Going Mobile: Raffle to celebrate the ELTONs
My co-author Gavin Dudeney and I are delighted to be shortlisted for a 2015 British Council Innovation Award (ELTON), for our latest book Going Mobile. To celebrate, we are running a raffle! To win a copy of the book, simply answer (correctly!) the four questions on...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...Mobile devices in EFL: What do students think?
What do EFL learners think about working with mobile devices in the classroom? Does it make them more motivated? Do they participate more in class? Does it improve their English? Is there evidence for any affective improvements? This blog post describes the findings...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...Intro to QR Codes: A lesson for EFL students
I’m currently in Cambridge in the UK, doing two weeks of EFL classroom teaching. Because… I wanted to get back into the language classroom for an intensive period with a group of language students. I spend almost all of my time on f2f and online teacher...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...Teachers on mLearning
What do teachers understand by ‘mobile learning’? Compare responses from a group of f2f teachers, and teachers responding online to this query via Facebook.