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7 Ways to Improve Your Graphic Game: Creating Classroom Materials

Brent Warner
Brent Warner

As the world becomes more and more connected through incredible technology available at our fingertips, it’s important to recognize that we are now dealing with a generation of students who are hypersensitive to high-quality, well-designed imagery. These students expect to … Continue reading

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Integrating OER Materials Into the English Language Classroom

Stephanie Marcotte
Stephanie Marcotte

Open Educational Resources (OER) are accessible, open, and free resources that you can embed into your courses. Other organizations, individuals, and educators share resources freely, providing an open license for them to be used by others. These could be images, … Continue reading

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Teacher-Made Materials Design: 6 Flaws and Fixes

Gabriela Kleckova
Gabriela Kleckova

Despite a broad range of professionally developed language teaching materials, we often prepare our own materials (e.g., worksheets, checklists, surveys, tests, assignments sheets) in order to provide learners with more personalized, individualized, or localized contents and tasks. How many of … Continue reading

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3 Steps to Innovate TESOL Curriculum

Kristen Lindahl
Kristen Lindahl

If necessity is the mother of invention, as TESOL educators, we may want to develop our own or adopt new materials for a few reasons. Sometimes, we find ourselves in teaching contexts without the materials that we need or would … Continue reading

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Free CALL Conference Webcasts

Sandra Rogers
Sandra Rogers

The CALL-IS is hosting several free webcasts during the TESOL conference starting tomorrow.  If you’re at the conference, you can attend these live events.

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