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type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLaV6TnW86Fr5ff_QO533PH7HBh928eo1aFnGz0-hQiti490SySRFdmfhuIEp236A3NsT1ar5Fbz3fFGspP8q3S5ozhV026YA7uIYS2cGXF0stkuksn5Th774dXh_mX6yG6IyKjjO_MrtNM9aoMff9IJuG3BBafDL2JBEpl3SG3OTT2JndN-KSDuhT/s1280/Camera_2022-08-20_14-06-16.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;720&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1280&quot; height=&quot;225&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLaV6TnW86Fr5ff_QO533PH7HBh928eo1aFnGz0-hQiti490SySRFdmfhuIEp236A3NsT1ar5Fbz3fFGspP8q3S5ozhV026YA7uIYS2cGXF0stkuksn5Th774dXh_mX6yG6IyKjjO_MrtNM9aoMff9IJuG3BBafDL2JBEpl3SG3OTT2JndN-KSDuhT/w400-h225/Camera_2022-08-20_14-06-16.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: &amp;quot;Source Serif Pro&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px 0px 3.2rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: var(--font-size-large);&quot;&gt;It&#39;s been around eleven years since I was last referred to as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Source Serif Pro&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: 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target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Kalinago English&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: var(--font-size-large);&quot;&gt; had a readership of around a million, but after setting off to study Educational Technology and TESOL at the University of Manchester in 2011, and then Game Design &amp;amp; Development at Futureworks, I just couldn&#39;t keep it up.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: &amp;quot;Source Serif Pro&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;I didn&#39;t stop writing, but my reflections turned into private affairs, ways for me to keep track of quotes, record insights that would later find their way into essays, and then storyboards for game projects, or  &lt;a href=&quot;https://rungrammarrun.tumblr.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noopener nofollow&quot; style=&quot;background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;images and videos&lt;/a&gt; to show tutors, and I never found my way back to my readers - who like me have probably moved on to different lives from that glorious heyday - back when we tweeted in hashtags across timezones, and edublogging was so new and cool: we were a part of a disruptive, collected community, built on making connections all over the world. When we met at international conferences for the first time, we laughed and chatted way into the night as the fierce friends we&#39;d become, and still are, through our posts, way before ever seeing each other&#39;s faces.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: &amp;quot;Source Serif Pro&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;I am back now, though, because a burning passion for the page has returned. All summer I&#39;ve been jotting&amp;nbsp;ideas, trying to keep track of a gazillion thoughts, filling up OneNotes that span across too many different pages, sticky noting project plans into Padlets - that it&#39;s become obvious: it&#39;s time to write again. For me, for you - or maybe you&#39;ll be a brand new audience, but I&#39;m hoping that some from the past will be here too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: &amp;quot;Source Serif Pro&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;It is a personal blog, it won&#39;t have a funky name, and I&#39;ve decided to keep it within the professional walls of&amp;nbsp;Linkedin where everyone has a name, a purpose, a title. For those you who know what it&#39;s like to be digitally trolled you&#39;ll get it.  You&#39;ll no doubt be a much smaller audience, but it will feel more real, and hey, Linkedin&#39;s still Google searchable.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: &amp;quot;Source Serif Pro&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;I&#39;ll be using the space they provide for the various reflections and insights I now make as I curiously navigate immersive technologies, explore and learn more about extended reality(XR).&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;This means that I may make mistakes in terminology, or I&#39;ll state an idea or criticism, but later change my mind when I know more. Experience from blogging has taught me just how often that can happen. And how wonderful it is when it does. So feel free to correct me, put me in my place, or generally act a guide and mentor, but do please be kind.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: &amp;quot;Source Serif Pro&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;On Linkedin you can find me &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.linkedin.com/in/karennesylvester/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; - I hope you&#39;ll join me there!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: &amp;quot;Source Serif Pro&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);&quot;&gt;Caveat:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Although many of the upcoming posts relate to my responsibilities as a learning technologist for the University of Manchester&#39;s Humanities eLearning team, supporting academic staff who are making their own new steps in XR or wish to do so, for the most part the trialling of apps, platforms, experiences and courses tend to take&amp;nbsp;place after work or on weekends - this is a hobby, a passion, a calling. 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2. I'm back....missed me?<br />
3. <br />
4. Hope so, I missed writing this blog and talking to you all very much.  I thought I'd kick things off by joining in Vicki Hollet's <a href="http://www.vickihollett.com/elt-blog-carnival-send-me-your-links/" target="_blank">ELT Blog Carnival on Teaching and Learning with Video</a> as this little tip is incredibly effective and something I often do within my own language classes, so know it works well.<br />
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6. In the examples I'll show you below, we are practising for the IELTS speaking exam, but you can use this edtech method of giving personalized video feedback for general speaking practice, as well as for any other type of exam.  It also works nicely for business learners practising presentations. Although it may sound a wee bit fiddly in the write-up, it actually is really simple to set up and do and takes up very little time to share with students - providing, of course, you have the right tools and equipment!<br />
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8. <b><u>What you need:</u></b><br />
9. <ul style="text-align: left;">
10. <li>A flipcam (or similar device)</li>
11. <li>An IWB </li>
12. </ul>
13. <br />
14. <b><u>Optional* but effective</u></b><br />
15. <ul style="text-align: left;">
16. <li>A Student Blog</li>
17. <li>Smartphones </li>
18. <li>Your blogging software's app downloaded on to your students' smartphones</li>
19. </ul>
20. <br />
21. <b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Step 1</span></u></b><br />
22. Record your students speaking using a FlipCam instead of an audio recorder. <br />
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24. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
25. <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lXiZhts9_fc/Umo3_c1FQcI/AAAAAAAAFvQ/XYQBECiOIl4/s1600/amani-justvideo-blackened.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lXiZhts9_fc/Umo3_c1FQcI/AAAAAAAAFvQ/XYQBECiOIl4/s1600/amani-justvideo-blackened.jpg" /></a></div>
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27. <br />
28. <b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Step 2</span></u></b><br />
29. Plug your Flipcam, or alternative device, into the computer in your classroom and play this video on the IWB via your media player or other software.  <i>(Note this doesn't work playing from YouTube - if you try to write on the video it pauses so you really need to play the video directly using what you've stored on the flipcam or via your computer's media player).</i><br />
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31. Pause frequently to discuss their communicative successes and weaknesses.  Additionally, with more serious mistakes or common errors, write these up directly on to the IWB screen and encourage your learners to collaboratively correct these with you.<br />
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33. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
34. <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AyHCMTSEThw/Umoz-Q-ESHI/AAAAAAAAFvA/X_7xk0yviok/s1600/abdulrahmanblackenedout.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AyHCMTSEThw/Umoz-Q-ESHI/AAAAAAAAFvA/X_7xk0yviok/s1600/abdulrahmanblackenedout.jpg" /></a></div>
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36. You can choose to focus on either pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary issues or as I do, work on all of these, it depends on your objectives - don't forget you can colour-code your corrections if you like with the IWB pens.<br />
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38. <br />
39. <b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Step 3</span></u></b><br />
40. Get students who were featured in the individual videos to open up their blogger app, this allows them to click to open a new post, and to use the camera function in Blogger to take a picture of your IWB screen. They can then publish this new post directly into their student blog.<br />
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42. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
43. <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jH94NoTeiM4/Umoy_-q4_AI/AAAAAAAAFu4/uaYRb3Ya8Jk/s1600/zohra-blogapp2postblackenedout.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jH94NoTeiM4/Umoy_-q4_AI/AAAAAAAAFu4/uaYRb3Ya8Jk/s1600/zohra-blogapp2postblackenedout.jpg" width="192" /></a></div>
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45. <br />
46. <b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Step 4</span></u></b><br />
47. Open up your individual student's blog post(s) to edit it the post, change the photo size if necessary and you can now upload their videos into their blog posts directly.   Alternatively, you can also load up the videos to youtube (keep them unlisted!) and then embed them into each blog post. <br />
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50. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y-oqfTza-Hs/Umo32mfXPRI/AAAAAAAAFvI/5sMZgg4i8yw/s1600/zohra-fullpost-blackenedout.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y-oqfTza-Hs/Umo32mfXPRI/AAAAAAAAFvI/5sMZgg4i8yw/s1600/zohra-fullpost-blackenedout.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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52. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
53. </div>
54. <br />
55. Now, both you and they have a permanent record of their speaking which can be reviewed for practice at their leisure or can be used to demonstrate progress over time!<br />
56. <br />
57. <br />
58. <b><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">What to do if you don't have a FlipCam</span></u></b><br />
59. <span style="font-size: x-small;">- you could also use your phone, but in my experience, it takes too long to upload to the computer/youtube etc.  FlipCams are really cheap (also try EBay and Amazon for secondhand ones) and they are dead simple to use, especially in class, so actually I would just recommend getting one - one of the most important functionalities is the ability to simply plug directly into the computer's USB and play right away.</span><br />
60. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
61. <b><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">What to do if you don't have an IWB</span></u></b><br />
62. <span style="font-size: x-small;">- you could upload the video into a Google Drive Presentation, and type up notes beside the video but these are extra steps that would mean not doing it in the classroom with your language learners in real-time.</span><br />
63. <span style="font-size: x-small;">- if you have a data projector, you could instead beam the video directly on to a whiteboard and then follow the same steps as above.</span><br />
64. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
65. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u>What to do if not all of your students have Smartphones</u></b></span><br />
66. <span style="font-size: x-small;">- get the student who does have one to be in charge of posting to Blogger/ taking the picture and uploading it to the blog.  If none of them do, take a picture with a normal digital camera and upload to a shared space you have set up for them.</span><br />
67. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
68. <b><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">What to do if you don't have a student blog</span></u></b><br />
69. <span style="font-size: x-small;">- just get the students to take a picture with their smartphones anyway, they can store the picture within their picture galleries.  However, this isn't as effective as being able to watch the video again, which is what you get by permanently storing it in a blog, so actually I would just recommend setting one up.  Blogger is really easy and as the settings allow for privacy, students have a special non-threatening place where you can store samples of their writing, set extra listening and reading tasks, along with doing nifty things like the above!</span><br />
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71. <br />
72. Enjoy!<br />
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74. <i>p.s. if you have any questions, or something wasn't clear in the write up, please don't hesitate to comment below - if you try this out and find this useful do feel free to share with your classroom teaching colleagues and there is no need to credit this post, simply share how to do it - however, if you are writing up an essay, article, blog post, doing a webinar, how-to video, giving a conference presentation or even creating a book of edtech activities, then please understand this blog post is a creative commons copyrighted material, therefore in all  of these cases, please provide proper citation to me as the originator and author. Thanks!</i><br />
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78. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Oxford University Press has just posted a short article I recently wrote for their blog about <b><a href="http://oupeltglobalblog.com/2013/06/20/the-fun-in-glee-gamified-language-educational-e-tivities/" target="_blank">the benefits of using gamified language educational e-tivities in the ESL classroom</a></b>.  I thought I’d reactivate my blog briefly for a quick posting <i>(I’ll be back properly once my MA’s over in September and I can't wait!)</i> to provide you with an example of edu game play and also to explore the definition of GLEEs in a little more in depth.</span><br />
79. <br />
80. <h3 style="text-align: left;">
81. <b>Playing to learn</b></h3>
82. The three groups I had divided my adult ESL students up into stared up at the Interactive Whiteboard which showed a <a href="http://www.eslgamesplus.com/future-forms-review-spin/" target="_blank">Spin the Wheel grammar activity</a> which I'd found on the internet.  One of the team leaders pressed on the big red button while 3 digital avatars on screen sat patiently waiting in a row, watching the wheel go round and round until it stopped. The pointer rested on the yellow pie-piece and a pop up message then read:<br />
83. <br />
84. A: I have decided to learn a foreign language.<br />
85. Q: Have you? Which language ______. <br />
86. <br />
87. Team Green’s group of real students huddled together. Their captain furtively whispered so the other teams wouldn’t hear them “ Is it ‘will you learn,’ ‘are you learning’ or ‘are you going to learn?”  The students argued softly about the different options on screen.  Then the digital clock started counting down from 5 seconds, letting them know that they would have to decide on an answer as soon as possible or they’d lose both the points from this question and their overall advantage.<br />
88. <br />
89. “It’s a plan” one member said a little uncertainly. “Yes” the other agreed more confidently, “It must be B, are you learning means he already started, no, no, he decided…”<br />
90. <br />
91. Their team leader yelled out “B” as he pressed the board in the nick of time.  A bell rang out indicating the correct answer had indeed been chosen, the screen rewarded their points and their digital avatar clapped her hands on screen and smiled.  Blazing across the board the words “Congratulations Team Green” flashed up letting them know they'd won the entire match. <br />
92. <br />
93. The winners responded in kind, mimicking their avatar, gesturing their success to their opponents with their fists in the air. A quick burst of disappointment flitted across Abra’s face, one of the youngest Saudi girls on one of the losing teams, until she piped up excited at the possibility of a rematch “Teacher, can we play again?”<br />
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97. <br />
98. <h3 style="text-align: left;">
99. <b>What was going on in my classroom?</b></h3>
100. We were playing a GLEE. <br />
101. <br />
102. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tKbQlFWZ8QA/UcRBzU8jxfI/AAAAAAAAFkE/hp9VM3D5oC8/s1600/512px-B&W_Happiness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tKbQlFWZ8QA/UcRBzU8jxfI/AAAAAAAAFkE/hp9VM3D5oC8/s1600/512px-B&W_Happiness.jpg" width="320" /></a>Gamified Language Educational e-tivities (GLEE) is a term I coined during my studies at the University of Manchester for an MA in Educational Technology & TESOL. I use this and the corresponding acronym (coincidentally a synonym for joy) because I consider the commonly recognised phrases, originating in the 1970s and earlier, of “serious games” (Abt, 1970) and “educational games” (Bock, 1969), to be confusing misnomers which do not take into account the potentiality for seriousness in normal game-play (Huizinga,1944) nor do they adequately reflect the intrinsic educational properties found within many leisure games, whether what is played is Chess, Monopoly or World of Warcraft.<br />
103. <br />
104. In my opinion the use of the word game in both these phrases is inappropriate.  This is because games, in their essence, are entirely voluntary activities, i.e. chosen by their players out of their desire to play them (Huizinga, 1944), rather than because they are made to do something (Schiller, 1775 cited in Botturi & Loh, 2008). Conversely, even if they are enjoyed, as was described in the vignette above, classroom activities and e-tivities are generally chosen by the teacher - there is an expectation for the learners to do the exercise on the part of the teachers.<br />
105. <br />
106. While learning may indeed occur during game-play of normal games, this learning is not a core objective of the activity - games are played for the very fun of playing them.  As St. Thomas Aquinas reflected way back in the 1300s, this fun does not carry any additional purpose, other than to meet the game’s objective through the following of the rules. So when and if an educational objective is set as the activity’s primary goal, with the secondary goal being to appear as if what the students are doing is playing a game, it is actually an alternative activity with dual objectives.<br />
107. <br />
108. <h3 style="text-align: left;">
109. <b>The rationale behind the definition of GLEE and GLEA</b></h3>
110. Starting at the end of the acronym, the E and A which refer to activities and e-tivities, i.e. to the environment which the experience is based upon allows us to discuss their differences much more easily. <br />
111. <br />
112. Activities refer to paper-based, photo-copiable tasks but they also discuss role-play, simulations and physical learning experiences, such as sending students out on scavenger hunts.  The sort of thing that we, as ESL teachers, have been doing for years  - remember the Hadfields’ communicative activity books and the resource packs that come with just about every textbook these days? <br />
113. <br />
114. E-tivities, on the other hand, are ‘short, active and interactive online learning’ Salmon (2003:1) experiences, i.e. activities that take place on digital devices, on computers, Interactive Whiteboards (IWB) and mobile equipment.<br />
115. <br />
116. By using the adjective <i>educational </i>to describe this type of activity and e-tivity, we can separate out from the activities and e-tivities used in business, marketing or military settings. That also allows for the dual objectives i.e. both educational and game, to be discussed as two unique items for review. <br />
117. <br />
118. <h3 style="text-align: left;">
119. <b>Gamification</b></h3>
120. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
121. </div>
122. Whenever we want to talk about the changing state of a thing we add the suffix of change, (to <i>-ify</i> something – think of clarify, justify, and modify). This incredibly apt neologism, which unfortunately is frequently misunderstood, refers to changing something that isn’t normally a game (e.g. learning English grammar) into something that appears as if it is one. However, they are not really games, in the way that most of us understand games. <br />
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124. By referring to the activities that are made to seem like they are, <i>gamified</i> lets us talk separately about digital and video games which may also be used in educational settings, <i>digital play</i> and <i>game based learning</i>, as well as the other <i>blended</i> learning activities that tend to have a more traditional (textbook pages, gap-fill, matching, multiple-choice)  approach in delivery, dynamic and appearance - without confusing their different functions.<br />
125. <br />
126. Finally, this acronym allows us to explore the different types of educational experiences, so we can further label them appropriately, i.e. GMEE math educational, GHEE history educational and so on, and if we just want to be generic, we can also call them all GEEs: gamified educational e-tivities. <br />
127. <br />
128. <br />
129. <b>References</b><br />
130. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Abt, C. (1970) <i>Serious Games</i>. NY, USA: Viking Press.</span><br />
131. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Bock, B. (1969) For Educational Games.<i> The Clearing House</i>. Vol 44(1). p49</span><br />
132. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Botturi, L. & Loh, S. (2008) Once upon a game: rediscovering the roots of games in Education. In: Miller, C. (ed.) <i>Games: Purpose and Potential in Education</i>.  NY, USA: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. pp 1-22</span><br />
133. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Huizinga, J. (1944) <i>Homo Ludens: a study of the play-element in culture</i>. Trans. R.F.C. Hull (1949) London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.</span><br />
134. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Salmon, G. (2003). <i>E-tivities: the key to online learning</i>. London, UK: Kogan Page Ltd.</span><br />
135. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
136. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Image Credit: </b>By See-ming Lee from New York, NY, USA (Happiness / 20100117.7D.02031.P1.L1.BW / SML) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons</span><br />
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140. <b>Questions?</b><br />
141. If you would like to ask anything about this definition please don’t hesitate to comment below - if you would like to read up on the benefits of using GLEEs in the language classroom and to find out where to find digital e-tivities on the internet, please travel on to the <a href="http://oupeltglobalblog.com/2013/06/20/the-fun-in-glee-gamified-language-educational-e-tivities/" target="_blank">OUP blog post here.</a> <br />
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145. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/9122371043258412333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=9122371043258412333' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/9122371043258412333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/9122371043258412333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2013/06/defining-glee.html' title='Defining GLEE'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tKbQlFWZ8QA/UcRBzU8jxfI/AAAAAAAAFkE/hp9VM3D5oC8/s72-c/512px-B&amp;W_Happiness.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-785177198219479336</id><published>2012-05-25T11:47:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-05-25T12:03:01.516+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="analyis-of-mobile-apps"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="infographic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="mlearning"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="smartphones"/><title type='text'>Mobile Assisted Language Learning - English TeachingApps (1)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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148. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgazN9G_6Yt86AVJiCX42ToyJVMCnmiyF1_IVaBhxJC81TRCWNP5O30SloOkWPQGC4cJRHFN7JjYBW51JcOQuJUJwr3OWr7YsPhVNSzifW74ubeURjtbOTQPMuFVhSk_Wqn13vw03UBG3QY/s1600/SC20120505-141550.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgazN9G_6Yt86AVJiCX42ToyJVMCnmiyF1_IVaBhxJC81TRCWNP5O30SloOkWPQGC4cJRHFN7JjYBW51JcOQuJUJwr3OWr7YsPhVNSzifW74ubeURjtbOTQPMuFVhSk_Wqn13vw03UBG3QY/s200/SC20120505-141550.png" width="120" /></a></div>
149. This is the first in a series of posts on MALL (mobile assisted language learning) apps currently available via GooglePlay.<br />
150. <br />
151. The <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mallandroidapps/" target="_blank"><b>infographic </b></a>was created as one of the appendices for a recent assignment on my <a href="http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/courses/course/?code=01360&pg=2">MA in Educational Technology & TESOL</a> and shows a general overview of Android Apps for English language learning.  The second post in this series will feature the top 7 and also explain why they're definitely worth recommending to students and the third will highlight some of the design and pedagogical problems in other apps.<br />
152. <br />
153. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(view infographic in higher quality <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mallandroidapps/" target="_blank">here</a>)</span><br />
154. <br />
155.   <br />
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158. <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m7R91JHNK-E/T74wOGO6tZI/AAAAAAAADYo/XTssiAXYqDc/s1600/Analysis%2Bof%2BAndroid%2BMobile%2BApps%2Bfor%2BEnglish%2BLanguage%2BLearning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m7R91JHNK-E/T74wOGO6tZI/AAAAAAAADYo/XTssiAXYqDc/s1600/Analysis%2Bof%2BAndroid%2BMobile%2BApps%2Bfor%2BEnglish%2BLanguage%2BLearning.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
159. <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To see this infographic full-sized/better quality, please click: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mallandroidapps/"><b>here</b></a></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
160. </tbody></table>
161. <br />
162. <br />
163. Despite all the hype surrounding the use of mobile language learning apps (dominating the discussions at many global ELT conferences these days) in a recent study by <a href="http://blog.busuu.com/the-busuu-com-language-barometer-2012-results/#" target="_blank">Busuu and the I.E. Business School</a>, they disclose that only 2% of the global language learners they polled currently consider mlearning as an efficient way to study.  In part it may only be because we're simply at the <i>start </i>of a trend, but it is also possible that this is due to the fact that a great deal of the apps produced today for "anytime, anywhere" learning <a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/11617/1/S0958344008000335a.pdf" target="_blank">(Geddes, 2004 cited in Kukulska-Hulme & Shield, 2008)</a> aren't actually pedagogically sound, aren't convenient to use and aren't well designed.  <br />
164. <br />
165. What do you think?<br />
166. <br />
167. Is the problem the cost?<br />
168. Is the problem size?<br />
169. Is the problem usability?<br />
170. <br />
171. Is it something else?<br />
172. <br />
173. Let me/us know your thoughts!</div>
174. </div>
175. &lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/785177198219479336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=785177198219479336' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/785177198219479336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/785177198219479336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2012/05/mobile-assisted-language-learning.html' title='Mobile Assisted Language Learning - English TeachingApps (1)'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgazN9G_6Yt86AVJiCX42ToyJVMCnmiyF1_IVaBhxJC81TRCWNP5O30SloOkWPQGC4cJRHFN7JjYBW51JcOQuJUJwr3OWr7YsPhVNSzifW74ubeURjtbOTQPMuFVhSk_Wqn13vw03UBG3QY/s72-c/SC20120505-141550.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-2827442820028515845</id><published>2012-03-07T08:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-03-17T11:27:45.885+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2ndLife"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="guest-pieces"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="guest-posts"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="race-in-ELT"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="socio-political-issues"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="virtual-worlds"/><title type='text'>Why I don’t like Second Life (by Jacqueline Goulbourne)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
176. <br />
177. <br />
178. Imagine a world where you can make a cartoon avatar of yourself and do whatever you like in an international community of English speakers. <br />
179. <br />
180. Well, it already exists, in Taiwan where I have spent most of my career teaching,  it's called ‘World of Warcraft‘ and the mission of almost every parent of teenagers there to wrest their kids off of it!  But imagine if something similar existed, primarily for education, business and sex.  That exists too and I’m fairly certain that it’s nothing we’d really want to get students involved in. <br />
181. <br />
182. I’m sure many of you disagree and are using Second Life in your practice to good effect, so my intent is not to disrespect your work, but to explain the problems I have with Second Life and other such virtual worlds. <br />
183. <br />
184. I first experimented with Second Life in 2003 when friends of mine had set up an experimental teacher training space.  I didn’t really get interested.  More recently I came across Second Life in a wee teacher training course I’m doing.  I fought against my inherent tendency to not engage with things that don’t resonate with me and decided to ‘join in’ and not be such a negative Nancy.  Although I have an aversion to ‘virtual worlds’ and to speaking through machines in any way (I don’t use telephones) I put this aside in order to try and retrieve any babies in this bathwater.<br />
185. <br />
186. I Googled up Second Life and was met with this screen:<br />
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189. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDwg7_aqXBP-60D7K6ylGaXIMMGm9oTt8_qI0N333Nj3OAAj1W9wK91KAaZwfTFL5CkFFdCoHek6L0rMZuLlXeZJ25HYff4ZQ_6mKwvy5ntmtp1Vl1xOgbVRQ0nigeUE3xwqpQ_j6RRKKO/s1600/secondlife-frontpage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDwg7_aqXBP-60D7K6ylGaXIMMGm9oTt8_qI0N333Nj3OAAj1W9wK91KAaZwfTFL5CkFFdCoHek6L0rMZuLlXeZJ25HYff4ZQ_6mKwvy5ntmtp1Vl1xOgbVRQ0nigeUE3xwqpQ_j6RRKKO/s400/secondlife-frontpage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
190. <div style="text-align: center;">
191. <span style="font-size: x-small;">[screenshot from https://join.secondlife.com/ ]</span></div>
192. <br />
193. The user sees this screen with avatars that can be chosen.  Your avatar can be customised later on but I immediately took real exception to the prototype avatars that were presented for customisation.  These include a slightly scary rabbit, a robot and lots of white kids who clearly resembled extras from a 90s vampire film.  The only black woman present is wearing a short dress with a flower in her hair and high heeled shoes - a very different aesthetic to the white women presented.  One of the men has a shirt open to show rippling pecs but generally, the male figures are covered up.  For me, it doesn’t represent an acceptable aesthetic to present to students in my care, particularly young women.<br />
194. <br />
195. There are two strands to my  misgivings: firstly the absence of ethnic diversity and secondly, the overt sexualisation of young women, in the Second Life avatar choices.   As a teacher joining in, I tried to choose an avatar that could represent my self without making myself ridiculous.  I’m 37, pretty fat, greying, and generally get dressed in the dark.  My choices ranged from avatars that mostly looked like a 14 year old version on myself: pale skinned, bone thin, and dressed in black with lots of eyeliner and it seemed undignified and self-abasing.  <br />
196. <br />
197. I’m not scarred by the experience. But then I’m a confident, English-speaking adult.  I can articulate why I don’t want to be this 1990 version of myself and tried to change it.  Can we expect young, perhaps not so good at English students to raise their own misgivings to their educators or will they simply go along with what the teacher, or the authority wants them to do?  Thinking back to my time teaching junior high school girls in Taiwan, none of those prototype avatars is of Han Chinese or any other Taiwanese ethnicities. <br />
198. <br />
199. What’s the message here? <br />
200. <br />
201. White people (and the token African American) own English. You are different. Go get yourself a white identity to join our English-speaking world!<br />
202. <br />
203. OK, yes, you can choose to brown/yellow/black up later if you want to, but that’s not the standard issue human in this community. <br />
204. <br />
205. Don’t we want our students to come and sit at the table as equals? To join the English-speaking communities that they are passionate about? <br />
206. <br />
207. In my Real Life classes, every kid is a beautiful prototype of the individual they want to become as they are: be they fat or thin, with braces, wearing unsexy clothes - with a wonderful inheritance of Chinese ethnicity, not something to be tagged on later, once they have chosen their ‘core’ avatar.<br />
208. <br />
209. Am I over-thinking this? <br />
210. <br />
211. Perhaps, but if we use these tools in the classroom, we are also raising the question of who ‘owns’ English.  We have to ask who funds a lot of these communities and to what business or political ends?  To promote ELT as a British, Australian, White American/European activity?  Why? <br />
212. <br />
213. Is that congruent with our principles, desirable for our personal teaching contexts?<br />
214. <br />
215. Cartoon images hurt as much as photographic images. <br />
216. <br />
217. As a teacher I’m rarely didactic and I know I can’t change the world, but I am absolutely committed to making every child  in my care feel like they can be whoever they want to be and that includes valuing and celebrating every child’s individuality and identity and not promoting certain images as a norm within an educational context. <br />
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222. <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vqBVd-d-tss/T1cT_nLu_pI/AAAAAAAADNs/DEr8qYKxI34/s1600/Me.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="50" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vqBVd-d-tss/T1cT_nLu_pI/AAAAAAAADNs/DEr8qYKxI34/s400/Me.jpg" width="50" /></a></div>
223. Jackie has been a teacher for 15 years, around the world, <br />
224. but mostly in Taiwan.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/2827442820028515845/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=2827442820028515845' title='29 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/2827442820028515845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/2827442820028515845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-i-dont-like-second-life-by.html' title='Why I don’t like Second Life (by Jacqueline Goulbourne)'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDwg7_aqXBP-60D7K6ylGaXIMMGm9oTt8_qI0N333Nj3OAAj1W9wK91KAaZwfTFL5CkFFdCoHek6L0rMZuLlXeZJ25HYff4ZQ_6mKwvy5ntmtp1Vl1xOgbVRQ0nigeUE3xwqpQ_j6RRKKO/s72-c/secondlife-frontpage.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>29</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-5733319768673406719</id><published>2012-02-12T13:59:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-12T14:09:42.237+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="English"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="linguisitcs"/><title type='text'>English: time 4 a revamp?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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229. Nothing so amazes me more than the fact, that despite so many other languages havie large governing bodies which analyze, stay on top of and make changes to their language in order to better fit the times, that English doesn't.<br />
230. <br />
231. I think we should, especially as its reach extends across the globe.<br />
232. <br />
233. If I could change the English language., then I would<br />
234. <br />
235. <br />
236. <br />
237. <br />
238. <br />
239. - add an extra grammatical tense:  The <i>"Ever Present" </i>Tense<br />
240. <ul style="text-align: left;">
241. <li>it annoys me somewhat to tell students to use the present for "habits, permanence, facts." If it's for all time, then there should be a specific tense that refers to this because for most people, present = now. </li>
242. </ul>
243. </div>
244. <br />
245. <br />
246. <div>
247. - I'd add two extra pronouns to reflect gender reality.<br />
248. <ul style="text-align: left;">
249. <li><i>heshe</i> and <i>shehe</i></li>
250. </ul>
251. <br />
252. <br />
253. - I'd also love to revamp spelling entirely to make it better reflect the way words sound<br />
254. <ul style="text-align: left;">
255. <li>if the ch sounds like an sh, it should be an <i>sh</i></li>
256. <li>regular past tense endings are a waste of time teaching.  Why not write <b>workt</b> not worked, <b>filld </b>not filled - loaded can stay loaded.</li>
257. </ul>
258. <br />
259. What do you think?  Any bug-bears you've noticed while teaching our fair language?  What would you change if you could?<br />
260. <br />
261. <br />
262. Best,<br />
263. Karenne<br />
264. <br />
265. <br />
266. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>image credit</b></span><br />
267. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fouquier/6277214368/sizes/l/in/photostream/">Teaching an old dog new tricks by Fouquier on Flickr</a></span></div>
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270. In the last couple of weeks prior to restarting classes, I've been watching a lot of television. The weather's not been particularly nice and I'm too poor to do anything else.  That's the downside to being a student at my age, I guess.  The upside is: imagine the best conference you've ever been to and think of one of the great presentations - one that has really had an impact on your teaching... now imagine that instead of a 45 minute session you get to have access to months of amazing lectures, group discussions and articles to read to follow up and challenge yourself with.  So, poverty is worth it, I guess.<br />
271. <br />
272. But anyway, back to TV, one of the theme songs, from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W6dOEdEAAQ&feature=fvwrel">Weeds</a>, has become a real earworm.  It goes, for those of you who don't know it,<br />
273. <br />
274. <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
275. <i>"Little Boxes, little boxes, on the hillside, little boxes all the same</i></blockquote>
276. <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
277. <i>There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and yellow one </i></blockquote>
278. <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
279. <i>And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same..."</i></blockquote>
280. <br />
281. The song makes me think about motivation, a lot.  Or maybe I was thinking about it before the song and it just drummed it in.  We all know that learning doesn't happen without motivation.  But what is it really?   Where does it come from?<br />
282. <br />
283. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFqPIGgMLpekR8zpRi_B97n-bswqyMlkQGAyNmijKBzlcYE3QZjPn8EsY_Gy3CENOWdEn_xUfHl_X0A_BolVLz993OpldVpyNBJ_fzMsUR_wc42R3wbVx2WFt-e255s3SKHyKlLnF2Eol8/s1600/1471831967_30f6470721_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFqPIGgMLpekR8zpRi_B97n-bswqyMlkQGAyNmijKBzlcYE3QZjPn8EsY_Gy3CENOWdEn_xUfHl_X0A_BolVLz993OpldVpyNBJ_fzMsUR_wc42R3wbVx2WFt-e255s3SKHyKlLnF2Eol8/s400/1471831967_30f6470721_z.jpg" width="267" /></a><br />
284. Usually, it gets boiled down into three categories:<br />
285. <br />
286. <br />
287. <b>Extrinsic Motivation (external influences) </b><br />
288. e.g. money, rewards, good grades, trophies, certificates, job position<br />
289. <br />
290. <b>Intrinsic Motivation (internal influences)</b><br />
291. e.g. enjoyment of a task, passion, a drive to seek challenges, autonomy, inherent satisfaction
292. <br />
293. <br />
294. Intrinsic motivation refers to doing something simply because it is enjoyable
295. while extrinsic motivation is more about getting a specific value or outcome
296. based on what you have done (Ryan and Deci, 2000).<br />
297. <br />
298. <b>Amotivation </b>is basically when you can't be bothered.<br />
299. <br />
300. <br />
301. <br />
302. <br />
303. It has also been determined, through extensive empirical research by Deci & Ryan, Vallerand and others over the decades, that extrinsic rewards put a damper on intrinsic motivation.   I think though, that we have to be a bit cautious with this sort of thinking as it could very easily lead one into an assumption that extrinsic motivation is <i>bad</i> and that intrinsic motivation is <i>best</i>.  A dangerous position I feel, because for the most part, whether we like it or not, our adult language learners are more likely to come to us extrinsically motivated than intrinsically.<br />
304. <br />
305. They want to learn English to integrate into society, to get a job promotion, to ensure job security, to get a better pay cheque, to speak to their foreign colleagues and close the deal.  If not this then they want to know that when they go on holiday, they won't get lost.  Sure, there are a handful of housewives who just fancy learning it, but usually because someone else told them it is the <i>"thing"</i> to do. And the teens mostly just want to pass the course, get the certificate, and get on with life.<br />
306. <br />
307. So where it all gets a bit sticky for me, is that sometimes our
308. extrinsically motivated learners really enjoy learning.  Why not, after
309. all?  Sometimes we teachers can inspire them and sometimes their
310. colleagues do and sometimes they develop an interest for the language -
311. but all this interest and high from learning a second language does not
312. take away their primary extrinsic goals.<br />
313. <br />
314. In more recent research, Ryan and Deci have made a point of re-examining extrinsic motivation more closely, placing extrinsic motivation on a continuum and have created this taxonomy:<br />
315. <br />
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321. <br />
322. The idea is that learners can be in a state of <b><i>external regulation</i> </b>(wanting rewards or avoiding criticism), or one of <b><i>introjected regulation</i></b> (constraints are internalized and set by the learner).  <i><b>Identified regulation </b></i>means that the behavior is thought of as being self-determined and finally the last type is <b><i>integrated regulation</i> </b>- the person learns willingly because it fits in with the rest of the life activities and life goals (Vallerand, 1992).<br />
323. <br />
324. Despite the fact that there is so much literature on extrinsic and
325. intrinsic motivations and I'll continue reviewing it all, I really can't
326. help but wonder if motivation is not actually something quite fluid. Can't you (or our learners) be one type and the next day, another? <br />
327. <br />
328. <br />
329. But more importantly, if by categorizing motivation into boxes and then onto further hazy sub-boxes, might we be missing out on the fact that humans are infinitely complex creatures who can be both intrinsically and extrinsically motivated <b>at exactly the same time</b>?<br />
330. <br />
331. <br />
332. What d'ya think? <br />
333. <br />
334. <br />
335. Best,<br />
336. Karenne<br />
337. <br />
338. image credits: <br />
339. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eric85/1471831967/sizes/z/in/photostream/">plant fondo oscuro by eric caballero</a><br />
340. <br />
341. References:<br />
342. Ryan, R. & Deci, E. (2000). Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Classic Definitions and New Directions. <i>Contemporary Educational Psychology</i>. 25, 54-67. <br />
343. <br />
344. Vallerand, R. & Bissonnette, R. (1992). Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Amotivational Styles as Predictors of Behavior: A Prospective Study. <i>Journal of Personality.</i> 60:3. 599-620.</div>
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350. <br />
351. More than a century ago, Henry Sweet wrote <b>The Practical Study of Languages</b> and through it, criticized the existing methods of the day, much as we still do now.   The book's myth-busting objectives reviews phonetics, alphabets and
352. pronunciation issues before diving into methods, grammar, vocabulary and
353. texts.  <br />
354. <br />
355. In fact, while scanning through the text, I honestly couldn't help but think <i>I bet he'd have been a blogger if he were around today</i>.  His prose is tight, easy to read and the language direct.<br />
