Kaplan surveyed more than 500 ESL teachers from around the world to discover what tools they use to enhance their lessons. Here's an inf...

Barbara Sakamoto may be a familiar name in the international social media but she isn't usually present in the European conference cir...

This is so hilarious I've just got to share it here, too. Shame it's so fast that learners may have a hard time following it. Anyway...

This is a good an excuse as any to listen to a good song, and, at the same time, be reminded of the suffering the great nation had to endure...

This is indeed a sad day for many, and whether you're an Apple fan or not, I'm sure it must have affected you. There's nothing I...

I recently responded to a blog challenge by a video recording of myself - you can see it by clicking here . Most EFL teachers are probably a...

When Sir Ken Robinson speaks, one usually listens. He's a wonderful storyteller, a great speaker. He has no need for notes, merely relyi...

I've always loved this song (written by Jagger/Richards, and released on the Stones' Let It Bleed album towards the end of 1969), an...

In January 2011, I posted a video showing how they were building a music school in  Kirina, Mali, from scratch. The school opened its doors ...

As titled in my previous post, dogme is indeed like a dog with a bone. The recent IATEFL 2011 Conference in Brighton seems to have started i...

If you haven't heard of dogme, you must have been hibernating in your shell for too long, and you'll have an awful lot of catching u...

This, along with the PechaKucha night, must have been the highlights of the IATEFL 2011 Brighton conference. The motion for the ELT...

Ted Talks has a speaker with a difference - he isn't going to speak! Don't worry - it isn't a silent video, lol. Jackson Browne ...

In We Are The Champions , I wrote about several ideas you could do with songs in the classroom, so if you'd missed it, you ought to take...

"The next thing we knew the music started playing, children gathered for their own personal concert, and we all transcended to a place ...

Teacher trainer John Kay expounds on his tips on teaching speaking on this set of videos for the British Council. They aren't new, but e...

A lot of teachers who use songs for ELT restrict themselves to a gap-fill activity plus a singalong, but there are, however, many other act...

From the humble beginnings of a one-city initiative in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour has grown to be the largest ever voluntary action taken by...

The Khan Academy happened almost by accident. It all started when its creator, Salman Khan, made a video tutorial for his cousins. You can...

With all the headlines on the problems of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Northern Japan, now is a good time as any to have a debate on...