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Flaming Pig
Originally uploaded by doc18.
2007 is the year of the fire pig. Fire is the element of passion, adventure, and restless energy. People born in the year of the pig are said to have honest, trustworthy, and straightforward characters. May this New Year inspire us to make bold, dynamic changes grounded in honesty and inner [...]
Gosh, my feed hasn’t been working in Bloglines all week. I guess this happens to most people at some point, but mentally it feels like someone has put a silencer on this blog. I suppose that’s a good thing, for a while anyway. If you are reading this in Bloglines, the connection has obviously been [...]
I’ve been advocating the use of read/write web in my EFL classrooms for three years now. Ironically, I have done little toward applying the same approach in my own language learning attempts. Although I’ve been in Japan for more than six years now, my Japanese still sucks. One of my New Years resolutions was to [...]
I finally joined all my students by getting rid of my old, beat-up dinosaur telephone and buying a new one from Vodafone. It connects to the internet and has a 3.2 megapixel camera that does video and sound, which will be useful for communicating on the read/write web. I’m looking forward [...]
Happy New Year to All! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas with me.
今年もよろしくお願いします。
I’ve felt the need for silence over the past few months, and have decided to slowly start posting here again. I want to thank everyone who contributed comments to my last several posts, the content of which I plan to revisit again soon, especially now that I’ve had several months to reflect.
Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, is named using the Thai words ‘thamma’ and ’sat’. Like many words in the Thai language, they derive from their Pali and Sanskrit ancestors. ‘Thamma’, like the Pali ‘dhamma’ and Sanskrit ‘dharma’, roughly translates as ‘truth’, ‘doctrine of truth’, or ‘way of truth’. In Sanskrit, ‘Sat’ [...]
I have moved my blogging activities on this site over to http://e-poche.net, a new domain hosted at Incsub.org. This will be my last post on this site. Please update your RSS feed subcription to the new address:
http://e-poche.net/?feed=rss2
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Anne Davis is set to have
brain surgery later today. I am praying for a successful
procedure and a fast recovery. I have learned so much from her
over the past several years, for her work has had a profound influence
on my practice and undoubtedly on others in the educational
blogosphere. Nothing will make me happier than to read [...]
The beginning of the semester has just about killed me. Being short-staffed, teaching the two-week intensive ’survival Japanese’ course - while creating homework, tests, and quizzes for it, coordinating the area studies, giving feedback on the dozens of papers already submitted, answering students questions, dealing with administrative difficulties, and trouble-shooting the computers and printers [...]
I spent a much needed week of rest in Bali last month with my family - highly recommended for those looking for a SE Asian escape. Here are a handful of pics.
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Well, after years of relative dissatisfaction and frustration with Windows, I’ve finally made the move to Macintosh. The final impetus came Friday when my entire OS fell apart and rendered my access moot. As most of my colleagues will be happy to hear, I now am the proud owner of a 20″ iMac [...]