Blogger of the Week

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Image by 200 Degrees from Pixabay


 Hello, welcome to my first ever blog post! Today I had the opportunity to look at a few blogs that were aimed for English language teachers. As this is my first time creating a blog, I was very intrigued to see what other people wrote and included in theirs. The most useful blog that I discovered was Nik Peachey’s Blog. 
Nik Peachey provides useful ways to incorporate technology in the classroom by giving lesson ideas, tips for teaching in the classroom, exercises related to the technology he suggests, as well as video or image explanations of how the programs work. As an English language teacher, I am very excited to incorporate some of these programs and tools in my lesson plans. The most interesting tools that I found from Nik Peachey’s Blog were:

The ease of use and navigation of Nik Peachey’s Blog makes it easy for everyone to look for something with the help of the 'Search' button that is provided, a time stamp of all his previous posts and  a collection of word tags regarding the previous topics. 

 Through his blog, you can also access his publications and presentations regarding the English language classroom.   

 As a novice teacher, I found this blog really helpful and I will definitely use Nik Peachey's suggested tools and advice in my future classes! 

Reading List (some other useful bloggers similar to Nik Peachey):

Comments

Brynn said…
Thank you for sharing! What you' ve mentioned are really useful tools for me during the teaching, especially for 123ContactForm. It can be applied into any online courses to design interactive materials through multimedias. And all those work can be sold which can motivate more advanced teachers to display their abilities More importantly for those novice teachers like me, we would have more access to those talented materials or services online, which will inspire us to be innovative in the future.
13 January 2020 at 14:00
Vera Hannadjia said…
Hi Brynn, I’m glad you liked my blog post!
16 January 2020 at 04:56
Anonymous said…
Hi, Vera! Thank you for sharing the useful blog to look into!
I liked your blog♪ For my future, I would definetely look at the blog you have mentioned here and try to get the tips for my teaching.Looking forward to the next post!
16 January 2020 at 05:07
Kamal Shafie said…
Hi Vera! Interesting blog you have here. Looking forward to read more posts from you.
16 January 2020 at 17:51
Jing said…
Hi Vera! I like your blog. In your post, you provide relevant links as you introduce Nik's blog, so that we can easily find what you refer to. Look forward to reading your future posts.
19 January 2020 at 10:49
Tilly said…
Hi Vera,
Great that you have already got a number of commenters - your blog post attracted some interest! I agree that Nik Peachey's blog is great - it is a super model for making an ELT blog because he evaluates each tool carefully with 'walk throughs' and frank discussion of any drawbacks. One thing to be careful of is the date of the post - some of the ones you listed were made a long time ago. That is not always a problem but Wordle for example doesn't work any more (unfortunately as it was a great tool!). Well done for starting with a clear, informative and well expressed blog post - keep it up!
Tilly
21 January 2020 at 14:28
Lingxi Ge said…
Hi, Vera! Your blog is really well structured! And the links you placed are quite useful for readers to find more information. I like it!
23 January 2020 at 15:20
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