Saturday, January 31, 2009
The 9th EFL / ESL / ELL Blog Carnival!
Thanks to everyone who entered the Blog Carnival! Please find all the great entries below. I think it would be great if readers and contributors both would comment on the voicethread (below). What entry did you really like? What do you want to ask the authors? Or [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
If there is one piece of valuable advice that could fit almost ALL teachers – it would be to “S L O W D O W N!”
One area of course is in terms of speaking speed. Teachers need to let students process language and really suck the communicative juice out of words. They need CI [...]
The longer I am teaching, the more time I spend thinking and living the “teaching life”, the stronger grows my belief in inclusion. Meaning, classrooms of whatever specialty/level should be open for all and it is up to the school/community/teachers/students to adapt and accept this new dynamic. I’ve heard all the other arguments but I [...]
Thursday, January 15, 2009
I just spent a long day watching over 30 demo lessons of aspiring English teachers. As I was evaluating, I kept thinking of a list I’ve had stashed away for writing up an article one rainy day…..the teaching skills that new teachers need to develop / enact from Day 1. These essential skills have been [...]
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
I’ve blogged a few times previously about all the wonderful things you can find on voicethread and all the wonderful ways you can use it. It is an essential web 2.0 tool for a digital teacher/classroom…..
I won’t write much here other than to toot my own horn. I’ve made quite a few really unique voicethreads [...]
It’s that time again!! Blog time. We are hosting the 9th Blog Carnival and need your entry!
Let’s share our blogging, we have a lot of members with fine blogs here and in their own nest. So please send a blog entry in about your teaching and thoughts thereof. See the last blog here.
You can submit [...]
This week I was asked a few time about how EFL Classroom 2.0 got started. So I thought it might be something many new members would be interested to hear about. It would also give me an opportunity to “pound the pulpit” about what I find quite disturbing in our “people oriented” industry, TEFL.
In the [...]
I recently read an article about the continuing miraculous efforts of Greg Mortenson. It reminded me of his book and life and example and I thought I’d share it here today.
If you haven’t heard of him, he’s most widely known as the author of “Three Cups of Tea”. A bestseller detailing his efforts to build [...]
Thursday, January 1, 2009
The Buzz Words of 2008 (Click to view the presentation)
Every year, thousands of new words enter the lexicon of the English language. That’s the power of English globally, its flexibility and malleability. However, each year, thousands of words die…. It is like life and death, an endless concerto.
But let’s look at life! These are the [...]
