"Endless Engagement" Webinar Now Available from TESL Ontario!

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Featured in Teacherpreneur ... A Year On

With fellow DT exponents at TESL Ontario 2016

"What happens when you marry the fullest engagement of skills with the funnest classroom activity? You have a dictation activity making everybody listen, speak, read, and write in turn with other people all the time. You learn real-world English idioms and tweak pronunciation of words and suprasegmentals. And then you produce PBLA-ready artefacts that go straight into your portfolio."

Read the rest at Patrice Palmer's wonderful website.

November TESL Month Sale and Tutela Webinar

The crazy annual Dictation Triptychs sale is back, but only eye-poppingly crazier this round!

And don't forget to attend the Tutela Webinar on November 29, 7 - 8 p.m.

So go ahead and walk around with your Movember moustaches, but don't forget to really go nuts with the November Dictation Triptychs sale and webinar!

Candid Sharing: A Multilevel Literacy-through-CLB3 Class

On the theme of giving directions, today's class was the culmination of three days of focusing on public transportation, from learning the cardinal points to articulating how to use SMS to estimate bus arrival times.

So what worked and didn't?

In the mix were 3 to 4 who couldn't write basic words. Others, on the other extreme, just didn't want to get promoted. Totally asymmetric. So it was a bit brutal getting through stage 1 of the jigsaw activity. It was hard trying not to get all antsy about what next. But then they got to do dictation, and everything straightened out .... on its own!

We didn't get as far as artefact recording or e-portfololio updates, but one thing was clear. The Dictation Triptychs work! Especially for text savvy students, especially those highly literate in their L1 and all obsessed about filling in pesky blanks, the handout pulls them along, and the room explodes in furious learning.

Much fodder for tomorrow's lesson plan.

Yet Another Follow-Up Activity: GPS Location-Based Field Trips at T4T

UPDATE! The Conference Presentation

At TESL Toronto's Technology for Teachers Miniconference on January 21, 2017, Hala and Joseph will be showing you how to switch on your smartphones to create PBLA artefacts determined by location, an activity that feeds off directly from and is optimized by the use of Dictation Triptychs in the classroom.

Don't miss Session C, 11:10 – 11:55 a.m., in Room 211, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 15 Devonshire Place. Complete details here.