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The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
CHAT: an intro to podcasting
Bee and Graham have both made announcements of the special Blogstreams Salon Session on Sunday June 19th at 21:00 GMT (that should technically be UTC Universal Time Coordinated).
I know that I previosly stated that I wasn’t going to podcast, but that doesn’t mean I’m not interested or won’t change my mind in the future. I think podcasting for students has benefits, if you can get your students interested and involved. Not everyone has an mp3 player or wants to sit in front of the computer to listen to podcasts. Anyhow, if I can I will participate in thier chat. All I need to do now, is find the world clock so I can figure out what day/time that is in Korea. Thier abstract is in the extended entry.
A special Blogstreams Salon Session (Tappedin ASO*) on Sunday June 19th at 21:00 GMT.
This week, Barcelona-based teacher GRAHAM STANLEY will share with us his enthusiasm for podcasting, a new way of delivering audio content to students and other teachers that is growing more and more popular every month.
A member of the new TEFL podcasting forum, Graham has just started experimenting with podcasts, but hopes to transmit his excitement about podcasting to other teachers. Why should you become involved in podcasting for your students? What is the difference between a podcast and a webcast? How can you start podcasting?
In preparation for the session, Graham would like participants to send short audio comments and questions to him at . These questions and comments will be edited into a podcast which will form part of the future Blogstreams Salon session.The presentation is free and open to interested EFL/ESL teachers and bloggers.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday Jun 15, 2005 at 09:13 AM
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Graham Stanley wrote 67 words on Wednesday Jun 15, 2005 at 05:11 PM
Hi! Thanks for the promo for my chat - I’m hoping to get more audio comments and questions from people to put together a pre-chat (or post-chat) podcast, so it would be great if people could please send something. Even if you’re not going to be able to take part in the chat (the podcast will be available from Saturday hopefully - It’s half done)
Thanks again