356. <br />
357. His obvious annoyance at the 'insufficient knowledge of the science of language' (1899:3) like my own, literally jumps off the page.  Given that this post is <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2012/01/fixed-acquisition-order-no-evidence.html">part 2 of No Evidence for a Fixed Aquisition Order</a>, I'll hone in on this one quote which I wanted to share with you, for reflection, as it neatly wraps up the debate on authenticity vs manufactured texts:<br />
358. <br />
359. <blockquote class="tr_bq">
360. ...the dilemma is that if we try to make our texts embody certain definite grammatical categories, the texts cease to be natural: they become either trivial, tedious and long-winded, or else they become more or less monstrosities' (1899:192).</blockquote>
361. <br />
362. Really sounds like he was describing Headway long before it ever arrived to influence all the other copy-cat productions from then on and into today.  The question is though, <b>will it influence tomorrow's </b>or <b><a href="http://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/e-is-for-ecoursebook/">can we teachers at least try to stop it before it does?</a></b><br />
363. <br />
364. Best,<br />
365. Karenne<br />
366. <br />
367. <b>Image credit</b><br />
368. <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wolf_sheeps_clothing_barlow.jpg">Wikimedia commons, wolf in sheep's clothing</a><br />
369. <br />
370. <b>Reference</b><br />
371. Sweet, H. (1899). The Practical Study of Languages.  London, UK. J.M. Dent & Co.<br />
372. (<a href="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/5/items/practicalstudyl00sweegoog/practicalstudyl00sweegoog.">Available for free online from Google Books</a>)</div>
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374. I'm busily packing up the stack of books I used for my MA assignment on Methods and Approaches while looking into authentic materials, yet before I take them on back to the library, I thought I'd share a little snippet I came across. <br />
375. <br />
376. It's this:<br />
377. <br />
378. <blockquote class="tr_bq">
379. "Very briefly, there is substantial research evidence to support the use in language learning of the linguistically rich, culturally faithful and potentially emotive input supplied by authentic texts. What is more, <b>there is little evidence of a fixed acquisition order,</b> which is the rationale for the use of phased language instruction and which is often used to repudiate the use of authentic texts for language learning.  (Mishan, 2005:11)</blockquote>
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383. So not to harp on about all this again but what gets me when I read this is if publishers and textbook authors aren't simply churning out carbon copies of each other, albeit with ever glossier, shinier pictures than the last lot, then why do these tomes always start off and carry on virtually the same way?<br />
384. <br />
385. Why do teachers teach the verb to be, there is/there are, present-tense followed by present-continuous, question words, prepositions of time and place and adverbs of frequency* and so on and so forth, ad infinitum?<br />
386. <br />
387. And to top it all off, horror of all horrors, why do so many students think this <b>must</b> be the way to learn a language?<br />
388. <br />
389. <br />
390. Did we come to this ideology because the holy books have logos on them, thus convincing us that there were at some point, a bunch of wise and saintly academic authorities who like monks in monasteries, researched language acquisition before writing up their commandments?  Who made this "order" - who publicized it? Who pushed it?  Where did it come from?<br />
391. <br />
392. <br />
393. Have our beloved and not so loved at all textbook authors <i>ever</i> done any research into whether this "order" works
394. or not, <i>feel free to state your claim</i> <i>if so,</i> or have they too assumed it to be so because their editor (or his boss) said
395. so?  I do really want to know... if this phased language instruction<i> </i>has ever been tested scientifically, systemically, qualitatively, quantitatively, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitudinal_study"><b>longitudinally</b></a> and by whom because I'll happily eat my hat if you can prove it so.  Show me, please, where are the peer-reviewed research articles documenting the processes that occur and don't occur - why folks must learn just so?  Surely, truly, it can not be that with almost one third of the world now learning English and millions of others
396. learning other languages that we still can't answer this rather simple and professional question?  <br />
397. <br />
398. Or is our industry made up of snake-oil salesmen <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gfMXEmCew4">dancing in pale moonlight</a>?<br />
399. <br />
400. Of course not.  But nonetheless, I'm not kidding, be it down to good intentions or not, this billion-dollar grossing industry can not really have just been compiled on good faith alone, or can it? <br />
401. <br />
402. Because it seems so.<br />
403. <br />
404. Today, despite that I now have access to fields of journals I will tell you that not for a want of trying can I find one single verified report showing brain scans done on language learners proving on any kind of level that the brain receives and organizes grammatical structures this way.  Countless snoringly dull case studies and endless fascinating assessments to wade through that go into the depths of our practices and into what makes a good language learner and what doesn't, what strategies teachers can get students to employ, the effects of motivation, aptitude, age and gender studies and how there really is no best method, no there isn't... and yet, nope, nary a word on this so called fixed acquisition order, stage by stage and step by step, despite the fact that <i>so many of us </i>somehow continue to hail the god of grammar.<br />
405. <br />
406. <br />
407. <br />
408. Were we <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker">sold a Brooklyn Bridge</a> and made to sell it on classroom by classroom?<br />
409. <br />
410. Time to <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/search/label/dogme">wise up</a>, folks, methinks. <br />
411. <br />
412. <br />
413. <br />
414. K<br />
415. <br />
416. <b>Image credit:</b><br />
417. <span style="font-size: x-small;">The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City by <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Webfan29" title="en:User:Webfan29">Webfan29</a> at <a class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">en.wikipedia</a></span><br />
418. <br />
419. <b>References:</b><br />
420. <br />
421. Mishan, F. (2005). <i>Designing authenticity into language learning materials</i>.  Bristol, UK: intellect.<br />
422. Prabu, N. (1990). There Is No Best Method - Why? <i>TESOL Quarterly</i>, Vol. 24, no.2.  161-176.<br />
423. <br />
424. Other posts<br />
425. <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/search/label/reasons-i-dont-like-textbooks">Reasons I don't like textbooks</a><br />
426. <br />
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431. One of the things I did today was comment on Scott Thornbury's blog post, <a href="http://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/o-is-for-ownership/">O is for Ownership</a>... and in my ramblings I talked about how sometimes ideas are out there, floating about in the greater Universe, simply lurking, waiting to be captured by he who listens and is prepared to act.  <i>(It's that sort of day).</i><br />
432. <br />
433. Those sorts of thoughts come, I guess though, from my youth when I was a NewAger and instead of being a reflective English teacher and practitioner or even a student,  I wrote NewAge articles philosophizing on the questions of one's path through life - instead of<br />
434. <br />
435. "How do we learn?" "What is motivation?"<br />
436. "How can the new technologies help us teach Speaking?' I wondered how we transformed from monkeys to... well, whatever we are now. <br />
437. <br />
438. <br />
439. <br />
440.   <br />
441. Even though it was a long, long, long, long time ago and many years have passed since those days of adventure, climbing up into volcanoes and knocking back beers while lying on Asian sandy beaches, curled up around men with long wise beards in front of dimming fires while arguing over the very nature of our beingness, the story, no matter how fantastical, of <a href="http://www.wowzone.com/monkey.htm">the 100th Monkey</a> never really left me.<br />
442. <br />
443. So today, through the rambling stroll of a streaming mind, the philosophy that we learn from those around us, consciously, subconsciously and through the trawling of multi-dimensional layered communications recorded in the shared higher consciousness, I am led to only this question:<br />
444. <br />
445. <div style="text-align: center;">
446. How did English become today's one Global Language?</div>
447. <br />
448. Okay, it's not completely, yet it surely is on the way.  By 2020, a prediction not a fact, a greater majority will speak it than those who don't, right?  It isn't the easiest language.  Nor the prettiest.  It is instead a messy code, made up of archaic irregularities, tortuous, nonsensical rules and ridiculous tongue-defying pronunciations.<br />
449. <br />
450. So what on earth, <i>or beyond earth,</i> happened to set this particular <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme">meme</a> into play?<br />
451. <br />
452. When did the <a href="http://www.gladwell.com/tippingpoint/index.html">Tipping Point</a> occur?<br />
453. <br />
454. Who were the players, <i>who washed the first sweet potato, who made washing it important?</i> Who decided that English should take the place of Esperanto?  Was it life itself?  Was it a bunch of academics studying applied linguistics unraveling the codices of the brain and because they happened to be English speaking, while sharing the nature of our brains ability to learn, the onus was on English to prove the hypotheses... or was it the availability of native English speakers racing across a globe to have an adventure while earning a little cash?<br />
455. <br />
456. Was it a curtain coming down or a wall falling down?  Was it the Almighty Dollar or Nike's abuse of children in factories? Was it Coca-cola's fault or a legion of British soldiers conquering a New World? <br />
457. <br />
458. <b>How did it all happen so fast?</b><br />
459. <br />
460. We talk about our students' needs to learn English but somehow we don't ask how that need arose in the first place.<br />
461. <br />
462. Does anyone have thoughts or theories?<br />
463. <br />
464. <br />
465. Best,<br />
466. Karenne<br />
467. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/garthimage/75259400/">image credit: colobus monkey by garthimage</a></div>
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469. (Guest post by Brittany Lyons)<br />
470. <br />
471. <br />
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473. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjseaoMF3ko44GViJi7SRY7Th7B6ynYT8BOYjUz8P2vTaTulqj5I0vGi0rPf7_HapJNqna_JxwdRPwxkF9-5ujjJN5cheEZGwwwpkTIZAGzZwnv2a_L28yOkPNmJGFoOTopoKedIfAr1E4-/s1600/Daytona_School_with_Bethune.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjseaoMF3ko44GViJi7SRY7Th7B6ynYT8BOYjUz8P2vTaTulqj5I0vGi0rPf7_HapJNqna_JxwdRPwxkF9-5ujjJN5cheEZGwwwpkTIZAGzZwnv2a_L28yOkPNmJGFoOTopoKedIfAr1E4-/s400/Daytona_School_with_Bethune.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
474. For decades, proponents of gender-segregation in classrooms have argued that separation of children by gender fosters a successful learning atmosphere. However, recent studies have shown that segregating classrooms by gender impacts student learning negatively.<br />
475. <br />
476. The negative effects of separate classrooms are apparent in linguistics especially, where girls tend to develop strong academic abilities earlier than boys. Establishing gender-segregated classrooms denies boys and girls the opportunity to learn from each other, and reinforces the long-ago debunked idea that "separate but equal" is effective in institutions of learning.<br />
477. <br />
478. Research conducted at Tel Aviv University suggests that <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080411150856.htm">girls help foster a stronger learning atmosphere</a> in classrooms, and that both boys and girls benefit from being in mixed gender classes. The study found that test scores were higher overall in many areas, including reading comprehension, science and math, when boys and girls were in mixed classes. Test scores increased for both genders, and a high ratio of girls was linked to enhanced learning.<br />
479. <br />
480. This data is supported by older education studies, which found that girls tend to excel in language arts as young children, while boys consistently develop later. This difference is true of children in many countries, and from many different linguistic backgrounds—not just in English-speaking high-income families with parents who can afford the cost of further education, be this at home, sending their children abroad or even via a distance learning program such as <a href="http://onlinephd.org/">an online PhD education.</a><br />
481. <br />
482. Whether the disparities in language acquisition are based in the brain or in upbringing, marked differences do exist between boys and girls, especially in elementary school classrooms. Listening to their female peers speak and interacting with them during classroom and playground activities helps boys to develop stronger language arts skills.<br />
483. <br />
484. Schools who have attempted to institute gender-segregated classrooms have often seen <a href="http://thedailycougar.com/2011/10/17/mind-the-gap-sex-segregated-classrooms-will-not-close-the-educational-gender-gap/">an overall decrease in test scores</a>, which shows that gender-segregation in schools is not effective for either boys or girls.<br />
485. <br />
486. Another chief drawback of segregated classrooms is that they do not allow children to share their knowledge and experience with each other, but rather perpetuate gender-based cultural disparities. Learning how to interact with different people is seen as a key goal of education, especially in early childhood. Children who are deprived of the chance to interact with peers of different genders may have trouble relating to or communicating with individuals of the opposite gender later in life.<br />
487. <br />
488. Many psychologists who focus on child and adolescent development have voiced concern that gender-segregated classrooms impact the social skills of students well into adulthood. They perpetuate unfounded stereotypes about how men and women are different, and contribute to gender-based prejudice.<br />
489. <br />
490. The effects of gender-segregated teaching can have an impact on older students as well. Decreases in test scores occur in single-gender classrooms in both middle and high school, and grade point averages in general fall. This decrease in GPA can adversely affect students as they apply for college and scholarship opportunities. Depriving students of their best chances to enter excellent colleges and secure funding does them a disservice. The goal of public education should be to prepare individuals for successful careers and successful relationships, both of which are harmed by gender segregation.<br />
491. <br />
492. Many of the ideas that proponents of gender-segregated classrooms have introduced into public discourse are nothing but old prejudices in new forms. These individuals argue that boys and girls are inherently different, and that they should thus be separated in classrooms. They argue that boys are more aggressive than girls, and that girls can only learn in cooperative environments. As the American Civil Liberties Union has noted in <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aclu.org%2Fwomens-rights%2Fsex-segregated-schools-separate-and-unequal&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNF9PvCbWHW2Kp50S3EXyO0gKz0cgg">lawsuits against school districts with sex-segregated classrooms</a>, none of these beliefs have been substantiated by science.<br />
493. <br />
494. <ul style="text-align: left;">
495. <li>But what do you think - should boys and girls be separated? Why or why not?</li>
496. </ul>
497. <ul style="text-align: left;">
498. <li> Have you noticed any differences in the way that males and females learn languages?</li>
499. </ul>
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501. </div>
502. <br />
503. <br />
504. <u>Blog post author</u><br />
505. <i>Brittany Lyons aspires to be a psychology professor, but decided to take
506. some time off from grad school to help people learn to navigate the
507. academic lifestyle. She currently lives in Spokane, Washington, where
508. she spends her time reading science fiction and walking her dog.<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></i><br />
509. <br />
510. <b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Image credit</span></i></span></b><br />
511. <i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daytona_School_with_Bethune.jpg">Wikimedia commons, Daytona School</a></span> </span></i>
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513. <div style="text-align: center;">
514. <br />
515. <br />
516. most people are actually,<br />
517.                                                   deep-down, </div>
518. <div style="text-align: center;">
519. <br /></div>
520. <div style="text-align: right;">
521. <span style="font-size: large;">narcissists?</span></div>
522. <br />
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524. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjksB4fJXo0VyXNMglAQdVJmv9nVn7Spe9DPE76qcFzINMYno2AMto7VKnSU19G7ipQ5ohGOEOIoe-Hdq-rB_ZndhWIXC81nR16c9hqRnTh9YTAm9kxthCAmFLBbZkmHaDgvOUAVutRM_NO/s1600/waspnarcissus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjksB4fJXo0VyXNMglAQdVJmv9nVn7Spe9DPE76qcFzINMYno2AMto7VKnSU19G7ipQ5ohGOEOIoe-Hdq-rB_ZndhWIXC81nR16c9hqRnTh9YTAm9kxthCAmFLBbZkmHaDgvOUAVutRM_NO/s320/waspnarcissus.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
525. <br />
526. <br />
527. <br />
528. To be a spammer in 2011, you have to major in Human Psychology?<br />
529. <br />
530. Practice makes perfect?<br />
531. <br />
532. I mean there is a sort of cleverness in their approach, isn't there?<br />
533. <br />
534. <br />
535. <br />
536. <br />
537. <br />
538. <blockquote>
539. I seen a real bad blog about <b><u>you</u></b>. http://link2avirus<br />
540. <br />
541. Have you seen this photo of <u><b>you</b></u>? http://going2wreckhavoconURcomputer<br />
542. <br />
543. Check out this video with <u><b>you</b></u> in it! http://love2spam</blockquote>
544. <br />
545. Given the amount of people who spam me each week, because their accounts
546. have been hacked BECAUSE they were silly enough to click through on one of these..  I think I've got to stop wondering how/why people are silly enough to fall for this trap and got to start slapping some kudos on the devious as they definitely know how to get folks caught in their webs.<br />
547. <br />
548. If I can apply this to anything in terms of my professional development as an educator, then I'd have to say it really emphasizes my belief that learning has to be personal to prick, to stick.   <br />
549. <br />
550. But anyway, folks, seriously, read and take note:<br />
551. <br />
552. <div style="text-align: center;">
553. If you get this sort of message from someone you don't know, <b>don't click on it.  </b></div>
554. <br />
555. Wise up!<br />
556. <br />
557. Karenne<br />
558. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><br />
559. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Imagecredit</span><br />
560. &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: xx-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/archimandrill/1771853387/&quot;&gt;Narcissus by Archimadrill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/2628736106727729598/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=2628736106727729598' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/2628736106727729598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/2628736106727729598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/10/twitterspam-works-because.html' title='#Twitterspam works because...'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjksB4fJXo0VyXNMglAQdVJmv9nVn7Spe9DPE76qcFzINMYno2AMto7VKnSU19G7ipQ5ohGOEOIoe-Hdq-rB_ZndhWIXC81nR16c9hqRnTh9YTAm9kxthCAmFLBbZkmHaDgvOUAVutRM_NO/s72-c/waspnarcissus.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-6650279764758714851</id><published>2011-10-19T01:08:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-19T11:57:16.813+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Beyond-Approaches"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Krashen"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MA-EdTech+TESOL"/><title type='text'>Fossilization and then some Krashen</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
561. This morning's walk to classes was a half-hour battle with an umbrella against icy rain and I can safely say that winter is now upon us here in
562. Manchester but at the moment, as the night closes in, I'm sitting in front of my computer with a nice hot-water bottle on my lap, my toes firmly ensconced in last year's Christmas present of sheepskin bed slipper boots.  <br />
563. <br />
564. I hate cold so it's a good thing with all the articles the professors cook up for us to read that the heating's been turned up in my brain.<br />
565.   <br />
566. <br />
567. One of the tasks last week, for this week, was to think of what makes "a good speaker of a foreign language" and then to think of a particular challenge that you currently face or have faced when teaching Speaking.<br />
568. <br />
569. We had to research the issue, select an article from Google Scholar and then come back into class to share what we learned.<br />
570. <br />
571. I chose to look at fossilized errors, a subject I've written about before (but one also swallowed into the<br />
572. <div style="text-align: right;">
573. <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/09/edu-blogging-tip-subscibe-to-your-own.html">dark-world-of-lost-posts-don't-even-ask-where-Google-put-it, I'll have to repost it soon)</a></span></div>
574. <div style="text-align: right;">
575. <br /></div>
576. <div style="text-align: left;">
577. because it's a subject that utterly fascinates me.</div>
578. <div style="text-align: left;">
579. <br /></div>
580. <div style="text-align: left;">
581. <br /></div>
582. <div style="text-align: left;">
583. I mean why do some learners, despite a significant amount of comprehensible input, say the wrong thing over and over again, even when they are corrected over and over again?   Even when they are repeatedly exposed to the correct form via media, conversations with native speakers.  </div>
584. <div style="text-align: left;">
585. <br /></div>
586. <div style="text-align: left;">
587. You know the sort of errors I mean?  </div>
588. <div style="text-align: left;">
589. <br /></div>
590. <div style="text-align: left;">
