The use of e-learning journals with Google docs

This academic year my students have made good use of google tools.

One of the best tool for preparing test has been google docs, but also useful has been mindmaps, wordle and also padlet.

I have noticed that some schools have decided to increase testing time during the Autumn and Spring term, leaving students with not enough proper learning time. As a result my tutoring work has been challenging and demanding at times as it felt like teaching a complete scheme of work in just 60 min a week. Sometimes these in-house tests included material and topics that learners hadn't properly covered in school.

Luckily I have had very able and resilient students this year, and hopefully they will not be discouraged by so much school testing and will carry on next year with modern languages.

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