Category Archives: Technology

The real reasons everyone will end up using interactive whiteboards

Posted on 10/02/2012 by alexcase

You might be surprised by how resistant the Japanese are to teaching technology. For example, chalkboards are still very common , even in classrooms that have two huge screens and projectors. However, the clever salesmen at Promethean have finally found … Continue reading →

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Should the CELTA have more about technology in it?

Posted on 07/12/2011 by alexcase

So Gavin Dudeney seems to be arguing in this recent piece of his in the Guardian: No place in class for digital illiterates I just can’t see how more technology in the CELTA could be practical or useful. It’s difficult enough to … Continue reading →

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Pingu PDFs

Posted on 22/10/2011 by alexcase

There are only five, but this polishing up and PDFing my worksheets in becoming increasingly tedious so thought I’d make a big thing out of it to encourage myself anyway: Pingu TEFL handouts Most also suitable for adults

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Mr Bean worksheets now PDF

Posted on 11/10/2011 by alexcase

Yes, I know, I’d rather be using Blackadder in the classroom instead too, but if it works it works, and these really do… Mr Bean EFL Worksheets Including the very most effective activities of any kind I have ever found … Continue reading →

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Another original way of slagging off schools

Posted on 08/09/2011 by alexcase

With the online “movie making” (actually 3D cartoon making) site Xtranormal, as in this example: A thousand pounds for a TEFL course? The standard of accuracy hasn’t improved since the older kinds of blacklisting (yes, of course a 65 pound … Continue reading →

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400 Things to do with an Interactive Whiteboard

Posted on 23/07/2011 by alexcase

I’m going to be reviewing a book with this title. A good study tip I learnt from my DELTA tutor is to think about what might be coming up in the book and then read to check, so here are … Continue reading →

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The previous generation of whiteboard technology

Posted on 11/06/2011 by alexcase

Most Japanese offices I have worked in (many) have an almost-normal-looking whiteboard that can apparently print out what is written on it via the attached printer. I say apparently, because I don’t think I’ve ever seen one that was plugged … Continue reading →

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A great new way of disciplining students

Posted on 09/06/2011 by alexcase

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 … Continue reading →

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The next generation of interactive whiteboards

Posted on 05/04/2011 by alexcase

As I am a very public unbeliever in IWBs, I was one of the invitees at Promethean’s recent prototype demonstration at their Tokyo office. If it really is available in three to four years as they say it will be, … Continue reading →

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15 reasons why an OHP is better than an IWB

Posted on 06/12/2010 by alexcase

Although I am well known as a technology enthusiast*, I have yet to be fully convinced by the time and money that interactive whiteboards take up. I’ve just remembered that I had exactly the same response to overhead projectors, but … Continue reading →

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