ISL Collective

Hello, everyone! In this post, I will be explaining an ELT website called ISL Collective. It aims to give teachers activities, tasks and games on any topic that they can use in their lessons, both for young learners and adults.

Who authored the website? Is there any information about their qualifications or credentials?  

You can find information about the founders of the site in the About Us section. The section gives you personal information about the founders, but you can’t find much about their qualifications or experiences.

What is the content of the website?

You can find materials for grammar and vocabulary in every proficiency level and for both young learners and adults. Also, for adults, you can find materials for business and professionals.

Who is the target audience?

The target audience is teachers around the globe.

What is the purpose of the website?

The purpose of the site is to provide teachers from all around the world with activities and materials that they can use in their lessons. The site also provides materials for German, French, Spanish, Russian and Portuguese language teaching, as you can see in the picture below:

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Is there a date that shows when the site has last been updated?

Unfortunately, you can’t find information about when the site has last been updated. However, you can find newest printables, most downloaded printables of yesterday, and weekly most downloaded printables.

Accuracy of the information- Are there any errors?

I looked at the Grammar and Vocabulary sections, and didn’t find any errors. 

Are there any broken links?

Every link in the site works perfectly.

Are the images of high quality and appealing to the target audience?

Images are appropriate for the target audience.

How can it be applied to EFL teaching?

Since the website offers you activities, it is really easy for you to use them in your lessons. And, the best part of the site is that you it gives the Word format, which means you can edit them and use them as you want in your lessons.

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I Have Something to Say!

Hello, friends. It’s been a while since I last posted, I found that I really missed it!

My new subject is about searching on the Internet. In high school, I had lots of homework that required research on the Internet, but I was never informed about how or where to do it. It felt like I never needed it, it was something simple for me. However, on the Internet you can find lots of things, relevant and irrelevant to your topic. In my previous Instructional Technology and Material Design course, I found out that it is actually not that simple, and this kind of homework requires some limitations

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Let’s talk about my homework for the course. For this homework we used a padlet wall. You can create a pedlet wall for any topic you want, you can share anything you want –links, images, videos, and your own thoughts on any topic- and it is really easy to do. This assignment was one of the easies for me.

For the assignment, we had a group of 8 people, my friends were Şeymanur, Saliha, Cansu, Sare, Gamze, Dilruba and Gizem. Our topic was Endangered Species, and we shared interviews, posters, videos and some facts about endangered species on our wall. I loved our topic since it is a really important issue, and I also loved sharing on padlet. I think it was really simple, and creating such things easily made me feel really good!

Here is our padlet wall!

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