591. <i>e.g</i></div>
592. <blockquote>
593. <div style="text-align: left;">
594. "I stand up" instead of "I wake up" </div>
595. </blockquote>
596. <blockquote>
597. The a - e - i mix up </blockquote>
598. <blockquote>
599.  Trouble with filler words like, "well" </blockquote>
600. <div style="text-align: left;">
601. I suppose, at the end of the day, it comes down to L1 interference <i>(first language getting in the way when producing speech in the second language)</i> but why do some of our learners <i><b>never</b></i> go through this while others hit major stumbling blocks?  It isn't an age thing, if we're honest, now is it?  It isn't a gender thing... and sometimes, though not always, they are undoable... </div>
602. <div style="text-align: left;">
603. <br /></div>
604. <div style="text-align: left;">
605. <i>e.g.</i></div>
606. <div style="text-align: left;">
607. <br /></div>
608. <blockquote>
609. <div style="text-align: left;">
610. a) placing a picture of the difference between standing up and waking up on the table as a cue card</div>
611. </blockquote>
612. <br />
613. <blockquote>
614. <div style="text-align: left;">
615. b) teaching a mnemonic device, <i>Send <b>E</b>mails with your <b>i</b>Pad from <b>A</b>pple</i></div>
616. </blockquote>
617. <div style="text-align: left;">
618. <br /></div>
619. <div style="text-align: left;">
620. with others, only practice seems to do the trick, with others it doesn't matter what you do, that error has been fossilized like an insect stuck in amber.</div>
621. <div style="text-align: left;">
622. <br /></div>
623. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
624. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNJ1b-zbGq-8VhBWpcT4H2FDGmJ7qfAHuoU-CJQhmbv5U42zbfMh1-luB3YrI6Oq31uvd9-pwP2SSmIN_sh_jwwGqMDLEnXDnhDoJEckSkPfnte7iloUqC4mXmzVDOMZn17p5HyYdnFAej/s1600/500px-Insect_in_ambers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNJ1b-zbGq-8VhBWpcT4H2FDGmJ7qfAHuoU-CJQhmbv5U42zbfMh1-luB3YrI6Oq31uvd9-pwP2SSmIN_sh_jwwGqMDLEnXDnhDoJEckSkPfnte7iloUqC4mXmzVDOMZn17p5HyYdnFAej/s400/500px-Insect_in_ambers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
625. <div style="text-align: left;">
626. <br /></div>
627. <div style="text-align: left;">
628. <span id="goog_1324128683"></span><span id="goog_1324128684"></span>So, thus with my interest pricked, I set off on a trawl through Google scholar.   The first article I came to was by a young lady in China who pretty much put it down to not enough concentration on form in the beginner levels of classes.  I pretty much agreed with her so moved on to see if I could get something juicier.   </div>
629. <div style="text-align: left;">
630. <br /></div>
631. <div style="text-align: left;">
632. This one led to one of those </div>
633. <div style="text-align: left;">
634. <br /></div>
635. <div style="text-align: center;">
636. <b>"oh.my.goodness.how.come.I.never.thought.about.this?" </b> </div>
637. experiences.<br />
638. <br />
639. <a href="http://artsandhumanities.pressible.org/lizhoelzle/han-profile-feb-2011">Dr Han</a> has compiled a list of the <a href="http://webnotes.net/?m7K12Q">Five Central Issues in Fossilization</a> in an article for the International Journal of Applied Linguistics and in it, along with discussing the sort of errors I'd been noticing, she also discussed <b>the fossilization of level.  </b><i>When the student ceases to make any further progress in the <b>level attained</b>.</i><br />
640. <br />
641. Have you ever come across this sort of thing in your classes - when your
642. learners, week upon week, year upon year, stay at more or less <b>the
643. exact same level?   </b><br />
644. <br />
645. To be honest, I would probably name this state "stagnation" because I don't think it's <i>necessarily</i> permanent, it is very contextually and situationally dependent, don't you think?<br />
646. <br />
647. Her article was a really good overview and a really good springboard to digging deeper, but like so many scholarly articles, there aren't concrete suggestions on how to deal with these issues.<br />
648. <br />
649. <br />
650. Which brings me to the psychology module, where we had to read some Krashen.  For all you die-hard-the-man-is-a-god-folks, sorry... the article we had to read was, sorry-to-say-out-loud, rubbish.<br />
651. <br />
652. Obviously he's contributed greatly, enormously, to the field of Second Language Acquisition, but in <a href="http://www.webnotes.net/MyWebNotes/DocViewer/Viewer.aspx?docid=f936d099-c0cb-4553-a53b-4af9baeb8622#wn">Comprehensible Output? for System in 1998</a>, he seemed to suggest that Comprehensible Output<i> </i>(CO) is too rare to make any real contribution to linguistic competence...  <i>(CO is when learners notice that they don't know how to say something correctly in the L2 or they've tried to say something meaningful but it all went pear-shaped and no one knew what they were saying, so they change it - make it simple/ ask for help and in modifying the intended phrase/structure learn something
653. new about the language).. </i><br />
654. <br />
655. In this article, Krashen suggested that students don't enjoy being pushed to speak <i>(hogwash, mine did... </i>the issue is so level dependent - so culturally dependent - so classroom dynamically dependent -so why-they're-learning-English dependent - so how-did-they-learn-English-before-influenced etc) and then he went on to say that high levels of linguistic competence are possible without output - that basically, input is all a language learner needs!<br />
656. <br />
657. Raised my blood pressure that article did - I mean - by golly, at least a million students all across the world who've studied languages, whatever language, were made to do so through readings and listening, year upon year, but did not get the opportunity to speak and, <i>blanket statement of mine,</i> they would disagree with this viewpoint.   I wonder, is it Krashen's fault that they are now mute because some textbooks authors thought he was right?   Hmm...<br />
658. <br />
659. Also, I think I'd even go so far as to say: if fossilization occurs at any one particular stage in the learning process, then I'd be very tempted to pick a time when new language is <i>obviously received</i>, in that moment, the brain makes a <b>use-it-or-lose-it-decision</b>... and I'd lay the blame of error/level fossilization at not having enough freedom moments in class - at not being able to say things wrong in order to learn how to say them right.<br />
660. <br />
661. But then, whadda-I-kno',<br />
662. <br />
663. <br />
664. Best,<br />
665. Karenne<br />
666. <br />
667. <b>Useful links</b><br />
668. <a href="http://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/f-is-for-focus-on-form-2/">Scott Thornbury's written a cracking post with rich comments on F is Focus on Form</a><br />
669. <br />
670. <b>References</b> <i>(because I have to work out how to do them and even though this is not an academic paper, and merely just an opinion based personal blog post, I'm trying to be a good girl now and should...)</i><br />
671. <br />
672. Han, Z. (2004) Fossilization: five central issues,  <i>International Journal of Applied Linguistics</i> Vol14 no.2 pp. 212-239 <br />
673. Krashen, S. (1998) Comprehensible Output? <i>System</i> 26, pp 175-182<br />
674. <br />
675. <b>ImageCredit</b><br />
676. &lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Insect_in_ambers.jpg&quot;&gt;Insects in Amber &lt;/a&gt;by &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.comcast.net/%7Emilazinkova/Fogshadow.html&quot;&gt;Mila Zinkova&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/6650279764758714851/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=6650279764758714851' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/6650279764758714851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/6650279764758714851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/10/fossilization-and-then-some-krashen.html' title='Fossilization and then some Krashen'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNJ1b-zbGq-8VhBWpcT4H2FDGmJ7qfAHuoU-CJQhmbv5U42zbfMh1-luB3YrI6Oq31uvd9-pwP2SSmIN_sh_jwwGqMDLEnXDnhDoJEckSkPfnte7iloUqC4mXmzVDOMZn17p5HyYdnFAej/s72-c/500px-Insect_in_ambers.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-1421370997481530644</id><published>2011-10-05T00:14:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-19T01:42:34.361+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Beyond-Approaches"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="EDEC"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MA-EdTech+TESOL"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="motivation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Psychology-of-LL"/><title type='text'>&quot;The Dog Ate My Internet&quot;</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
677. <div style="text-align: justify;">
678. ...was the smart retort from one of my professors, <a href="http://edtechandtesol.info/wp/about/gary-motteram/">Gary</a>, today when I gave a reason for not being able to do my required Blackboard discussion homework on top of the articles we had to read.  </div>
679. <div style="text-align: justify;">
680. <br /></div>
681. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
682. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0v2qMsf7MvP5GF2qC-aL9NDf5POQu72_eifLqb3jR8H-FiOc5_8Sp5BKJ03wL2ywcZ6J0Q46IIRePzmDPZdEEURxky0GnbQ_tCjhYUzYOgxneHJJhpOIEfmEly70czQvgdlEXEp8pB9Lw/s1600/4190468784_9cf34f318c_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0v2qMsf7MvP5GF2qC-aL9NDf5POQu72_eifLqb3jR8H-FiOc5_8Sp5BKJ03wL2ywcZ6J0Q46IIRePzmDPZdEEURxky0GnbQ_tCjhYUzYOgxneHJJhpOIEfmEly70czQvgdlEXEp8pB9Lw/s400/4190468784_9cf34f318c_z.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
683. <div style="text-align: justify;">
684. <br />
685. In the last few weeks I've been using a pay-as-you-go-dongle and its bytes were being chewed up at a very costly rate... which, on top of the life-changing move, is why I've not been around much in the last couple of weeks: not on the 'net, not writing emails, not FBing and all that.   It was all quick in and quick out.  Also, alas, my grandfather died recently and I'll be heading to his funeral on Friday. </div>
686. <div style="text-align: justify;">
687. <br /></div>
688. <div style="text-align: justify;">
689. But anyway, yay! The Internet is now installed at home, I have finally got my bed from Ikea although I haven't put it together yet, I have curtains up instead of propped up pieces of cardboard, I have a schedule, I have lightbulbs...  I know where my highlighter pens are although I think I may have lost my glasses.</div>
690. <div style="text-align: justify;">
691. <br /></div>
692. <div style="text-align: justify;">
693. </div>
694. <div style="text-align: justify;">
695. The course tutors have been piling on the work, reams and reams of articles, 25 - 50 pages long plus book chapters to read and I swear that when they list out what else they recommend reading that there could well be an evil-grin-glint in their eyes.<br />
696. <br />
697. That part, because I'm so keen :-) you know, trying to read <i>it all, </i>(even some referenced articles mentioned at the bottom of assigned) ...  all<i> </i>wound up becoming a bit overwhelming and on Monday I ran on over to the disability office (I'm dyslexic) to say I was freaking out.  </div>
698. <div style="text-align: justify;">
699. <br /></div>
700. <div style="text-align: justify;">
701. Nice counselor there told me it was normal to freak out and I instantly stopped freaking out.<br />
702. <br />
703. I think I need to take a more eclectic approach - but oh,oh,  it's so hard to choose - what if I miss out on something truly groundbreaking... complain as I might about pages of stuff to read, the truth is by golly, even with the articles I don't really like, that I want to simplify and break down into you know, <i>English</i>, teach so much.   </div>
704. <div style="text-align: justify;">
705. <br /></div>
706. <div style="text-align: justify;">
707. This old dog is definitely picking up some new tricks.</div>
708. <br />
709. <br />
710. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Beyond Approaches, Methods and Techniques</b></span><br />
711. <br />
712. <div style="text-align: justify;">
713. The most interesting work for this module that I read last week was perhaps <a href="http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=iJ3Y_wkkwa8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=larsen+freeman+techniques+and+principles+in+language+teaching&ots=FC_3aV7I6F&sig=3zwRaC6EclgMG1SqtL_zVETx84c">Diane Larsen Freeman's concluding chapter of Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching</a>.  She has a really good voice - easy and clear, and warming - she's a really-have-been-there-and-done-that-author.   In this chapter she discussed the changes in methodology over the years and provided a really good overview of the different approaches.<br />
714. <br />
715. I found this particularly interesting laid out, like this, as I can't say that before now I have never actually thought about how much the way that an adult learner might have been taught previously might well affect the way he learns now or how he wants to learn now.  </div>
716. <div style="text-align: justify;">
717. <br /></div>
718. <div style="text-align: justify;">
719. I thought her statement "What makes a method successful for some teachers is their investment in it" particularly interesting - I wonder if dogme works in my classroom because I simply believe it does.  </div>
720. <div style="text-align: justify;">
721. <br /></div>
722. <div style="text-align: justify;">
723. Two other phrases which really caught my eye were "learners are very versatile and can learn well sometimes despite a given method rather than because of it" and "teachers who teach as if their practice causes learning, while recognizing that they are not in control of all the relevant factors, and that at the least they are in partnership with their students in this enterprise, can be true managers of learning."</div>
724. <div style="text-align: justify;">
725. <br /></div>
726. <div style="text-align: justify;">
727. I am not fond of the term, managers, managers are a little too much like a throw-back to the top-down boss effect.  I like coaches better.  I wonder if that's a sign of the times, of these times, 2011 influenced as we are by the Business gurus and their pop psychology.  But, I tend to think that a coach encourages, motivates, builds <i>his</i> team.  And a classroom pulling together needs a strong, warm lead.</div>
728. <br />
729. <br />
730. <br />
731. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Psychology of Language Learning</b></span><br />
732. <br />
733. <div style="text-align: justify;">
734. I'm auditing this class which means I participate as a guest and have to do the assignments but won't get assessed at the end.<br />
735. <br />
736. I really would wish it could be one of my core modules but I'm planning on doing an ISS in year two and I need to save the credits.   Our Dutch professor is a very interesting character... a coach.  </div>
737. <div style="text-align: justify;">
738. <br /></div>
739. <div style="text-align: justify;">
740. He gave us an article by <a href="http://www.udveksling.com/MenSpr2010/empoweringstudentswithlglearningstrategies.pdf">Susana V. Rivera Mills and Luke Plonsky called Empowering students with language learning strategies</a>.  This is probably the most marked up of all the texts I had to read last week and the only one I read through more than once and then reread the comments in the margins again, prior to class.  </div>
741. <div style="text-align: justify;">
742. <br /></div>
743. <div style="text-align: justify;">
744. In class this morning, Juup had us critique and analyze some of her core points and terminology  and it was jolly good fun to give it a (respectful) bashing.  I highly recommend reading it, looking out for phrases like "instructors whose students posses <b><i>misconstrued</i></b> notions about language learning need to provide guidance to avoid their tendency to use less effective strategies" but don't expect any real practical advice on how to do that.</div>
745. <div style="text-align: justify;">
746. <br /></div>
747. <div style="text-align: justify;">
748. In her introduction she repeated a vital question raised by Dick Allwright in 1984 - a question I have been asking for years "Why don't learners learn what teachers teach?"  But her article was pretty theoretical, so I didn't walk away with any 'a-ha' moments.<br />
749. <br />
750. Still it discussed things like how good strategies affect motivation and wound up reminding me of my own questionings on whether or not, <i>the term I probably incorrectly refer to as</i> "peer-induced-<i>motivation</i>," has any influence over the end-"product."</div>
751. <br />
752. <br />
753. <br />
754. <br />
755. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Evaluation and Design of Educational Courseware</b></span><br />
756. <br />
757. <div style="text-align: left;">
758. I thought I was going to wind up in the quagmire... blinded by statistics and non-educational examples and too-much-for-the-brain-to-take-in-lists of principles, on printer-costly chapters from Dix and Norman, in the random pursuit of a main point or two. </div>
759. <div style="text-align: left;">
760. <br /></div>
761. <div style="text-align: left;">
762. However, the briefer <a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.162.1058&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=40">Wilson, in Raising the bar for instructional outcomes,</a> did serve one up and that is this: </div>
763. <div style="text-align: left;">
764. <br /></div>
765. <blockquote>
766. <div style="text-align: left;">
767. e-materials need to be </div>
768. </blockquote>
769. <div style="text-align: left;">
770. <br /></div>
771. <blockquote>
772. <blockquote>
773. <div style="text-align: left;">
774. efficient, </div>
775. </blockquote>
776. </blockquote>
777. <div style="text-align: left;">
778. <br /></div>
779. <blockquote>
780. <blockquote>
781. <blockquote>
782. <div style="text-align: left;">
783. effective </div>
784. </blockquote>
785. </blockquote>
786. </blockquote>
787. <div style="text-align: left;">
788. <br /></div>
789. <blockquote>
790. <blockquote>
791. <blockquote>
792. <blockquote>
793. <div style="text-align: left;">
794. and engaging.</div>
795. </blockquote>
796. </blockquote>
797. </blockquote>
798. </blockquote>
799. <br />
800. He also talked about mythic story structure in e-design, referencing Joseph Campbell's journey of the hero (usually used in Hollywood -see <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2009/05/dogma-of-dogme.html">my dogme post</a>).<br />
801. <br />
802. I really suspect I'll be reading more of his work and that I may well have more to say on this subject in the coming weeks/months.<br />
803. <br />
804. <br />
805. Best,<br />
806. Karenne<br />
807. <div style="text-align: justify;">
808. <br /></div>
809. <div style="text-align: justify;">
810. p.s.  For the next two years, Tuesdays are now going to be taken up with my self-reflective, what did I learn on my <a href="http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/courses/course/?code=01360&pg=2">MA-EdTech&TESOL</a>.  I hope you don't mind the diary style sort of entries and I might well waffle on a bit...  if you want to skip these, then Thursdays will be for the more lesson oriented stuff and Sundays will be the EdTech-SocialMedia comments/tips posts.   </div>
811. <div style="text-align: justify;">
812. <br /></div>
813. <div style="text-align: justify;">
814. p.p.s. For all you amazing folk who've sent your good wishes via blog and FB and Twitter and for your interesting comments here on the blog last week, so sorry - the dog ate my internet - I'll respond this week :-).</div>
815. <br />
816. <br />
817. <b>References</b><br />
818. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Freeman-Larsen, D.  (2000) Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  Ch.12.</span><br />
819. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Rivera-Mills, S.V & Plonsky, L. (2007) Empowering students with language learning strategies: a critical review of current issues.  Foreign Language Annals, 40(3):535-548  </span><br />
820. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Wilson, B. Parrish, P. & Veletsianos, G (2008).  Raising the bar for instructional outcomes: Towards transformative learning experiences. Educational Technology. 48(3), 39-44 </span><br />
821. <br />
822. <b>Image credit</b><br />
823. &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/derekgavey/4190468784/sizes/z/in/photostream/&quot;&gt;Caught surfing flickr by derekGavey on Flickr.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/1421370997481530644/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=1421370997481530644' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/1421370997481530644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/1421370997481530644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/10/dog-ate-my-internet.html' title='&quot;The Dog Ate My Internet&quot;'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0v2qMsf7MvP5GF2qC-aL9NDf5POQu72_eifLqb3jR8H-FiOc5_8Sp5BKJ03wL2ywcZ6J0Q46IIRePzmDPZdEEURxky0GnbQ_tCjhYUzYOgxneHJJhpOIEfmEly70czQvgdlEXEp8pB9Lw/s72-c/4190468784_9cf34f318c_z.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-750891782961008557</id><published>2011-09-29T21:58:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2012-03-17T11:25:48.643+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="guest-pieces"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="guest-posts"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="teaching-english"/><title type='text'>How to Avoid Overseas EFL Teaching Job Scams</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
824. <b>(guest post by Susan Taylor)</b><br />
825. <br />
826. <div style="text-align: justify;">
827. Vacationing in a foreign country is wonderful, but it isn't always fulfilling enough. You may visit a new place, completely fall in love with the land, the people, even the food, and want to experience those things on at least a semi-permanent basis. <a href="http://www.englishclub.com/teach-english.htm">Teaching English as a foreign language</a> (EFL) is one way to do that. </div>
828. <div style="text-align: justify;">
829. <br /></div>
830. <div style="text-align: justify;">
831. Unfortunately, many EFL teachers can find themselves victims of job scams, which can not only cause them to lose a lot of money, but can sour them on the entire overseas experience, causing them to speak out about their negative experiences. Complaints like this are especially frustrating because language instruction can be a wonderful experience, especially overseas. If you decide to pursue an overseas EFL teaching job, be on the lookout for these red flags.</div>
832. <br />
833. <div style="text-align: center;">
834. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/385847284/" title="Thieves by Dunechaser, on Flickr"><img alt="Thieves" height="240" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/385847284_b305344ffa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
835. <br />
836. <h2>
837.  
