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		<title>Organising Class Material with Evernote &#8211; ELT Library January Blog Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d been thinking about writing a post on Evernote and a couple of other web tools that I&#8217;ve been using lately when I came across the ESL Library January blog challenge, which is about how teachers use bookmarking tools. So, here&#8217;s short post on how I&#8217;ve been using Evernote to organise content for some classes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishteachermexico.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8247215&amp;post=519&amp;subd=englishteachermexico&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I mentioned reading some great posts on Dogme and materials-light teaching (for Dogme teaching in a nutshell, see Oli Beddal&#8217;s post, here). While reading, one comment caught my attention &#8211; a comment in which a teacher talked about how he frequently uses variations of the game, 2 Truths and 1 Lie, in class, not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishteachermexico.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8247215&amp;post=487&amp;subd=englishteachermexico&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My advanced level students seemed surprised yesterday when I corrected their mispronunciation of the words figure and feature by referring to the pronunciation of bigger and teacher. Of course, negative transfer from the L1 means that Spanish speakers tend to pronounce words as they are written and thus pronounce the u in the final syllable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishteachermexico.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8247215&amp;post=460&amp;subd=englishteachermexico&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In The Spirit of Dogme: 4, 3, 2 Presentations and Other Gems</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve enjoyed reading various blogs / blog posts on putting Dogme or materials light teaching into practice in the ELT classroom. See the excellent An Experiment with Dogme, ELT Reflections, and Language Moments, for example. As Thornbury writes in his A to Z blog, Dogme is all about &#8220;teaching that focuses on emergent language.&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishteachermexico.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8247215&amp;post=434&amp;subd=englishteachermexico&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blended Learning &#8211; The Best or Worst of Both Worlds?</title>
		<link>http://englishteachermexico.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/blended-learning-the-best-or-worst-of-both-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is you experience of blended learning<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishteachermexico.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8247215&amp;post=429&amp;subd=englishteachermexico&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching with Technology</title>
		<link>http://englishteachermexico.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/520/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made 3 very short screencasts about 3 online tools that you could work with in the classroom. The first one is the Corpus of Contemporary American English. This is searchable database of thousands of texts which gives useful info about word frequency and collocation patterns. Watch the video here: The second screencast is about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishteachermexico.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8247215&amp;post=520&amp;subd=englishteachermexico&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raw TEFL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I was reading here about how Kanye West has started using Twitter so that he can connect with his fans directly (or, in his words “raw”), without having to go through his manager, publicists, record company etc. Many celebrities have been doing this for some time in order to stay in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishteachermexico.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8247215&amp;post=531&amp;subd=englishteachermexico&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kubbu &#8211; a fantastic free e-learning tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran a workshop at MEXTESOL 2009 titled (not by me, in my absence, and without my knowing) Continuous Assessment and Technology. My objective was to share some free, user friendly internet tools that I have been using with my students and to show how teachers might be able to use them as an additional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishteachermexico.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8247215&amp;post=390&amp;subd=englishteachermexico&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MEXTESOL: A Prestigious Academic Event</title>
		<link>http://englishteachermexico.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/mextesol-a-prestigious-academic-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This picture pretty much sums up my MEXTESOL.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishteachermexico.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8247215&amp;post=379&amp;subd=englishteachermexico&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve learned at MEXTESOL 2009 in Monterrey</title>
		<link>http://englishteachermexico.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/what-ive-learned-at-mextesol-2009-in-monterrey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things I learned at MEXTESOL&#8230;.well, I had this amazing idea of writing daily blog posts from the MEXTESOL conference in Monterrey as I honestly thought I&#8217;d be able to catch at least a couple of talks and workshops eventhough I&#8217;m here manning the stand. My thinking was that hardly anyone will come to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishteachermexico.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8247215&amp;post=369&amp;subd=englishteachermexico&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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