Schools take pride in having teachers who are highly eLearning-competent

 Next Monday, I'll be meeting the group of undergraduate students taking my course on Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) for the first session. I'll be doing a couple of things to get them excited about TELL, one of which is to show them the picture below. 

A couple of weeks ago, I visited this school in Tuen Mun for an AI-image-generating competition award ceremony. When I was walking past the school's meeting room, my eye was caught by the  teacher portraits posted at the entrance to the room. 

This picture will show the undergradate students how schools take pride in having teachers who are highly eLearning-competent.

Pyrotechnics show

 I went to the West Kowloon Park last night to watch the 水上煙火表演. Well, I admit I had had no idea what to call 水上煙火表演  in English, so I had to look it up in the mass media. 

The answer is: "a pyrotechnics show". 

OK, but this being quite a technical word, it's not easy to remember (unlike "firework(s) display"). Given the rising frequency of 煙火表演 in HK, I hope a more popular, easier-to-remember, name will evolve soon.  

Incidentally, I enjoy the traditional fireworks display more than the pyrotechnics show. 

Canvastera vs Thinglink and Genial.ly

 https://canvastera.com/

is a replicate of the former Glogster, which has shut down. 

It's for creating interactive posters. 

Canvastera vs Thinglink and Genial.ly

Thinglink and Genial.ly: 

The interactive elements (images; videos; etc.) are signalled as shimmering hotspots. 

Canvastera: 

The interactive elements (except audios) appear in small  sizes on the poster. When clicked, they enlarge. In other words, one can see all the inserted elements already. This may be a plus, or minus, depending on the intended use. 

CLOZEit for creating cloze passages

 CLOZEit is a Google Doc extension for quickly creating a cloze passage. 

The downside: It is not interactive. 

Anki vs Midterm for creating cloze passages for revision

 Just this morning, I realised that Anki can also be used to create cloze deletions in a passage. The passage, or pararaph, will become one card containing the deletions (as many as you like). 

But I still like Midterm more for this purpose. It's easier to create a study text. You only need to hover your cursor on a deletion, and the answer will show. 

The downside is that the developer doesn't support the mobile app or the web app any more (they have switched to Subconcept, a mobile app for a different purpose). While I can continue to create using the desktop app, there is no way I can study the cloze texts on the go.