April 2012
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ENG 099 Lesson 4 of KCCoC Spring 2012 Session...
Author’s Note: This is a review of lesson 4 of my Spring 2012 Session classes at the Korean Cultural Center of Chicago for adult ELLs.
12 April 2012
ENG 099 Lesson 4
KCCoC Spring Session 2012
What was supposed to happen?
Lead class focused on continuing to read USA History in Brief.
What happened?
Reviewed work done in Spring Session 2012 lessons 1 to 3.
New...
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Thinking: Why I'm taking full responsibility for... →
Well written post by a high-school student about education that is worth reading and thinking about.
March 2012
1 post
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Considering switching from Windows to GNU Linux? →
February 2012
4 posts
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ENG 099: Conversational American English |...
Step 0 What’s up?
Step 1 What are you planning to do for your birthday this year?
Step 2 Do you have any English questions? From a book you read? From homework at school? From life?
Step 3 Please read the story Juan Bobo & the
Cooking Pot. Was it a good story? Why? Please write 2 sentences.
Step 4 Now we are going to edit your story! What does “edit” mean?...
Mooglets in Seoul: Book Suggestions for EFL/ESL... →
moogletsinseoul:
Some books suggested by my EFL trainer for new EFL Teachers:
First English Grammar - Katherine Hallgarten
How English Works - Catherine Walter
Bobby Shaftoe Clap your Hands - Sue Nicholls
Five Minute Activities - Penny Ur & Andrew Wright
Practical English Usage - Michael Swan
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Conscious Classes: Quick Lend and Borrow Activity →
esl-jasonhinkley:
Many students have trouble with this concept and the accompanying pronouns and objects, especially students from linguistic backgrounds that have only one word for both sides of the transaction. For a quick warmer or review I have a short icebreaker like activity: Have each student write one…
January 2012
5 posts
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ENG 099: Conversational American English |...
Author’s Note: This is the third ENG 099 Conversational American English Princess Writing Activity, please confer:
Princess Writing Activity 3
Princess Writing Activity 2 Unpublished
Princess Writing Activity 1.5 Unpublished
Princess Writing Activity 1
for context. It is designed to be used Pedagogically by a Tutor or Teacher with a beginning English Language...
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ENG 099: Conversational American English |...
Author’s Note: This is the third ENG 099 Conversational American English Princess Story Activity, please confer:
Princess Writing Activity 2, Unpublished, 17 Jan 2012.
Princess Writing Activity 1.5, Unpublished, 10 Jan 2012.
Princess Writing Activity 1, 2 Jan 2012.
for context. It is designed to be used Pedagogically by a Tutor or Teacher with a beginning English Language...
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ENG 099: Conversational American English |...
Start writing your own princess story?
Author’s Note: This is the first ENG 099 Conversational American English Princess
Story Activity. This is the second ENG 099 activity series; the 6 activities of the first, Intro, series are below:
ENG 099:
Conversational American English | Intro Activity 1
Intro Activity 2
Intro Activity 3
Intro Activity 4
Intro Activity 5
...
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Overpaid Index of NBA Player Salaries?
I think developing a graph of index comparing a player’s actual NBA salary vs how much they should be paid based on their statistical output. It would be a nice component for my research on How to Build an NBA Dynasty.
December 2011
4 posts
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ENG 099: Conversational American English | Intro...
Author’s Note: This is the sixth ENG 099 Conversational American English Intro Activity, please confer:
ENG 099:
Conversational American English | Intro Activity 1
Intro Activity 2
Intro Activity 3
Intro Activity 4
Intro Activity 5
for context. It is designed to be used Pedagogically by a Tutor or Teacher with a beginning ESOL student.
Mr. Danoff
20 December...
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Christmas Plans
Student 1: Teacher, tell me about your Christmas plans. What are you going to do?
Me: What am I going to do on Christmas?
Student 2: YES! Teacha, tell us!
Me: Well...
Student 2: Teacher, are you going to have hot time with your boyfriend?
Student 1: YEA! Teacher! Hot time with boyfriend?????
Me: uh.
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ENG 099: Conversational American English | Intro...
Author’s Note: This is the fifth ENG 099 Intro Activity, please confer:
ENG 099: Conversational American English | Intro Activity 1
Intro Activity 2
Intro Activity 3
Intro Activity 4
for context. It is designed to be used Pedagogically by a Tutor or Teacher with a beginning ESOL student.
Mr. Danoff
5 December 2011
Winnetka
Step 0 What’s up?
Step 1 What...
November 2011
4 posts
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ENG 099: Conversational American English | Intro...