838.  
839.  
840.  
841. Up Front Payment Required</h2>
842. <br />
843. <div style="text-align: justify;">
844. It's very rare that you should have to pay any kind of fee for any kind of job, let alone an EFL job. You're the one applying to do the work in order to be paid. Why should you have to pay anything before you get there? Disreputable employers, or scammers posing as EFL employers, will tell you the payment is to cover your travel costs, or for an orientation you must attend before you can begin teaching. </div>
845. <div style="text-align: justify;">
846. <br /></div>
847. <div style="text-align: justify;">
848. Sadly, this very thing happens to many hopeful job seekers. One such story involved a woman who lost $2,500 when she wired money via Western Union for travel costs and rent fees with the promise she’d be reimbursed by the employer. When they received it and then asked her for more money, she became suspicious, and found out it was a scam.</div>
849. <div style="text-align: justify;">
850. <br /></div>
851. <div style="text-align: justify;">
852. Huffington Post columnist and author, Julie Gray, wrote an article about <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-gray/are-you-too-smart-for-an-_b_952930.html?ir=Technology">a very similar experience</a> in which she described how even though she considers herself quite savvy, she still fell for a scam. It can happen to anyone.  As the instances above illustrate, if you pay that money, you'll likely never see it again. And you’ll still have to cover your travel. Be suspicious of any company that <a href="http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/moneymatters/jobs-hunting-scams.shtml">requires payment up front</a> when you apply for a job with them.</div>
853. <h2>
854.  
855.  
856.  
857.  </h2>
858. <h2>
859.  
860.  
861.  
862. It's Too Good To Be True</h2>
863. <br />
864. <div style="text-align: justify;">
865. It's not difficult to find out the average pay for an EFL teacher in your country of interest. That information is available from multiple sites on the Internet, such as EFL businesses, and EFL support sites and <a href="http://www.eslcafe.com/">forums</a>. Just like most other teachers of any subject, EFL teachers don't go into that career field to become rich. </div>
866. <div style="text-align: justify;">
867. <br /></div>
868. <div style="text-align: justify;">
869. Part of the compensation is the opportunity to live in a foreign country, and to interact with the culture and people there.  If an EFL company offers you what seems like an outrageous salary, or one that's much higher than what other companies are offering in the same area, it's probably a scam.</div>
870. <h2>
871.  
872.  
873.  
874.  </h2>
875. <h2>
876.  
877.  
878.  
879. Questionable Web Sites</h2>
880. <br />
881. <div style="text-align: justify;">
882. Just about anyone can build a Web site these days with just a little know-how and a Web host. In the cases of Internet scams, it's become the equivalent of a layperson hanging out a shingle that claims they're a physician. Fortunately, there are some things to look for that will help you identify EFL scam sites. </div>
883. <div style="text-align: justify;">
884. <br /></div>
885. <div style="text-align: justify;">
886. First, look at the URL. Does it end with an <a href="http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/domainextensions.php">unusual extension</a> you've never seen before? Not to say that all sites with those extensions are questionable, but it's definitely a something to examine a little more closely. </div>
887. <div style="text-align: justify;">
888. <br /></div>
889. <div style="text-align: justify;">
890. Also, is the site well designed? Are there a lot of spelling and grammar errors? Is the domain name unrelated to EFL? Any or all of these factors should tell you all you need to know about that supposed EFL employer.</div>
891. <h2>
892.  
893.  
894.  
895.  </h2>
896. <h2>
897.  
898.  
899.  
900. Poor English</h2>
901. <br />
902. <div style="text-align: justify;">
903. Think about it. You're applying to English schools to teach English. Doesn't it stand to reason that the people who work there would be very familiar with the language, and would have excellent English skills? One or two mistakes are probably nothing to be alarmed about. You can find errors on a lot of Web sites or advertisements written by people for whom English is their first language. But if the materials you're looking at are rife with errors, there's something wrong. </div>
904. <div style="text-align: justify;">
905. <br /></div>
906. <div style="text-align: justify;">
907. It may also help for you to be more familiar with the native language of the country you’re attempting to teach in. For example, if you’re talking with a school in Spain and are worried about the reputation of the program, send out some tweets to people in the area and check <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TeachingEnglish.BritishCouncil">teaching groups on Facebook</a> for more information. If you’re rusty on the language of the country, audio-based programs help quite a bit. In this scenario, brushing up on <a href="https://www.pimsleurapproach.com/learn-spanish.asp">Spanish</a> will help you communicate, be more aware and maybe even help your instruction.</div>
908. <br />
909. <br />
910. <br />
911. &lt;i&gt;What other advice would you give to a newbie TEFLer?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/750891782961008557/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=750891782961008557' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/750891782961008557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/750891782961008557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-avoid-overseas-efl-teaching-job.html' title='How to Avoid Overseas EFL Teaching Job Scams'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/385847284_b305344ffa_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-5250944985657340557</id><published>2011-09-28T00:39:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-19T01:42:03.900+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="EDEC"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MA-EdTech+TESOL"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Psychology-of-LL"/><title type='text'>Thinking and Doing, Comparing and Contrasting</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
912. Today was a beautiful day in Manchester: the trees are just beginning to add touches of yellow in their edges and the sun battles to provide us with some last warmth.<br />
913. <br />
914. In between classes, I sat on a park bench with a thermos of brought-on-over-from-Germany, sage and honey tea, to reflect on the learning provided in the morning session with our Dutch professor <a href="http://edtechandtesol.info/wp/about/juup-stelmas-home-page/">Juup Stelma.  </a> He started off the course, Psychology of Language Learning, with one of those very popular psychometric questionnaires.  <br />
915. <br />
916. The problem with this sort of test is <i>they</i> force you into answering YES/NO -and well, if you, like me, have lived, then you know that being forced into black and white answers can intimidate and perhaps irritate  -  too much of what we do and think is grey;  too much is <br />
917. <br />
918. 'MAYBE,'<br />
919. <blockquote>
920. 'it DEPends,' </blockquote>
921. <blockquote>
922. <blockquote>
923. 'er, when I'm hungry'  &</blockquote>
924. </blockquote>
925. <blockquote>
926. <blockquote>
927. <blockquote>
928. 'aye, when I'm in a grand mood.'  </blockquote>
929. </blockquote>
930. </blockquote>
931. <br />
932. Or, worse, if you've any intelligence then you quickly notice the relationships between the different questions separated out by a few lines and despite the valiant attempt to be "<i>honest and truthful to oneself</i>" you wind up wondering if you may be being tricked <i>(why do we so distrust the psychological)</i> and thus, forced by the pressure and the immediacy laying in wait behind the stopwatch, the demanding YES or NO, you attempt to reply in exactly the same way each time, <i>whether or not it is the "truest" answer.  </i><br />
933. <br />
934. Anyway, the resulting results are that I am a pragmatist-activist.<br />
935. <br />
936. Oddly enough, true.  <br />
937. <br />
938. But not surprising news.   Of course, I like life and learning to be practical <i>(I'm a teacher!) </i>and to be immediately applicable (<i>tick-tock!</i>), that's why out of all the MAs in the world, I wound up here, doing this one TESOL with real-life applicable educational and technological aims!   <br />
939. <br />
940. Juup then acknowledged the lack of contextual reference presented through the questionnaire and wrapped up the exercise with a drawing made up of stick figures walking across the whiteboard, challenging us to think about what and who we, as people, as learners, interact with and how those things directly influence our learning.<br />
941. <br />
942. The interpersonal and intrapersonal aspects.   <br />
943. <br />
944. He provoked us into thinking about how the results of this non-contextual questionnaire, by Honey and Mumford, could ultimately provide a teacher with enough data to then create contextual materials and hinted at the potentiality of separating learners according to 'type.'<br />
945. <br />
946. I'm intrigued by this idea but not sure.<br />
947. <br />
948. In fact, it forces me to mull back over the whole concept of individual learner types - you know the now tossed out, theory of folks being auditory/kinestic/visual learners?   <i>(gotta admit I still subscribe in part,as I know I always learn so much more from a picture than a droned lecture)</i> but I actually tried separating out my students this way and it never really worked.   Even in the small classes.   Noticing was one thing but preparing, presenting, teaching, working together, another.   What about you?<br />
949. <br />
950. And what do you do if you're teaching 30 or even 60 as some of my Asian colleagues need to?<br />
951. <br />
952. Apart from the feasibility, is it practical or even worth the effort, to divide up students into theorists, pragmatists, activists and reflectors?   Aren't we all different because it is through the cooperation and collaboration of our differing skills that we make the better, more dynamic whole?   If we separate our learners into groups, won't they become flat and one dimensional?<br />
953. <br />
954. But then, later, as I walked home, crisping my way through the first batch of dead leaves which rustle in oranges on the concrete lanes, after my class with <a href="http://edtechandtesol.info/wp/about/gary-motteram/">Gary Motteram</a>, on the Evaluation and design of Digital Software, I began reflecting once more on the infinite potentiality for well-designed computer programs to cater to these issues - whether on the surface level or deep within our id, in areas we don't even know about yet…  and how this potentiality may soon be within the reach of technology  - to teach and treat each individual learner individually while we work collectively.<br />
955. <br />
956. Best,<br />
957. Karenne<br />
958. <br />
959. <br />
960. <b>Useful links related to this posting:</b><br />
961. <ul style="text-align: left;">
962. <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles">Learning Styles </a></li>
963. <li><a href="http://www.peterhoney.com/">Peter Honey Learning styles questionnaire</a></li>
964. <li><a href="http://www.psychpress.com.au/psychometric/products/others/LSQ%20Report%20%28Sample%29.pdf">Psych Press Understanding your learning styles</a></li>
965. </ul>
966. <br />
967. <br />
968. <br />
969. <b>COMPARE AND CONTRASTING</b><br />
970. <b>I received an invitation from <a href="http://annehodgson.de/2011/09/23/compare-and-contrast/">Anne</a> to take part in her blog challenge, of finding two similar pictures.   Why did I choose these two and how do you think they discuss the text above?</b><br />
971. <b><br /></b><br />
972. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
973. <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AkQ5KOgpBl4/ToJIli--gsI/AAAAAAAADI0/8Wi6nNqs0U8/s1600/inter-intrapersonal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AkQ5KOgpBl4/ToJIli--gsI/AAAAAAAADI0/8Wi6nNqs0U8/s400/inter-intrapersonal.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
974. <b><br /></b><br />
975. image credits:<br />
976. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phra_Ajan_Jerapunyo-Abbot_of_Watkungtaphao.jpg">Buddhist monk in Sirikit Dam by </a><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tevaprapas" title="User:Tevaprapas">Tevaprapas Makklay</a></span><br />
977. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a class="extiw" href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_734027111" title="w:Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore">Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore</a><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sri_Mariamman_Temple_Singapore_3_amk.jpg"> by AngMoKio </a></span><br />
978. <br />
979. &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/education&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot; &quot; src=&quot;http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=education&quot; style=&quot;border: 0; margin-left: .4em; vertical-align: middle;&quot; /&gt;education&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: xx-small;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/5250944985657340557/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=5250944985657340557' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/5250944985657340557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/5250944985657340557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/09/thinking-and-doing-comparing-and.html' title='Thinking and Doing, Comparing and Contrasting'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AkQ5KOgpBl4/ToJIli--gsI/AAAAAAAADI0/8Wi6nNqs0U8/s72-c/inter-intrapersonal.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-8606045555037727247</id><published>2011-09-26T00:50:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T00:56:54.225+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="about-me"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MA-EdTech+TESOL"/><title type='text'>Back to school at the age of 42</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
980. "Sleep with one eye open" was the quickly emailed advice from my Dad the night before Jake, my internet procured van driver, turned up on my doorstep along with my younger brother.<br />
981. <br />
982. My parents were freaking (as parents do) <br />
983. <br />
984. but I...<br />
985. <br />
986. a) knew everything would be alright because statistically life usually is<br />
987. b) trust the <a href="http://news.myhammer.com/">MyHammer</a> website<br />
988. c) had his email details and the van number<br />
989. d) hitchhiked my way across Sumbawa on the back of an onion truck when I was 25 - if nothing happened then...<br />
990. <br />
991. Of course, when Jake and Martin actually turned up, all of Jake's mates were furiously emailing and texting, worried that he'd arrived in Stuttgart and had his liver and kidneys taken out.  Ah, you gotta just love the way that television and general overhyped media resources have created such a nervous world.<br />
992. <br />
993. My adventure <i>did</i> have its ups and downs, more because a jinn attached itself to my journey, <i>probably </i>attracted by all the worrying family members and friends.<br />
994. <br />
995. He, the jinn that is, decided to infiltrate my bank account and managed to stop it from working on the very day I was leaving.   Despite frantic calls to the bank at 9am on Saturday, being able to view my money but not touch it, it was a no-go and all information given by the call centre pointed to an apology on Monday <i>(which I got but seriously, it doesn't help to know that technical problems happen).</i>  I was worried and stressed out enough that day, already nervous about packing up my whole life and cancelling numerous jobs and contacts and saying goodbye to students and friends and throwing out garbage bag after garbage bag of stuff not needed anymore... and trying to fit the rest of nigh-on 7 years into one van.<br />
996. <br />
997. I recounted and recounted the pounds and Euros I'd taken out during the week, crossed my fingers that my budget based on GoogleMaps information was correct.<br />
998. <br />
999. It wasn't...  <br />
1000. <br />
1001. The jinn, you see, he'd also managed to persuade a neighbour to park his Ford 4x4 in front of the van, thus blocking the driveway.  Manic calls at 2am put me in touch with the efficient German police who promised to tow it away if they couldn't contact the owners.  They turned up bleary eyed and in their pyjamas, leaving us an hour off-schedule.<br />
1002. <br />
1003. Jake tapped on some keys on the GPS which then prompted "Do you want to avoid tolls?" <br />
1004. <br />
1005. We clicked no - we had to try and make the ferry in time - we left, speeding away through Germany and into France.<br />
1006. <br />
1007. Sure enough, it was a badly clicked decision, as French toll after toll after toll ate away at those Euros in my pocket, in trickles of €3, €6, €24, €36 and thus, fearing not having enough to pay the final toll... a quick math calculation at the last gas station on the European side to get us just enough until we were in<i> Ole Blighty, </i>proved to be our undoing... 10 minutes away from Calais, 25 minutes away from our afternoon ferry, we wound up with the van parked on the side of the road and a whopping bill to pay for.  No gas.<br />
1008. <br />
1009. Also, of course, because I had been super-super careful to tie up all loose ends, I'd remembered TWO DAYS BEFORE to report that I no longer knew the PIN number to my credit card (because I use it only for emergencies and internet transactions)...they'd said no problem and that they'd get a new one sent to me in the UK...<br />
1010. <br />
1011. I hadn't reckoned on the jinn...<br />
1012. <br />
1013. and thus, I didn't even have a credit card to take care of the breakdown on the side of the road.  It took some persuasion and desperation to convince the French-uber-expensive-fix it man (€186) to take the British currency.  He huffed, he puffed.  It's money.<br />
1014. <br />
1015. So...<br />
1016. <br />
1017. Nevermind....  <br />
1018. <br />
1019. Finally, after paying a fine for missing the right ferry and making our way through the south of the UK with nary a pee-stop, we got here around 10 in the evening and were met by my friendly landlord who'd brought round bread, tea and cookies in case we were hungry.<br />
1020. <br />
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1022. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--rnp50NdpjA/Tn-se7OHwNI/AAAAAAAADIw/h0w071r8G0o/s1600/500px-University_Place%252C_University_of_Manchester.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--rnp50NdpjA/Tn-se7OHwNI/AAAAAAAADIw/h0w071r8G0o/s320/500px-University_Place%252C_University_of_Manchester.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
1023. <br />
1024. <br />
1025. And so, oh-my-god, I am here.  In Manchester,  in a super-super-super friendly city where people talk to me for absolutely no reason.   I am sharing a flat with lovely young postgraduates who, so far, don't mind/know that I'm an old lady.<br />
1026. <br />
1027. I am sleeping on the floor because I was outbid on e-bay on the bed I wanted. <br />
1028. <br />
1029. There are still boxes which haven't been opened and unpacked yet.<br />
1030. <br />
1031. <br />
1032. I'm relearning how to cook soup from scratch, put together spaghetti bolognese, tuna-fish pasta and other cheap dishes <i>(send me your student-food recipes!)</i><br />
1033. <br />
1034. I've met <a href="http://edtechandtesol.info/wp/">my tutors</a> and some of the onsite participants and they're all very friendly and interesting.  I'm also looking forward to hooking up with the off-site distance folk.<br />
1035. <br />
1036. The University is amazing, the library is wonderful (although lots of the books I want are on one-week-only-loans so will have to reach deep into the coffers to purchase some).  <br />
1037. <br />
1038. I have a student card and can get cheap tickets to movies and stuff.  Yippeeee! Lars von Trier here I come.<br />
1039. <br />
1040. My <a href="http://www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taughtdegrees/courses/atoz/course/?code=01360&pg=2">course modules</a> look RIDICULOUSLY UBER COOL (for an edtech tesol geek like me) and it's hard to decide for sure which ones to do, but I've worked out a good plan for the next two years and I am ridiculously, ridiculously excited to learn.<br />
1041. <br />
1042. <br />
1043. So, tomorrow, at the age of 42, wearing jeans which have already been laid out plus brand-new-shiny polished up DrMartens, me, after 15+ years in the classroom, I shall be walking in not as teacher but as learner.<br />
1044. <br />
1045. Best, <br />
1046. Karenne<br />
1047. p.s. Thanks <a href="http://annehodgson.de/">Anne Hodgson</a> for introducing me to MyHammer!<br />
1048. p.p.s <i>nervous as all get-out, so wish me luck!</i><br />
1049. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">image credit:Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons </span><i><br /></i></div>
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1059. Many  English Language teachers, when deciding to work with a video clip in  their classrooms, make a false assumption that for an activity to be considered as <i>really </i>teaching,  then prior to showing it, they'd  better sit down for a few hours, prepare an extensive worksheet filled  with vocabulary and grammar questions and what-not...in order to turn it  into a good pedagogical exercise, you know to ensure it's  really not just<i> glorified babysitting.  ;-)</i></div>
1060. <br />
1061. <br />
1062. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1063. Personally, <b>I don't agree</b>  and I really don't think that extensive worksheets provide a  particularly authentic experience - such a thing mainly just erodes the  power of the message within the video, takes away the inherent pleasure  in learning from TED speakers.   </div>
1064. <br />
1065. <br />
1066. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1067. I'm fond of using <span class="il">TED </span>with my adult language learners (+ similar sites - <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2009/04/best-videos-for-teaching-business-and.html" target="_blank">see here for a list of others)</a> for the ingenuity and its realistic relevance and because I know that whenever I visit <span class="il">TED</span> I'll always find <b>short,</b> topical talks which can be used to kick-off real discussions within my classroom: stuff  my adult students want to know and<b> talk more </b>about... speeches  that will either captivate their interest or through understanding, even  with lower students at only 50%, will encourage them to feel a greater  motivation about where their English is going.</div>
1068. <br />
1069. <br />
1070. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1071. Here are a few simple activities you can do with the video clip you're about to show/ are showing/ have shown to your students <i>without </i>designing a full worksheet :</div>
1072. <br />
