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On the tenth day of Geekmas, some blogger gave to me: ten tricks for reading Welcome to the teflgeek Christmas celebration! Themed around the classic Christmas carol – but going backwards, mostly because it’s more like a countdown that way: 12 blogs worth Read More...
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That’s right! In honour of that special time of year, when morale starts once again to lift in anticipation of the holiday season, teflgeek is preparing it’s very own twelve days of geekmas. teflgeek’s taken one of the most beloved christmas carols and Read More...
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While strolling gently through the internet this morning I caught a glimpse of the possibly chilling future of language schools. And we were defunct. Shabbily dressed individuals hanging around outside railway stations bearing signs reading “Will teach Read More...
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On my browser I have a folder marked “Further Investigation”. In it are contained all the links from various sources, none of which I can remember (but which were probably sourced via twitter and facebook feeds)… For what it’s worth – here’s ten things Read More...
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Following the arrival of a second research subject for the teflgeek occasional series “Studies in Child Language Acquisition”, teflgeek will be taking a short break in order to mostly sleep and provide respite care for Mrs teflgeek and the first geeklet, Read More...
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Simon Thomas answers the question “What causes ESL students to make speaking and writing errors? “ quite comprehensively in a recent blog post at efl-resource.com . He looks at the differences between “mistakes” (lack of knowledge or understanding) and Read More...
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There’s an excellent post at Kieran Donaghy’s Film English site called MOVE, LEARN, EAT | . Thoroughly recommend it – even if you don’t use it with a class, the video choices are inspired and worth watching simply for your viewing pleasure! Read More...
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A fact that was brought home the other day when a training seminar got rescheduled because half the projected attendees didn’t have Interactive Whiteboard technology available to them….. So here’s a nice post from Vicky Saumell’s Educational Technology Read More...
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Yes, I’m sad to say that from now until the start of September Teflgeek is going on holiday. I have packed my copy of “Tricky & Uncontextualised Grammar Conundrums to pose to Students (with key)” as a little light reading, along with every back issue Read More...
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I’m not very up on twitterquette. I’m still not entirely certain that (a) I know what I’m doing, (b) I know what I should be doing, (c) I know what everybody else is doing on Twitter. My experiences thus far have been slightly confusing, but really quite Read More...
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Back in March the Guardian held a live Q&A chat with a panel of experts, which I mentioned on teflgeek , and they’ve just posted in to say that they’re running another Q&A session later today (Tuesday July 12th 2011) on “How to find a Tefl job”. I suspect Read More...
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Following on from the recent blog challenge on raising awareness of disability access issues, I came across the Leonard Cheshire Disability campaign whilst watching Shaun the Sheep dvds with my daughter. The campaign is called “ Creature Discomforts ” Read More...
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I think my computer’s about to die… again. It has already been resuscitated once in it’s five years and I don’t think it likes being lugged around quite as much it unfortunately has to suffer through. I think it’s a power cable problem (as far as I can Read More...
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Free Technology for Teachers: 77 Web Resources for Teachers to Try This Summer . There’s really not much to say about this, except to refer you to Richard Byrne’s original post (see link at top). Most of the resources are categorised by subject, so might Read More...
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I’m not sure how this happened – I think I was trying to download something, but anyway I ended up with a Scribd account that I promptly forgot about. Until I started trying to download something else. At which point I found I was “following” nine people Read More...
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