Doing interviews is an essential part of many podcasts. Podcast Academy explains in text or in audio how to make your interview interesting and successful. Then read James Fallows write in the Atlantic about how to give a good interview. He’s famous for it.
Category: tools
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Tool #92: Learning Grammar with Movies
Great little site MSTAGG with short clips from recent movies used to teach grammar points. This is definitely upper intermediate though, but he has gone through the material and done a good job of presenting examples. The clips are sometimes too long, but you can further filter them if you want to spend time preparing.
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Tool #91: WeboWord: Vocabulary with drawings
Learn a new vocabulary item each day with an illustrative drawing, examples, explanations and lots of information about that word. Lots of fun at WeboWord.
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Tool #90: Building a Personal Learning Network: PLN
This site is not for students, it is for teachers. Every teacher nowadays needs a network of resources to keep pace with the advances in teaching and technology. Here they show you how to do it. Creating a Personal Learning Network involves finding and keeping track of valuable resources that you can go back to when you need them. That is what I am doing here with the 100 Tools, in a way, building my own PLN.
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Tool #89: Cutting EDge classroom
The Cutting Edge Classroom is a small blog by an educator with many ideas about using technology in the classroom. Here he talks about how to use PageFlakes and NetVibes, two of our recent tools.