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Waldorf education -- its purpose, mission, and origins is brilliantly explained by Liz Beaven, administrator of the Sacramento Waldorf School ...
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Hi everyone Welcome to my blog. This is my first post and I've started to kick off the blog with an @eltchat summary on making the most of all the material we find on the internet and how we synthesise it. This #eltchat took place on 2 November 2011 at 21:00 GMT. An #eltchat is a chat where teachers can share their opinions, ideas and resources on a specific topic using Twitter over a one hour period.
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For teachers of English: new resources at The LanguagePoint 2012 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the English language's most famous writers, Charles Dickens. This creative writing activity is presented with the kind permission of the Charles Dickens Museum in London.
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Does Size (in a classroom) Matter? « Box of Chocolates
Big or small - a sizable conundrum As regular people, we are constantly faced with size choices. Big cars are more spacious – but also more difficult to find a parking space for. Big houses and apartments are good, but they also give you more work – more area to clean and keep organized. However, when you think about computers, the smaller, the better. I guess some things are better when they are big and some things are better in smaller sizes.
May 10th, 2012 Just come up with another variation on my last post about combining this vital pronunciation point and this easy to use activity . It is to use minimal pairs that are also consonant clusters, practising both the vowel or consonant distinction and using the right number of syllables. For example, you could do r/l with words including gr and gl, then do some work on making sure they don’t come out as gur and gul.
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In response to a blog post on Jeremy Harmer’s blog , back in November, I wrote a long response, which I revisited yesterday. Having waded through my own words (dismayingly opaque, but too quickly written – always a good excuse) I decided to add blog to the top of my To Do list – a list which theoretically keeps me from multi-tasking too much and maintains my focus (haha, does it ‘eck). Essentially Jeremy’s post (and some of the comments) suggests that we can’t multitask efficiently, and that maybe this has implications for the classroom.
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A journée in language
As this is my 100th blog post, I can’t think of anyway better of celebrating it than by THANKING YOU !!! In the past year we’ve gone on quite a few journées; I just checked and we’ve totalled up 2039 comments while dancing all over etymology, teaching English, supreme language geekness, Edulang’s efforts, and a fair amount of fun in between. I’ve discovered so much about teaching from our online ELT community, just as I feel I’ve learned so much about myself AND again… I HAVE YOU TO THANK FOR THAT, DEAR READER!!! wherever you are I (…)Blog | 4C in ELT | community * collaborate * connect * contribute
One of the handout activities Thank you to participants at my workshop Ideas for multilevels at the TESL North York/York Region conference today. I’ve embedded the slides using Issuu below, so you can browse through them on this site, full screen or download them to your computer.
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A group of terrorist bombers have captured half of the students and are holding them hostage. The other half of the class represent police, government and general negotiators. There is a standoff situation. The bombers demand one-million dollars in cash and a helicopter on the roof that will take them wherever they want. As well as this, they want food because they haven’t eaten for more than 24 hours.
Congratulations to all participants of this ELTChat above all others! Why? Well, from the word (hashtag?) “go”, there seemed to be some debate over what exactly a false beginner is, but NONE of the participants reached for the Google + copy + paste link option!
Reflective Teaching
Protect your history! A sign in Jaffa I had always thought that if I got an invitation to go to Israel to work with teachers and students there I would refuse. Israel, the big bully of the Middle East, building, by force, settlements on Palestinian land they are not entitled to; carving a great big wall through territory they have no right to; using maximum force in densely populated areas where civilians are, of course, slaughtered in their hundreds; boarding peace convoys in international waters so ineptly that people died. But I know, too, that Israel is the target for rocket attacks, and that not all the Gaza flotilla personnel were peace-loving saints; I know that Israelis – innocent Israelis – have been killed by rockets, in restaurants and in buses. That all Israelis have a well-founded fear for their safety.
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‘Othering’ is the way members of one social group distance themselves from, or assert themselves over, another by construing the latter as being fundamentally different (the ‘Other’). It is a term that is associated with discourses of colonialism, and, in particular, with the work of Edward Said. In his influential book Orientalism , (1995: 332) Said wrote: ‘The development and maintenance of every culture requires the existence of another different and competing alter ego. The construction of identity… whether Orient or Occident, France or Britain… involves establishing opposites and otherness whose actuality is always subject to the continuous interpretation and reinterpretation of their differences from us ‘.
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MailVu-Simple Way of Sending Web Cam Messages Great for digital storytellng. MailVu let's you create quick webcam messages and then send them with just 3 button clicks. I use this tool at lot to get my students speaking in English and sending messages Mail Vu-Video Messaging Site Today's Meet-Tool for group work and Sharing Ideas Back Channel tool is so simple to use and offers great opportunities for collaboration You simple click a button to create a room.