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Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
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
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso
KOTESOL 2007 - call for papers
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24% (6)I recieved an email yesterday calling for papers to present at the 2007 KOTESOL conference. While I’m positive that I’ll be attending, I can’t quite plan that far ahead to have a presentation abstract ready. The deadline has moved from June to March 2nd. I’ve added a poll to this entry, please vote. The email and details are in the extended entry.
Dear KOTESOL friends,
The 2007 KOTESOL International Conference will take place October 27 and 28 at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul. As a past presenter, you may be interested in submitting a proposal for the 2007 Conference. It is worth noting that the deadline for proposals is March 2, 2007. This is much earlier than in previous years and is quickly approaching.
More information about the conference is available on the KOTESOL web site. http://www.kotesol.org/
The automated online form for submitting proposals is not yet live, but will be shortly. If you have any questions, please contact Donald Rikley, Program Chair.
Apologies for any cross posting and duplicate email notices.
Thanks. I hope to see you at the Conference.
Best wishes,
Jake Kimball
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Jan 25, 2007 at 03:16 PM
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DianeN wrote 244 words on Monday Jan 29, 2007 at 06:36 AM
Hi ,
Remember me? The Muddled Moodler of a few years ago that visited you in Korea. Just by chance I found that your blog did not disappear...and to my delight it is back! That’s really great, because I always enjoyed reading about the EFL teaching experience in Korea.
Anyway, I am currently in Australia--have been here since Sept. on a sabbatical from work and finishing up the course work at Macquarie University on the Doctorate of Applied Linguistics program. I’m just now getting into the research component--and I’ve decided to research Japanese new (less than 5 years experience) college teacher identity. So far--just putting together the questionnaire and doing the library research.
I wrote a paper on Moodling that will be published by JALT sometime in the not too distant future, though it is currently on the web as a part of the proceedings of the 2005 conference. If you want, I can send it to you later.
I’d still be interested--sometime in the future, when my sabbatical is behind me--to set up some sort of moodle writing exchange between our students. The one that I did earlier with a colleague fizzled out before it even got a chance to start...mostly because of poor planning on our part, and also because the students didn’t think it was particualrly useful to write to other Japanese college students in English. The cultural exchange would be much more interesting.
Anyway...just wanted to say hi.
I
Diane
Sean. wrote 39 words on Monday Jan 29, 2007 at 08:17 AM
Diane,
Of course I’d be interested assuming we can coordinate it. For the record Tim is also at Macquarie right now finishing his dissertation, I’m sure if you ask around you’ll be able to get in touch with him.