Upcoming Conferences
There are a bunch of interesting conferences coming up, both in Japan and overseas. Here are just some of them that I will be attending and presenting at:
Thai TESOL in Chiang Mai (Jan 21-22)
Oxford Kids Tour in Sendai (Feb 6th)
Extensive Reading Seminar in Okayama (Feb 13th)
Oxford Kids Tour in Niigata (Mar 12th)
JALT Pan-Sig Conference in Matsumoto (May 21-22)
Hope to see some old friends and meet some new ones! If all goes to plan I will also be recording and uploading videos of all my presentations.
I’ll keep you posted.
Leaving…
for Chiang Mai tonight, to attend Thai TESOL. It will be my first conference outside of Japan, and I am looking forward to presenting to a completely new crowd.
I’ll be talking about “General English Education in North-East Asia”, based on observations from my visits to universities in Hong Kong and Seoul.
I saw an interesting Youtube mashup of people apologising for not updating their video blogs. The fascinating thing was that everyone, men and women, seven-year-olds and seventy-year-olds, pretty much said exactly the same thing: “I’m sorry I haven’t posted for a while, things have been really busy…”.
I hope to have more for you as we move into 2011.
Happy New Year (get the feeling this is a bit too late, but never mind)
How is your 2011 going so far?
I’m pretty happy, but then again I have only spent a couple of days at work so far, so we’ll see if that continues 🙂
I am hoping to make 2011 the year of balance and focus, to spend less time working but make it count for more.
What are your goals for the next twelve months?
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Annual Review
I’ve been doing an annual review of the year, as well as looking ahead to 2011, and it’s been incredibly useful.
I’ve managed to do both much more, and much less, than I thought. Here is the 30-second report card:
- (A+) presentations and general exposure a big win: I presented a LOT this year, and really enjoyed meeting people at conferences all over Japan. Hoping to continue that next year
- (A) Cambridge English a solid satisfactory: we grew about 50% and greatly improved our programs
- (B) university work went well: my classes need work but are improving
- (B-) I completed all my MA assignments for the year, albeit at the bare minimum level
- (C) I did not write nearly enough, and didn’t manage to finish a couple of really interesting projects
- (D) my work/life balance is still completely out of whack, although I did manage to start watching my diet/exercising
How was your year? More importantly, what can it tell you about how to approach 2011?
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A Christmas ‘Treat’
Merry Christmas! Here is a link from my distant past that you may or may not enjoy (warning: it’s fairly catchy):
http://web.archive.org/web/20051119202358/http://www.human.gr.jp/matu/eigo/uta1/
Created by the very talented Mr. Matsumoto, who also taught me almost everything I know about teaching English in elementary schools.
Tragically my recording career begins and ends with this track.