
Make your own e-book with Storybird
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Today I want to share a tiny little project I'm planning to use once my students feel bored and will need a spark of creativity - Storybird.

Commercial Christmas or Christmas commercials?
It's not easy to come up with Christmas-themed lessons, especially when you teach the same bunch of students yet another year and they've already had enough of Christmas at school (be it their own or their children's). This year, I accidentally went for a pretty nice Christmas theme inspired by commercials and a fellow teacher's blog post.

How do we learn (and how can we use Padlet in the classroom)?
I don't even remember how I came across Padlet, but since one of my vices is being overly organised (I've realised I'm overly organised when I noticed how many people laugh at me or stare in disbelief once they see me do admin work), that was love at first sight – and obviously, as a properly infatuated teacher, I've decided to share my ideas on making Padlet an awesome tool in teaching both inside and outside the classroom.

Make your own cookbook - project
With new courses approaching it may be nice to launch a long-term project with a pinch of technology, two cups of English and three tablespoons of fun.

"Language Learning with Technology" by Graham Stanley
What do we do during summer break? We read books about teaching!
... Yes, we're slighly mad :)

Facebook in the classroom?
Have you ever felt tired with your students checking their mobiles and Facebook updates in the classroom? Maybe you're annoyed with their "I was just checking the word in the dictionary" when you perfectly well know they're simply messaging their Facebook friends? Well, what can I say: if you can't fight'em, join'em!

The Colors of Evil - shortie but goodie :)
A friend shared this magnificent short animation on facebook and I immediately knew I had to, simply had to use it in the classroom - what's better than pink, fluffy and cuddly evil?
Well, yeah, TWO pink fluffy cuddly evils, but I don't have a budget for this. Yet.

New Year, New Year
Do you believe in magic of New Year's resolutions?
Even if I don't really believe any of my students makes an honest resolution to get better in English, well, discussing resolutions is one of the nicer ways to review some grammar constructions we definitely need to remind after - in case of my students - two weeks off.

10 lifesaving websites for ESL teachers
Lisa has asked me for some recommendations regarding useful sites for EFL teachers and I'm happy to make a little compilation of the places I visit most often to find ideas, inspirations, betimes lesson plans if I feel exceptionally lazy, and share them with you.

So - you'd like to teach online?
I love teaching online - I'm lucky to work with a good online school as well (good online school is a school that provides you with training, shares teaching materials with you and has supervisors ready to help), and I've been asked by some teachers how I actually got into online teaching and if it's like teaching via Skype. And since I guess it's slightly more complicated than "tutoring via Skype", I've decided to reflect on my journey so far - I know I have much more to learn, but things I've covered so far make me quite prepared to online teaching.