Random Quote
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
ESL Stand-up Comedy
Brian Aylward is a comedian who performs at clubs around Asia.
the first 2-3 minutes is really funny - watch the video.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Nov 13, 2008 at 08:57 PM
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ER Symposium
The 1st Annual Extensive Reading Symposium
Co-hosted by Daejeon-Chungcheong KOTESOL at the 5th Annual SIG Symposium-Thanksgiving Dinner Event.
The KOTESOL Extensive Reading Special Interest Group is proud to announce the first annual Extensive Reading Symposium, to be held November 22nd in the Korea Nazarene University in Cheonan.
More Details here. The line up of presenters looks interesting as do the presentation titles of local teachers. I’m not sure I’ll be able to go, but if i can I will.
following the conference is a Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner
The Daejeon-Chungnam Chapter of KOTESOL is proud to announce it’s Fifth Annual Symposium and Turkey Dinner on Saturday, November 22, 2008 at Korea Nazarene University in Choenan. Pre-Registration is available on our website and will be open until November 17, 2008. If you want to participate in the dinner you must pre-register and pay before the 17th. There will be no dinners sold at the door as we have to order the dinners in advance.
Book Review: Moodle 1.9
A while back I was approached by Packt Publishing to review Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development: A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle 1.9, by William H. Rice IV. I was approached to review this book due to my semi-regular blogging about Moodle as well as my extensive experience using it as a teacher of English as a Second Language.
Moodle 1.9 E-learning Course Development is a book that achieves its goal of being a complete guide to successful learning with Moodle. This book will definitely be useful for newbies as well as experienced users such as myself. Rice takes the reader through a tour of Moodle in the first chapter that serves as an excellent summary of its capabilities as well as a roadmap for the rest of the book. A friend who is a newbie to Moodle visited my house and read the first third of the book and expressed how helpful it was just reading it. He was very impressed and bought the book.
I would highly recommend any teacher or site administrator new to Moodle to read this book.To get the maximum benefit out of this book it would be best for the reader to have access to a Moodle installation, preferably as an administrator. However, if you only have teacher access this book will still be highly useful. For those curious about what Moodle has to offer but without access to a Moodle site this book will provide you with the insight you are looking for to decide if Moodle will meet your needs.
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Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday Nov 5, 2008 at 11:37 AM
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EFL Classroom 2.0 blog
David Deublebeis is now blogging at the EFL Classroom 2.0 blog. I strongly recommend that you subscribe to his feed - I expect great things from this blog.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday Oct 29, 2008 at 03:26 PM
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Oxford Day 2008
Oxford Day is coming up on November 15th or may November 7th - email said the 7th, but the poster says the 15th - a second email has confirmed the 15th. For some reason Oxford has decided to promote the even by making all the info as one giant image thus preventing copy & paste. Stupid Stupid Stupid.
Anyhow it’s at Ewha. I can’t be bothered to type more nor provide a link to the idiocy that is this promotion. google it for details.
See you there if you guess the correct day.
