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Is privacy the new taboo?

Posted by Anne on January 26th, 2013

I’ve been online now for just over 5 years. Recently I accidentally found the first video I made of myself, where I self-consciously wondered whether the information broadcasting movement I was about to join had any relevance, or whether it was a half-witted attempt to engage in broader but seemingly disconnected discourses, as half-witted as [...]

Compare and contrast

Posted by Anne on September 23rd, 2011

Thanks Helmut.
There’s a personal story that goes with this, as you can well imagine. My first present from my husband was a…
Blog challenge! Please join in and add two similar but different pictures to your blog!
Brad Patterson had the nice idea after I’d posted this.
Looking forward to seeing your pictures.
The following people have taken the [...]

Break

Posted by Anne on November 11th, 2010

No blog until the new year. Bye!

The BE/ESP Blog Carnival

Posted by Anne on November 2nd, 2010

photo: S. Hofschlaeger / pixelio.de
This roundup of blog posts written by BE/ESP teachers, teacher trainers and materials writers includes personal professional blogs and regular or guest posts for a magazine or publisher. Written for two separate target groups, viz. learners vs. peers, their purpose varies widely:

to reflect on personal development
to share materials and [...]

Dogme – Schmogme

Posted by Anne on October 21st, 2010

Karenne Syvester’s “Dogme challenge 1+2″, infused by Candy van Olst’s “CELTA -Schmelta”, dampened by yesterday’s “Failwhale” #Edchat, refreshed by Jeremy Harmer’s “No Dogme for EFL” combine to inspire this friendly response, the title an obvious take-off.
So Dogme means “emergent” and “co-constructed learning” on the one hand, and “essential bareness” on the other. It has little [...]

Will the real Anne Hodgson please stand up?

Posted by Anne on September 1st, 2010

Ken Wilson challenged me to write something about the many Anne Hodgsons I’ve come across online. There are hundreds of us. It’s like being a Mary Smith or Hans Müller. When I first joined Facebook, an Anne Hodgson “friended” me and immediately wanted to play some social game. She had a longish list [...]

Coming up: A Business English/ ESP blog carnival

Posted by Anne on August 5th, 2010

As announced by Larry Ferlazzo, coming up on 1 November, there’ll be a blog carnival – that is, a round-up of posts submitted by bloggers for the purpose – dedicated to the teaching of Business English and English for Special Purposes, here on this blog.  If you’re a blogger, please use this form to submit [...]