10 Reasons Why I Blog

Why do I blog? 1)  I blog to reflect on what I’ve done with technology in my ESL classes. 2)  I blog to record what I need to remember the next time I try doing something similar. 3)  I blog to share with my colleagues across the country and the globe what has worked for [...]

Little Reason to Envy

1.  I teach ESL. 2.  I teach ESL to students who want to learn. 3.  I teach ESL to students who want to learn and are respectful of their teachers. 4.  I teach ESL to students who want to learn and are respectful of their teachers and who say thank you at the end of [...]

Pink Glove Dance

Isn’t it beautiful to see what team work can achieve! Maybe with team work and contributions one day soon we’ll eradicate this insidious disease that has affected all of our lives in one way or another. Let’s dance the Pink Glove Dance, celebrate the survivors, be  warriors, and educate the masses! more about “Pink Glove [...]

Classroom Rules for the 21st Century

RT @eduinnovatio So cool, a school district in Australia turned my “New Classroom Rules” http://twurl.nl/0zi712 into a video http://twurl.nl/k18zek ————————————————————————————————- At first glance, the classroom rules below may throw you.  But, remember, we no longer expect our students to sit quietly and listen to the words of “the man” in front of the room.  We [...]

My Upcoming Wiki for ESL

I’ve decided that my next “creation” will be a wiki for Advanced ESL. Rather than putting everything on Blackboard, I will keep my resources in a wiki similar to the edtec4matc wiki. I will ask other instructors if they’d like to collaborate on it with me, adding to it resources for grammar, reading, writing, pronunciation, [...]