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Macmillan Open Dictionary

Seth — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:00:32 +0000

Hi there folks,

I just found out about a great new “user generated” online urban dictionary this evening and thought I’d share it with you all.

Image from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/

Here’s the description that Lifehacker gave it:

Macmillan’s new Open Dictionary allows anyone to suggest definitions for new words, similar to online Urban Dictionary. It differs in the fact that the definitions are carefully screened and handpicked, making it—in theory—more reliable and trustworthy.

I bet we could think of some great lesson ideas to use this with! Well, even if we can’t, Cambridge University Press has a few great ESOL dictionary lesson plans that will help get us started.

Direct link to the Macmillan Dictionary

Got any great dictionary lesson plans to use with language learners? Be sure to share them in the comments!

Seth

Death By PowerPoint Comprehension Questions

Seth — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:22:32 +0000

I am currently trying to improve the general standard of presentations my students at Martino Martini Social Sciences school, it’s not as easy a task as you’d think!
To try to help them out a little I’m going to show them the “Death By PowerPoint” presentation by Alexei Kapterev.

Death by PowerPoint

View more documents from www.kapterev.com.

As the presentation is quite long, I wondered whether the students would remember all the important information while I go through the presentation with them. In the end I’ve decided to talk through the presentation once, and answer a few simple questions. Then I’ll ask the students to look at it again themselves on the Slideshare site. To help them with this, I’ve written a short worksheet for the students to work through as they read.

Death By Power Point – Comprehension Questions

View more documents from Seth dickens.

I hope you find it handy! You can download your own copy here.

All the best,

Seth

Top 100 Language Blogs – We’re nominated!

Seth — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:24:50 +0000

Along with my colleague and friend Nelba Quintana from Argentina, Nik Peachey from Morocco among many others (well 97 to be precise ) I’m really pleased to have been nominated as one of the top 100 languague teaching technology blogs for 2009. The “competition” is being run by the folks over at the http://www.lexiophiles.com blog

If you’ve found any of the posts here on Digitalang useful, you’re more than welcome to mosey on over to the link below to leave a vote for me.

Look down the list for the name of my blog: Digitalang (the names of blogs appear in alphabetical order)

Before the name there is a radio button -> click on the button and a black dot will appear. Next, browse down and you can leave (or not) a comment about this blog.

Finally, click on “VOTE” and a new window will appear saying that you have voted successfully-
If you do vote, thank you very much!! If you don’r thanks anyhow for being here and reading this