Going Mobile: Time will tell
To celebrate the recent publication of our new book Going Mobile (co-authored with Gavin Dudeney), we’re sharing a number of activities you can try out with your students, to get them using mobile devices as part of the their language learning. The first...Going Mobile: Twitter celebrities
To celebrate the recent publication of our new book Going Mobile (co-authored with Gavin Dudeney), we’re sharing a number of activities you can try out with your students, to get them using mobile devices as part of the their language learning. Last week’s...Teaching with mobile devices: FAQs
There is a good reason for my 3 month blogging hiatus. Since January, work has taken me to Chile for 2 weeks, Egypt for a week, India for 3 weeks, and Moscow for a week. And then the TESOL US conference in Portland followed immediately by the IATEFL conference in...Water: Smartphones for vocab
While teaching EFL in the UK this summer, I piloted a number of classroom activities getting students to use their (ubiquitous) mobile devices, for an upcoming book on mobile and handheld learning. Below is a very simple activity that can be linked to almost...3 Articles: mLearning for language teachers
I recently wrote three articles about mobile learning for the print publication Modern English Teacher. The editors have kindly given me permission to share these articles, which are written with English language teachers in mind. So, if you are … not sure about...The 1-minute mLearning panel summary
At the recent IATEFL 2012 conference held in Glasgow, Macmillan sponsored a panel discussion about mLearning, with a number of educational experts: Agnes Kukulska-Hulme (Open University UK): researcher and writer on mLearning in education Gillian Penny (West Dunbarton...The 1-minute guide to the mobile classroom
Wondering how to start introducing elements of mLearning (mobile learning) into your language classes? Here are five ways to do so, starting from simple recognition type activities to more complex project work.
5 Myths about mobile learning
Common mLearning myths – and some myth-busting lesson plans.
Ten (cool) things I learnt about in 2010 [cont.]
What are: infographics, vaporware, augmented reality, QR codes and the App Inventor? Read and find out!