Taking a Reflect Approach
Our class wall Five weeks into the new year and I finally took the plunge to try the Reflect Approach with my E1 group. We’d done some work the week before on countries and nationalities and this...
View ArticleNATECLA
I have known about NATECLA since my early days of teaching in the UK, when I first started working I had a vague awareness that my colleague was on the local committee, NATECLA news and a copy of...
View ArticleEmail updates: LinkedIn
LinkedIn is one of the social media sites that I have an account, spend some time updating my profile and joining groups, but have not really got to grips with. The log in system has always been a bit...
View ArticleBye Bye Posterous
Following the acquisition of the fabulous Posterous Spaces by Twitter in March 2012, they have now announced that the service will close for good as of April 30th. My cathywint online persona grew...
View ArticleAll About Blogging
Wow!! Look at the Tag Cloud created by putting the URL of this blog into tagul.com. I think this just about sums up my professional life. Blogging History I have been blogging for many many year (yikes...
View ArticleA rough and ready post on #learnpod13
I am on a complete high from attending my second unconference today. Thoughts on the day: Things that I knew already: I like to go first. I was the first to pitch and thankfully in the first slot of...
View Articletaking a step back
It has taken me almost a week to be able to get enough of a perspective to be able to sit down and write about my first two weeks of my new 16-18 ESOL. Why? I have struggled to really unpick what has...
View Articlea dash of differentiation & a huge helping of peer support
I had a thoroughly enjoyable 16-18 class this week. Gasp, shock, horror I hear you cry. It’s been such a long time since I posted about my bemusement of the younger age group it’s hard to figure out...
View ArticleiPads: student explorations 2
Feeling inspired from last week’s lesson, I was glad that I had a week to think about how to follow up. The biggest challenge I found in thinking of something was the level of my students and what...
View ArticleFinding My Voice #TDreflex14
I think this has been a timely post for me, as I have been thinking more and more recently about my online identity and how this relates to my professionalism, who ‘owns’ this identity and what it says...
View ArticleGetting Back on the Horse
Hello Blog. It’s been a while. I did the ‘reflection’ class yesterday. In the introduction to the lesson I talked about the struggles that many tutors have with reflective practice. Tutors that say ‘I...
View ArticleMotivation and me: the challenges
I was recently asked ‘Why do you do what you do? Why do you get out of bed every morning?’ Big Questions! But something teachers should continually ask themselves. The IFL’s final survey of teachers...
View ArticleBye Bye Posterous
Following the acquisition of the fabulous Posterous Spaces by Twitter in March 2012, they have now announced that the service will close for good as of April 30th. My cathywint online persona grew...
View ArticleAll About Blogging
Wow!! Look at the Tag Cloud created by putting the URL of this blog into tagul.com. I think this just about sums up my professional life. Blogging History I have been blogging for many many year (yikes...
View ArticleA rough and ready post on #learnpod13
I am on a complete high from attending my second unconference today. Thoughts on the day: Things that I knew already: I like to go first. I was the first to pitch and thankfully in the first slot of...
View ArticleEmail updates: LinkedIn
LinkedIn is one of the social media sites that I have an account, spend some time updating my profile and joining groups, but have not really got to grips with. The log in system has always been a bit...
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