Technology
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Why I Use the MacBook Neo for My Classes
the MacBook Neo fits my real life perfectly. I don’t need a portable supercomputer, and I certainly don’t miss the headaches of modern Windows laptops. Let’s talk about why this lightweight little machine became my absolute favorite daily driver for teaching.
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Two Sides of El Salvador: Why Foreigners Stream In While Locals Still Look North
A personal look at how income, security, and perspective create two totally different experiences in the same country. Pull up a chair, get comfortable, and let’s pour a cup of Salvadoran coffee, or a warm tea, if you prefer. The other day, I was sitting in an open-air café inside a shopping mall here in…
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Why Dia Browser and Its Chat with Tab Feature Is the Best for Online Teachers
Pull up a chair, grab your favorite cup of coffee, and let’s talk about something we online teachers rarely discuss openly: the absolute chaos of our web browser tabs. If you are anything like me, your browser is probably a battlefield. On any given Tuesday, I have fifteen tabs open. There’s a Google Meet session…
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Teaching Beyond the Screen
The world of teaching has changed more in the last five years than in the previous fifty. I’ve lived through both the high-fives of an onsite classroom and the “Can you hear me now?” glitches of a Zoom call.
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Lesson plans, do they actually work?
This is a very common struggle that we teachers face every single week or month depending on the lesson plan policy. What can we do about it? Well, certainly not much, but we can make things smoother and less hectic.
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4 Challenges Every Online Teacher Faces (And How I Handled Them)
What’s being an online teacher like? That’s a very common question I get asked whenever I say I teach online classes. To be fair, I always answer the same thing: “It’s pretty good,” because it is. However, not everything is that “pretty good,” and today I will tell you what I think are some of…
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The Online Teacher Back Office Apps
Let me tell you the importance of making the classes different instead of just following a fixed path. But most importantly, these tools are for teachers’ back office work and not too much about using them in classes with students.
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The “Next Slide” Blues: Making Online Learning Actually Feel Real
We can do better. Technology isn’t just about replacing a chalkboard with a digital slide; it’s about making the connection between us feel alive again.
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Teaching Beyond the Screen: My Journey Through Online and Onsite Language Education
The world of teaching has changed more in the last five years than in the previous fifty.
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Speaking Over Swiping: Why I Switched My Students to Tomo Voice Notes
As a language instructor, I realized that most apps are teaching us how to be great “students”, the kind who can pass a multiple-choice test, but they aren’t teaching us how to be “communicators”.