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Stop, Thief! How To Deter People From Copying Your Blog Content

April 17, 2012

<![CDATA[ The discussion started on this blog with my “Dear Plagiarist” post, continued, rather heatedly, on Facebook, then was picked up by Sue Lyon Jones’ article on plagiarism on Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto’s Teaching Village blog where she explained some of the basics of the law related to this issue. Today, Sue picks up the topic again and…
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Dear Plagiarist

April 8, 2012

<![CDATA[Sue Lyon Jones, alias @esolcourses, who maintains a free website for learning English called ESOL Courses, Free Lessons Online, put up the following status update on Facebook which touches upon this important subject. Read the update and Lindsay Clanfield’s (@lclanfield) story which follows. Lindsay’s story is sweet vindication of what plagues our profession – a…
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#ELTchat Nominated for an ELTons Award!!! Don't miss our Symposium today!

March 22, 2012

<![CDATA[Did you miss us today (Wednesday)? We know some of you turned up for lunchtime chat. Sorry we’re all at IATEFL enjoying the conference and getting ready for our symposium toDAY!!!!!!. We’d love you to join us online. We’ll be holding an #eltchat from 15.50 to 18.20 GMT on the topic of social networking and…
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H Φιλοσοφία του "Μοιράζομαι" – Οι δικές μας ευθύνες

February 11, 2012

Φοβάμαι ότι η φιλοσοφία του ‘μοιράζομαι’ απουσιάζει από πολλούς εκπαιδευτικούς. Ετσι λοιπόν σκεπτόμενοι, αντί να παράγουμε πολίτες με κοινωνική συνείδηση, τους περάσαμε το μήνυμα ότι καλό είναι ότι ξέρεις να το κρατάς για τον εαυτό σου, μήπως σου κλέψουν την ιδέα ότι έχεις, κράτα το για τον εαυτό σου – μη δίνεις τίποτε και σε…
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What steps are part of the process of designing a syllabus? What knowledge & skills do teachers need?

February 6, 2012

Summary of #ELTchat on January 25th 2012, 21.00 P.M. GMT By Toula Sklavou/@toulasklavou I recently completed and passed my Delta Module 3 assignment which involved designing a syllabus for a one-to-one exam prep course, so I felt that I would be able to contribute to this #ELTchat in a positive way and share my research…
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Making a Machinima in Second Life – in 19 Steps

January 14, 2012

<![CDATA[For the next few weeks I will be working and helping moderate the MachinEVO course in Second Life, one of the TESOL EVO courses. We are all hoping to learn how to record Second Life and to create recordings which will be useful to our language learners. There are already more than 110 participants on…
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How to make things fall apart – A behaviour model for creating incompetence

December 22, 2011

<![CDATA[This post was originally written in 2009 on this blog which was very very new and had very few readers. I have updated it with two videos of a Pecha Kucha which was inspired by it and you will find them at the end of the post. Both post & original talk and PK’s are…
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P is for Politeness in Conversational English – a Discourse Perspective

December 11, 2011

<![CDATA[Many teachers who have had the opportunity to read discourse analysis either at University or on a PD course such as the Cambridge DELTA, express great interest in this way of studying connected text or talk, but just as many find it hard to incorporate it into their teaching; apart from an occasional lesson focusing…
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My Nominations for the Edublogs Awards 2011 – #eddies11

December 2, 2011

<![CDATA[ I still remember how much I enjoyed being nominated for some of the awards as a new blogger and tweeter in 2009 and how much this encouraged me to keep blogging and to try to keep getting better. Some people may still think these nominations have no value – well, they do; it’s our…
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