It is not very often that you come across someone who is both extremely experienced in learning other languages but also knowledgeable and talented in teaching others how to become an independent language learner. Neil Rees is both of these.
Neil has learned to varying extents a handful of languages and has worked over the past years to train others to be self-directed, community based language learners. His experience and common sense approach to helping others learn how to learn languages is apparent from the get go.
The purpose of education, in particular higher education, is to teach creative, intelligent, thoughtful, capable people the skills needed to go into the world and do amazing things.
Like I said before, I love a challenge, and after my last post here it was:
@sfern If you can find one of dancing Yaz, I can git-r-dun
— Barbara Sawhill (@BSawhill) March 29, 2013
With an awesome new job on the horizon, one that not only encourages but demands regular reflection via blogging, I decided to take this weekend and get my digital house in order.
We spent the weekend doing some housecleaning here at LLU… a coat of fresh paint, moved some furniture around, opened some windows, changed a couple lightbulbs here and there. And yes, the dog helped.
Textivate is a website that allows teachers or students to make interactive games from chunks of text. Great for MFL controlled assessment practise where they can use examples of paragraphs to practise key phrases.
Students can cut and paste paragraphs up to 500 words and use from home to test themselves or in a computer lesson. There are a number of options such as:
