<![CDATA[ I have neglected this blog and this post is by way of apologising to my readers but here was my day – the list below repeats itself day in day out with some changes, but that’s a standard day…Here is the story today: Ran input sessions in the morning […]
<![CDATA[I loved my birthday wishes this year! Thanks to Shelly Terrell who was the instigator, my PLN gave me this wonderful memory of this special birthday. I was so thrilled at your words, music, images and thoughts that I wanted to save them all here and come back and look […]
<![CDATA[A friend got me a little worried earlier this week – she said "I almost never have anything to add to your posts" and wondered what it is that others do to generate comments. Should I be worried? Is there something that I am doing wrong? If so, how can […]
<![CDATA[In his blog post A vast Pool of Human Knowledge, Neglected, Darren Elliott, like a true teacher, gave us all a little bit of homework for the weekend, which goes as follows: 1. Have a look through the archives of your favourite bloggers. You can usually find archives in the […]
<![CDATA[ I have always loved the scene where Bridget Jones comes up with her famous 33 New Year’s Resolutions. What a great scene that was and I can’t remember how many nice lessons, by the way, I have watched with trainees using this clip to teach this or that, sometimes […]
<![CDATA[Last night I was trying to think of a Christmas message for this blog to show my feelings to you all and to send you my wishes. Right as i was searching for a suitable picture and thinking about the right words, I received this e-card from a friend. I […]
<![CDATA[I am a big time fan of Spike Milligan, who has nothing whatsoever to do with foreign language teaching or foreign language teacher education but who has given me hours of great delight and, at times, inspiration for materials or activity design. In 1985, he brought out a book called […]
<![CDATA[ It doesn’t happen to anyone any faster than it has happened to me! I created a Twitter account last December during the riots in Athens. I learnt about hashtags and and about finding out and sending news very quickly but as an educator I didn’t really start using it […]
<![CDATA[ …And my nominations for the Edublog Awards 2009 are: Best individual blog Karenne Sylvester’s Kalinagoenglish http://kalinago.blogspot.com/ Gavin Dudeney’s ThatS’Life http://slife.dudeney.com/ Best individual tweeter Shelly Terrell http://twitter.com/ShellTerrell Best new blog Ken Wilson’s Blog http://kenwilsonelt.wordpress.com/ Digital Play http://digitalplay.info/blog/ Best class blog Christina Markoulaki http://markaki-students.blogspot.com/ (Maria Markaki Language School) Best resource sharing […]
A coursebook evaluation checklist The best known textbook evaluation and selection book was written by Alan Cunnigsworth in 1995 – that’s several years ago but, still, within the communicative approach […]