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		<title>an interview with keith johnson</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/11/28/an-interview-with-keith-johnson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I very much enjoyed meeting Keith Johnson at the JALT conference in Tokyo last week. We discussed a few aspects of what adds up to a very distinguished career in language teaching. More recently, Professor Johnson has focussed on expertise studies, wrestling with the difficult question of what makes an expert teacher&#8230;. and you might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>realizing autonomy conference update</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/10/07/realizing-autonomy-conference-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/10/07/realizing-autonomy-conference-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With only three weeks to go, the excitement is rising for the Realizing Autonomy conference to be held at Nanzan University in Nagoya on October 29th. The website for the conference (and the accompanying book) is constantly evolving, so keep your eyes on it. Part of the reason I am writing here today is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>one step back, two steps forward</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/06/10/one-step-back-two-steps-forward/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/06/10/one-step-back-two-steps-forward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[classroom practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t read Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s book Outliers, but I have heard enough about it to feel as if I have. The handy little factoid that is most quoted is the 10,000 hours rule; basically, that it takes 10,000 hours of hard practice to master achieve mastery of one&#8217;s given discipline.  What constitutes mastery, or practice for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>personal learning networks &#8211; the what, why and how (existential crisis remix for #plek12)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/02/15/personal-learning-networks-the-what-why-and-how-existential-crisis-remix-for-plek12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/02/15/personal-learning-networks-the-what-why-and-how-existential-crisis-remix-for-plek12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently started a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with the University of Florida. It&#8217;s free, open access, and for me non-credit. The first &#8216;assignment&#8217; is to write about why you are taking the course and what you expect to gain from it. One simple and practical answer is that I want to find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>intercultural training for pre-service teachers &#8211; a favour</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/02/04/intercultural-training-for-pre-service-teachers-a-favour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/02/04/intercultural-training-for-pre-service-teachers-a-favour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 04:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Searching the Cambridge CELTA syllabus for &#8216;culture&#8217;, I discover the following. Unit 1 – Learners and teachers and the teaching and learning context 1.1 Cultural, linguistic and educational backgrounds Demonstrate an understanding of the range of backgrounds and experiences that adult learners bring to their classes A quick scoot around the Trinity CertTESOL site yields similar results&#8230;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>new year, new projects</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/12/28/new-year-new-projects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/12/28/new-year-new-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 04:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(hatsuhinode &#8211; the first sunrise of the new year) The Winter holiday is a time above all to reflect on what has been and plan for what might be. Aside from what goes on in the classroom, I have a few things coming up in the year ahead. On the evening of January 14th I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>six things you should say in the staff room (if you want to get ahead)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/12/10/six-things-you-should-say-in-the-staff-room-if-you-want-to-get-ahead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/12/10/six-things-you-should-say-in-the-staff-room-if-you-want-to-get-ahead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now Lindsay is retiring his blog, we can safely plunder its fantastic format. I suppose it would be more respectful to wait until after the official date, but frankly I&#8217;ve been sitting on this one for a while and it&#8217;s Friday afternoon&#8230;. I feel like starting a meme. Here is my &#8216;something for the weekend&#8217;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>religious fervour and pedagogical evangelism</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/11/26/religious-fervour-and-pedagogical-evangelism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/11/26/religious-fervour-and-pedagogical-evangelism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(My contribution to the ＃dogmeme, with advance apologies to Karenne Sylvester) Teachers have a lot of people telling them what to teach, and how to teach it. Governments looking for cheap votes. Parents who want to abdicate themselves from the responsibility of raising their own children. Administrators who need to hit targets, meet budgets and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>questions i&#8217;m no longer asking</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/11/16/questions-im-no-longer-asking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/11/16/questions-im-no-longer-asking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Siemens&#8217; recent post on this topic was a thought provoking one. I am not a man who holds particularly firm convictions (if you were feeling uncharitable you might call me a flip-flopper, but I prefer to say I am open minded). I don&#8217;t think Siemens is suggesting that these questions should be locked away [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>culture and the language teacher</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/11/05/culture-and-the-language-teacher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/11/05/culture-and-the-language-teacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Written as a NEST, working in a foreign country, but hopefully of interest to all) How did you learn cultural awareness? Assuming you did, of course&#8230;. For an industry which pitches different cultures together with such force and frequency as ELT, there is very little teacher training devoted to cross-cultural communication. On the CELTA? Sorry, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>watch yourself &#8211; digital video recording in language education</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/09/29/watch-yourself-digital-video-recording-in-language-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/09/29/watch-yourself-digital-video-recording-in-language-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presented at the Chubu Junior and Senior High School Seminar 2010 First of all, a guide to the five kinds of digital camera I discussed. The &#8216;traditional&#8217; camcorder, the pocket camcorder, the mobile phone, the digital camera, and the webcam. A Field Guide to Digital Video from darren elliott on Vimeo. Then a digital video [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>collaborate to motivate #chubu26</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/09/27/collaborate-to-motivate-chubu26/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/09/27/collaborate-to-motivate-chubu26/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were at the event on Sunday and are coming to look for the supplements on my presentation about digital video, please hold tight! I&#8217;m hoping to upload the checklist, some activities, worksheets, link, videos and a bibliography in the next couple of days. While you are here, if this is your first visit, have a look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what teachers can learn from stand-up comedy</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/09/13/what-teachers-can-learn-from-stand-up-comedy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/09/13/what-teachers-can-learn-from-stand-up-comedy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not talking about how to get a laugh (although it&#8217;s always a pleasure). No, but I&#8217;ve been listening to some great interviews with comedians recently, and what struck me was the way in which they talk about honing their craft, succeeding, failing and getting better. They could easily be talking about teaching. I particularly [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teacher Training for Complete Novices</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/09/10/teacher-training-for-complete-novices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/09/10/teacher-training-for-complete-novices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think the hiring practices of English conversation schools in Japan are unique. If I were feeling charitable, I might suggest that such schools are looking for character and potential in their hires&#8230; presentable young men and women, native speakers, who can get along with others. And to be fair, people like that can [...]]]></description>
