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Monthly Archives: September 2010
The story continues
A few days ago I wrote a post about how I’m using email with one of my classes as a way to extend our lessons, and the learning process, beyond the classroom. In that post I looked at the summaries … Continue reading
Posted in thoughts on learning, thoughts on teaching
Tagged dialogue, email, experiment, feedback
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The Day Nothing Became Everything – a guest post by Cecilia Coelho
I’m really pleased to be able to introduce my first guest to the blog, Cecilia Coelho, a teacher and trainer working in Brazil. She, too, took the English Raven challenge. And here’s her “close up” on how she took the plunge. Thanks, … Continue reading
Posted in guest post, thoughts on teaching
Tagged challenge, guest post, lesson plan, reflection
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Taking the plunge
This post was inspired by an English Raven challenge. (See also What’s your approach called? Mine’s called SLIL for the result of an earlier challenge ). Jason Renshaw, on his superb blog, challenged teachers to take on an “upside-down, inside-out” approach to … Continue reading
a conversation about twitter
Sitting at the kitchen table, checking tweetdeck. I liked the questions and where they led us, and the outsider’s view on my new (ish) obsession C = me S= my eight year old son S Why’s your photo on that … Continue reading
linguistic identities 2 – a postscript
(Scroll down a couple of paragraphs for part one, or click here. ) So, our visitors have gone, and so have the Yorkshire accents. It didn’t take long. Within about four hours of saying a teary goodbye to their (now) … Continue reading
