A focus on materials development: How to write effective learning materials, Rachael Roberts
In our IDIE class, we were asked by our teacher to give a lesson to our class on How to write effective learning materials. To do so we did reserach on this area, focusing on Rachel Roberts since she is an expert in this field, a teacher trainer and author of several works such as IELTS Foundation, the new edition of Total English Intermediate and most recently, Real Life Advanced. We had 20 minutes to give the lesson and even though we surpassed a little the time we had estimated, the activities we had prepared for the lesson went very well and everyone seemed to have lots of fun. Our aim in this class was to make students learn certain specific English vocabulary through fun activities by using TICs. Firstly, we made a Prezi presentation ( http:// prezi .com/s-tsve0n7qsl/ ?utm_campaign=share&utm_ medium=copy&rc=ex0share ) in order to explain to them what we had discovered in our research. Once we had finished, we asked them to join a Kahoo...