Blogging with students (2)

This post follows my previous entry on Blogging with students. Today I had another session with the one class I teach this year where we are using the Internet as an integral part of the class. Yesterday, I wrote a model blog entry in order to encourage them to write in English show them what [...]

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Blogging with students

This post follows on from my post Assessing student blogs. I created a blog entry and asked students to write their own blog entry using mine as a model. Here’s my model below. Any comments or suggestions as a model blog post are of course welcome. There are 6 points about this blog entry I [...]

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"Attendance" and "instructional objectives" connection

Last year I blogged about taking attendance in Japanese university classes, particularly about the tendency by so many people in higher education in Japan to use attendance as a measure of achievement, or at least as a factor when calculating final grades. I’ve been thinking about it again more recently, after reading Mager’s Preparing Instructional [...]

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Instructional objectives in university EFL classes

On Harold Jarche’s blog, I found a post about a book called Analyzing Performance Problems. Thinking it might help me analyze why my students don’t “perform” (i.e. study, learn, practice) as well as I think they should, I borrowed it via the inter-library loan and read it. Fascinating. Helped me look at what goes on [...]

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