Kamal Shafie's Blog

What is Duolingo? The homepage for Duolingo website. Duolingo is an online language-learning platform that includes a website and mobile app. According to its website, Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the world, with more than 300 million users. It is so popular that there are plenty of funny parody videos made about Duolingo such as this one from the famous American show - S aturday Night Live (SNL): [Source: YouTube - 'SNL: Duolingo for talking to Children'] Duolingo co-founders are Luis von Ahn and Severin Hackers.  Duolingo's founders: Luis Von Ahn and Severin Hackers. [Photo from Forbes.com -'Duolingo takes online teaching to the next level, by crowd sourcing new languages'  ] Currently, you can learn 23 different languages using Duolingo – isn’t that amazing? I’m sure that more languages will be added into its platform in the future. So many languages for learners to choose from. How can language te...

Learning is a fun adventure with WebQuests! Close your eyes and imagine that you are going for a wonderful trip to England with your students - sounds pretty exciting right? You could visit the great Tower of London, Stonehenge and the royal Buckingham palace. Enjoy the iconic delicious English breakfast in the morning and eat scrumptious scones with clotted cream and jams for tea. There are so many things to see, so many things to do and of course – so many things to plan! I might not be able to help you with the actual trip and grant your wishes like a genie in a magical lamp but I can help you out with the planning. Interested? Want to find out more on how I can help you to do that? Well, let me introduce WebQuests to you! [Source: YouTube - 'Visit England'] What is a WebQuest? The homepage for WebQuests website. According to Dodge (2001, p.7), “a WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learne...