Reflections on Teaching

The next edition of the ELL/EFL/ELD Carnival will be…right here! Any blog posts, including examples of student work, that are related to teaching or learning English are welcome. You can contribute a post by using this easy submission form.
The last edition of the Carnival hosted by Jennifer Duarte and Michelle Klepper is  here, and as [...]

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Thanks for letting me chat with your class tonight. Lots of great questions. I’m sorry I was under the weather and unable to stay long. If you have further questions, please send me a comment below. Also, it would be a great help is you share with me resources or approaches that have or have [...]

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I love getting and reading the Sacramento Bee, and love being able to read it online. The comments however are a real mix of the bitter and the sweet. I hate how the limited space in the print version constricts representations of different points of view. If that is the problem in the print paper, [...]

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And the theme of this carnival will be vocabulary development using my favorite part of speech…VERBS! — cause that’s what’s happening. This is my first time doing a blog carnival. I’ve been trying to up my game by using this handy dandy list of verbs on our state tests. Now, I’m not a big [...]

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The deadline for submissions to the next edition of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival is May 31st (my birthday, btw), and it will be hosted by…me! You can contribute a post by using this submission form.
What are we looking for? Posts related to the teaching or learning of English, including examples of student work, are [...]

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FYI, Wes Fryer has opened up the NECC blog for folks to post articles on how they use technology in their classrooms. This not only helps Wes generate content, but will be a show case for the power of technology (well used) in the classroom.
The first article came from Nancy Pratt, about a story telling [...]

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I will be conducting a session Student Blogging: avoiding potholes on the way in the Edublogs Elluminate room in a little under 24 hours. Since the day and time depend on your time zone, here are a few:
UTC: Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 01:00
US EDT: Wednesday April 8, 2009 at 21:00 or 9:00 p.m.
US PDT: [...]

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Since the recent changes in service at edublogs.org many of us have been looking at how this changes how we use these blogs with our students. Much of the discussion has focused on the more unpleasant aspects, the ads, the cost of getting rid of them (especially in these trying budgetary times), etc. the focus [...]

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