
Quizizz: making tests fun (+ activity ideas)
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You must have heard of Quizlet and Kahoot!, but today I want to share my favourite quiz-making application: Quizizz. Apart from a name (try remembering which z is doubled!), this tool is not only useful and easy to grasp, but also fun to use, both for teachers and students. Quizizz allows people to create and use one another’s multiple-choice quizzes, so they can be used live as a form of classroom competition, or as homework.

5 applications to boost your English
Today I want to help everyone struggling with keeping up with English by sharing my favourite applications to learn English. You may recommend them to your students, but I encourage you to try them on your own - I do.

7 Free Online Courses in March
I find March a perfect month for online learning - long, rainy days, still cold and grey just made to stay in and study. I have a ton of books to read, but I simply cannot resist a good online course, so here we are with a set of seven fresh online courses.

5 Tips on How to Start a Course without a Coursebook
After years of dealing with students who are interested in classes but not really with coursebooks, I came up with five steps that will help you in case you're stuck with covering for a teacher who's forgotten to leave the teacher's book, creating a very short course or managing a course that isn't supplemented with students' copies.

7 Free Online Courses in February
Long winter evenings of February may look picturesque, but if you prefer staying in, I have a good excuse for you to do so: free online courses. A lot of teachers enjoy their winter break, so if you want to procrastinate without the slightest feeling of guilt, you may enjoy one of the options I've picked for you.

"Authentic Learning in the Digital Age" - can we connect technology and better education?
Larissa Pahomov is a part of Science Leadership Academy, and the book she wrote offers not only her insight on creating an authentic learning environment, but also bears the mark of a true practitioner and some of the answers are the ones that make this book more than a guide for other SLA teachers.

Tell them what we're doing! (guest note by Ewa Torebko)
I met Ewa last August during workshop where she shared her way of lesson planning and sharing it with her students. I found the idea just brilliant, so I asked her to write a guest post for my blog, so that you have the opportunity to learn from the master herself.

7 Free Online Courses in January
The New Year, as always, brings new challenges, new opportunities and new things we can learn - and I'm quite excited about all this!
Here's my monthly bulletin on seven courses I could recommend for teachers, DoSes and educators in general. We're taking January resolutions seriously, so most of the courses have their starting dates, no lazy self-pacement this month!

7 free online courses in December
Today, I feel pretty much like Santa, bringing you a fresh batch of free online courses you may enjoy during the December break, so that "New Year, New Me" spirit will have a solid background of December-learning. This time I've focused more on self-paced courses, as with the holidays preparation on our heads, we may be too busy to seriously focus on learning.

Get Ready For Academic IELTS in 120 hours (+free syllabus)
Two months ago I wrote about a crash course Preparing for Academic IELTS test. Today I want to share my reflections on a new book by Macmillan Education: Ready for IELTS 2nd edition by Sam McCarter and Louis Rogers.