I've long given one piece of advice that I think seldom gets voiced often by teachers or teacher trainers - at the end of a lesson or day with students, ask just one thing,

"Are you happy?"

And I get the students to say they are happy. Doesn't matter if they are happy or not -…

** Not your ordinary, endless list - just what's number 1.

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I can't tell you how often I've dipped into this site and benefited, been refreshed! It is a wealth of material to help teachers develop and…

** Not your ordinary, endless list - just what's number 1.

I created a FB account a few years ago, but never got into it. My daughter bugged me to get back on so we could play scrabble. I like to play scrabble with Adele in person, but boy, is it slow online! After about three turns she told me, so the idea mom is to get several games going, so when you get online you always have a turn to play. Ohhhh.

It's fun, low commitment, and I just put my scrabble game on my toolbar so I don't really have to sign into FB to take my…

The age of twitter and FB stimulation, is upon us. Brevity and quickness - the instant. Nobody takes "the time" any more. It's all about me or more to the point, "give me". 

Talked with someone while testing my conference rooms this morning. He mentioned my blog posts are too long. I responded by half…

Yes, that's right! Finally this is a feature and easy to do with all our flashcard sets. 

Makes it very easy for you to share the hundreds of our flashcard sets with your students on a school page, public page or wiki.   You can even embed the learning games (Scatter).Here's an example.

Here's how it works.

1. Go to a flashcard…

I really believe in the power of faith. Long ago, I remember reading C.S. Lewis' poignant, "The Problem with Pain" and noting his wonderful philosophy of simply acting as if something were true. That if we pretend the world is so, it might just become so....



So since the new year is upon us, I'd like to share my faith with you - by making 3 wishes for English language teaching. 3 things I wish would happen in the new year or even right away. After mine - it's your turn.…

We are all on a budget and the educational institutions are in a very tight pinch. Voicethread pulled the Ning connection for a business model they thought best. I want to introduce Big Marker: 

About BigMarker.com

BigMarker provides fully-featured web conferencing solution for free to everyone. Here you can host web conferences with friends, family or colleagues, teach online training seminars to students, practice presentation skills, or broadcast events in…

Here you are, one of my  Bill Maher's favourite talks in his late night show. I have used to add captions a very easy and free tool called Universal…

Google docs is okay but there is no better place than iEtherpad.  They recently took over the public etherpad code when Etherpad was bought out by google (still awaiting what google is going to do with this…