eLearning
Try out the Little Leaf website for your English teaching and learning!
The "Learning English with Little Leaf" (LELL) project of the English Language Education Department of EdUHK is adaptable to all of the dynamic possibilities of learning English in today’s constantly changing contexts. The mission of the LELL Project is to develop...
Introducing Creative Augmented Reality E-books (CARE BOOKS)
According to English Language Curriculum and Assessment Guide (2021), our objectives for primary English education are to “provide students with learning experiences to increase their language proficiency for study, work, leisure and personal enrichment; develop their...
The Gingerbread Man: E-books for Process Writing
E-books can be used for various classroom activities. In this example, English teacher Zoe from Hong Kong Baptist Convention Primary School made an interactive e-book with different endings of the Gingerbread Man story and used it as an example for her students to...
Using Graphic Novels to Support English Learners in Visual Literacy
In today’s world, readers need to equip themselves with the skills to do more than read only text. Images, graphics and video are all a part of the multimodal context for the modern reader. Everywhere there is a growing number of text types, and most of them are...
To Increase Students’ English Oral fluency? All You Need is a Smartphone
Research has proved that even using easily accessible tools such as the camera or audio recorder in one’s smart phone can enhance students’ fluency.
DIY E-books for Storytelling
E-book sounds fancy and mysterious when it involves sophisticated authoring tools. However, you and your students can also create attractive e-books and tell interesting stories just using the one of the most common tool - Microsoft PowerPoint. The examples of...
3 Popular Frameworks You Need to Know for Integrating Technology in Your Class
The way or the "level" you integrate technology in your lessons might make a difference in the effectiveness of teaching and learning. Getting to know some major frameworks of technology integration might give you a sense of how the use of technology can be planned...
Flipped Learning: Video Examples
In this session, we will present some examples of pre-recorded videos used for flipped learning. Originally designed and used for Ma On Shan Ling Liang Primary School, the videos below cater for P4 and P5 English curriculum. Each video has a specific language focus...
Think Twice about Your Class: to Flip or Not to Flip?
Some technologies are very helpful in allowing us to do familiar things better. PowerPoint, compared with pen on a whiteboard or chalk on a blackboard, is a superior visual experience. But some technologies or IT approaches have the power to transform learning – allowing us to do things that would be impossible otherwise.
A WebQuest Approach to Teaching English Reading – and Recommended Resources
WebQuests are a technology-enhanced approach to learning that allows teachers to direct students to appropriate online resources, and allows students to participate in a coherent series of scaffolded, inquiry-based activities. To assess students’ reading abilities, for example…
Recommended e-Resources for Teaching English Listening
Most students of English as a second language have few opportunities to improve their English listening by listening to authentic English in context. To give students more opportunities to listen to comprehensible English, teachers can turn to technology for…
Adding Subtitles with Ease
Subtitles are very useful for primary and secondary students when you have found (or made) an appropriate video but want to provide additional listening support. Subtitles are also a great addition when videos are used for Flipped Classes or with EdPuzzle activities....
6 Easy Apps for Video Editing
1. Adobe Premiere Clip (iOS & Android, free) This is an excellent and easy app to use on iOS and Android mobile devices. It is very hands on and intuitive. The editing of clips is very easy and it makes great use of your mobile device's processing power to render...
Make Your First E-book – PowerPoint (Advanced)
If you have grasped the basics of making an eBook with PowerPoint, the following tutorials that introduce more advanced eBook features are right for you. Advanced E-book Text Features 1. How to sync audio with texts in PowerPoint This is a 3-minute video that shows...
Google Services (G Suite): Google Chrome
As one of the most powerful browsers in the world, Google Chrome provides you with a simple, secure and fast online experience. This is a tutorial to help you get started with Google Chrome (8 Minutes) Highlights from the video: the differences between logging...
Google Services (G Suite): Google Drive
Google Drive is a popular cloud storage service that allows you to store, access and share files across various devices. With a Google account, you can enjoy up to 15GB of free cloud storage in Google Drive. For G Suite for Education users, the storage space of Google...
Make Your First E-book – Book Creator
E-books can make English teaching and learning more effective and interesting, and teachers and students can create any types of e-books with their creativity. A good e-book can be a well-balanced combination of teacher input and student choice as shown below. Here...
Make Your First E-book – PowerPoint (Basic)
Compared to traditional printed materials, digital books are more favorable to English learners as listed below. They can be designed to match the specific needs of students.They are easily changed and adapted for other groups of learners.They can include...