As I wind down the year 2020, dissecting and interpreting my experiences and lessons learned, I find myself thinking about what lies ahead and how I can most competently embrace it. How will my fellow EFL instructors continue or begin …
Goal:Use action mapping to discover engaging, feasible activities to decrease interference of biases and increase empathy to better engage in difficult conversations about race. Cathy Moore’s “handy” example of what an action map consists of, from her blog. Solution:Action mapping! …
Goal:Build a simple, engaging course that tests popular features of this mobile and microlearning management system. DesignxHumanity has a special agreement with this small tech firm to publish content, and before my design team starts building on the platform, I …
Goal:Explore the basic tools and interactions available in Captivate 2019. Solution:I used an existing grammar lesson PowerPoint as the basis of the lesson, but adapted the format and content to better allow for Captivate interactions. Apologies, but at the moment, …
A generation ago, this order of operations might have been balked at. However, once I understood what the sections meant and why they fit together, I found designing my course “backwards” and using Wiggins & McTighe’s template for UbD very …
Over my 12 years of teaching ESL, I’ve taught all four skills, to some extent, online. Whether it was supplemental or compulsory (like in the last 2 months), a digital or online component to lessons is expected. Why not? Every …
First, a little background: I’m currently an English language instructor at a technical college in Saudi Arabia. My young lady students come from middle class backgrounds and typically have a beginner or lower intermediate usage of English. They all have …
