I was rather gobsmacked when Zena asked me to do the closing keynote at #ililc5. An offer I couldn’t refuse but daunting nonetheless. Especially as there was no ‘theme’ this year so I could talk about ‘anything’ according to my instructions! As Christmas came and passed and I still hadn’t really been inspired, I grew […]
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Hay mucha vida en un roscón de Reyes.
“En el roscón de reyes puedes encontrar la figurita y el haba. La buena y la mala suerte. Teresa Tomás, de 104 años, nos enseña que en la vida también sucede igual. ¿Quieres saber lo que piensa?” This short video is an advertisement for Consum but it has an important message. I’m going to be […]
Twitter thoughts – the results
Last weekend I created a survey using SurveyMonkey entitled Twitter thoughts with the aim of ascertaining a range of views on Twitter. I publicised the survey on Twitter and Facebook and asked others to share the link too. Please could you please spare 2-3 minutes to complete my Twitter survey (and RT!) Thank you! https://t.co/PEQyAJWpLJ — […]
#PurposedPSI
On Saturday I attended the Purpos/ed Summit for Instigators in Sheffield, meeting with others to debate the purpose of education and discuss how we might ‘kickstart’ a wider debate on the subject. Part of the time was given over to 3×3 presentations by attendees – 3 slides in 3 minutes on the question of the […]
Friday thought 7
I sometimes look back to when I first began teaching and can’t believe some of the things I recall. Like handwritten worksheets made on a banda machine, barely legible worksheets photocopied from Tricolore, not allowing pupils to see the words when you introduced them orally and naff songs! But, as this quote says, I do […]
Friday thought 6
Friday thought 5
Image from superkimbo
Friday thought 4
So – what will YOU do? Image from ransomtech
Friday thought 3
I think that’s fairly self explanatory! for more reasons, have a look at Why study languages? and Why languages? Image from acjeppo
Friday thought 2
I was shocked the first time I son talked about ‘stealing’ a friend’s idea. ‘but my teacher told me to do it!’ was his response to the look on my face. Gone are the days when my planning was mine alone and a colleague teaching the same lesson had to plan their own lesson. Pooling […]