YouTube – Greeks Myths “Theseus and the Minotaur” 1of3

  A treasure, stumbled upon by chance: a whole series of videos illustrating the Greek myths, or some of them at least. Here’s the one of Theseus and the Minotaur, starring Michael Gambon (aka Prof. Dumbledore) and a Muppet dog but don’t let that put you off: it’s good quality and to the point. When [...]

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Academic Writing Part 2

Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]

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Academic 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

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

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

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

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 and [...]

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