer is famous as a teacher trainer and author. Why not visit his website? - Jeremy Harmer.

It includes audio and video clips and pdf files from presentations.

Here's a link to a video of Jeremy giving a talk on Motivating the Unmotivated

TED

The richness of this site is amazing. Here are some links to some of the presentations that might appeal to people working in Education.

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

Bill Gates Unplugged

Dave Eggers Once Upon a School

An ELT Notebook

Sue Swift's blog is a source of lots of useful information, lesson plans, tips, etc.

Recent posts include -

Using YouTube for Vocabulary Development

Teaching Individual Sounds

TKT

An ELT Notebook

Jeremy Harmer

Here's a video of Jeremy Harmer talking about filming teachers.

What makes a good teacher?

In 1996 UNICEF asked the question 'what makes a good teacher?' Click on the link below to see what children had to say -

What makes a good teacher?

Behaviour Quick Fixes

Teachers.tv has a series of short videos offering quick tips on how to tackle common behaviour issues.

Behaviour



The issues dealt with are -

Can't Concentrate
Chaotic Start
Fighting
High Spirits
Disagreements
Disruptiveness
Transitions
Off Task
Anger

Here are links to full videos -

Teaching with Cowley - Starting Over
Primary Special Schools - Tackling Challenging Behaviour
Primary Management - Transactional Analysis
Behaving with Cowley - Out of the Classroom
Behaving with Cowley - Group Work

Electronic Village Online

As a follow up to the TESOL conference EVO is offering free training sessions and online discussion for six weeks. The sessions are open to all interested parties (you don't have to be a TESOL member).

EVO

Edutopia

There are some really useful resources on the George Lucas Educational Foundation website Edutopia.

For example, there are some videos where teachers offer tips for better classroom management.

Handshake Q&A

Quieting the Classroom

Scott Thornbury

Scott Thornbury's website - www.thornburyscott.com has some links to articles written by the man himself. Here are a few examples:

Reformulation and reconstruction

Grammar, Power and Bottled Water

The Lexical Approach

Big Words, Small Grammar

IH DoS Conference 2009

Here are the slides from my presentation -

NTTI

The National Institute of Teacher Training has lots of useful resources on its website www.thirteen.org

The Concept to Classroom Workshop series is particularly interesting - The topics include

Why the Net? An interactive tool for the classroom

WebQuests

Tapping into Multiple Intelligences

Assessment, Evaluation and Curriculum Redesign

The workshops include mini-videos, quizzes, buzzwords, etc...

Mind Maps

Tony Buzan created mind maps as the ideal tool for memorising and organising thoughts, to do lists, etc.

Here's Tony explaining the basics of mind-mapping -