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Where does your coffee come from… and your teaching resources?

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Brad
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  Here’s our coffee machine at Edulang.  Makes a delicious cup o’ joe.   The coffee’s organic, fair Trade… not local but this part of France just ain’t warm enough We buy whole beans as it tastes better, and one of the programmers uses the leftover grinds for compost in his garden.  Something about that whole process feels… right.   Buying organic feels right, but why ? One of my favorite discussions every semester in class is when I ask my students what they ate for breakfast, and then ask where it came from.  My ‘goal’ is to just keep (…)

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My Fall Professional Development Reading… and yours ?

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Brad
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  Here’s mine.  What’s yours ? The Power of Babel by John McWhorter Teaching Unplugged by Scott Thornsbury and Luke Meddings The Unfolding of Language by Guy Deutscher Not Always So by Shunryu Suzuki Helping Students Motivate Themselves by Larry Ferlazzo AD INFINITUM, a Biography of Latin by Nicholas Ostler Cultual Intelligence by David C. Thomas   I don’t think I’ll get ‘em done by the first snow, but I’ll keep you posted  And lucky me… running out the door to have breakfast with Cecilia Lemos !  Cheers, brad    

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#RSCON3 Wrap-up = 100-teacher SURVEY results and recordings

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Brad
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  PLN is so much more than 3 letters and without my own, I doubt I would have presented at #RSCON3, written a survey that so many responded to, or now be sharing our crowdsourced knowledge with you.  Very cool indeed. With your PLN, you give a little, you get a little, and somewhere along the way you get A LOT.  Ceci has used a beautiful metaphor in her most recent post “the secret garden“ Credit to Rob Farrow for image   Before I share the survey results, and my #RSCON3 recording, I’d like to thank all of those who (…)

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U knew Dogme before u knew Dogme

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Brad
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“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers”   – Richard Bach, Illusions   “Dogme is interesting indeed, but it’s also what a lot of teachers already do without labeling it as such” This quote is from Chia’s comments under her IATEFL presentation video.  In the presentation she explains how she migrated towards Dogme after her own interesting language experiences  ie— she went from a beginner to an advanced level in japanese in just 6 months.  Two key factors that (…)

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Dogme Flies Unite ! #ff @chucksandy

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Brad
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    During last week’s #eltchat about coursebooks and their value/imposition, a number of us were enticed by @chucksandy’s tweet about his dogme class.  A number of us buzzed in and told he we wanted to be “a fly on his classroom wall”.  Read more about it in the fun etymological/philosophical/DOGMatic post I wrote here. Since then, many have continued to show interest, and Chuck has helped keep the ball rolling, commenting on that post with: ———————————- “It’s been a week since the initial idea of playing / learning together first came up  on #eltchat so let’s take the idea forward (…)

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