1073. <br />
1074. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1075. <span style="font-size: large;"><br />
1076. </span></div>
1077. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1078. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>1. Prediction:  what's the video going to be about? </b></span></div>
1079. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1080. Using the search bar function on <span class="il">TED</span>,  choose an interesting video (possibly related to the industry your students are  currently working in) and then tell your students that they are going to watch a video with<i> xyz </i>talking about<i> abc. </i> </div>
1081. <br />
1082. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1083. <br />
1084. Ask them what they think the  speaker will be discussing and why they think this.   Do they have any  pre-formed opinions on the subject matter?  After watching, get them to talk about whether or not the video met their expectations.  Why, why not?</div>
1085. <br />
1086. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Examples: </i></span><br />
1087. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1088. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/alan_siegel_let_s_simplify_legal_jargon.html">Alan Siegel: Let's simplify legal jargon!</a></span></li>
1089. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/ric_elias.html">Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed</a></span></li>
1090. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_bezos_on_the_next_web_innovation.html">Jeff Bezos on the next web innovation</a></span></li>
1091. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/yves_behar_s_supercharged_motorcycle_design.html">Yves Behar's supercharged motorcycle design</a></span></li>
1092. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html">Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture</a> vs Margaret Gould Stewart: <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_stewart_how_youtube_thinks_about_copyright.html">How Youtube thinks about copyright</a></span></li>
1093. </ul>
1094. <br />
1095. <br />
1096. <br />
1097. <br />
1098. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>2. Vocabulary Collection</b></span></div>
1099. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1100. Give  students a piece of paper with the numbers 1 - 10 written on it.    While watching, any video you've chosen, ask them to write ten words  they found most interesting / <i>or</i> ten words they didn't understand / <i>or</i> ten words which they think would summarize the story.  </div>
1101. <br />
1102. <br />
1103. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1104. After watching, encourage students to share the words they've collected and  to tell each other why these words were the ones they recorded.</div>
1105. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1106. <br /></div>
1107. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1108. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Best with short TED videos: <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks?duration=3">(see here)</a></span></div>
1109. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1110. <br />
1111. <br />
1112. <br /></div>
1113. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1114. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>3. Debate</b></span></div>
1115. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1116. While browsing <span class="il">TED</span>, look for a video which the community has marked as <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks?duration=9&orderedby=PERSUASIVE" target="_blank"><b>persuasive</b></a><i>.</i>   Show the video and ask your students what the main points discussed in  the video were.  Ask them to choose sides on these - to take an opposing  view from others in the classroom and to debate it.</div>
1117. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1118. <br /></div>
1119. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1120. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Examples:</i></span></div>
1121. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1122. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/zimchallenge.html">Philip Zimbardo: The demise of guys?</a> </span></li>
1123. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/alisa_miller_shares_the_news_about_the_news.html">Alisa Miller shares the news about the news</a> </span></li>
1124. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/diane_j_savino_the_case_for_same_sex_marriage.html">Diane J. Savino: The case for same-sex marriage</a> </span></li>
1125. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_davenhall_your_health_depends_on_where_you_live.html">Bill Davenhall: Your health depends on where you live</a> </span></li>
1126. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/birke_baehr_what_s_wrong_with_our_food_system.html">Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system</a></span></li>
1127. </ul>
1128. <br />
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1130. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1131. <br />
1132. <br />
1133. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>4. Post-speech interview</b></span></div>
1134. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1135. Ask students to pretend that they are journalists at a <span class="il">TED</span> talk.   </div>
1136. <br />
1137. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1138. Watch one of videos marked as <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks?duration=9&orderedby=INFORMATIVE&tagid=4" target="_blank"><b>informative</b></a>  and get them to write down questions while-watching <i>and</i> post-viewing.   Get one  student to pretend to be the TED speaker, and encourage him/her to sit in the center of the  classroom (aim to pick a student who's most likely to know about the ESP  subject matter) and then get the other students to read out and ask their  questions.</div>
1139. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1140. <br /></div>
1141. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1142. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Works with any <i>informative</i> TED video, examples:</span></div>
1143. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1144. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_benjamin_s_formula_for_changing_math_education.html">Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education</a>       </span></li>
1145. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/janet_echelman.html">Janet Echelmann:  Taking imagination seriously</a>       </span></li>
1146. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_takes_olpc_to_colombia.html">Negroponte takes OLPC to Colombia</a>       </span></li>
1147. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak.html">Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids</a>         </span></li>
1148. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/renny_gleeson_on_antisocial_phone_tricks.html">Renny Gleeson on antisocial phone tricks</a></span></li>
1149. </ul>
1150. <br />
1151. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1152. <br /></div>
1153. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1154. <br /></div>
1155. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1156. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>5a. Critique Presentation Style</b></span></div>
1157. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1158. Give students a piece of paper and divide it to 2 parts:  </div>
1159. <div style="text-align: center;">
1160. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>+ / - </b></span></div>
1161. <br />
1162. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1163. Tell students to analyze <b><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks?duration=6" target="_blank">a 3- 6 minute speech</a></b>:  to think about the presenter's style of delivery and ask them to write  pluses and minuses, things like: <i>she spoke too quickly; she flaps her  hands about; she loves her subject material; she used good slides.</i></div>
1164. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1165. <br /></div>
1166. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1167. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Examples:</i></span></div>
1168. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1169. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/laura_trice_suggests_we_all_say_thank_you.html">Laura Trice suggests we should say thank you</a></span></li>
1170. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_yourself.html">Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself</a></span></li>
1171. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lakshmi_pratury_on_letter_writing.html">Lakshmi Pratury on letter-writing </a>         </span></li>
1172. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/murray_gell_mann_on_the_ancestor_of_language.html">Murray Gell-Mann on the ancestor of language</a></span></li>
1173. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/stacey_kramer_the_best_gift_i_ever_survived.html">Stacey Kramer: The best gift I ever received </a></span></li>
1174. </ul>
1175. <br />
1176. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1177. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>5b. Compare body-language</b></span><br />
1178. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1179. Choose two very short videos on similar subjects <b><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks?duration=3&orderedby=MOSTDISCUSSED" target="_blank">less than 4 minutes</a> </b>(<b>or use the first few minutes of a longer video</b>)<b> </b>and  turn these on without using sound.  </div>
1180. <br />
1181. <br />
1182. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1183. Ask your students to pay attention  to the speakers' body language and facial expressions while giving their  talks and to compare these.   How many times do they move around the  stage?   How do they stand, where do they keep their hands?   Who looks  more convinced and thus convincing?  </div>
1184. <br />
1185. <br />
1186. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1187. <br /></div>
1188. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1189. After this discussion, play the videos again with sound, do they still think  the same way?  What role does body language play in the audience's  reception of the content of a talk?</div>
1190. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1191. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Examples:</i></span></div>
1192. <ul>
1193. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/arianna_huffington_how_to_succeed_get_more_sleep.html">Ariana Huffington: How to succeed</a> vs <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_success_is_a_continuous_journey.html">Richard St.John Success is a continuous journey</a></span></li>
1194. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;">         <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/alexis_ohanian_how_to_make_a_splash_in_social_media.html">Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media</a> vs <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_surowiecki_on_the_turning_point_for_social_media.html">James Surowiecki: when social media became news</a>         </span></li>
1195. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few_women_leaders.html">Sheryl Sanberg: Why we have too few women leaders</a> vs <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/halla_tomasdottir.html">Halla Tomasdottir: A feminine response to Iceland's financial crash</a></span></li>
1196. </ul>
1197. <br />
1198. <span style="font-size: large;"><br />
1199. </span><br />
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1202. <span style="font-size: large;">
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1205. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1206. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>6. Wh-</b></span></div>
1207. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1208. Write  on the board/flipchart the wh-questions: </div>
1209. <div style="text-align: center;">
1210. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>who/what/where/when/why/how   </b></span></div>
1211. <br />
1212. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1213. <br />
1214. Show the video you've (or one of your students') chosen and tell them  they shouldn't write anything down while they're watching. After the  video is finished, ask students to sit in groups and discuss what they  watched, who was the presenter, why did she make this speech, how  effective was it: encourage them to ask each other questions and share  opinions. </div>
1215. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1216. <br /></div>
1217. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1218. Works with any TED video.</div>
1219. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1220. <br />
1221. <br />
1222. <br /></div>
1223. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1224. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>7. Critical Thinking  - Who's the target audience?</b></span></div>
1225. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1226. Take one of the videos marked<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks?duration=9&orderedby=MOSTEMAILED" target="_blank"><b> as most-emailed </b></a>and  watch it with your students.    </div>
1227. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1228. <br />
1229. Show or tell them that out of the  thousands of videos on the site, this was one of the most-shared with  others via email and social networks.  Ask them to think about what sort of people found this video so  interesting they sent it on to family members/ friends/  co-workers/ members of their online communities.   Was the speech designed to go viral?</div>
1230. <br />
1231. <br />
1232. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1233. Will they send it on too?  Why or why not?</div>
1234. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1235. Get them to practice writing a "FB status update or a Tweet" summarizing the video in less that 140 characters!</div>
1236. <br />
1237. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1238. <br /></div>
1239. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1240. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Examples:</i></span></div>
1241. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1242. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/adam_ostrow_after_your_final_status_update.html">Adam Ostrow: After your final status update</a>         </span></li>
1243. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania.html">Jay Walker on the world's English mania</a>       </span></li>
1244. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/gregory_petsko_on_the_coming_neurological_epidemic.html">Eric Whitacre: A choir as big as the internet</a></span></li>
1245. <li><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/gregory_petsko_on_the_coming_neurological_epidemic.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gregory Petsko on the coming neurological epedemic </span></a></li>
1246. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/howard_rheingold_on_collaboration.html">Howard Rheingold on collaboration</a></span></li>
1247. </ul>
1248. <br />
1249. <br />
1250. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1251. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>8. Will this idea fly?</b></span></div>
1252. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1253. Choose a video marked as <b><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks?duration=6&orderedby=INGENIOUS&tagid=3" target="_blank">ingenious</a>,</b>  in a subject matter your students have expressed a clear interest in or  is connected to their work.  </div>
1254. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1255. <br />
1256. <br />
1257. Watch the video with them and then ask  them to discuss in groups whether or not they think the idea has merit;  if they've already heard of something similar or if they disagree with  its potentiality.</div>
1258. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1259. <br /></div>
1260. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1261. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Examples:</i></span></div>
1262. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1263. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/a_robot_that_flies_like_a_bird.html">A robot that flies like a bird</a></span></li>
1264. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_matas.html">Mike Matas: A next generation digital book</a></span> </li>
1265. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html">Marcin Jakubowski:  Open-sourced blueprints for civilization</a></span> </li>
1266. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/eythor_bender_demos_human_exoskeletons.html">Eythor Bender demos human exoskeletons</a></span></li>
1267. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/jakob_trollback_rethinks_the_music_video.html">Jakob Trollback rethinks the music video</a></span></li>
1268. </ul>
1269. <br />
1270. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1271. <br /></div>
1272. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1273. <br /></div>
1274. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1275. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>9. In his/her shoes...</b></span></div>
1276. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1277. Review the videos marked as <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks?duration=9&orderedby=COURAGEOUS&tagid=7" target="_blank"><b>courageous</b></a>  and try to choose a video outside the scope of your students' normal  interests and responsibilities.   Encourage a group discussion on whether  or not, they could have done what was shown in the presentation; how  they may have done things differently; who they know in their own lives/  read about who has done something like this?</div>
1278. <br /></div>
1279. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">
1280. <br />
1281. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Examples:</i></span>
1282. </div>
1283. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1284. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/jessi_arrington_wearing_nothing_new.html">Jessi Arrington: Wearing nothing new</a></span></li>
1285. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/becky_blanton_the_year_i_was_homeless.html">Becky Blanton: The year I was homeless</a></span></li>
1286. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days.html">Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days</a></span></li>
1287. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/julia_sweeney_has_the_talk.html">Julia Sweeney has "The Talk"</a></span></li>
1288. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/david_hoffman_on_losing_everything.html">David Hoffman on losing everything</a></span></li>
1289. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_weinstein_what_bernie_madoff_couldn_t_steal_from_me.html">Matt Weinstein:  What Bernie Madoff couldn't steal from me</a></span></li>
1290. </ul>
1291. <br />
1292. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">
1293. <br />
1294. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>10. Rank my TED video!</b></span></div>
1295. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1296. Encourage students to find a TED video based on something they are personally interested in. </div>
1297. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1298. It  doesn't need to be about work, it can be a poem/song - it can be about  glowing underwater fish!  <br />
1299. Whatever they like and while they watch -   possibly as homework (using the interactive transcripts<a href="http://www.ted.com/OpenTranslationProject"> in their own language</a> if they need to) they can take brief notes about the subject matter.</div>
1300. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1301. <br /></div>
1302. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1303. In  the next lesson, get students to share with each other what they  watched.   Encourage them to    "rank" each person's suggestion in order  of interest and at the end of the session, as a group watch the one  that sounded the most fascinating.</div>
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1306. <br />
1307. <br /></div>
1308. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">
1309. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>11.</b> <b>What else?  </b><i><b> </b></i></span></div>
1310. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">
1311. <b>Have you got any zero-preparation/ great <span class="il">tips</span> to share with fellow English Language Teachers on using <span class="il">TED</span> in the classroom? </b><i><b> </b></i>Do let me know your favorite videos, how you use them or any other ideas and experiences.</div>
1312. <br />
1313. <br />
1314. Best,<br />
1315. Karenne  <br />
1316. <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/education" rel="tag"><img alt=" " src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=education" style="border: 0; margin-left: .4em; vertical-align: middle;" />education</a> <br />
1317. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">
1318. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/european_parliament/">image credit: European Parliment</a><br />
1319. <b><br />
1320. </b></div>
1321. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">
1322. <b>Useful Links</b><br />
1323. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1324. <li><a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/search/label/Best-TED-Videos-BE_ESP">TED videos for Business English </a></li>
1325. <li><a href="http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/06/03/the-best-teacher-resources-for-ted-talks/" target="_blank">Larry Ferlazzo's links for teaching with <span class="il">TED</span></a></li>
1326. <li><a href="http://esltedtalks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Douglas Evan's <span class="il">TED</span> ESL Lessons Blog </a></li>
1327. <li>I also found <a href="http://www.yearinthelifeofanenglishteacher.com/2011/01/five-minute-fixes-use-youtube-in-classroom/" target="_blank">Adam Simpson's post filled with 3 useful ideas </a>however you'll need to get your vids from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/tedtalksdirector?blend=1&ob=4" target="_blank">TEDtalks on Youtube. </a></li>
1328. <li><a href="http://teachingwithted.pbworks.com/w/page/19958111/FrontPage">Teaching with TED wiki</a> (via Glennie) </li>
1329. </ul>
1330. </div>
1331. <br />
1332. <br />
1333. <br />
1334. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
1335. </span><br />
1336. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>THIS POST IS A RE-POSTING OF AN ACCIDENTALLY DELETED ARTICLE DATED BACK TO JANUARY 2011</b> (the first lot of comments below are copies of those posted between 26 Jan and ...) </span><br />
1337. <span style="font-size: x-small;">update 050911: actually, it looks like Blogger/Blogspot has been losing posts (in general, not just my own :( ... re the link to other sites which is also no longer here - will repost these up as well!) </span></div>
1338. </div>
1339. </div>
