Wednesday, November 26, 2008
The inestimable Jermey Harmer has been recently reviewing this immortal topic as he travels the world and collects his paycheck for all the years of hard work he’s put in. Here is a very much younger Jeremy Harmer discussing the same subject, nice dialogue. Also, I love his answers here. Here too is a common sense [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
Exemplary Teacher’s Websites
What makes a good classroom or course website? Are you thinking of starting your own (I think you should be, it is invaluable for students and their learning)?
I just spent a wonderful 3 cups of coffee morning, browsing through a lot of websites of other teachers. Looking for resources but also gathering info. [...]
Thursday, November 20, 2008
If you are coming to Asia to teach EFL, in many cases you’ll be coteaching. Also, if you are teaching ESL in North America, usually you are also doing some form of coteaching and supporting a regular class program.
Co teaching Workshop
It is essential you do it right or your life can be hell. I was [...]
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Continuing off from yesterday’s post about micro skills and management that can really decrease the distance between teacher and student — I thought I’d continue and post up some helpful “small” and practical advice that I’ve gleaned from my diverse 17 years of EFL / ESL teaching.
I do so because (and I’m repeating myself [...]
Monday, November 17, 2008
I’ve always been one of the guys screaming for a more student centered focus in language instruction. Especially with such a “human” and “deep” subject as language — a social oriented subject — this has to be the case. We learn language by social interaction – the research is unequivical on this point. If a [...]
Saturday, November 15, 2008
I think many American educators but also teachers everywhere, should be VERY concerned about how governments and large corporations are trying to limit and filter the access to information online by students.
This is happening at a rapid pace and I’m horror struck. Please read the article below about pending Communication Commission regulations. The author [...]
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
The “Eddies” have arrived and nomination has started.
Last year, my own community EFL Classroom 2.0 was nominated for an edublog award (best social networking site). See last year’s nominees and winners HERE. A great honor and I don’t know who nominated us but I want to do my own bit of nomination. I’ll be [...]
Monday, November 10, 2008
If you’ve found out anything about me here beyond running and running at the mouth — it is that I love TED > Technology, Education and Design, a series of talks by the best in the world. I even made our own updated page/feed which you can access and share publicly HERE.
TED is my own [...]
Saturday, November 8, 2008
I’ve already said a few things about voicethread, on a thread here but I’d like to expand a little more on its potential and provide a few examples of how this technologically simple yet sophisticated application can be used by classroom teachers (TO AMAZING EFFECT!). Go Dog Go also has a good blog post. Here’s [...]
Thursday, November 6, 2008
The N.Y. Times article below describes different sides of the reading debate regarding online vs books.
A nice general read highlighting both arguements (though missing some points I believe). Also, I don’t think it should be a debate of “either / or”. Both have their merits and are necessary.
Youth today, read online and there are so [...]
