Academic writing software
Following my two earlier entries on academic writing software, today, thanks to James Atherton’s questing VoLE blog, I found a link to this (possibly) useful website: Write your own academic sentence!
Too lazy to write it yourself? Let the Virtual Academic do it for you
Need a sentence for your latest article? Write one here! [...]
TPRS and Krashen’s theories of SLA
TPRS was developed by Blaine Ray who was “converted” when he discovered James Asher’s TPR – Total Physical Response – method of teaching a second (or foreign) language. Then he found students got bored with commands after a while, so he started telling stories and asking students for input on the details of the stories, [...]
Read more »The new autonoblogger
This blog started as a log of my attempts to introduce my students to the joys of autonomous i.e. self-directed language-learning. Basically, it’s the story of one failure after another since I started in 2005.
This blog ground to a halt in October 2007: I’d run out of steam, of ideas. I’d run into a wall.
I [...]
Read more »"All men are equal but…"
All websites are universally accessible, but….some websites are more universally acceptable than others.
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Marzano – a comment
After coming across Dr Marzano on the Excelsior Gradebook website, I did a little search (never afraid of hard work, me), and found this inspiring review of one of Marzano’s books, Classroom Assessment & Grading That Work.Another Marzano book What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action has the blurb
Any school in the United States [...]
Interesting game site for young keyboard users
Just found this plug for online game and web designer, Ferry Halim, on the NextGen Teachers blog, and wanted to promote it here. I haven’t tried all the games yet, but they look like fun. I’ll be introducing my youngest daughter to them soon.
Read more »A mismatch between curriculum and student desires
I mentioned my sense of a mismatch between curriculum provided by the institution where I work, and the students’ wants, and I wish to clarify this.
In a sense, there will always be a mismatch, or at least a gap: it’s inevitable that young people will want to do some things that their elders don’t want [...]
Switching from my old hipster PDA
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After reading David Allen’s Getting Things Done, I quickly moved to his system. For archiving and for “live” projects, the A4-sized file folders were great. But not for the stuff I wanted to lug around and “read and review”. So I liked the hipster PDA idea (and a variant here).
But it looked tatty, and I [...]
A new record system
I’m developing a record system, cobbled from bits and pieces garnered here and there. I use manila file folders for each class (from David Allen’s excellent GTD). This holds every thing I need for today’s class, plus the previous class (e.g. homework I collected, handouts I used, plus the 1-page record sheet I use). Everything [...]
Read more »Upcoming conferences in Tokyo
For the EFL teachers in Japan, there are a couple of conferences coming up in Tokyo that I am interested in. I don’t think I can attend both, unfortunately.
1) ECAP 2007. I’ve heard Charles Browne present on vocab acquisition. He knows his stuff and is an engaging and relaxed presenter to boot. He helped created [...]
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