Informed Teachers

The title explains everything, apart from using technology in my daily classroom practice, I also believe it's important to share knowledge. I very intensely do so in social media: Twitter    @Rach_Ribeiro Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/raquel-ribeiro-4b027151/ And also here on Informed Teachers blog! Here in this post we take a look at two posts I wrote for Brazilian magazine  Nova Escola  giving more information on how Google Educator Groups work: https://novaescola.org.br/conteudo/4797/blog-tecnologia-professores-trocam-experiencias-sobre-tecnologia and to  IATEFL   LTSIG  ( Learning Technologies Special Interest Group ) describing my presentation on IATEFL Glasgow. It was about the integration of Virtual Reality with EFL syllabus. http://ltsig.iatefl.org/iatefl-presentation-virtual-reality-in-the-efl-class/ In Glasgow I took part in a great event organized by  ELTJam  &  Cambridge English Language As...

Hi guys!  It's been a while! Here's what I have been doing in the past few months: Researching the use of affordable VR (Virtual Reality) and the integration with class purposes for the different age ranges. https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/raquel-gonzaga/supplementary-resource-virtual-reality-efl-class In August I took part of IV Congresso Brasileiro de Recursos Digitais na Educação (IVCBRDE) IV Brazilian Congress of Digital Resources in Education at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie in São Paulo, Brazil. There I presented my classroom practice of promoting students' collaboration via mobile to develop their discourse and enhance the brainstorming phase of the classes on the first day. And a hands on workshop on the last day. The theme was: 'Mobile phones and productive classroom collaboration'  Research that also granted me a scholarship to present at IATEFL LTSIG ( Learning Technologies Special Interest Group ) for the 2016 confe...

I n this video, I share my  successful experience of having students (adult and teenagers) enhance their lexical and communicative skills by collaborating in real time using the app Google Docs in their mobile phones.  I show the evolution of their first drafts and attempts to their current usage and how that has impacted their written and oral production. Just to contextualize my practice, I am a teacher of English as a foreign language (EFL) in São Paulo, Brazil. Over the course of twenty years of classroom practice, I have given classes to all CEFR levels from A1 to C2, children, teenagers and adult learners. I have been an EdTech blogger since 2011 and have very intensely researched apps to enhance both self study and classroom experience of students and teachers. I am an enthusiast of using tech resources in my classroom practice, as long as they have a clear learning purpose. Here's the video with my participation in the 30 Goals On Line Conference...