Author’s Note: This is the fourth ENG 099 Intro Activity, please confer:
ENG 099: Conversational American English | Intro Activity 1
ENG 099: Conversational American English | Intro Activity 2
ENG 099: Conversational American English | Intro Activity 3
for context. It is designed to be used Pedagogically by a Tutor or Teacher with a beginning ESOL student.
Mr. Danoff
29...
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ENG 099: Conversational American English | Intro...
Author’s Note: This is the third ENG 099 Intro Activity, please read ENG 099: Conversational American English | Intro Activity 1 and ENG 099: Conversational American English | Intro Activity 2 for context. It is designed to be used Pedagogically by a Tutor or Teacher with a beginning ESOL student.
Mr. Danoff
21 November 2011
Chicago
Step 0 How are you?
Step 1 What was the...
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Webmaking 101
Signed up for Webmaking 101 on P2PU, first challenge centers on introducing myself.
Hi! I’m Charlie, I haven’t studied HTML in school, but have learned a few things on my own, inspired by Justin Hall, the Blogfather. Example is danoff dot org, my homepage.
I’m looking forward to taking this course with you all and filling in the gaps in our HTML knowledge, greetings to you...
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ENG 099: Conversational American English | Intro...
Author’s Note: This is the second ENG 099 Intro Activity, click this link to read ENG 099: Conversational American English | Intro Activity 1. It is designed to be used Pedagogically by a Tutor or Teacher with a beginning ESOL student.
Mr. Danoff
22:03 on 7 November 2011
Winnetka
Step 0 How are you?
Step 1 What was the most fun thing you did last week?
Step 2 Does this...
October 2011
7 posts
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my Open Education 2011 Talk
was on Collaborative Lesson Planning, a method for teachers to make lesson plans together that are better and take less time.
Video for the talk should be available tomorrow on the Open Ed 2011 Conference’s YouTube channel. For now, here is an audio recording of most of my speech. Thank you Mikhail Gershovich for recording it and the inspiring folks at DS106 radio for streaming it live...
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an ENG 099 MOOC?
Finished the formal part of my second day of the 8th annual Open Education Conference about an hour ago. Heading over to the BBQ next. Thought about posting my notes like I did yesterday, but decided to take a different approach today.
With this post I want to outline something I’ve been thinking about for a while: teaching a class online on English as a Second Language; but which has...
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ENG 099: Conversational American English | Writing...
Step 1 What was the last sports game you watched?
Step 2 Please write a blog post about the game with, at least, 5 sentences.
Step 3 What did we learn last lesson from section 3 of chapter 2 on conjunctions of The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.? Read the rest of the section now.
Step 4 Read the story “The Rabbit’s Bride” from Household Stories by the...
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Day 1 of Open Ed 2011
Back at my lovely hotel, thank you hotels.com, following the first day of the Open Education 2011 conference. Met up with some people I’ve known from before and attended many exciting talks! There were many excellent looking talks, but amongst the ones I attended here’s some ideas that stood out:
Are commercial publishers friend or foe of open education?
Speakers Eric Frank,...
ENG 099: Conversational American English | Writing...
Step 1 What was the last sports game you watched?
Step 2 Please write a blog post about the game with, at least, 5 sentences.
Step 3 Read section 3 of chapter 2 on conjunctions of The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary defines Parenthetic as “1. A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation,
inserted in, or attached to,...
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ENG 099: Conversational American English | Intro...
Step 1 What is your name? Do you have an English name?
Step 2 Do you have any hobbies?
Step 3 What music do you like?
Step 4 What movies do you like?
Step 5 What is your favorite book?
Step 6 What do you like most: music, movies or books? Why?
Step 7 Read some of The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay.
Annotated Bibliography
The Magic Pudding ebook linked to is the...
September 2011
5 posts
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ENG 099: Conversational American English | Writing...
Step 1 What did you do last lesson?
Step 2 Read section 2 of chapter 2 on conjunctions of The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
Is “Brad, Amy and John went to the pool.” or “Brad, Amy, and John went to the pool.” correct?
Why?
Step 3 If I say “Editing my writing is very difficult.” what do I mean by “Editing”?
Step 4...
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The OER Turn
is a blog post Joe sent me to read. I enjoyed reading Thomas’s thought “The OER Turn is characterised by the working through of the following topics: * visible and invisible use * the importance of licensing * the role of the university”. She didn’t come to many conclusions in the post, moreso she was framing the right discussion for OER going forward.
The one thing...
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ENG 099: Conversational American English | Writing...
Step 1 The Ninja!
What is happening in the ninja picture?
Step 2 Read the section 1 of chapter 2 of The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. Click here to read from the Wikisource editon of the work.
Is Charles’s or Charles’ correct?
Step 3 Do you like writing in English? Why?
Please write at least 2 sentences to answer these questions.
Step 4 Is writing in...
