Technology and English with Eda

Hey everyone! Today I will be evaluating an ELT webside called “one stop english”. You can visit the website from here . Photo taken from here Main Info About one stop english one stop english was created in order to help English learners and mainly English teachers. There are currently over 700,000 users in more than 100 countries around the world. You can subscribe for £42 for a year. It’s a teacher resource site, part of Macmillan Education which is one of the world’s leading publishers of English language teaching materials. Also resources are clearly marked by age and level. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any information about the founders of the website but I found out that Rachel Slatter is the managing editor and Erica is the development editor. I would’ve liked if they informed the visiters of the website about who founded it; however, there is detailed information about two editors, about what their duties and purposes are, what school they gradua...

Hi everyone, today’s post is about a padlet assignment for my Instructional Technologies and Materials Design in ELT course. Me and my 4 friends created a padlet about endangered animals on padlet.com , together. Every member of our group participated and I think the outcome is quite good. Photo taken from here We did our research on the information about endangered animals, causes of why they are endangered, possible solutions and we conducted a survey as well. I found some information about spesific species and shared a graph showing some species’ numbers. Creating a padlet was easy and useful; it helps the users to learn the information in an enjoyable way. You can write anything you want, share photos or videos, change the style of your padlet, etc. I used all of these methods and I didn’t find it difficult at all. I think it could and it should be used in the classrooms, mostly in the language classrooms. The learners, especially young learners, can...