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Introduction Elearning is booming and many schools are investigating the advantages and opportunities afforded by using the WWW to enhance participation in learning activities and add value to the courses they offer. The following guide is intended to help schools … Continue reading
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Running a blog with your students is about as far from a traditional teaching method as you can get, and chances are nobody taught you how to do it. That’s why teachers who blog with students are usually those nonconformists … Continue reading
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PikiFriends has a profile page called the “Contest Page.” (click image below to enlarge) Whether or not you’re using PikiFriends, read on to see how you can make your own contest blog for your students, or even have students make … Continue reading
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Yesterday I met with my high school students in our CALL room and did a worthwhile exercise using the PikiFriends blogging feature. It took me less than 5 minutes to prepare and I thought the results were excellent. I hope it’s … Continue reading
Which do you think has more influence on student test scores? Check out this info from the book Freakonomics: 8 factors that correlate to higher test scores 1. Highly educated parents 2. Parents have high socioeconomic status 3. Mother was thirty … Continue reading
The fine folks at Teacher Horizons have linked this blog in their “Useful Blogs” section. I’m very happy to be mentioned on their site, alongside other great blogs. Their site is a free networking tool that can help teachers network … Continue reading
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In the book From Good to Great Jim Collins writes about how truly successful companies achieve and maintain greatness. One of the parts I love is the brilliant “bus analogy“. It goes like this: First find the right people to sit … Continue reading
Here’s a quote from the Reuters article linked below: “The country’s average score on the TOEFL iBT, a computer-based test of English as a foreign language, in 2010 ranked 27th among 30 Asian countries, below Mongolia and Turkmenistan.” OUCH! That’s … Continue reading
“(PikiFriends) sounds more dangerous than facebook, myspace and some of the others. It is probably like gmail. I have no intentions of looking into it.” This is an actual response to a blog post I wrote on Linkedin from an … Continue reading
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(Click an image to enlarge each profile page. The left is an American teacher, the middle is an American student, and the right is a Japanese student.) Situation: Every year about 250 Japanese junior high school students go to Boston … Continue reading
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