Academic Writing Part 2

Written by autonoblogger on January 24, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: EFL, ELT, ESL, cooltools, edtech, online, useful resources, writing

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This is a follow-up to my previous entry on this subject.
If you are looking for a website to help you teach academic writing to university students (whether EFL students or native-English-speaking students), I recommend those by Gavin Budge (Writing for the Reader), and by Andy Gillett: Academic Writing.
As many of my students don’t [...]

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Academic Writing

Written by autonoblogger on January 15, 2010 - 2 Comments
Categories: assessment, edtech, useful resources, writing

Most of my classes are of the “Oral English” type, but I also teach some classes in which students are required to produce academic writing in English. At first, I assumed that my students were getting basic instruction in academic writing in their native language (Japanese) in other classes, e.g. their seminar classes. They probably [...]

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Online grading

Written by autonoblogger on August 27, 2007 - 1 Comment
Categories: online, teaching, useful resources

Last month, after making one too many errors typing in my grades into Excel, I decided to try an online grading system: I’m using MyGradeBook.com’s 1-month trial, and so far have been pleased.
Today, I also found Engrade Online Gradebook but did not sign up for the free account after the guided tour balked at [...]

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Funny ads

Written by autonoblogger on August 27, 2007 - 0 Comments
Categories: EFL, ELT, ESL, teaching, useful resources, video

Via Google (click on “add more content” to your iGoogle page), I discovered Funny Ads. I’ve had it on my iGoogle page for a few days, but didn’t watch any of them until today. A number are in languages other than English (some of those have English subtitles), and a number are “silent”, where the [...]

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Japanese Wikipedia resources

Written by autonoblogger on August 26, 2007 - 0 Comments
Categories: in Japan, useful resources

As I’m at present teaching a class on World News, and as I found some of the info on Wikiepedia and bias and the Neutral Point of View page to be of possible value to those World News students, I tried to find the equivalent pages in the Japanese version of Wikipedia. Here’s what I [...]

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Roundup August 26th, 2007

Written by autonoblogger on August 25, 2007 - 0 Comments
Categories: communication, community, cross-cultural communication, distraction, online, spaceship earth, useful resources

From a comment Larry left, I discovered his blog, and from there this page of resources for students. An impressive list, although there are lots more resources than student-produced pages.
One of the links was to Dandelife “a social biography network”.
One of the stories I clicked on at random referred to sleep apnea [...]

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