The success

Finally the efforts they put for their studies rewarded them. Congratulations to my students who have just recieved their Master Degree in TESL. I'm glad I was there in the party to celebrate their success. I don't think I have to say much. Their pictures will paint more than what I can say.

Moreover, there're special performances that I've never expected to see from these people. They're much more talented than I could think of.

Anyway some graduates didn't attend the party but came to take some photos with me later in my office.

This was the place where James commuted many times while he was working on his Individual Studies. For my current students in TESL, I hope I'll post another entry like this again to talk about your success in my blog in the near future.

Thai Life through the lens

I've got a link to some beautiful photoes of Thailand that I think they're quite interesting. I don't want to keep it for my own use, so here I share the link with you. Please make sure you turn your speaker on when you see this. You'll hear some opinion about my country from the photographer. For those who just arrive, it may give you some idea about the country you're going to stay for a while until you finish your studies.

Here it is: http://www.photographythailand.com/Galleries/Audio/navbar.html

enjoy

Free articles on line

I've found some articles on line that may be useful for our courses. Before I forget, I'd like to share with you all these links to those articles.

About Chomsky and you can also link to other texts related: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/chomsky.htm

English language learning and teaching:
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/index.html

Also there're some demonstration teachings on some methods that we didn't have a real presentation

Suggestopedia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXaRZQmtwSY

Silent way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshhHFWwukM&feature=related

Total Physical Response (TPR)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZY6XpB214&feature=related

PowerPoint Presentation

In class on Jan. 9, I talked about a presentation in Youtube.com that I'd like you to see. Its name is Death by PowerPoint. I thought you'd find something useful for your individual presentatation next time. Well, I checked and found that there are more than one Death by PowerPoint in YouTube.com. I'd like you to see this one. Please follow the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFfFQ9XU7Jw

To give you more information about PowerPoint, I also put 2 more links on your left column. One leads you to a lot of free PowerPoint templates, and the other is a talk by an expert about reading from the PowerPoint slides. And to make it easier for us to reach this link whenever we feel like, I put this link on the left column too.

After you see these presentations, I hope you can get the ideas about what to do next time.

I can't wait to see your next performance.