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Oxford Teaching Workshop in Niigata (March 12th)
I’ll be presenting again as part of the Oxford Teaching Workshop 2011. It’ll be taking place in Niigata, at the Coop City Hanazono, on Saturday March 12th.
The lineup is as follows:
| Saturday, March 12, 2011 | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Registration |
| 10:30-11:20 | Reading in Class: Opening the Door to an English World Ben Shearon |
| 11:40-12:30 | Teaching Ideas to Add Variety and Spice to your Lessons Ritsuko Nakata |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:20 | What you need to know for Shogakko Eigo Katsudo! Setsuko Toyama |
| 15:00 | Doors Close |
I’ll be talking mainly about using the Oxford Reading Tree and other story books in class. Hope to see some of you there!
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The Best Clicky Thing
This is the best clicky thing (computer remote control for powerpoint presentations) I have seen so far. I have one, I love it, and I saw three other people using them at the ER Seminar on Sunday.
If you’re looking for a clicky thing, or you’re a presenter and you don’t have one yet, you could do much worse than buying it online from Amazon (that is an affiliate link, if you don’t want to use it just search for Logicool R-800 on Amazon or online).
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Extensive Reading Seminar 2011
I just got back from the 2011 ER Seminar, held in Okayama this year.
Had a good time, attended some useful presentations, and saw a bunch of great people. The best conference I have been to in a long time. Especially enjoyed the plenaries and Nakano sensei’s presentation. Got some actionable ideas to adopt(steal) for my classes.
Okayama also seemed like a nice place during the very limited time I was there 🙂
Miles Grogan was kind enough to shoot my presentation for me with my iPhone, so I have finally managed to upload one of my presentations to Youtube:
The quality is not great, but you get the idea. Here are the slides:
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Oxford Teaching Workshop and ER Seminar in Okayama
Oxford Teaching Workshop
This morning went very well, thanks to everyone who came along! You can find the powerpoint file in .pdf format below, and I should have the video up once I get it back from the kind folks at OUP.
Next stop is the ER Seminar in Okayama next Sunday, where I’ll be presenting about how to expand an extensive reading program beyond a single class. Hope to see you there!
PDF file below:
Reading in Class Open the Door
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Focus
My life is pretty busy, and to make it worse I tend to get interested in new things and lose interest in things pretty frequently. Focus, or lack of focus, is a big problem for me.
As I mentioned in my report card post I got a lot done last year. While I am pretty happy about that, I also get the feeling a lot of it was quite shallow. Some of it was okay, but not exactly legacy work.
This year will be different. I am going to consciously do less work, but make it count for more. To do more meaningful work, and to say no to more things. I am going to focus.
Wish me luck!