2 Events on Creativity for FREE: June 17 & 24, 2015

How it would go if I were a creative teacher? Is it an easy job to start learning creativity? What tools should I have to bring creativity into my classrooms? A lot of questions like that come out when opening discussions around this term. Today, I have found 2 free online opportunities that can help teachers to discover some new ways to improve and foster creativity in them or their students ...  

Canva Webinar: Free Graphic-Design Tool on June 16, 17, 18, 23, and 25, 2015

Canva is an amazingly simple graphic-design tool for free. It gives you everything you need to easily turn ideas into stunning designs. You can create designs for Web or print. 

You have many options to choose from:

Albums covers, banners, book covers, Facebook covers, brochures, blog graphics, presentations, flyers, posters, infographics, cards, invitations and so much more.

Why should I blog?

It's been so long since I last posted on my blog. Yes, I am still publishing about online courses, webinars, and conferences. But, this doesn't matter to a writer who continuously looks for a little bit creativity inside. I talk about writing some reflections that bring my own thoughts and touches to life. Blogging is not  just compiling some posts and organizing them chronologically.
  

Education on Air (May 8-9, 2015): Register for FREE Online Conference by Google

If you are an educator, administrator, IT specialist, or anyone who wants to learn new things, acquires experiences, and meets people from all over the world, you can register for May 8-9, 2015 online conference now.

FREE Webinar on January 13, 2015: Create Interactive Online Content with Office Mix!

http://community.simplek12.com/tlc/officemix/

Would you like to be able to create and curate distance learning or flipped classroom content for your students, but can't quite afford or figure out those tools?  Join David Lopez as he shows how easy it is for PowerPoint 2013 users to learn how to use Office Mix that brings rapid e-learning development and hosting right to you. 

FREE Google Online Event on January 10, 2015!

http://community.simplek12.com/tlc/google/

If you want to learn more about how to use Google in your teaching, please join the FREE Google Event on January 10, 2015. Connect with teachers all around the world, and learn from subject matter experts the best Google tips and tools for classroom use. 

Kick off 2015 with 13 EVO Courses for FREE!

Have you thought of updating your expertise and knowledge as an EFL or ESL teacher to start your new year 2015 differently? Are you looking for FREE opportunities to develop yourself professionally? Do you like to meet some new colleagues with different perspectives for teaching? Do you need some new web tools to spice up your classrooms and increase motivation to learn among your students? 

Don't Miss this Chance "Dec. 8-14, 2014": Let your Students CODE for an Hour!

  

We embrace the use of tablets trend this year in our school. Without any training, teachers were asked to start using them in their classes. It is not just keeping the e-content of a variety of subjects on these tablets and browsing them when needed. We eagerly want to create an interactive environment where students can think critically and creatively, collaborate, and construct new knowledge together. 

QuieTube: A Magical Tool to Watch Videos in Peace

Have you ever suffered from many distractions when watching videos? If you encounter this problem, QuieTube will bring you an amazing solution. It is a normal browser extension that can help you to remove all distractions by only a click. You will find your video in a blank page without any advertisements, side content, and comments. 

Happening Now: Macmillan FREE Online Conference for 5 Days (Nov., 10 - 14, 2014)

The Macmillan Education Online Conference returns for a fourth year running, bringing teachers and educators FIVE days of talks to inspire their teaching and support their professional development.  

What I loved the most about this conference is that you can find a variety of talks that addresses all ages of learners: Adult, teenagers, and young. As I am teaching secondary school students, I am looking forward to Malcolm Mann's talk about teaching tips for teens, and Robert Campbell's talk about simple ways to bring technology into the classroom. I am also interested in Gabriel Diaz Maggioli's talk that is about how songs and music can help teachers boost students' expression in English. I tried songs with my students when teaching grammar and they loved this way so much. I'm excited to know more innovative ways to use songs in my EFL classrooms. 

Please, go to this website to register and download the full schedule.

Don't forget to tweet using  #MEOC2014.

Register for Google FREE Online Course "Basics for Teaching" Nov. 18 - Dec. 19, 2014

Thanks my dear friend +Diana Samson for sharing this course. I'm a fan of Google free online courses, indeed. This time seems a little bit different because it deals with teaching using their technology. I'm so excited to see how they can employ technology to empower students and equip teachers with innovative ideas.  

What are you waiting for?

 

Hot topics across borders in ELT - Oct. 18-19, 2014

IATEFL is holding its first Web Conference on Oct. 18-19, 2014. This conference is totally free to attend and is a wonderful opportunity for professional development. Places are limited so make sure you receive all the latest updates by registering today.

• Saturday Oct. 18th, 2014 from 14.00 BST (13.00 GMT) through to 20.45 BST (19.45 GMT). To find out what time this event airs in your location, please click here 
• Sunday Oct. 19th, 2014 from 8.30 BST (7.30 GMT) through to 15.30 BST (14.30 GMT). To find out what time this event airs in your location, please click here

        

  
Please go to this link "Web Conference Program" to find the full program including session titles, timetables and much more. 

Resource: 

• IATEFL Web Conference

Keep downloading by KeepVid, but ...

KeepVid is a free web application that allows you to download videos from many sites. I’m so impressed by this website. Before knowing about it, I find it difficult to download YouTube videos. I have tried many programs, but this website looks great with a variety of features.

• It enables users to download any video with a variety of extensions, e.g., MP4, MP3, FLV, WebM, 3GP, and more.

ThingLink Challenge e-Store and Showcase

In this post, I try to collect all the resources shared by Susan Oxnevad or suggested by other colleagues, and the products created by participants during the ThingLink Teacher Challenge 2014. This makes it easier for me to reach and reuse later. 

Tools for Creating Interactive Images:

Can ThingLink Flip Bloom's Taxonomy Upside Down?

I had the opportunity to participate in Susan Oxnevad's ThingLink Teacher Challenge which is a free, self-paced, online course that aims to help teachers to transform classroom teaching and e-learning using ThingLink; a tool that enables users to upload their photos and tag them using a variety of media, e.g., text, audio, video, links, ... etc. It simply adds life to the static images and make them more interactive and engaging for the audience. During the ten weeks of this course, we created fabulous images that fulfill certain purposes.