Teach42

Are you on it yet? If you’re using Plurk already, go add yourself by copying it to your saved maps and then saving a pushpin to it.
If you aren’t, isn’t it time you gave Plurk a try? Based on at least one study, it’s neck and neck (and NECC?) with Twitter. As […]

I’m not shy about how much I love my hosting company, Bluehost. In fact, I seem to blog about it once a year, it seems as thought it’s about that time again. Reason I’m mentioning it now is because they recently upped the ante once again and I couldn’t be happier.
So a friend […]

As I was writing those last two brain dumps, I kept thinking “Maybe I should be breaking these up into multiple, smaller posts?” I know that often if a post is too long, I find it intimidating to begin reading and put it off until some day that may never come in the future. […]

The good stuff was easy. Much more challenging to document the stuff I think we need to learn from. Before I go any farther, let me just say that these are my own personal observations and thoughts. While I may sound critical of some people or behaviors, I don’t begrudge anybody because […]

I know most people have already put up their post-NECC reports, but I figure it’s never really too late and I’m glad that I had time to put some things in perspective and do a little soul searching before writing this. There’s so much to write about, both positive and negative, so I think […]

You can take this as a social commentary on the way we teach foreign languages here in the states, or just sit back and enjoy it. Either way, I think you’ll get a kick of this video Larry Anderson shared with me at NECC.