All Blog Posts Tagged 'lessons' (9)

My tech lesson when the internet is down

You have a great lesson planned for today, and the internet is down. Your supervisor is lurking in the doorway, you can just smell the observation coming. What do you do?

You teach your kids how to create hyperlinks with just PowerPoint or Google Slides!

Here’s my plan.

Begin the lesson with having the students create the first slide, a “Table of Contents” sort of slide. Mine looks like this.…

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Added by Eileen Lennon on September 21, 2017 at 11:16am — 1 Comment

5 Vocal Singing Techniques to Help You Sing Well

Learning to sing is one of the most rewarding activities the world has to offer because everyone loves music. Singing for an audiencecan boost self-confidence and even turn into a career. But even if you just want to sing for a hobby it's still nice to learn the tricks that make you sound as good as possible.

In order to achieve this goal, the following tips will help improve your performance:

Practice Singing Daily

Even singers…

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Added by Tino Grigoriou on November 27, 2013 at 11:48pm — No Comments

Can Music Heal? Piano Teacher Edward Weiss says ... Yes!

Music … it has so many therapeutic uses. From a soothing background in hospitals to a relaxing ambiance in restaurants.

But the use of music as a healing agent isn’t anything new. It’s been around since people started making music thousands of years ago.

And now, pianist and teacher Edward Weiss wants to spread that message.

Weiss owns and operates… Continue

Added by Edward on May 16, 2011 at 11:17am — No Comments

#1 series in teaching

It has now been a year since I first started the #1 series. A catalog of what I believe is important in teaching and particularly ELT. See it below, share, download.

Here it is faithfully edited, updated and relinked, facelifted. Lots of stuff that might remain as important reference.

Download a hardcopy to print, carry around, use as toilet paper and win paper airplane contests… Continue

Added by ddeubel on September 30, 2010 at 6:35pm — No Comments

What If The World Cup Was Decided By Wealth? [INFOGRAPHIC]

The 2010 World Cup has captured the globe’s attention and has given us some incredible stories. The recent match between the U.S. and Ghana was a nail-biter as the two teams were pretty evenly matched. But what

if the games were instead decided by the wealth of the respective nation

and not on athletic ability?

We thought it might be a handy lesson to share with students, your friends, and pretty much everyone to give some perspective to just how much of a…

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Added by Jeff Dunn on June 28, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Online Assignments are Naturally More Dynamnic - eLearningToday TV

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Added by Amanda Kenuam on April 13, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Making Connections

Children learn best by making connections to something they already know. It's like connecting the wires of the brain from the platform that already exists to all of the new information that can fit the category in some way. The likelihood that the knowledge is going to become permanent is much more likely when connections are made.…

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Added by Bernice Wonderly on February 14, 2010 at 4:54pm — No Comments

Top 10 Wordle Lessons

Wordle.net is becoming one of the most used new technology tools for teachers. It is free, and versatile enough to be used in any area of the curriculum. There are lots of different ways to use Wordle, so I decided to compile a few of my favorites with some I already use and put them together in a top ten list. They are in no particular order, but if you want to check them out, click the following link to see my… Continue

Added by Jonathan Wylie on December 12, 2009 at 12:53pm — 8 Comments

Remembrance Day "Two Wolves"

Last year I wrote a post for Remembrance Day and shared it on my blog.

I thought I'd share it here too.

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Two Wolves

An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life.

“A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.

One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow,… Continue

Added by David Truss on November 9, 2009 at 1:37pm — No Comments