Week#21 – Productive Distractions

Vocab Sites VocabAhead.com Vocabtest.com Playknoword.com FreeRice.com TOEIC Speaking Practice Podcasts of Potential Interest Relationships Love Me Single Because: True Stories of Love, Dating and Other Misadventures Modern Love The Dating Advice Girl Dates With Kate The Psychology of Attractiveness Confessions of a Terrible Husband Stronger Marriages: The Anatomy of Marriage Podcast Dating Den List of … Read more

Session#3 TILL To Do List

During Session#3 TILL time, please work on one or more of the following.  There will be exhibition of your work at the end of the session. Build Your course website   Make teaching screencasts   Add to your digital portfolio Create a blog post this week that outlines your TILL plans for the remainder of … Read more

Building a Teaching Website

The main project for the remainder of  TTP2018 is for each trainee to build their own teaching website.  This can be for a particular class or for your teaching resources in general.  This week we are going to check out some of the options for hosting your site (and continue revisiting the buffet). Course Website … Read more

Revisiting the TILL Buffet

Trainees will soon begin building their own course websites and creating digital portfolios containing materials to be used in their future teaching.  Before doing so, let’s take another look at the buffet of TILL Tools and Resources. Look through this list and spend a couple hours getting familiar with items of most interest.  Post a … Read more

Screencasting Guide

Install Debut (free version here)Video Pad Editor (free version here) Use it to record a one minute screencast video that includes computer sounds, voice narration, and on screen annotation (pointer, drawing, etc). Narration can be in English and/or Korean.   Upload the video to your Google Drive or (unlisted) to Youtube and post on your.blog or share it with just your … Read more

Popplet Practice

First, make sure Popplet will work on your computer. If you go to http://popplet.com and the page loads, you’re all set. If not, we’ll need to enable Flash for that site.  To do so, in Chrome go to Settings/ Content Settings Click on ‘Flash’ Click Add/ and enter http://popplet.com OK, Time to play! Go to … Read more

Using Team Viewer for Screen Mirroring

Download Team Viewer for your Computer here: https://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/windows/ Install the program onto your computer. Phone Apps: There are several Team Viewer apps.  The show your phone screen a computer, you will need to install Team Viewer Remote Control:  Android   AppleandTeam Viewer Quick Support:   Android   Apple To start mirroring your phone screen, start the QuickSupport app and … Read more

Digital Storytelling & Reading Resources

There are an ever-growing number of online tools and resources related to reading material and digital storytelling.  This week, your task is to check out and experiment with some of these.  Remember to Diigo anything you find potentially useful. For comprehensive lists of resources, check out the   Digital Storytelling Guide  and   Reading Resources —-Abridged Lists— Storybuilding Tools … Read more

Social Networking

Social Networking Take a look at the Social Networking Guide and watch the Social Networking Screencast. Explore some of the ELT groups and communities on Google+, Facebook, Instagram, Diigo, LinkedIn, and elsewhere . Add additional communities and or accounts to the TILL Group Notes.  Join ones of interest, bookmark them with Diigo, and/or create a blog post about … Read more

Week#12: Feed Us! & Blog Tweaks

Feed Us with Feedly! TTP2018 opml file Using an RSS Reader like Feedly.com to subscribe to sites you like. We will do this in class together, but if you have any additional questions, you can watch the screencast below.  In order to get things set up, you will need to download the TTP2018 opml file Step#1: … Read more