by Victoria Cornell Let’s kick off 2022 the right way with some of the best things you can do to start the New Year feeling motivated, organized, and ready to rock. This list is more than just setting New Year resolutions; they’re steps and habits that will change your mindset and leave you feeling ready to tackle what 2022 has in store. 1. Create a Vision Board Vision boards are created based on the law of attraction and as a way to visualize your goals and what you want to achieve. More and more people are using visualizing practices to set goals and plan their lives. “Creating a vision board allows you to see your goals every day so that you stay positive and you...
Animals are a high-interest way to engage children with language. Below you’ll find favorite activities for kids to learn animals in Spanish. Whether children are learning farm animal vocabulary or learning about the animals of the rain forest, living creatures introduce them to culture and language. Pets and farm animals connect to daily routines, emotions, and appear in many children’s books and stories in Spanish. Wild animals connect to geography, climate, and again, feature prominently in children’s literature in Spanish. Just as important, children connect at an emotional level with animals. They love animals and want to learn about them, and that makes animals ideal content for Spanish learners. Be sure to check out our other Spanish vocabulary activities arranged...
Once more, someone is trying to cash in on the prospect of teaching an AI to "write" and resolutely calling it an AI when it's just one more algorithm scraping the internet for samples that it can regurgitate, sort of correctly, sort of not. Hooray for automating mediocrity.Meet Jarvis (yes, that's a cute nod to comics nerd-dom), an algorithm that can make it "fast and easy to create content for your blog, social media, website, and more!" It's not cheap, but there's a free trial, and I gave it a shot because I remain fascinated by the still-unfulfilled dream of getting a computer to do language.Jarvis is one year old, founded by Dave Rogenmoser, who was co-owner of Market Results, co-founder...
Space, the final frontier…Naomi’s Photos This post is a direct continuation of my previous post: BUT SERIOUSLY, EFL STUDENTS, MEETING A COW WILL HELP YOU PREPARE FOR YOUR EXAMS! In that post, I explained how the gaps in struggling students’ general knowledge about the world hinder their performance on reading comprehension tasks regularly. “The gaps in general knowledge are most striking when it comes to texts related to environmental issues. There are many such texts in our practice books and exams.” Well, the amount of trash/debris cluttering up outer space is also an environmental issue. It’s time to push the boundaries of the students’ world knowledge and help them visualize the topic. Wild animals in the city… It’s a JACKALNaomi’s...
I’m old enough to remember when there was no such thing as email spam. For my first few web years I sprayed my work email address on every web page I created. But those days are gone. The blog spam floods of casinos and various body supplements trying to insert their links into comments has even waned, be it tools like Akismet or the roaches have moved on to something else. The something else I have seen a relentless increase in are email requests to write guest authored posts on this year blog. Sometimes the offer is for things about as far from anything I write about. You can tell from the format of many of these they are mass...
