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Calaverita: Altar for an English Student

I wrote and gave this calavera to my Advanced English students at Tec de Monterey. ALTAR FOR AN ENGLISH STUDENT

Diego, Juan Carlos, Bruno, and Jose Together had a mass funeral For they touched the teacher’s Mac Apple During class time they were sleeping Getting eerily closer to their graves Laughing, fighting, talking & cheating Sadly they only lived to… Continue

Added by Frank on October 31, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Language Exchange Webinar

I would like to invite everyone to participate in a webinar on Language Exchanges!

Language Exchanges by Benjamin Stewart

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Added by Benjamin Stewart on October 7, 2009 at 9:17am — No Comments

Guest Blogging Opportunity

I recently started blogging, as a way for me to learn more about using web 2.0 tools, and as a way to encourage teachers to use the internet for professional development. I'm still pretty new and figuring out what I'm doing, but I'm having fun and learning a lot :) Now, I have a question for you..... I'm starting a blog series that focuses on EFL for young learners around the world. Rather than looking for generalizations about EFL in any country, I want to focus on specific teachers, or speci… Continue

Added by Barb Sakamoto on October 7, 2009 at 2:21am — No Comments

The Networked Teacher of the 21st century.

Few years ago, teachers used to work with Typical Teacher Network, interacting with curriculum documents, colleagues, popular media, print and digital resources, their family and local community. Nowadays, we, educators, are called The Networked Teachers because of we are able to manage blogs, wikis, video-conferences, chat, social networking services, and other tools for interactive learning and teaching. Furthermore, we attend conferences, get technical support, and [...] Continue reading… Continue

Added by Victor Hugo Rojas B. on September 6, 2009 at 10:34pm — 2 Comments

ETCon : Communities and the Power of Crowdsourcing

ETCon : Communities and the Power of Crowdsourcing by E-Teachers Academy

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Added by Mark Cruthers on August 27, 2009 at 8:37pm — No Comments

Final countdown...

Five months ago, on March 23, we started a new project at Angloamericano Aragon, and now, we are finally in the countdown for the final exams of the first TDC generation.... Yes, I am excited and nervous, it was a great experience seeing trainees transforming...becoming TBLT facilitators and now they are dealing with the final details for their lesson plan and presentations... UFFF I guess I am more excited and nervous than when I presented my own lesson plan to get my Diploma.... Continue

Added by Bernardo Orozco on August 26, 2009 at 2:10pm — No Comments

Authenic Listening Texts

I'm trying to put together a colection of authentic listening texts online that teachers can download. Have a look here: http://realenglishlistening.posterous.com/ I wrote a blog post about it here too. The files are audio clips of real language mainly taken from reality TV shows (and without the annoying commentary). There's a description for each file which indica… Continue

Added by Mark Arthur on August 7, 2009 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments

High Touch vs High Tech in Schools

This interesting article - High Touch vs High Tech in Schools - discusses how technology and interaction with people requires balance. Another related article goes so far as to say the loss of human contact is a contributor to the development of Alzheimer's… Continue

Added by Benjamin Stewart on August 6, 2009 at 9:02am — No Comments

New Teachig Materials

I just uploaded a couple of writing lesson plans on my blog: http://englishteachermexico.wordpress.com/ Continue

Added by Mark Arthur on July 21, 2009 at 2:38pm — 2 Comments

Language Exchanges

As we all get geared up for another school year, I would like to extend an invitation to those who are interested in participating in a language exchange for English language learners primarily at the high school and university level. I personally have enjoyed working with those at eTandem and can tell you that ELLs have really demonstrated great progress in their own development of a foreign language (i.e., English). Students develo… Continue

Added by Benjamin Stewart on July 18, 2009 at 9:05am — No Comments

Join the free online wiki skills and collaborative learning workshop!

July 7, 2009

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Added by Nellie Deutsch on July 7, 2009 at 12:17pm — No Comments

"leading out loud"

I love this technique of sharing called "leading out loud". Although this particular example is within the business sector, imagine how great it would work within the educational system. Administrators, curricularists, teacher leaders, etc. all sharing ideas to current problems in an open and collaborative way. I can already see the initial reaction of some who might think it strange to present questions and thoughts to others without presenting a… Continue

Added by Benjamin Stewart on June 9, 2009 at 9:49pm — 2 Comments

Share your teaching experiences with other educators

Share your teaching experiences with educators and students around the world. Continue

Added by Nellie Deutsch on May 26, 2009 at 3:17pm — 2 Comments

AN INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE: VoiceThread Exchange on the Drug Traffic between US and Mexico

Hi, Everybody, As I say in my profile page, I am a Spanish Teacher in Connecticut looking to have my high school students interact with Mexican students of English as much as possible. Recently I did a speaking evaluation in my basic/intermediate Spanish class in which the students had to watch a short video (that I pulled from youtube) about el narcotráfico in Juarez. Students then had to respond to one of the following two questions. OPCIÓN A: Recientemente la secretaria del estado Clint… Continue

Added by Jason Cummings on May 17, 2009 at 12:38pm — No Comments

Back to work (or To heck with the swine flu! eat a taco al pastor!)

I haven't been active on this Ning for the past couple of weeks due to that lovely H1N1 bug that got everyone into a tizzy. While I didnt get sick (thank goodness), its really hard to get motivated to do anything when life is so out-of-whack. Finally, high schools and unis have reopened and Im back at work. Life in Mexico City is slowly coming back to normal, esp. if you consider it normal to have someone do a health screening on you coming back onto campus after buying a cup of coffee at 7-11!… Continue

Added by Leigh Thelmadatter on May 8, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

MSC Dissertation

1. What are some good tips to complete an MSC Dissertation (research project)? MSC students are required to write a MSC dissertation at the end of the course. Is this research project based on workplace research or it can also be completed by consulting books and journals? This dissertation should be of 16,000 to 20,000 words. Please help me with some skills and tips in completing this project. Thanks a lot. 2. Some Ideas Fo… Continue

Added by suzzane donald on April 29, 2009 at 11:59pm — No Comments

Storytelling & Cultures

Storytelling and Cultures by Nellie Deutsch

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Added by Nellie Deutsch on April 29, 2009 at 8:12am — No Comments

web2.0 in Mexican Universities

What are people using Web2.0 for in universities? Is anyone creating exercises and uploading them to websites? What about other uses of the web for teaching English? Continue

Added by Matthew Davidson on April 21, 2009 at 11:24am — 1 Comment