PeacheyPublications - Edtech & ELT Newsletter -August 2022

Welcome to the September 2022 edition of our Edtech & ELT Newsletter. This edition is split into 4 sections:

1. Digital Tools
2. Videos for Teaching
3. Infographics for Teaching
4. Articles & Blog Posts

I hope you find lots of materials to use with your students.

1. Digital Tools

Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager

• This is a great platform for curating and sharing digital content or for storing your online research. Raindrop.io

Pathspace: Collaborative brainstorming

• I love this tool. It’s a great way to structure brainstorming and includes divergent and convergent thinking stages. www.pathspace.com

Reading Buddy

• This is a tool to develop students reading skills through chunking text into sense blocks. getreadingbuddy.com

Zencastr - Podcasting today

• This is an all-in-one tool for recording and launching your own stylish podcast channel. zencastr.com

Course - Teaching with Telegram

• This course is for practising or newly qualified teachers who wish to deliver engaging remote, blended or hybrid learning. Whether you want to teach one-to-one classes, group classes, develop blended learning for your students or build your own social network or community of practice, Telegram can enable you to do all of this in a simple, effective and engaging way. payhip.com

Videos

This great video shows what can go wrong when a father takes his very young child on a kayaking trip.

This is a good video to get students discussing equal opportunities and the challenges some people have to overcome.

This is a great video to get students thinking about their first day at school and friendship.

Infographics

Infographics for Educators

• This collection of 250 infographics focuses on ideas and issues around learning and teaching. www.pinterest.co.uk

Infographics for Students

• Explore this curated collection of more than 400 infographics that can be used with English language students to develop their critical thinking, digital literacies, reading and speaking skills. www.pinterest.co.uk

50 Infographic Lessons Plans

• This app contains 50 lesson plans that have been written based around infographic content. These lesson plans have been developed for English language teachers to help them develop the knowledge and communication skills of their students. payhip.com

Articles

Worst practice in ICT use in education

In business and in international development circles, much is made about the potential for ‘learning from best practice’.?Considerations of the use of?educational technologies offer no exception to this impulse.?That said, ‘best practice’ in the education sector is often a rather elusive concept. blogs.worldbank.org

Vocabulary Acquisition through Viewing Captioned and Subtitled Video: A Scoping Review and Meta-Analysis

• As access to video-viewing technology has increased, so has researchers’ interest in understanding how the viewing of captioned and subtitled videos can lead to effective vocabulary learning outcomes. www.mdpi.com

Tech Fuels Student Access to Mentorships – Especially for Students of Color | Getting Smart

• Research shows that mentors are particularly impactful in opening traditionally closed professional doors for young people with disabilities, youth of color, and youth identifying as female, particularly in STEM fields. www.gettingsmart.com

Thanks for reading and stay in touch

I hope you found something useful to enhance your teaching, your knowledge and make your work easier and more rewarding.

Stay safe

Nik Peachey - Pedagogical Director

PeacheyPublications

• We provide innovative digital materials and resources that are custom-made for the remote and physical English language classroom. Our materials enable teachers to unleash their students’ creative potential whilst developing their communicative abilities payhip.com