Just Opening

(I opened a twitter account a week ago. Yes, I’m slow. I have a suspicious mind, too. When everyone’s talking about the same thing, I simply suspect. I get a sort of mind saturation as well . The result is I don’t feel like trying. This is what happened to me with twitter. I finally [...]

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Changes

I started teaching in 1977. The first book I used as a teacher was Look, Listen and Learn, by L. G. Alexander. Can you imagine learning just by looking and listening? Somehow students managed to learn.
ELT has changed a lot since those early days and technology has played its part.

 
Native Speakers
When I [...]

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Doing homework

I’ve been doing my homework.
Some days ago I opened my account in 43 things, persons and places. I was supposed to write down three things I want to do. I could think of only one, at least one that I could tell the world about. So I wrote: lie in the sun. Come to think [...]

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Busy Sunday

I’ve just received an email from the SMiELT team saying the the workshop has officially started.
The show really started before the opening. Today there was an EVO kick-off session. I was amazed at the number of participants, lots in the chat room and around 100 people following on ustream. Yes, 100! I didn’t know anybody. [...]

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Hello world!

Well, this was not a post. However, I’ve got a welcome comment; so this is now a welcome post.

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