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This year’s Blog Action Day theme is “water.” If you are reading my blog in Japan, you’ll notice that the date has actually passed, but thanks to the beauty of time zones, it’s still October 15th somewhere. I couldn’t pass up a chance to talk about water, and the difference it can make for education. [...]
Ohisashiburi! That’s a Japanese greeting for when greeting friends after a long absence, and I certainly have been gone a long time! Where I’ve been…. I actually planned on unplugging for a little while this summer. My daughter was home from college and I wanted time with her. Then, we went to Maui, and most [...]
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Teaching Village has been nominated for another award! This time, it’s as one of the Lexiophiles’ Top 100 Language Teaching Blogs. This is the post where I would normally thank them for the award and give credit to my guest authors, who are largely responsible for any recognition Teaching Village receives. However, I just did [...]
This post is in response to Shelly Terrell’s wonderful blogging challenge, Lessons Learned From Great Eductators. She tagged other teachers to share stories about teachers who influenced them, and I’ve been enjoying reading those posts (you can find links to the response posts in the comments at the bottom of Shelly’s original post). I sort [...]
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“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.” Abraham Lincoln I started blogging to explore a belief that “we are stronger, better teachers when we work together, share our knowledge, and connect with others.” I’m only marginally better at the tech stuff now than I was at the start, [...]
I have a confession to make. As I get older, my learning style more and more resembles an eight-year old boy’s. You know, push buttons until something works. That, coupled with my determination to maintain a beginner mentality by trying new things, keeps me solidly on a learning curve for something or other. Share the [...]
One of my favorite walking routes takes me near the neighborhood elementary school. Last week, as I passed a young girl, I heard her question (in Japanese), “An English person?” I turned and explained that while I spoke English, I was American. Turns out that I was the first foreign person she’d had a chance to [...]
I know just enough Japanese and Spanish to get myself in trouble online. Sometimes, I practice my language skills by surfing the web, looking for education blogs or articles in my weak languages. Finding them isn’t that hard. Navigating from the first page is where I get into trouble. There’s a visual aspect to web literacy that I [...]
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