TESOL Teacher Talk

Switch on Zoom Avatars in the Virtual Classroom Do yours students love animated characters? Turn on the Avatar feature in Zoom to delight students (and teachers) in the virtual classroom. Learn more in the...

Starting new classes? New to teaching? Fiona Wiebusch QI shares some practical tips and links to some of her favourite authors and activities on the topic of establishing rapport in the physical or virtual language classroom.

Rapport and routines to welcome new language learners — The Queensland Institute Pty Ltd [Blog] QI Director, Fiona Wiebusch, shares practical teaching tips and routines to welcome new language learners.

I'm a big Jamboard fan and loved exploring this set of free template activities from this very creative educator.

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Where's Waldo warmer looks fun! A great set of Mentimeter templates to start virtual classes or meetings.

25 Fun Virtual Icebreakers for Remote and Hybrid Meetings Kick-starting a meeting is never easy but doing so in a fully or partially remote meeting can even trickier. Thankfully though, Mentimeter is here to bring an interactive element to traditional icebreakers. Look through the list and put any of our icebreaker templates to good use in your next meetin...

✈️ Travel radio dramas are a great creative writing to speaking activity for the online classroom. 🔉 We ask students to create the audio using Vocaroo 💻 Find the activity description from the TESOL International Association blog and Vocaroo App at the link below:
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Story Generator is definitely one of our favourite speaking apps for the online classroom lately. Make your own radomizer via www.flippity.net

26 June: FREE ELT Conference with fantastic plenaries from Scott Thornbury and Silvana Richardson. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3A04tJd

Woohoo! Delighted to have been selected to present at the English Australia English Australia Ed-Tech SIG Symposium on 13-15 July. Learn about our presentation topic and registration details below. See you there! - Fiona TeacherTraining

Lessons from launching — The Queensland Institute Pty Ltd QI Directors selected to present at the Annual English Australia Ed-Tech Symposium, 13-15 July 2021.

Fiona is the Founder and Director, Teacher Development, at the Queensland Institute Pty Ltd in Brisbane, Australia. thequeenslandinstitute.com

9 Strategies for Getting More Students to Talk A state Teacher of the Year shares her techniques for increasing the number of students who talk and share their ideas in class.

The English Australia Ed-Tech Symposium’s Call for Papers closes today Thursday 27 May! ⚡🚀🎯 👇Follow the link:
https://bit.ly/3wwj2BC