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Korean: my language learning

What is this? Does your language intuition and cultural expectations meet in the path of understanding?  Without context, it can be a little challenging.  Imagine this all around you. It was this alien experience, like living in some alternate reality, where I had my first experience with language workout.  Korean.Read More »Korean: my language learning

2012: year of collaboration

Happy new year to everyone in our ELT community! Our community–a concept so important to me–is where I’ve been placing my focus for the last few years.  It’s not that I’ve done as much to build it up as I’d like to, but my involvement and dialogue with a broader group of educators has definitely given me a bigger sense of what power it has. But involvement isn’t enough to create positive change, you need collaboration.  2012 is the year to focus on collaboration too.Read More »2012: year of collaboration

11 posts I wish I’d written

Previously, it was all about looking back at my journey this year through my favourite 11 posts, but that journey is much more than just my blog, it’s path is woven through the winding, twisting, infuriating and inspiring blogosphere out there.  This review of 2011 is made up of blog posts that members of my PLN wrote that I wish I’d written, but I didn’t and am eternally jealous.Read More »11 posts I wish I’d written

Tagxedoed


Last March, I ran my blog through Wordle as an activity suggested by Dave Dodgson.  What resulted was a surprisingly reflective exercise that showed what words dominate my recent posts, whether they were student-centred or not and ultimately the predominant topics I discussed.  Reminded by a Brad Patterson post, I decided to do it again, but this time with my Twitter account.Read More »Tagxedoed