Jingyi's ELT blog

  Welcome back! This week we are going to talk about blended learning! Also introducing a very useful teaching website: TED-ed. l   What is 'blended learning'? According to Mizza & Rubio (2020), blended learning is an educational approach that combines traditional classroom and online learning resource. By doing so, it can bring together the strengths of the traditional classroom and the rich online teaching resources to form a more efficient way of learning. Especially for language teaching, which requires the constant updates of target language resources. As technology develops, this type of teaching is becoming more and more popular.   l   TED-ed I think most of you have heard of TED talk, maybe some of you use it as self-learning tool. But today, let me demonstrate a branch of TED talk. The TED ed, a website especially builds for worldwide educators. Unlike TED talk, which has a higher language requirement for listeners TED-ed is designed speci...

  Hello! It's been a while since my last update, great to see you!  Today I am going to introduce a learning platform you might be heard about – Kahoot!   We all know how much work it takes to make students interact with us. Sometimes it just doesn't work so well.  Quizzes is a very common method for teachers to check students' understanding and performance, but the traditional paper pen quizzes is a little out of date. It's time to use the Internet!   What is Kahoot and how to use it?   First of all, Kahoot is an online learning platform that could help bring more interactions in the classroom. It has many templates that teachers can use to design their quizzes, surveys or discussions.   I have used Kahoot many times and I really like to put a little Kahoot game at the end of the class, ang students like it too. To create a Kahoot quiz, you need to have an account and your pre-designed questions and answers. When you finish putting the que...

  Hello everyone, welcome back! How are you this week?   In this week I want to show you a mobile learning tool – Nearpod. Nearpod Nearpod is an education platform that helps teachers making online presentation, preparing lesson plan and doing in-class activities with students. For teachers, Nearpod is very suitable for live webinars and online learning. Your students can be anywhere and follow the class in no time! I know it sounds quite common in these days, but the unique thing about Nearpod is that it can 'control your students'. I will elaborate this point.   'Controlling your students’ One special thing about Nearpod is real-time sharing, which means that when your students join the online classroom you designed, their screens cannot be operated except to see what you want to show them. This greatly helps students to follow the class and focus at all times. When you move, they move. Thus, teachers can focus on delivering the class and balance the input level ...

  Helloooo everyone, it's been a while since my last update, great to see you again! This week I have a new learning technology that I want to introduce to you. Do you struggle with how to improve your English fluency? Or do your students feel frustrated when practice speaking and you don't know how to help?   Well, with the recent debate around AI (artificial intelligence), people are starting to wonder what AI can do for us, how they help us improve. If you are on the supporting side, today's content is for you.   Yoodli. This is a new language learning application that help people to imporve their speech. How it works? In short, it uses AI to analyse people's speech habits, speed and word choice and to give suggestions for improvement. Some of the details you may never ever realise, and those suggestions are really helpful. So before we get to the business, you will need a zoom account and a google account. Sign in and open your zoom meeting. The ap...

  New technology that makes your students love classroom. When I was a student and sit in an English classroom, the last thing I wanted was the teacher talking the whole session and no interaction with students. As an English teacher now, I always try to make my classroom more engaging and encourage everyone to speak the target language. So this week, I found a new technology could help language teachers to create an interactive learning environment. Introducing the Padlet . I nteractive, creative and fun. Padlet is an educational tool which can present, share and interact with students. It has many features but the one I like the most is a real-time collaborative platform. Sounds a bit like google doc right? Well, they do have some similar features, but Padlet works so much better in the classroom. You will need an account to use Padlet, so the first step is to set up your account. If you have a google account, this step will be so much easier, you just need to log in. Then ...

  “This is the most interesting learning tool I have eve used!”     Hi, welcome to my new weekly post! I learned a new learning tool this week and I can’t wait to share with you!   Lyricstraining Today I am going to introduce a new English learning technology, the Lyricstraining! As shown in the name, this learning website uses songs to teach and practice English, which is the fun part! (screenshot is taken from  https://lyricstraining.com/en ) When we enter the website, there are many videos you can choose to do English learning. From the most popular songs right now, to your old, classic favourites, you can find on the website. If you can’t find the song you are looking for, make sure to use the ‘search’ button, you will be surprised! All the songs are from the YouTube so you don’t need to worry about the copyright issues, feel free to use it in your classroom! To use it in the classroom Imagine you are facing a group of children and the class ...