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Need help with making s...

on September 1, 2015
With our weekly vocabulary quizzes, our students need as much as help as they can get to become familiar with new words. There are a few articles about helpful vocabulary learning techniques and r...

iPad Tips: Reminder you...

on March 19, 2015
Reminder is one of iOS’ basic apps; it is meant to help you create basic to-do lists to remind of you of tasks that need to be done. Last semester, one of my students creatively used Reminder, a ba...

5 Free Online Dictionar...

on December 8, 2014
Many of our students’ first instinct is to check google translate for meanings of words, phrases, and even worse: sentences and paragraphs. It could be helpful if we train them to utilize a few...

Duck Face is in Oxford ...

on December 7, 2014
Oxford dictionaries usually update their list of words twice a year. In their December 2014 update, Oxford announced that they are adding a few interesting words to their online lists to reflect wha...

Illustrate: A fancy Vid...

on October 20, 2014
It is a free dictionary that offers illustrated videos explaining different words. The dictionary is still a work in progress, i.e. not all words can be found, but it does offer a good number of words...