Reflections on Teaching

A whole month without a post about what I’ve seen around the Internet. Actually, it’s been longer than that, but since I wasn’t doing a lot of reading, there wasn’t a lot to write about. I’ve just gotten back into the habit of reading and commenting on blogs, so here it goes…
Lots of talk about [...]

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The participation in the June 2009 ESL/EFL/ELL Carnival was great and folks seemed to have a good time (the word “fun” came up a lot in comments). Let me take this opportunity to share that it is never too early to submit for the next carnival in August 2009 hosted by Candace Williams. The ELL [...]

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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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BUT, there is still time to add your submissions to the next edition of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival is coming up on May 31st, so don’t delay, get those submissions now before you miss your chance!
We are looking for posts related to the teaching or learning of English, including examples of student work. Need an [...]

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It started with a “tweet” from Deven Black, where he lamented about a student placement. I convinced him to blog about it for the upcoming ESL/EFL/ELL Carnival. Here’s the story in Vice Versa « Education On The Plate:
When she arrived from Ecuador two years ago, Juanita, who barely spoke ten words of English, was placed [...]

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Photo Credit: Can you take a photo of my hands too! from eviemaedavid’s photostream on Flickr.
I know, I know, I’ve been an awful blogger! My feed has grown to almost 400 unread articles (yikes), I haven’t commented on a blog in a month, and my last post was at least a fortnight past. Like many [...]

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Well, given our flight time, and drive into Palm Springs from Ontario Airport, we arrived as things had already started. Steve Hargadon, the show host, announced I was going to be doing a 5 minute demo within 5 minutes of me walking through the door, lol…
I did a five minute demo/discussion on Diigo, but since [...]

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