Techie Teachers: A Blog by a Teacher for Teachers

              [Picture Collected from Pixabay] How many times did you wish to design the perfect grammar quiz but failed miserably? How many times did you want to create a mind-blowing interesting set of grammatical puzzles but ended up making some usual information gap activity? If you are a teacher, the above-mentioned incidents happened in your life not only once, but multiple times.Teachers and material developers constantly struggle with the task of making meaningful and interesting grammar-based quizzes but in most of the cases they achieve little success. As a result, learners lose interest in learning grammar and it turns out to be a boring and dreadful part of language learning for them.  However, a magical platform like TubeQuizard can solve this complicated problem for teachers. TubeQuizard with its quiz wizardry can entice learners to quizzes without requiring any sort of invigilation or hard work on the part of the teacher...

[Source: Pixabay] Language learning is fun, but as language teachers we almost never hear our students say that. At least, my students never said in front of me, "Wow! I had so much fun today learning prepositions!" Let's face the reality, classes cannot be all about fun. Classes are meant to promote learning and that is the main goal. However, as I said in my previous blog posts, a little fun in the classroom can never be harmful.  Technology is one of the most effective agents for making lessons more enjoyable, interesting and at the same time to create and nurture a proper learning environment. There are a lot of websites to help students learn autonomously inside and outside the classroom that do not only make learning delightful but also ensure that meaningful learning takes place in a short amount of time. One of such musical platforms of online language learning resources is LyricsTraining. What is LyricsTraining ? LyricsTraining is a music...