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I’ve created a new RSS feed that will only dispay entries related to web design. My regular feed will no longer display web design entries unless they are included in another category. You can subscribe to the Web Design RSS if you like.

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Recently I was dubbed the Dean of EFL Bloggers, but last night I received a new, higher, and possibly less justified accolade of The King of TEFL Bloggers. You can send your annual tithe and tribute to my paypal account!

Really thanks for the praise guys. 

Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday May 7, 2008 at 10:01 AM
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According to ZenKimchi, my blog is the #1 ranking blog in Korea - clearly there is a mistake here, but I’ll revel in the glory, even if it’s false.

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During my upcoming summer vacation (mid June to end of August) I’m going to completely redesign this site. I’m fairly certain that the forums and wiki will be gone as there is no traffic there. Since there isn’t any action I don’t see the need to spend time designing and coding for an unused portion of the site. If the forums or the wiki suddenly picks up in traffic I will of course keep it.

Sometime this summer Expression Engine will be releasing version 2.0 which is a major upgrade and will no doubt add new features (as of yet unknown) that I may or may not added. In any case, I’m planning on transitioning out of EFL in the next 3-4 years and moving into web design.

The upcoming redesign of my blog will be the first site that I code from the ground up. Previous sites I have used templates as a framework to build from there. At the same time I’ll be creating my portfolio site for web design in order to attract paying clients (I’ve already had one and have another potential in the pipeline). And a third site will be my teaching portfolio site to supplement my hard copy portfolio.

Do I really need to make a teaching portfolio site if I’m moving out of teaching? No, but it’s another site design that I can feature on my web design site and who knows, in the next 3-4 years I may need to change jobs. It never hurts to be prepared.

Coming soon a new look for EFL Geek - more streamlined and without the forums/wiki. I’ll probably also rethink a couple of other features of the blog including the links to various social networks on each entry, trackbacks (which have been turned off for ages), and membership in general.

I’m looking forward to exercising my CSS & XHTML kung fu skills.

Comments, thoughts?

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My ScribbleBoard had gotten incredibly crowded, so I erased it. Feel free to leave a new message there if you are so inclined. I did this last year as well. This year fortunately I thought ahead and saved the image.

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The end of the semester has arrived. I finished my last class today and have a little bit of grading left to do over the weekend and then submit some paperwork on Monday or Tuesday. After that I’ll be free until February 25 when the spring semester starts. It’s starting a little early this year, but that also means that summer vacation will come even faster.

I have had a couple of blog posts running in my mind for the past couple of weeks, but have been too busy to write anything other than post info about the current visa fiasco.

Related to that, currently there are rumors on Dave’s cafe that the rules while posted are not going to go into affect until March 15. I actually find this to be rather credible as it will give public schools and universities leeway to get new teachers hired for the new academic year (March 2st at most schools) without having to worry about a lot of red tape that will potentially take longer to work out than there is time available. Additionally the new rules will put pressure on hagwons that many will be unable to withstand. This will potentially result in less hagwons achieving one of the goals of the government; that is equalizing English education for the rich and the poor. I’m not sure how effective this will be, but it could definitely be a percieved benefit on the part of the government.

In other news, I will have a big announcement coming at the end of the year or the first week of January - including a potential unveiling of my anonymity.

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I’m on my way to Canada for the first time in five years. Posting will resume when I return at the end of august. If any one wishes to guest author an entry, feel free to do so. I will be checking my email daily and will recieve notification of any guest entries in the moderation queue. I will try to approve entries within 24 hours of recieving them.

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I’ve finished teaching for summer semester. All lessons went better than expected and overall I’m very satisfied with this course. Tomorrow is a holiday and then Wednesday is the final exam so a little bit of grading and then I will be finished until the last week of August. There will probably be very few entries between now and then, but don’t give up on me, I’ll be back.

Just so everyone knows, I’m still looking for guest authors either as a one off entry or a semi-regular contributor. You can write on anything you want as long as it is somewhat related to linguistics, teaching, language, or language learning.

Finally I’ve just finished the upgrade to EE 1.6 and all went smoothly. I also added the new social bookmarking module. The bookmarks will only be available on the permalink/comments page. The control panel for the module is a little buggy right now so I can only have the default two social sites, but once it’s fixed will add a few more. Will complete the forum upgrade probably tomorrow, right now I’m off to relax with some coffee and DVDs.

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Update II
I’ve just enabled editing of comments. comments will be editable for 30 minutes after posting.
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I’ve received a couple of reports that comments are being rejected by my site by logged in as well as not logged in readers. Will be troubleshooting this soon. However if you have a comment you would like to share the email form is still working. Sorry for the trouble.
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I think the problem was my spam protection was set a little high. comments with multiple urls were being automatically rejected. This should be fixed now.

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This is a test of the guest entry form. If it works this entry should go to the submission queue for moderation. AFter moderation it will be approved and appear with a guest entry icon.

Let’s hope everything works out.

I am planning on getting two to three semi-regular guest authors here. It is not however necessary to write regularly, if you want to guest author, just click on the guest entry link above and post your entry. If you have any questions about it, feel free to ask in the forums or send me an email using the links above.

王音癡 inscribed these words of wisdom on Sunday May 20, 2007 at 10:21 AM
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Did you know about guest authoring?

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Sometime in the next few weeks there will finally be a guest author on this site. I’ve had a guest entry form available on this site for ages, but no one has taken advantage of the opportunity. That is probably due to my lack of promotion of this option. Just to let you know, any registered member is able to guest author an entry on this blog. Once your entry is submitted it will go to a moderation queue for me to approve. Approval is basically a rubber stamp as long as your post is on topic and the language is clean.

One of my close friends has recently embarked on a distance Masters Degree and has expressed interest in posting here. I’ve had the pleasure of proof reading the two essays that he has submitted so far and must say that he is a better writer than I ever was. He’s got a lot of interesting ideas that I’m sure readers here will enjoy reading and commenting on. As soon as he registers you can expect an entry.

Did you know about the guest entry option? Vote in the poll. I’d also like to hear your thoughts on guests authors and blogging in general.