Random Quote
This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
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
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
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
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
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
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
An interview with me
A few days ago I was interviewed by email for Why They Teach. If you’re interested in learning more about me go check it out.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday Apr 13, 2009 at 07:06 AM
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Inspiration for a song
Today my students did their first graded presentations for my presentation skills class. The students in this class are all native like or near native speakers. The assignment was a 5 minute presentation which the student could choose a topic from a list of about 30.
Several students did the topic “having a hobby is good for my life”. Yeah I know it’s a bit of a fluff topic, but the point is to get students talking and also not to focus on content so much as their presentation – body language, eye contact, organization etcetera..
One student wrote about how he enjoys composing songs. He took 30 seconds of his alloted time to sing part of a song that he wrote two weeks ago after my class on overcoming fear in presentations. The song title is “The Embrace” and is about the need to embrace fear. Anyhow, it was rather interesting to find out that one of my lessons inspired a song.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Apr 3, 2009 at 03:51 PM
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KOTESOL: Selecting a Research Topic
Yesterday was the KOTESOL National conference. The first session I attended was by Jake Kimball on the topic of Breaking into Research. Jake gave an excellent presentation which was well recieved by the audience. Several people asked for his powerpoints, but Jake didn’t have a place to upload his powerpoint to so I volunteered my blog.
Here is Jakes powerpoint – Breaking into Research: Selecting a Research Topic.
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To the woman I talked to in the hallway about blogging, my apologies for not remembering your name. The blog that I recommended to you was Larry Ferlazzo, check his blog and blogs he links to and I can guarantee that you will find something of interest.
Also had a good chat with Joe while waiting in line for the lunch that never materialized. We got to lunch a little late, waited 10 minutes to get a small bowl of rice and some wilted salad. Mmm tasty, not.
Contributors Wanted
I’m looking for regular, or non-regular contributors to this blog. Basically if you have something to say about language teaching, linguistics or language in general even only vaguely related you’re welcome to contribute. If you’d like to be a regular contributer, say 1-2 times a month or more then I’ll set you up with direct access to publishing without moderation.
If you just want to contribute a one time peice or be a little less regular feel free to use the guest entry form (you will need to be logged in first), which will send your submission to a moderation queue. 99.99% of the time, I’ll approve the entry as soon as I see it. The only reason I won’t approve it is if it’s spam or obviously a product placement in the form of a blog entry.
Contribute away.
Linking Policy revisited
Lately I’ve been rreceiving a number of requests for mutual linkage – mostly to commercial sites. I don’t do that and my policy is explained in this entry – blogrolling policy.
I will be making one exception shortly, but that is for a friends recruiting business, which coincidentally I made the web site for. shameless plug if you need a web site, a blog theme or anything web related, go to my web design firm, CreateSean Web Design for more information and contact me.