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Fun OER Blog →
Came across this blog by Ahrash, another member of P2PU, at first look seems a thought-provoking blog on OER and related ideas worth reading.
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ENG 099 Korean Baseball Activity 3
Step 1: How can English help you?
You are talking to a friend and they ask, “How can English help you?” Please write 3 sentences to answer their question.
Step 2: Vacation?
Read the article “Kyeong-moon is a Dino” from the True Stories of Korean Baseball blog about the new NC Soft Dinos manager. When you are finished write 4 sentences answering these two...
August 2011
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ESL 101 Korean Baseball Activity 2
Step 1: What is happening?
Watch this video below. Afterwards write down three sentences in response to your friend from Chicago’s question.
Now write those three sentences answering your friend’s question “What is happening in the video?”
Step 2: What is wrong with the first paragraph?
Paragraphs A & B are from Wikipedia articles read on August 24th,...
May 2011
5 posts
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Implementing my PLN via Paragogy
Thinking over the week’s reading (particularly liked Howard’s posterous post), forum discussions and the live session I’ve attended, PLNs are pretty sweet. I think I’ve been unconsiously developing/using a PLN my whole life, but it’d be better if I *consciously* did so going forward. Aside from being wise for my own learning it fits with one my professional ambition,...
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Augmenting my study ethic (a la work ethic)
Englebart opens one of his seminal works with:
By “augmenting human intellect” we mean increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems.
This paper and assignment comes at a unique time for me. I am taking this exciting course at Rheingold U and I just finished my EFL/ESL...
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WatchAbove is TED talk by Salman Khan of the Khan academy, this week he was also on the Charlie Rose show. Obviously a quite inspiring person for me as someone whose become a huge success teaching online. I signed-up for the academy and managed to complete ten addition questions in a row correctly to “achieve proficiency in Addition 1”. I’m interested in developing my...
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My pre-enlightenment infotention experience
For week 1 of Introduction to Mind Amplifiers, a course I’m taking at Rheingold U, one of my required readings is “Mindful Infotention”. After reading the post my initial understanding of Infotention is that its choosing what to pay attention to. This is especially true managing info online, but is just as true with off-line information (e.g. who do you network with, what books...
April 2011
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"Hacking" Thunderbid (a Mr. D Notebook) →
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Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning: An Annual... →
the latest in a series of annual reports that began in 2004 that examine the status of K-12 online education across the country. The report provides an overview of the latest policies, practices, and trends affecting online learning programs across all 50 states. [sic]
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Lab Report 4: Finding EFL/ESL Students to Tutor
№: Four Topic: Finding EFL/ESL Students to Tutor Date: 28 April 2011
Over the past 6 to 7 weeks I have been looking for EFL and ESL students to tutor for the lab. Previously I have worked with Kitty and Hannah on their EFL writing before. I am interested in finding more students to help with their English writing, but lately I have been searching more for students who want to study...
July 2009
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dates of the month resources
Called my HRT and told her given most students don’t remember days of the week or months, we could wait on teaching dates. She said it was 大丈夫。 I didn’t even any ideas, so to the web I turned …
http://www.mes-english.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=799
http://www.eslhq.com/forums/esl-forums/esl-games-activities/games-teach-dates-ordinal-numbers-5692/
...
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Standing Around
Had a string of unsuccessful games lately, and one thing that has come across explicitly is that when kids are standing around (as in when they get “out” in a game) for any length of time an activity almost never works.
June 2009
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Humanising Language Teaching Magazine for teachers... →
Article on why graphic novels should be used in the ELT classroom.
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June 16th, 2009 Teaching Journal
Thanks to Dr. Doug Hirschhorn describing a trading journal in a recent issue of trader daily for the inspiration and guidelines. Thanks also to my dad for sending me the article to read.
June 16th, 2009 Teaching Journal
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june 15th goals?
weekly goals
No
No, distracted by eigo noto website for a long time this morning.
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
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Week of June 15th to 19th Teaching Goals
Review goals every morning.
Focus on one task at a time. Finish what I’m working on before moving on to something else. No unrelated or even 70% related link clicking until task is finished.
Lesson plans sent to teachers the day before class.
Lessons archived that day, even if it means staying overtime. Streamline the process. Will result in less overtime in the future.
Schedule every day...
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Quotation Marks: Where Do the Periods and Commas... →
Apparently, in America they always go inside the quotation marks, while in Britan they go outside or inside, depending on logic.
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Video games to teach English
Use videogames to teach English, with the key being that to advance in the game you have to improve your English skills. e.g. to get to the next level, you have to get information from an English speaker.
Game has to be good enough that kids are motivated to get through it.
SHouldn’t be marketed as an English game either, just as a game.