The mobile phone: a teacher’s friend or a
teacher’s enemy?Eric Baber
Account Support Director, Cambridge
University Press
President, IATEFL
IATEFL
International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
www.iatefl.org
www.facebook.com/groups/iatefl
Twitter: @iatefl
• Three online polls from www.polleverywhere.com were here – not possible to make available anymore, but you can make your own polls on that website
Smartphones vs. Dumbphones
Scrabble for iPhone & iPad
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdUznE15L30
Narratives
Once upon a time, there was a prince who lived in a magical kingdom.This morning, as I was walking to school, I saw something absolutely unbelievable.It only seems like yesterday that I met my husband.
http://www.facebook.com/BilgiDemo
Haiku
http://www.facebook.com/BilgiDemo
It is your turn nowTo write a Facebook HaikuGood luck, please begin
(5 – 7 – 5)
Talk to YOUR celebrity
• http://www.facebook.com/Ashton • http://www.facebook.com/jenniferlopez
Talk to YOUR celebrity
• Get your students to find a celebrity they admire on Facebook and to post a message to them. Must include:– Why they admire them– Something tangible they have/have
experienced of the person (book; CD; DVD; concert…)
– A critique of the object
Talk to YOUR celebrity
• Go to http://www.facebook.com/bilgidemo • Add your team’s 3 items to include
Textual genres
heA my soul spk. Of d vry instnt dat I saw u, Did my hart fly @ yr svC
Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service
(Shakespeare: The Tempest – Act 3, Scene 1)
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