Hello, my dear colleagues! As you may have noticed before, I am a big fan of guided writing, reading, bibliotherapy, and dramatization. Books for children can be expensive nowadays, and the libraries in schools can be quite small, especially when it comes to books in English. I will list the websites and describe their functions …
Last week I had the honor to host an official webinar with Preply, an online teaching platform I’ve been working at for 4 years now. In this webinar, we discussed the teaching methodology needed to teach young learners effectively. The webinar was live-streamed on the official Preply Facebook page. Webinar content: 10 steps to teaching …
My dear colleague Nevena Marković and I, together with ELTA organized a webinar about distance learning for preschool teachers, primary and high school teachers. At one moment we had more than 500 people present! This post is a reflection of the webinar and it presents the things we touched in short. Webinar topics In our …
This is an open letter to all of you, students, who are now immersed in distance learning. We know that this is happening too quickly and we know that this is as stressful for you as it is for us. This is why we want to make this easier for everyone, and for that to …
Hello, my dear educators! I wrote another post, this time, aimed at preschool teachers and elementary school teachers who need to transfer their school to the cloud quickly. It is easier for the university, high school, and even middle school students, but the primary school students and preschoolers will lose the most content in this …
Classroom management in large online classrooms does sound scary and impossible, right? The truth is, it doesn’t have to be that way at all. Having 50 students in a brick and mortar classroom is terrifying, but what happens when you have 50 students in an online, virtual classroom? These classroom management tips can be used …
Hello, my dearest colleagues! I have noticed a lot of questions and posts in all teacher groups about teaching online recently. These posts usually come from teachers who are forced to quickly switch to distance learning. I’ve been teaching online for more than 6 years, and I’ve developed, moderated, and taught courses with over 1000 students. Teaching …
Being an educator who is heavily inclined towards using meaningful EdTech in my online and offline classroom, It came very naturally for me to search for online professional development. What I didn’t expect is to find plenty of quality free environmental courses for educators! The thing that I love most about many courses listed below is …
Hello, my dear colleagues! This post will probably be nothing new for some of you, but for some other teachers, it may be really interesting. I will show you how to make a digital teacher portfolio step-by-step using Microsoft Sway. Why Microsoft Sway? It can be pretty hard to build a nice portfolio, and many …
In this post, I will focus on describing a WebQuest I created for the Granny Cloud in Genial.ly. You may wonder what is the Granny Cloud? Every child and every classroom is a story in itself, but the Granny Cloud is even more special because you can volunteer and join a virtual classroom no matter …
