ELT Practitoner's Guide

Padlet Post your notes, ideas on Padlet Padlet is a web based canvas for constructing and collating ideas or information creatively. It is colourful and simple; students will be very enthusiastic to explore such a tool in class. To put it is easier words, it is more like sticking notes on a virtual wall. Padlet gives you an open canvas - the onus is on the users (You, the teacher or your students) on how they add content, materials, multimedia elements to it.  The padlet homepage usually looks like this. The number of padlets you will create or join will show on this page. Padlet offers some great options for you to organize your ideas on the canvas. It can be a grid, a stream (like facebook news feed!) or like a shelf. You can check the preview and choose the style your prefer. You can also ask your students about their preferences. After all, they are the ones who will lead the activities on Padlet. Why  would you want to use Padlet? Padlet allows you...

Tubequizard is a great tool for intensive listening practice through videos. It has a bank of ready made quizzes on pronunciation practice, grammar, vocabulary in contexts and many more. All quizzes are based on YouTube videos of movies, songs, political speeches and a lot more. Not only that,  learners' language proficiency level (i.e. A2, B1, C1 etc.) can be chosen before you think of the type of practice (i.e. vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar for listeners, grammar in context etc. ) and categories (i.e. business, entertainment, film & animation, information technology etc. ) you want them to practice. Tubequizard promises autonomous learning in a very creative and interesting way. Student can engage in self-practice through this site and internalize grammar, vocabulary or pronunciation on their own by decoding.  Students  usually go through  the process of trial and error  when involved in autonomous learning and the activity design in Tubequizard ...