I’ve just found a great combination of green background and yellow writing on the Interactive Whiteboard that I reckon could have at least the impact that fingernails down the blackboard used to have in the aural sphere. Can’t wait to have young learner classes again so that I can try it out…

Any other ideas for creative uses of modern technology to control the little buggers? How about filming them misbehaving and starting to upload it onto YouTube while you are waiting for them to settle down, with it being a race between the site uploading it and them running back to their chairs, with it staying up permanently if they are too slow?

More by me on behaviour management here (need Onestopenglish subscription to read).