by Chris Bourret | Jul 7, 2016 | Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities, Tech Tools
By Chris Bourret Following up on Patricia Helmuth’s great article on Paango, I’d like to recommend another helpful free resume creation website recommended to me by a colleague this year – SlashCV. The website allows a user to put his or her information into...
by Chris Bourret | Feb 10, 2016 | Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities
By Chris Bourret This is the second of a two-part post on researching health topics online. The previous post looked at how to help students navigate the Medline Plus website to do research. This post follows up on that, by having students use their research to...
by Chris Bourret | Jan 25, 2016 | Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities
By Chris Bourret This is the first in a two-part series presenting how my Low Intermediate English Language Learners investigate health problems and report back on what they’ve learned. This first post covers the process of having students do their research online....
by Chris Bourret | Nov 2, 2015 | Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities, Tech Tools
By Chris Bourret Expanding on a great idea from an earlier blog post about Quizlet, I want to get into more detail about the process of having students make their own vocabulary sets on the website, which can lead to improved student study skills and habits. I use a...
by Chris Bourret | Sep 15, 2015 | Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities, Presentations
By Chris Bourret Total Participant Techniques (TPTs), are ways to engage all your students at the same time with the subject matter you are teaching. According to William and Persida Himmele, (2014), experts in these techniques, TPTs help create a socially integrated...
