Homework, teaching and presentation tool

Kids just love colorful images — based on my experience as kindergarten and Grade 1 English teacher in Bangkok.  It was my first job abroad way back 2003 to 2005. Pretty challenging for a neophyte like me whose background is more on business management and desktop publishing. 

The first few months were obviously the trial and error period.  Conducting boring classes with not much participation from Thai students who considers English as there secondary language in school. I pushed myself to do some research on how to improve my newly found skill in teaching. I discovered that integrating more graphics on my lessons generated positive results with the children’s interest.  The students were able to relate concretely with attractive visual aides and detailed examples.

What I do is just search for free clip arts on the net or scan photos and print it using colored printers to purposely make it appealing to my audience. One site I want to recommend is Alfy.com which is well known for Free Clip Art for Kids.  They also offer a variety of exercise materials that could be used for your toddlers at home or improve your kids assignments in school. Like coloring pages, arts and crafts projects and word puzzles. Better visit the site to see what I mean. I’m sure English teachers in Thailand and other countries would enjoy browsing it.

All that happened two years ago.  Now that I am on administrative job there’s a slighter demand on the use of vector graphics. I find it useful on adding effects for our Powerpoint presentations in generating reports.  This only tells me that clip arts are essential to better understanding and a great tool for everyday task.