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		<title>the grasshopper and the ants</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/07/21/the-grasshopper-and-the-ants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/07/21/the-grasshopper-and-the-ants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Karenne Sylvester wrote recently about the frequency of blogging, on Janet Bianchini&#8217;s blog it made me think. Initially, I disagreed&#8230; I would rather have an occasional, top quality read than a regular second rate one. But then I realised that some bloggers are delivering frequent, good quality content. Shorter, maybe, but good quality nonetheless. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>untitled film stills &#8211; student as archetype</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/07/17/untitled-film-stills-student-as-archetype/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/07/17/untitled-film-stills-student-as-archetype/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first, a tousled woman peers out of a darkened room into the bright sunlight, martini glass in hand, sunglasses shielding her eyes from the glare, stocking hitched, a bored socialite drenched in ennui. Her children will populate the early Bret Easton Ellis novels of the 1980&#8242;s, deadened by money, neglect and sex. In the next [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>a class with no teacher part two &#8211; feedback and reflection</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/06/04/a-class-with-no-teacher-part-two-feedback-and-reflection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/06/04/a-class-with-no-teacher-part-two-feedback-and-reflection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a week ago I wrote about an experiment in silence with a class, and promised to come back with a report on the students&#8217; reactions. It really was quite enlightening. This is what we all learnt. 1. A particular result may not mean what you think it means Looking back through the many comments [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>JALTCALL 2010 &#8211; What&#8217;s your Motivation?</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/06/02/jaltcall-2010-whats-your-motivation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/06/02/jaltcall-2010-whats-your-motivation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Japan Association of Language Teaching is over thirty years old now, and currently numbers around three-thousand members. One of it&#8217;s larger special interest groups is the CALL sig with an internationally peer-reviewed journal, and last weekend I attended it&#8217;s annual conference.  Paul Lewis, one of the co-chairs and someone with a longstanding involvement with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>parallel learning and video blogging (my first prezi mash-up)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/28/parallel-learning-and-video-blogging-my-first-prezi-mash-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/28/parallel-learning-and-video-blogging-my-first-prezi-mash-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 20:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two workshop prezis from JALTCALL 2010 at Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan, May 29th &#8211; 30th 2010. Parallel Learning: How online teacher development informs classroom practice Video blogging and Podcasting: Interviews with English Language Teaching Professionals As you can imagine, there is a fair bit of overlap between the two sessions, so I chose to use [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>the importance of the expectation of failure in the life of a teacher</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/16/the-importance-of-the-expectation-of-failure-in-the-life-of-a-teacher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/16/the-importance-of-the-expectation-of-failure-in-the-life-of-a-teacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 17:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Huberman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tessa Woodward]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It really isn&#8217;t that hard to learn how to teach. Or should I say, a teacher can be trained to stand in a classroom without making an absolute idiot of themselves within about a week, from a standing start. For something which is only actually relevant for a very small proportion of a teacher&#8217;s career, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>ten blogs</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/29/ten-blogs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/29/ten-blogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[social issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got tagged by Jason at the wonderful English Raven as a part of the &#8220;It&#8217;s worth taking a look at this blog&#8221;  thing which is doing the rounds. It&#8217;s quite a timely initiative, with the ELT blogosphere a little bit tired and emotional recently. Nice to share the love again. Had I decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>sakura</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/08/sakura/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/08/sakura/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cherry blossoms herald the new academic year in Japan. Like the tree itself, I get another year older. But the blossoms, like the students, are always new.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>george does the opposite</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/04/george-does-the-opposite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/04/george-does-the-opposite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.livesofteachers.com/?p=395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may not be in such a slump as poor George Costanza, but why wait? The life of a teacher is characterized by peaks and troughs, by breakthroughs, epiphanies, bad days, difficult classes, critical incidents and culture bumps. But these things are GOOD things, because the worst thing that can possibly happen to a teacher is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>personal learning networks &#8211; the what, why and how</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/20/personal-learning-networks-the-what-why-and-how/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/20/personal-learning-networks-the-what-why-and-how/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personal Learning Networks &#8211; the what, why and how from darren elliott on Vimeo. A presentation at the 4th International Wireless Ready Symposium, Nagoya, February 19th 2010. A good starting point for twitter. I&#8217;ve made a list of ELT professionals and educational technologists worth following&#8230; there are many more out there too, but these might [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>death by PLN &#8211; does the internet matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/01/20/death-by-pln-does-the-internet-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/01/20/death-by-pln-does-the-internet-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s like having an operation,&#8221;  said Treece. &#8220;You don&#8217;t know you&#8217;ve had it until long after it&#8217;s over&#8221; (Eating People is Wrong &#8211; Malcom Bradbury) Isn&#8217;t that true? Aren&#8217;t the best learning experiences the ones which you have time to absorb, reflect [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>one year</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/01/12/one-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/01/12/one-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this for my first year university students, who are taking their final classes with me this week. But it struck me that it fits very well with the reflective / anticipatory turn-of-the-decade feeling in the ELT blogosphere at the moment, so I thought I&#8217;d post it. There are some exercises at the end, and if [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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