This word map summarizes recent Island Weekly posts, in case you were wondering, and shows my current academic preocupations. With essays, the diploma course forum and the teacher’s diary being obligatory, it’s a little quiet around these parts, frankly.
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First-graders were asked to complete well-known proverbs. This is what they came up with. (Thank you, Joan, for the giggles.)
Don’t change horses… until they stop running.
Strike while the… bug is close.
It’s always darkest before… Daylight Saving Time.
Never underestimate the power of… termites.
You can lead a horse to water but… how?
Don’t bite the hand that… looks [...]
The books for the diploma course have arrived, and what am I doing? After flipping through them, I go online to find lectures the authors have given. For example, I watched Stephen Pinker on Authors@Google talk about why we use swearwords. (This was to promote his book, The Stuff of Thought.)
I’m procrastinating the inevitable, actually [...]
I got some great mentoring and advice from Andi White, Evan Frendo (whose professional development group at ELTABB I’ve joined) and Vivienne Arnold, and have decided to take the plunge and do the Trinity Diploma in TESOL. After an initial talk with Duncan Foord, I’ve just had my interview with Nicola Meldrum, and am very [...]
I’ve given up one of my very favorite jobs, writing for Spotlight. It was a very sudden decision. I was spending too much time on each article and found that my love of writing was keeping me from dedicating enough time to teaching, which is my essential profession, to which writing is ancillary. It forms [...]
I gave a talk at BESIG that was originally supposed to be about creating suites of online tasks with the cool tools available online, much as suggested by the great gurus in the field like Nik Peachey. But I found as the date came closer that I felt uncomfortable dropping task suites on students, because [...]
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