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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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		<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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		<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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		<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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		<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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		<title>what gives you the right to call yourself an english teacher?</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/22/what-gives-you-the-right-to-call-yourself-an-english-teacher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/22/what-gives-you-the-right-to-call-yourself-an-english-teacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[teacher development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher beliefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two days after I first arrived in Japan, on my first day of a week-long training period, I was awarded the title sensei. You are probably familiar with the word, which is usually loosely translated as teacher in English. In Japanese, it can be used to refer to any professional or expert in a particular field. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>comfortable shoes, no powerpoint, free coffee and a good plenary</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/18/comfortable-shoes-no-powerpoint-free-coffee-and-a-good-plenary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/18/comfortable-shoes-no-powerpoint-free-coffee-and-a-good-plenary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[teacher development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conferences]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Teacher Development Series Number Two &#8211; Attendance of professional workshops, lectures and conferences) When I asked &#8216;How do you learn to teach?&#8217; this was another of the popular choices, at about 20% of the popular vote. People love a good conference! As IATEFL is fast approaching, I thought it was an appropriate time to tackle [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>i was looking back to see if she was looking back to see if he was looking back at me</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/10/i-was-looking-back-to-see-if-she-was-looking-back-to-see-if-he-was-looking-back-at-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/10/i-was-looking-back-to-see-if-she-was-looking-back-to-see-if-he-was-looking-back-at-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[teacher development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DELTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[observation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Wajnryb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ (Teacher Development Series Number One &#8211; Classroom Observation ) This is the first in a series, inspired by this originally off-the-cuff, just-for-fun poll, looking at teacher development techniques the old-fashioned way&#8230; teacher development unplugged, if you like As much as I love my on-line Personal Learning Network, it is only a part of how manage [...]]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[classroom practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher beliefs]]></category>

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		<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>poll &#8211; how do you learn to teach?</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/26/poll-how-do-you-learn-to-teach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/26/poll-how-do-you-learn-to-teach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[teacher development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poll]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Testing the poll function here before I try it with a class) Are our Personal Learning Network&#8217;s becoming lopsided? Are we limiting ourselves by assuming all professional development needs to be technologically mediated? Are on-line networks better, worse, or just different to those we develop off-line? In the pre-internet world, which I know many of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</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>
				<category><![CDATA[reflection]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>
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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>11</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>
				<category><![CDATA[reflection]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[reflection]]></category>
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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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		<title>an interview with scott thornbury</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/23/an-interview-with-scott-thornbury/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/23/an-interview-with-scott-thornbury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[grammar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scott Thornbury]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Interview with Scott Thornbury from darren elliott on Vimeo. Scott was giving a plenary at the Japan Association of Language Teachers national conference in Shizuoka this weekend, as well as a couple of presentations, but was kind enough to spare me half an hour or so for a chat. We talked a grammar, Vygotsky [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>the illiterate teacher</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/11/the-illiterate-teacher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/11/the-illiterate-teacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[teacher development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make. My Japanese is pretty crappy. There, I&#8217;ve said it. I mean, I can read a menu. I can figure out what&#8217;s going on when I watch a movie or join a conversation about everyday topics. I can go shopping and get around. And in my defence, Japanese has three [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>six free online journals for language / technology oriented educators</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/23/six-free-online-journals-for-language-technology-oriented-educators/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/23/six-free-online-journals-for-language-technology-oriented-educators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[teacher development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extensive reading]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t set out to rip off Lindsay Clandfield&#8217;s excellent blog gimmick, but it turned out that the number of free online journals I like is six! First up is elearn magazine, collecting papers on learning with technology (mainly) for educators in tertiary education. The journal has been going for a few years now, and still has [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>an interview with barbara hoskins-sakamoto</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/18/an-interview-with-barbara-hoskins-sakamoto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/18/an-interview-with-barbara-hoskins-sakamoto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Hoskins-Sakamoto]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.livesofteachers.com/?p=122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Hoskins-Sakamoto Interview from darren elliott on Vimeo. Barbara is an EFL materials writer, teacher and teacher trainer working mainly with children in Japan. This interview was conducted for the lives of teachers website at http://www.livesofteachers.com/ If you have ever taught children, you may well have come across the &#8216;Let&#8217;s Go!&#8216; series, now on the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>the reluctant tweetist</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/04/the-reluctant-tweetist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/04/the-reluctant-tweetist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[teacher development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[marc prensky]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.livesofteachers.com/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure where I sit in the whole digital native / digital immigrant scheme of things.  I am old enough to remember my parents having a serious discussion about betamax and VHS video. And when the VHS arrived (my father would point to his prescience) it was linked to a &#8216;remote&#8217; control by an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>the land of do as you please</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/09/20/the-land-of-do-as-you-please/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/09/20/the-land-of-do-as-you-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[classroom practice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dogme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L1 vs. L2]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are all the debates about the best way to teach driven by the needs of individual teachers? For example, if a particular teacher can&#8217;t get out of bed in the morning, thinks youtube is an emergency plumbing service, and is fluent in the learners&#8217; L1, what are the odds that the class instructions will be [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>blogging on blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/09/19/blogging-on-blogging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/09/19/blogging-on-blogging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[learner autonomy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems somewhat solipsistic to write my first post about other blogs I&#8217;ve kept, but I suppose to some extent all blogs are exercises in solopsism, so here goes nothing&#8230;. My first blog was an attempt to set up an online teacher development group. I tried far too hard with all the wrong things (using [...]]]></description>
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