1340. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/8387468758357620431/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=8387468758357620431' title='24 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/8387468758357620431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/8387468758357620431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/09/10-speaking-english-activities-using.html' title='10 Speaking English Activities using TED.com'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9De0v7gtWb9xhLBRwUlDwdmtZcwNDhAk83IcoSP4XJ81w20ucHw906t6Y4TYSbK5ByxKez81ryml3eIO-6f71DQWF3UOtq1idk9l2sVdjiKJBhC91EYOTs5NdDx1ur3WSKfj1PfwyMSc/s72-c/lightsCN8273-640360.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>24</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-1458307295268574561</id><published>2011-09-03T11:53:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-19T01:58:25.046+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="EduBlogging"/><title type='text'>Edu-Blogging Tip:  Subscribe to your own blog...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
1341. <br />
1342. <br />
1343. <br />
1344. <br />
1345. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>by email.</b></span><br />
1346. <br />
1347. <br />
1348. <div style="text-align: center;">
1349. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/5167671844/" title="email by Sean MacEntee, on Flickr"><img alt="email" height="167" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1428/5167671844_b26432c9ac.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div>
1350. <br />
1351. I recently discovered one of my "best" articles (<i>Speaking Tips for Teaching with TED</i>) had disappeared...  probably at some point I was deleting a spam-comment but accidentally deleted the full post!<br />
1352. <br />
1353. However a quick search through my googlemail account led to the whole thing and I'll put it up again tomorrow.<br />
1354. <br />
1355. So, edu-bloggers, if you haven't set up this back-up procedure yet, do!<br />
1356. <b></b><br />
1357. <br />
1358. <b>How to subscribe to your own blog:</b><br />
1359. <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/subscribe-email-mailing-list-blog-update-alerts-and-newsletter-wordpress-plugins/">Wordpress has various useful plug-ins</a><br />
1360. <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=feedburner&continue=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedburner.google.com%2Ffb%2Fa%2Fmyfeeds&gsessionid=CMtkWztSXqSWHv3qwkXZ0g">I use Google's FeedBurner</a><br />
1361. <b><br /></b><br />
1362. <b>Useful links related to this posting:</b><br />
1363. <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/02/7-silly-things-you-really-shouldnt.html">7 useful reminders when edu-blogging</a><br />
1364. <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/01/looking-backwards-to-go-forwards.html">Looking backwards to look forwards</a><br />
1365. <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2010/07/thoughts-on-being-edu-blogger.html">Thoughts on being an edu-blogger </a><br />
1366. <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2009/08/blogging-english-language-teachers-tech.html">Carnival </a>- 24+ tips for being an edu-blogger by edu-bloggers<br />
1367. <br />
1368. Glossary of EduBlogging Terms, <a href="http://mikeharrison.edublogs.org/2010/07/04/blogging-terms-and-phrases-2-karenne-sylvester/">Mike Harrison's Blog</a><br />
1369. Glossary of phrases and expresssions based on the word blog, <a href="http://the-pln-staff-lounge.blogspot.com/2010/07/guest-post-karenne-sylvester-on.html">Sue Lyon Jones's blog</a><br />
1370. The Dogma of Edublogging, <a href="http://turklishtefl.com/2010/07/09/the-dogma-of-blogging-by-kalinagoenglish/">Nick Jaworksi's blog</a><br />
1371. <br />
1372. <b>The Best Kept Secrets of Highly Successful Edubloggers</b><br />
1373. Part 1 on <a href="http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/2010/07/12/the-best-kept-secrets-of-highly-successful-edu-bloggers-part-i-by-karenne-sylvester/">Shelly Terrell's blog</a><br />
1374. Part 2 on <a href="http://civitaquana.blogspot.com/2010/07/guest-post-by-karenne-joy-sylvester.html">Janet Bianchini's blog</a><br />
1375. Part 3 on <a href="http://rliberni.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/the-best-kept-secrets-of-edubloggers-part-3-by-karenne-sylvester">Berni Wall's blog</a><br />
1376. Part 4 on <a href="http://monkblogs.blogspot.com/2010/08/best-kept-secrets-of-edu-bloggers-part.html">Monika Hardy's blog </a><br />
1377. <br />
1378. Best,<br />
1379. Karenne<br />
1380. <span style="font-size: x-small;">image credit <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/5167671844/">Email by Sean MacEntee </a></span><br />
1381. <br />
1382. &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;p.s. It looks like the problem was not my own fault, but blogger&#39;s! &amp;nbsp; A number of my posts are now missing in action and I will have to do a series of updates.&amp;nbsp; Don&#39;t hesitate to let me know if one of your favorites is missing! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/1458307295268574561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=1458307295268574561' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/1458307295268574561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/1458307295268574561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/09/edu-blogging-tip-subscibe-to-your-own.html' title='Edu-Blogging Tip:  Subscribe to your own blog...'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1428/5167671844_b26432c9ac_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-3207114236613897919</id><published>2011-09-01T20:27:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-01T20:38:22.735+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blended-learning"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="brazil"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="e-tiviities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="news"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="portuguese-speaking-learners"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="student centered teaching"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Voxy"/><title type='text'>Aprenda Inglês - Voxy for Portuguese Speakers</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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1386. <br />
1387. Super excited to relay that in less than a month, Voxy for Portuguese-speaking English-language-learners is the number #1 education app in Brazil and has been downloaded a whopping 30,800 times!<br />
1388. <br />
1389. <br />
1390. If you're a English Language Teacher based in Brazil, do check it out and share with your students:<br />
1391. <br />
1392. <br />
1393. <div style="text-align: center;">
1394. <a href="http://www.voxy.com/">http://www.voxy.com</a></div>
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1406. <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/br/app/id452297891?mt=8">Aprenda Inglês - Voxy</a></span></h1>
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1418. <br />
1419. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>What is Voxy?</b></span><br />
1420. <br />
1421. Voxy uses web-based and mobile technologies to create a fun, flexible, contextual and convenient learning environment, providing interesting supplementary materials which support the language learning experience.<br />
1422. <br />
1423. <br />
1424. <br />
1425. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Why use Voxy?</b></span><br />
1426. <br />
1427. It's free... and all lessons are based on current real-world news stories.  Learners have full control over the pacing and frequency of use and simple repetition games ensure students review the words they've encountered within articles they've read.<br />
1428. <br />
1429. Geo-location based phrases provide relevant expressions they want in the moment they need to use them and camera flashcards help students to stay on top of words they're interested in knowing.<br />
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1432. <br />
1433. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1434. <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ip8Wy3DgkjA/Tl_H92GCjsI/AAAAAAAADIk/jl2zPgu7-WE/s1600/Annotate%2BYour%2BScreenshot%2B2011-09-01%2B18-24-26.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="334" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ip8Wy3DgkjA/Tl_H92GCjsI/AAAAAAAADIk/jl2zPgu7-WE/s400/Annotate%2BYour%2BScreenshot%2B2011-09-01%2B18-24-26.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div>
1435. <br />
1436. <br />
1437. <br />
1438. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>How can teachers use Voxy in the classroom?</b></span><br />
1439. <br />
1440. 1. Predict the Story<br />
1441. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1442. <li>Choose a few words related to one of the articles on the Voxy website and put these up on the board/ IWB.</li>
1443. <li>Before reading, ask students to guess what the story might be about.</li>
1444. </ul>
1445. <br />
1446. 2. Predict the Vocabulary<br />
1447. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1448. <li>Choose one of the most recent Voxy stories that has been popular in the local media.</li>
1449. <li>Before reading, get students to brainstorm the vocabulary which the story may contain.</li>
1450. <li>After reading, ask students how many had guessed correctly and what words could also have been added. </li>
1451. </ul>
1452. <br />
1453. 3.  What's the Grammar?<br />
1454. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1455. <li>Choose one of the Voxy articles.</li>
1456. <li>Ask students to analyze the different tenses used and discuss the reasons why these were chosen.</li>
1457. <li>Can they rewrite the story using other tenses?</li>
1458. </ul>
1459. <br />
1460.  4. Choose a new picture!<br />
1461. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1462. <li>Get students to browse through current Voxy stories and to choose one they are most interested in.</li>
1463. <li>Can they find a different creative-commons licensed picture to go with this story?</li>
1464. <li>Ask them to explain why they prefer the picture they chose.</li>
1465. </ul>
1466. <br />
1467. 5. Rewrite the headlines!<br />
1468. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1469. <li> Get students to browse through current Voxy stories and to choose one they are most interested in.</li>
1470. <li>Can they write a better headline for the story they chose? </li>
1471. </ul>
1472. <br />
1473. 6.  Where in the world?<br />
1474. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1475. <li>Using a world map in your classroom, encourage students to pin-up printed out Voxy stories which have taken place all over the world.</li>
1476. </ul>
1477. <br />
1478. 7. Track and update stories<br />
1479. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1480. <li> Get students to browse through current Voxy stories and to choose one they are most interested in.</li>
1481. <li>Can they create a timeline and continually update the story as it unfolds or develops? </li>
1482. </ul>
1483. <br />
1484. 8. Discuss and debate<br />
1485. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1486. <li>Choose a controversial article and then divide up your class into two teams.</li>
1487. <li>Tell one half they believe in one side of an argument and the other half believes something else.</li>
1488. <li>Encourage them to debate the issue(s).</li>
1489. </ul>
1490. <br />
1491. 9.  Roleplay<br />
1492. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1493. <li>Choose a story with multiple roles</li>
1494. <li>Encourage students to pick roles and to write up a dialogue (e.g. an interview, a conversation)</li>
1495. <li>Get them to practice and role play the various events surrounding the situation in the article.</li>
1496. </ul>
1497. <br />
1498. Have you got any other great suggestions on how teachers can use Voxy in their language-learning classrooms?<br />
1499. <br />
1500. If you've already used Voxy in your classroom - what do your students think of our site?<br />
1501. <br />
1502. <br />
1503. Best,<br />
1504. Karenne<br />
1505. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Disclaimer:  I am an ELT-Academic Consultant for Voxy</span><br />
1506. <br />
1507. <br />
1508. <b><span style="font-size: small;">Useful links</span></b><br />
1509. <ul style="text-align: left;">
1510. <li><a href="http://voxy.com/blog/"><span style="font-size: small;">Voxy blog</span></a></li>
1511. <li><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aprende-ingles-voxy/id411535459?mt=8"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Voxy for Spanish speaking English learners</span></span></a></li>
1512. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://voxy.com/beta-es/">Voxy for English speaking Spanish learners (in Beta)</a></span></span></li>
1513. <li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/10/voxy-snags-2-8m-to-help-people-learn-a-language-via-smartphone/"><span style="font-size: small;">Voxy gets a further $2.8M investment </span></a></span></li>
1514. </ul>
1515. </div>
1516. </div>
1517. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/3207114236613897919/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=3207114236613897919' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/3207114236613897919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/3207114236613897919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/09/aprenda-ingles-voxy-for-portuguese.html' title='Aprenda Inglês - Voxy for Portuguese Speakers'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AfWQwuR1_dA/Tl_H3W5nX0I/AAAAAAAADIc/spOYz_AGjgc/s72-c/Aprenda%2BIngl%25C3%25AAs%2B-%2BVoxy%2Bfor%2BiPhone%252C%2BiPod%2Btouch%252C%2Band%2BiPad%2Bon%2Bthe%2BiTunes%2BApp%2BStore%2B2011-09-01%2B18-23-07.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-997405767976664507</id><published>2011-08-30T22:40:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-31T13:33:33.393+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="dogme style tips"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="feedback"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="student centered teaching"/><title type='text'>Dogme and the First Day of a New Class</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Recently, after teaching a group of teachers with another teacher, I had some not-so-great feedback:&lt;br /&gt;
1518. <br />
1519. <div style="text-align: center;"><br />
1520. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"The 2nd teacher didn't give us no papers. I didn't learn with her."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
1521. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
1522. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite that she got a solid 2hr lesson of intense speaking practice with me and her group, three times a week, based on subjects they all chose at the beginning of the course, she was unhappy.   And although the feedback from the other students/group ranging from happy to very happy, it was her feedback which taught me the most.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
1523. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Because I failed.  </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
1524. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not in teaching her, but in properly communicating what was actually happening in the classroom.   I learned a very valuable lesson and thought I'd share it with you and that is if you're going to teach with minimal resources then for many students, especially if you're teaching adults,  you do really need to do the following:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
1525. </div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1</b></span>.  On the first day of class, explain what dogme is and tell the students ahead of time why you will not be providing photocopied sheets of paper or why <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/search/label/reasons-i-dont-like-textbooks">you aren't using a textbook.</a> </div></blockquote><br />
1526. <blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Discuss the benefits of a student-centered curriculum.  Talk to them about why you need them <b>to be doing the work</b> - what the reasons are for asking them bringing in the real-life emails and documents they use or need to understand.   </div></blockquote><br />
1527. <br />
1528. <blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Don't forget that many people, across a wide range of cultures, have grown up with the viewpoint that the classroom is a place to be spoon-fed, so do make sure that they understand that you are going to be treating them like the adults they are!</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
1529. </div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>2.</b></span>  Do do a very thorough "wants" analysis.  i.e. find out <b>exactly</b> what their needs are before creating your course curriculum around these.  Add dates for on-the-spot flexibility.  Type it up as an outline to ensure they understand your professionalism and hand this out to your students - the more they know that you are on top of things the better.  </div></blockquote><br />
1530. <blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">The more <b>they know</b> that <b>they</b> are on top of the content of their learning, the better.  </div></blockquote><br />
1531. <blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Go back to this sheet/table often during the course - get them to think about where they are at different intervals and <b>ask</b> if they are still happy with the direction they are heading in or if they would like to make any changes to their goals and learning targets.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
1532. </div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>3</b></span>. Do a <i>"what are your personal expectations" </i>exercise - i.e. encourage them to write a paragraph about the level of English they expect to have by the end of the course.   </div></blockquote><br />
1533. <blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Whenever you are reviewing your outline at various steps, ask them to also review their own expectations at the same time.   Obviously, set aside time for a discussion about this at the end of the course.  <i>(This is what I'd failed to do!)</i></div></blockquote><br />
1534. <div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
1535. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
1536. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XVO-82EpUtc/Tl1K_ggzy1I/AAAAAAAADIM/xDeAKvw_4Vc/s1600/480px-Mimus_polyglottos_-wings_and_back-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XVO-82EpUtc/Tl1K_ggzy1I/AAAAAAAADIM/xDeAKvw_4Vc/s320/480px-Mimus_polyglottos_-wings_and_back-8.jpg" width="256" /></a></div>If not, if they haven't realized by the end of the course, that they have in fact received what they needed and <i>wanted</i> to learn and that they have in fact, significantly improved their speaking and listening skills, that their notebooks are now chock-filled with contextual emergent vocabulary and language... then you may wind up with a few folks in your class who think you were just <i>winging it.</i></div><br />
1537. Keeping all adult learners happy isn't an easy task by any means but good communication is one of the tricks to making it a little more so!<br />
1538. <br />
1539. <br />
1540. Do you have any other tips for the first days/week when running Dogme classes?<br />
1541. <br />
1542. <br />
1543. <br />
1544. <b>Useful links related to this posting: </b><br />
1545. <ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/search/label/dogme">What is Dogme ELT? </a></li>
1546. <li><a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2010/12/dogme-blog-challenge-10-questions-which.html">Dogme Blog Challenge 10:  The questions that continue to niggle</a></li>
1547. <li><a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/search/label/dogme%20style%20tips">Dogme style tips  </a></li>
1548. <li><a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/08/sin-of-assumption-motivation-in-adult.html">The sins of assumption: motivation in adult learning </a></li>
1549. <li>also see <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/08/speed-dating-as-vocabulary-review.html">Mel's comment on Speed Dating as Vocabulary Review</a> - for needs analysis </li>
1550. </ul><br />
1551. Best,<br />
1552. Karenne  <br />
1553. <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/education" rel="tag"><img alt=" " src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=education" style="border: 0; margin-left: .4em; vertical-align: middle;" />education</a><br />
1554. <br />
1555. &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;photocredit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mimus_polyglottos_-wings_and_back-8.jpg&quot;&gt;Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;http://flickr.com/photos/94051094@N00&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Manjith Kainickara&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/997405767976664507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=997405767976664507' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/997405767976664507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/997405767976664507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/08/dogme-and-first-day-of-new-class.html' title='Dogme and the First Day of a New Class'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XVO-82EpUtc/Tl1K_ggzy1I/AAAAAAAADIM/xDeAKvw_4Vc/s72-c/480px-Mimus_polyglottos_-wings_and_back-8.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-5027516754469424891</id><published>2011-08-28T14:03:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-04T21:01:48.943+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="speaking"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="vocabulary"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="warmers"/><title type='text'>Speed Dating as Vocabulary Review</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
1556. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsalokhe/5180822695/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" title="Speed Dating by gsalokhe, on Flickr"><img alt="Speed Dating" height="180" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1276/5180822695_f893171bdf_m.jpg" width="240" /></a><br />
1557. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1558. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1559. This fun and useful exercise really works well as a filler or after you've taught a number of lessons and want to check your students have learned the vocabulary taught - either the emerged lexis if you're a dogme teacher, or with items from textbook exercises.<br />
1560. <br />
1561. If you're teaching a group of regular students who are coming back after a long break, this activity works as a nice warmer-upper.</div>
1562. <br />
1563. <br />
1564. <br />
1565. <b>SET UP</b><br />
1566. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1567. Ask your students to write down 5 - 7 words that they've recently learned.   </div>
1568. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1569. <br />
1570. Instruct them that they shouldn't write the explanations or translations on this paper/ phones/ laptops - however they should know these - so as they write, do allow them to use (e)dictionaries.  </div>
