http://www.iberianature.com A guide to Spain: environment, geography, nature, landscape, climate, culture, history, rural tourism and travel Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:58:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://www.iberianature.com/2010/01/using-an-ipod-touch-to-teach-english/ http://www.iberianature.com/2010/01/using-an-ipod-touch-to-teach-english/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:58:47 +0000 nick http://www.iberianature.com/?p=884 I use my ipod touch as an aid to teaching English to small groups of private students. I find it very handy as a resource for:

• Photos (personalisation). Old photos of me leading to conversation about childhood, etc.
• Photos in the news downloaded from the web.
• Photos on topics of interest to my students, eg. local history, art
• Having a store of information and photos to be accessed when a topic arises
• BBC podcasts for listening
• The dictionary.com app
• The Wikipedia app. A dump version accessible anywhere. Incredibly useful as a resource.
• Stopwatch for games
• Making notes – list of films I’ve seen this year, books as a prompt to conversation
• Handy rules of thumb, downloaded, available always
• As a way of encouraging students to download BBC podcasts by showing them how they work

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