Random Quote
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
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
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
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
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
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Online learning
I spent over 15 years attempting to teach English conversation in Japanese schools and colleges. Getting students to talk to each other was often hard work, but it was better than having no conversation at all! However, now I’m back in the UK I have seen how much better the communicative method works when you have a variety of different nationalities. Wouldn’t it be nice to recreate this in classrooms in Japan, Korea etc. Well, now we have the technology! What you need is a good broadband connection, webcameras and headsets. And a link with a school or college in a neighbouring non-English-speaking country who have similar goals in mind.
I know of a couple of schools and colleges in Japan who would be interested in taking part in such an experiment with a school or college in Korea.
Maybe some of you are already doing this. Maybe some of you are interested in trying this out. I’d be grateful for any information, advice or leads anyone has.
Please contact me via this site or directly by email at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Thanks.
japanbond inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Aug 21, 2008 at 05:38 AM
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David V. wrote 44 words on Thursday Aug 21, 2008 at 10:49 PM
For anyone living in the Gulf, TESOL Arabia are currently putting together a volume on online learning and teaching. Submitting a chapter of 3000 to 4000 is a great way to get into publishing. If you’re interested, I can supply furher details.
David V.
Sean. wrote 26 words on Friday Aug 22, 2008 at 05:13 AM
David,
I’m sure what you have to say would fit well into a guest post. If you have time would you be interested in guest authoring?
David V. wrote 10 words on Friday Aug 22, 2008 at 03:04 PM
I’ll get on it when I have a psare moment!