The Dekita Orchard makes its debut today on Dekita.org. It’s purpose is to aggregate and display syndicated content from EFL/ESL learners participating in the live Web as part of their coursework. Take a guided tour to learn more.
We hope that the Orchard will make it easier for educators and other learners to follow [...]
EFL Geek recently started a wiki called ESL and EFL wiki. Other than Tom’s Famous Personages Project, the wiki for the EVO 2005 course on Blogs in EFL/ESL, and a Webheads wiki, I wonder what other wikis in the field of English Langauge Teaching exist? Because it has been a year since [...]
Hosted by educator Barbara Dieu of Brazil, Blogstreams Salon is a monthly informal chat on topics related to blogging, podcasting, vodcasting, social networking tools, education, etc. On June 4th, the guest is Josie Fraser, a U.K. based educational technologist, who will be discussing blog.ac.uk, the first U.K. educational blogging conference that she is co-organizing. Since [...]
Daniel Mangrum, an English teacher in the U.A.E., has been working hard to get a blog carnival going on the theme of English language teaching, called The Carnival of English Language Teaching (CELT). The idea is that each month, a different person interested in the theme will host the carnival on his or her weblog. [...]
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Internet English is a one-credit, one-semester elective EFL course for students at Kyoto Sangyo University, running from April through mid-July 2006. The purpose of the course is to provide students with the experience of interacting/conversing with people from around the world in English, while simultaneously learning how to communicate on the open Web. Students [...]
Cleve points us to the World Citizens Guide, put together “by students for students to use when going abroad.” With all the anti-American sentiment in the world today, first time travelers would be wise to read the downloadable document and follow the advice within.
Here in Japan, cleanliness, politeness, non-confrontation, and non-expression of negative emotion are [...]