1571. <br />
1572. <span style="font-size: x-small;">If you've been working with a textbook, you can also get different students to go through different units. If you're working dogme, then get them to go through their notes.  If you've been working online, get them to browse through their blogs/flashcards/google.docs.</span><br />
1573. <br />
1574. Set up the classroom's chairs like this:<br />
1575. <br />
1576. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1577. </div>
1578. <br />
1579. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1580. <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MuaNPdiaMlE/Tlos1qt_ffI/AAAAAAAADII/0qADyAsfC04/s1600/Folie1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="189" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MuaNPdiaMlE/Tlos1qt_ffI/AAAAAAAADII/0qADyAsfC04/s400/Folie1.JPG" width="378" /></a></div>
1581. <br />
1582. <br />
1583. <br />
1584. <b>PROCESS</b><br />
1585. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1586. Give students around 5 minutes to tell each other the meaning of the words they wrote down.   After this time (using a buzzer or bell), get your students to switch pairs/mini-groups.  </div>
1587. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1588. <br />
1589. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1590. </div>
1591. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1592. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EuRE06O2N8E/TlosX-i8UEI/AAAAAAAADH4/pkIQv5y6ocs/s1600/Folie2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EuRE06O2N8E/TlosX-i8UEI/AAAAAAAADH4/pkIQv5y6ocs/s400/Folie2.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
1593. <br />
1594. <br />
1595. <br /></div>
1596. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1597. Continue doing this until each student has talked to a maximum number of other students.</div>
1598. <br />
1599. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1600. </div>
1601. <br />
1602. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1603. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-If1GxetnrEI/Tloslg75WCI/AAAAAAAADIA/seE1qhbuedA/s1600/Folie3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-If1GxetnrEI/Tloslg75WCI/AAAAAAAADIA/seE1qhbuedA/s400/Folie3.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
1604. <br />
1605. <br />
1606. <br />
1607. <b>Feedback</b><br />
1608. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1609. Once you have your students back in the room/ back to the original classroom set up, ask each to tell you the most interesting word(s) they learned and to also create a sentence using this word.</div>
1610. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1611. <br /></div>
1612. <div style="text-align: justify;">
1613. <br /></div>
1614. <br />
1615. <br />
1616. <b>Variations</b><br />
1617. On a nice day, it's really fun to do this activity outside/ in another area of your school/ courtyard or on rainy days in the hallway and obviously they can also do it while standing up!  <br />
1618. <br />
1619. <b>Useful links related to this posting: </b><br />
1620. <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-does-it-mean-to-know-word.html">What does it mean to know a word?</a><br />
1621. <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-do-you-do-with-emergent-language.html">What do you do with emergent language? </a><br />
1622. <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2010/12/complicated-vocabulary-make-cartoons.html">Complicated Vocabulary, Make Cartoons!</a><br />
1623. <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2009/10/powerpointing-me.html">Powerpointing me</a><br />
1624. <br />
1625. Best,<br />
1626. Karenne<br />
1627. <br />
1628. Have you ever done this activity, how well did it work?   Have you got another variant or perhaps an extra suggestion to add - please don't hesitate to let us know your ideas on how to expand this.   If you like, don't hesitate to print this exercise out/email it and share it with colleagues- see the<b></b> buttons below.</div>
1629. </div>
1630. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/5027516754469424891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=5027516754469424891' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/5027516754469424891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/5027516754469424891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/08/speed-dating-as-vocabulary-review.html' title='Speed Dating as Vocabulary Review'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1276/5180822695_f893171bdf_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-5724499358195057372</id><published>2011-08-09T21:02:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-09T22:41:20.379+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="book-publishers"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="digital-education"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="English-for-IT"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="language-learning-industry"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pearson"/><title type='text'>Pocket Money Writing 4 Pearson ELT</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/nemodus/3559725056/&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot; title=&quot;SOS Tick - I ain&#39;t afraid of no tick! by Nemodus photos, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;SOS Tick - I ain&#39;t afraid of no tick!&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3363/3559725056_d50b716e9d.jpg&quot; width=&quot;180&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
1631. The other day, while eating lunch, I asked a fellow teacher what she would do about all this Pearson trouble... what she'd do if she'd just worked for over 400 hours yet after receiving a series of simply unacceptable clauses in a long awaited, finally received contract... would she fight back after her project had suddenly been aborted post completion of the entire first draft of the actual work...?  <br />
1632. <br />
1633. She said,<br />
1634. <br />
1635. "It wouldn't ever happen to me because I wouldn't do all that work without being paid."<br />
1636. <br />
1637. I was paid.   Or was I?  Does less than minimum wage count as being paid?<br />
1638. <br />
1639. I guess so, huh.<br />
1640. <br />
1641. <div style="text-align: justify;">After about 4 months into the project, after several phone calls and sending urgent reminders (I had a tax bill to pay) and then sending demanding emails, I did receive a cheque of £1000 as part of the  "advance" - but technically, as they so oft reminded me, <i>not paid </i>- because, for those of you who don't know this, "an advance is not a payment, it is a loan against earnings - you have to pay this back to Pearson through your royalities."  </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
1642. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I was told this several times because I was simply shocked that anyone could imagine anyone writing for such a low fee.  And that was before realizing how much work it would all be.  And that was post negotiations to get the double of the initial offer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
1643. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, if all had gone according to plan and I had been a good girl who would agree to everything they wanted, then I would have received a further £1000 for finishing the first draft and another £1000 if the book had been published plus 6% in royalties.</div><br />
1644. But now it won't come to even that mere pittance...*  <br />
1645. <br />
1646. <div style="text-align: justify;">And although my question to my colleague centered around the hours I have lost, to the sheer incredible creative effort I have lost - I simply don't know if I am brave enough or have enough strength left to turn this work into an e-book... the fact is that it wasn't 400 hours of work.   Without sounding like a pity-me girl, whining away on her blog to anyone who might care enough to care, the truth is that the energy that I poured into this project while staying away from writing on my blog, breaks down into this:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>10-15 hours in emails and negotiations for a contract which they wouldn't give me or let me see up front because "their legal department was busy, you do have to understand, don't you..."   Said by a seemingly kindly grandfatherly type editor who'd gotten on the phone to appease my fears "<i>We're Pearson." </i>he said. You can trust us, he implied.  And well, when a company gets to that size and you never hear about any trouble, you think why would there be trouble with me, I can write.</li>
1647. </ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>80 hours in developing an agreed upon outline based on an agreed upon target group *which as I mentioned in the previous post, changed <b>dramatically</b> to a) <a href="http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/07/pearsons-english-4-it-no-urls-no-web.html">IT students who don't have access to computers</a> and b)... <i>the addition of a further target group - more on this in the next posting on this theme.</i></li>
1648. </ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>320+ hours in writing</li>
1649. </ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;">50+ hours in research </li>
1650. <li style="text-align: justify;">?+ hours finding photos for the copy (you have to submit suggestions and have a list of cultural things to watch out for. Not easy). </li>
1651. </ul><br />
1652. <div style="text-align: justify;">BUT... I guess you're probably wondering, why on god's green earth, did I say 'yes' to such a ridiculous low offer?  After all, as you know I don't even like textbooks... Well, it's not because I like working for nothing - payment is sometimes not only financial...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
1653. </div><blockquote>a) I met the first editor at the BESIG conference and I felt he knew what he was talking about.  He'd been an editor of Business English materials in the past - a series I <i><b>liked</b></i> -  so I trusted him and his opinions.   The book was to be an ESP material, which meant they would be a good deal more research into needs.  (Ha* if these were done they weren't shared with me despite asking for this.)  </blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>However, unfortunately, my very nice, very experienced editor was then transferred to another country and replaced by someone who has very little if any Specialized English teaching/ textbook knowledge.    </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>Someone who despite demanding a unit every 2 weeks took over a month to send me back feedback, thus not telling me until unit 4 that my reading texts were too long... </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>you'd think by now, as course books vary so much that they'd have a "standard" list or some copy guidelines to follow, pre-written up, wouldn't you?</i></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br />
1654. <blockquote><blockquote>Did what she asked though.  However the real problem: she had next to zero knowledge of IT, no idea exactly what was wrong with her suggestion to change my realia description to this...  </blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5Mjk8Bn-EGU/TkF9P1wSdzI/AAAAAAAADBE/-xbwWbG6EM0/s1600/pearson-realia-OHP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="64" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5Mjk8Bn-EGU/TkF9P1wSdzI/AAAAAAAADBE/-xbwWbG6EM0/s640/pearson-realia-OHP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><blockquote> an OHP.  Not a Smartboard? Not BlueScreen?  Not on Youtube?</blockquote></blockquote><br />
1655. <br />
1656. <br />
1657. <blockquote>b) The Series Editor assigned to the material was someone whose work I do respect - I felt extremely motivated by his in-depth requests during the process of creating the outline - wanting always much more -  things like specific vocabulary lists, grammar and functions, topics for each sub-section and I  was happy overall with these and felt that his criticisms could only be beneficial to the project.  </blockquote></div><blockquote><blockquote>I was strongly convinced that I would be able to learn and develop from working with someone of his experience.  I had no idea that he would soon be <i>'hands off'</i> post this stage and soon I would  left to deal with someone who thinks that: </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>"people in social media don't talk to people they don't know."  </blockquote></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
1658. <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OrpQhP_nin8/TkF_isJrLLI/AAAAAAAADBQ/GVSimAevYlI/s1600/pearson-adverbs-of-frequency.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="64" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OrpQhP_nin8/TkF_isJrLLI/AAAAAAAADBQ/GVSimAevYlI/s400/pearson-adverbs-of-frequency.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
1659. <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">adverbs of frequency idea (cc)</td></tr>
1660. </tbody></table><br />
1661. <blockquote><blockquote>I had no idea then that items to this agreed-upon-outline could be added magically post termination of the first draft of the work or that elements we had agreed upon could then be decided on as not belonging without any discussion with me directly.  Na ja.</blockquote></blockquote><br />
1662. <div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>c) Even though Pearson would be taking <span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>94%</b></span> of the monies made from the book, I calculated that, given the size of the global IT market I could probably break-even within 6 months after publication - especially given that I had received such a ridiculously low advance - and probably within a year make back the money I had lost in giving up classes.  Post that, I would get an income that would help me financially with the 2nd year of studies in my UK Masters.</blockquote></div><blockquote><blockquote>It seems, what educational book publishers like Pearson seem to forget is that an author's time writing doesn't come from nowhere but is, in fact, a loan from an author to the publisher, that in this <i>"gentlemanly" educational business</i> you don't take a risk like this based on "air and love" -you do anticipate that you will be treated with respect and fairness... that you will earn an income from your work.  And that it's very obvious that if you take this much time off to write then you are not earning the same income, from teaching, during this period.</blockquote></blockquote><br />
1663. And okay, let's face it...<br />
1664. <br />
1665. <br />
1666. I thought I'd be able to add a voice to this market.   Ego, reputation.   It was tempting. Lots of voices, why not add mine in  an area I know a lot about: IT?  Alas, that be the dreams of a silly girl who should have known better.<br />
1667. <br />
1668. Pride falls. <br />
1669. <br />
1670. Anyway, finances, huh...  I guess a company that makes <a href="http://www.pearson.com/investor/ar2010/financials/group-accounts/consolidated-income-statement.html">3,075,000,000</a> in profit has really got to get this from somewhere... so why not from naive authors - after all, yachts and chauffeurs do really need to paid for.<br />
1671. <br />
1672. No point in crying over spilt milk, no point in feeling<br />
1673. <br />
1674. Conned.<br />
1675. <br />
1676. Anxious.<br />
1677. <br />
1678. A little lost.<br />
1679. <br />
1680. Embarrassed.<br />
1681. <br />
1682. Doubtful of my abilities to write.<br />
1683. <br />
1684. Scared.<br />
1685. <br />
1686. Hurt.<br />
1687. <br />
1688. <div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XtSrpRNOgSU/TkGAdxzm8GI/AAAAAAAADBY/dOoRzM9Afio/s1600/Pearson-promotionalwork-forfree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="42" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XtSrpRNOgSU/TkGAdxzm8GI/AAAAAAAADBY/dOoRzM9Afio/s320/Pearson-promotionalwork-forfree.jpg" width="320" /></a>At the end of the day, I guess, I was the one who agreed to do the work without having a contract to sign prior to work,  something binding them to pay me...<br />
1689. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_KKemvTVOGURrDloVWX5x-GqXjppuZ3GQLlbTtNlJdLWwf_22vPVtIrOOpb7f_2XhtOPF3vAosouFbuXHYQ0_Dppjykzs4cecXyFiNwO5ZyqSHuDVGwmY2MpKRXvIhnO5Rj3RUUovgCEX/s1600/Pearson-digital-rights.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="75" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_KKemvTVOGURrDloVWX5x-GqXjppuZ3GQLlbTtNlJdLWwf_22vPVtIrOOpb7f_2XhtOPF3vAosouFbuXHYQ0_Dppjykzs4cecXyFiNwO5ZyqSHuDVGwmY2MpKRXvIhnO5Rj3RUUovgCEX/s320/Pearson-digital-rights.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>for their failures, for their lack of research or knowledge regarding the target market and for their total and complete project mismanagement...<br />
1690. <br />
1691. I thought they'd do me right when I told them as early as possible that my new editor wasn't capable...  and when it came to digital rights... </div><br />
1692. C'est la vie.<br />
1693. <br />
1694. &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: xx-small;&quot;&gt;p.s. as I&#39;m aware that many of my readers are global and 1000 pounds might sound like a lot of money...&amp;nbsp; so you can work out what this means in your own currency- add up your rent, health insurance and bills for one month.&amp;nbsp; 1000 is less than that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/5724499358195057372/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=5724499358195057372' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/5724499358195057372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/5724499358195057372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/08/pocket-money-writing-4-pearson-elt.html' title='Pocket Money Writing 4 Pearson ELT'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3363/3559725056_d50b716e9d_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-1396174789023129585</id><published>2011-08-07T22:14:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-07T22:14:02.313+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="learner-autonomy"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="motivation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="student centered teaching"/><title type='text'>Learner Autonomy in Language Learning: A Myth?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/51342261@N08/5479105572/&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot; title=&quot;Unicorn &amp;amp; me (4) by Anley Piers, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Unicorn &amp;amp; me (4)&quot; height=&quot;165&quot; src=&quot;http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5252/5479105572_03d4890e75.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
1695. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Does language learning have to be teacher-led in order to work?<br />
1696. <br />
1697. Is the very concept of learner autonomy simply a very fancy way of describing <i>will-power</i>, and thus, limited to those who have already have this - i.e it's not something achievable by the mere <i>masses</i> of students which go through our hands but instead belongs to an elite body of super-motivated learners? <br />
1698. <br />
1699. Hmm...<br />
1700. <br />
1701. Is it theoretical possibility... but not realistic probability?  Hmm.... <br />
1702. <br />
1703. Can a teacher ever "teach" it? <br />
1704. Can a learner ever "learn" it?<br />
1705. <br />
1706. <br />
1707. What do you think?<br />
1708. Best,<br />
1709. Karenne<br />
1710. <br />
1711. <br />
1712. <br />
1713. <br />
1714. <br />
1715. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/feeds/1396174789023129585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8572501698854836939&amp;postID=1396174789023129585' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/1396174789023129585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8572501698854836939/posts/default/1396174789023129585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://kalinago.blogspot.com/2011/08/learner-autonomy-in-language-learning.html' title='Learner Autonomy in Language Learning: A Myth?'/><author><name>KALINAGO ENGLISH</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUxYI2DuDnPB-EwqHfBd7LlUGGJdh8ksN6ETYhUAYui2GebvO3rkvo05ijSfstuIxc4jV7B5IqOR7qRuzREDgDDu75OziyteBweBKeYXravjhx0dOZtWWV-d77d2PArQ/s1600/KarenneSNpic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5252/5479105572_03d4890e75_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-6876321382261093923</id><published>2011-08-02T17:29:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-02T17:39:33.556+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="conferences"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="education"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="motivation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Presentations"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="teacher-training"/><title type='text'>The sin of assumption: motivation in adult learning</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WCHNku1DMo4/TjgV7vZLC-I/AAAAAAAADA8/o5tODrjU-qE/s1600/the+asss+ass+by+orin+zebest+Flickr.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WCHNku1DMo4/TjgV7vZLC-I/AAAAAAAADA8/o5tODrjU-qE/s200/the+asss+ass+by+orin+zebest+Flickr.jpg&quot; width=&quot;133&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;I&#39;ve really been meaning to post up this presentation, done at TESOL Spain earlier this year, and finally have had a chance to run through the slides and update them slightly so that they make sense - without my voice giving instructions or explanations!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
1716. <span style="font-size: large;"><br />
1717. </span><br />
1718. <span style="font-size: large;">Here they are:</span><br />
1719. <br />
1720. <br />
1721. <br />
1722. <br />
1723. <span style="font-size: x-small;">To scroll through the slides, use the arrow keys at the bottom of the presentation:</span><br />
1724. <div style="text-align: center;"><br />
1725. <iframe frameborder="0" height="451" src="https://docs.google.com/present/embed?id=dgxzvtcr_5506pms9jcz&size=m" width="555"></iframe></div><br />
1726. <br />
1727. <span style="font-size: large;">What do you think?</span><br />
1728. <br />
1729. <ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Are textbooks too pedagogically based?</li>
1730. <li>Is it important to design materials that take in the differences between adults and children? Why?</li>
1731. <li>Do you think that children can also benefit from an "andragogical* approach"?</li>
1732. </ul><br />
1733. Do let me know what you think, and/or don't hesitate to ask questions if you have them!<br />
1734. <br />
1735. Best,<br />
1736. Karenne<br />
1737. <br />
1738. p.s. one of my teacher-trainees in a professional development course last week thought that the term shouldn't really be called andragogy because it really means "man-leading" and instead should have a term that refers more to "adult-age-learning/leading." Google and Wikipedia haven't been too helpful on finding sources for these differences however - thoughts, ideas?<br />
1739. <br />
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