October 4, 2019 Personal Info

Week Two

Personal Information

FRIDAY FUNNY

TEACHING RESOURCES

englishteaching101.com: FREE WORD GAMES MAKER ONLINE

From TESOL.org: 5 Apps for English Learning and Teaching

freetech4teachers.com: Whats in pumpkin spice?

TEACHER SHARE
Thanks to David Fobair for sharing this site- has a lot of great graphics:
7esl.com

And thanks to Ruby Taylor MacBride for sharing- it has slower speed videos and full text:
The VOA Learning English's News Literacy series


WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

What's wrong with this roster?
The first person to make a comment on the blog will receive a journal as a gift. 

TEACHER READING

Queens has more languages than anywhere in the world — here's where they're found

Read the article here: Queens-languages

An interesting blog you might want to subscribe to: Esl in the News

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

For a listing of all TESOL workshops at Teachers College, 
or to register for this one go here:
Workshops

The big list of CPD for ELT

There are so many ways of improving your teaching and career more generally, it is amazing that more teachers don’t take advantage of at least one type of CPD (continuing professional development) unless they are pushed. The aim of this article is to give people some idea of how much they are missing out on, both by showing the sheer number of options and by providing a simple list that you can skim through and find something suitable from in just a couple of minutes. 

The big list of CPD for ELT

TECH TIPS

How to Randomize Question and Answer Sequences in Google Forms

On Tuesday afternoon I published Google Forms Features You Should Know How to Use. That post and corresponding video has prompted a slew of emails from people either asking or suggesting that I make a video about how to have Google Forms questions and answers appear in random order within a quiz. So as a man of the people I have made that video.

My new video, embedded below, demonstrates how to questions appear in a different order each time a Google Forms quiz is opened..

Read the entire Free Tech 4 Teachers blog post here: How to Randomize Question and Answer

Thank you for all that you do! Have a great week!

TEACHER HUB is a weekly blog of resources and information for instructors and staff of the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and Adult Literacy (ABE) programs of the New York Public Library in the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island