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"One Best Thing": expert guides to implement modern teaching and learning in your classroom Apple distinguished educators from the 2013 cohort have produced this collection of 102 multi-touch books which highlight best practices, interesting projects and use of technology in the classroom. These are available for free in iBooks . Apple describes One Best Thing as: A collection of books, created by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs), that demonstrate the use of Apple technologies to transform teaching and learning. Each One Best Thing book shares a unit, a lesson, or a best practice and is designed to help another educator implement a successful practice. It’s a professional learning idea championed by an educator—in word and action—that others can look to for ideas and tips on how to replicate. In Apple's words, One Best Thing invites you to: Discover innovative classroom strategies and activities in these Multi-Touch books by Ap...

Many of the interactive resources below can also be shared with the students to improve their English / other language comprehension,  Presentation on WHY use technology? and resources for ESL  http://www.slideshare.net/skrajicek/integrating-techesl BLOGGING Every Student has a  blog  from years Little Ducks to Year 9. Please let Jon or Simon know if you are interested in having students blog in your subject. Here is an example of a Year 8 blog. The student is currently blogging in Science and ICT. After surveying the students 80% preferred blogging in place of using their exercise book. http://christinajan.blogspot.com/ Why blog?  http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/3721 How to blog?  http://suewaters.com/2013/02/11/getting-more-out-of-student-blogging/ APPS / WEB 2.0 Great looking resource for older students  www.fluentu.com Duolingo & Memrise will remind students if they haven’...

This is for practising speaking and listening, not to be used for plagiarism. It is easy for teachers to detect when this has been used.

Google Language Settings If you open your Gmail (or school email) and the language is in Thai, you will need to change the language settings for your account to English. This is a simple procedure, but a challenge for non-Thai speakers as all the menus will be in Thai. Language is a user controlled setting, the video below shows you how to change the setting: Click on your Avatar or picture in the top right corner Click on the left hand link under your email address (to go to account) Select the third tab (language settings) Change the top box to English Click in the pop-up to reload Screen should now be in English and you can select the appropriate regional variant of English. At this point I recommend you log out of Google and restart your browser to check that the setting has fully changed. The video (which has no sound) below shows those steps Alternative approach follow these instructions from Google  https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6...