Tip of the Iceberg

Our Chinese teacher Wendy Liao has been at it again – she’s found another excellent site for language learning – Lingt Language. Here’s what the website has to say about the potential uses of Lingt Language: Create online assignments that make engaging and assessing student spoken performance as natural as giving out a worksheet. Make [...]

In Grade 1, students have been completing a unit on poetry, and learning about parts of speech. Let’s face it: parts of speech are not the most engaging and exciting topic of study for kids, so finding a way to make it enjoyable was high on our list of priorities. We found the perfect vehicle [...]

[Cross-posted at U Tech Tips] Games and the value of game-based learning has been a hot topic for me lately, so I was thrilled to come across Tom Chatfield’s article, Why playing in the virtual world has an awful lot to teach children in the Guardian on the 10th January 2010 (hat tip to @paulmaglione [...]