Including sketchnotes in my teaching The first time I heard about sketchnoting, I thought it was a great way to enhance notetaking. I was looking for new ways for students to show understanding of concepts and I bumped into this strategy online. However, I was a little hesitant on how my students would respond. I […]
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Here is the presentation I made at Fliptech Latam 2019 sharing my experience about innovation and how mindset has everything to do with it. The video is in Spanish with English subtitles. Below is the script with the slides. Innovation in education is a mindset matter. Hello. Thank you very much. I am very happy
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In this blog post, I would like to share a video I made with the steps I take when planning a flipped lesson. SCRIPT: Here is the script (with some corrections, of course) I want to share with you the steps that I used to flip my classes.The first thing that I do is that
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A couple of years ago, I published a blog post with my understanding of what an in-class flip was. Since then, I have tried different ways to in-class flip in my teaching setting to figure out all the possibilities that come with this approach. During this discovery process, I teamed up with my dear friend
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The other day I was doing some shopping with my husband when I saw a bright and colorful pack of mini play-doh containers. My eyes lit up. I thought, “for sure I can think of some way to include this in my classes.” Of course, my husband’s first reaction was an are-you-really-going-to-buy-all-that-play-doh-for-your-classes type of reaction,
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USING VOICE DICTATION WITH STORY CUBES In one of my speaking classes this week, I was teaching about storytelling, so I designed a warm-up I would like to share. First of all, I started the lesson by dividing the class in two groups of 6 students, and I handed each group a bag of story
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Teaching pronunciation communicatively Because pronunciation has been one of my teaching and research focus in the past few years, I know for a fact that it is neglected by many teachers around the world. I decided to flip pronunciation some years ago (without knowing I was flipping) because it just made sense. I mean, how
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Note: this infographic was made using Canva.
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In the three years that I have been involved in the Electronic Village Online sessions, I have always been asked what they are. It surprises me to know that such an enriching and accessible professional development opportunity is not as known as it should be. If you, reader, are asking yourself that question as you
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Why is it so hard to find fun activities for teaching writing? Maybe I’m not looking in the right places. Anyhow, I’m currently teaching an academic writing course to a group of 16 students and I have definitely felt challenged in thinking of ways to make this class not only meaningful, but also fun and
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