Sharon Hartle

Motivation: the value of investing in your own teaching process?

Sharon Hartle looks at key aspects of motivation including agency, identity, competence and autonomy. Knowing how you teach and how you are motivated are important to your own development.

Lessons we can learn from Emergency Remote Teaching

Many face-to-face activities can work well online with a certain amount of modification. New apps and software make this much easier than before. Student-generated language can be used easily using certain activities such as the creative dictation.

Visual thinking strategies: social interaction online

Sharon Hartle finds that employing visual thinking strategies and related activities is a good way to get students talking and bring much-needed social interaction to digital learning.

Lexical hunting: corpora for exploring vocabulary use

Sharon Hartle gets her students to use corpora (accessed by means of sophisticated digital corpus interfaces) to find information about collocations and lexical usage.

The story of Little Red

Sharon Hartle wonders who’s afraid of big, bad E-learning.