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		<title>an interview with ken wilson</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/11/26/an-interview-with-ken-wilson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was very happy to finally meet Ken Wilson, at the JALT conference in Tokyo last week. Ken gave several presentations, including a fantastic closing plenary. I&#8217;ve seen him speak before, and I can&#8217;t stress this enough &#8211; if you get a chance, get to one of his talks! His theme this time around was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ipad 2 for teachers – a review (part two – dictionaries)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/11/07/ipad-2-for-teachers-%e2%80%93-a-review-part-two-%e2%80%93-dictionaries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/11/07/ipad-2-for-teachers-%e2%80%93-a-review-part-two-%e2%80%93-dictionaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As mobile learning takes off, it&#8217;s inevitable that the big publishers are going to want in on the act. The question is, will they do a good job? Oxford University Press have started fairly gently by adapting existing print products for the iTunes store, and have very kindly gifted me a number of iPad apps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ipad 2 for teachers &#8211; a review (part one &#8211; classroom applications)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/08/19/ipad-2-for-teachers-a-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2011/08/19/ipad-2-for-teachers-a-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I&#8217;ve had my new toy for a couple of months now, enough time to play around with it in various teaching contexts, on a few long and short trips, and in two different countries. I say toy because, if I&#8217;m honest, that is mainly what it is &#8211; I mean, it&#8217;s a luxury item, [...]]]></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>an interview with nicky hockly</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/12/22/an-interview-with-nicky-hockly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/12/22/an-interview-with-nicky-hockly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Interview with Nicky Hockly from darren elliott on Vimeo. I was very happy to talk to Nicky Hockly at the JALT National Conference in Nagoya, Japan in November 2010. She gave a fantastic plenary &#8211; well-paced, useful and pertinent &#8211; and if you get a chance, see her talk! If not, then this fifteen [...]]]></description>
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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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		<title>what teachers want from technology (epic fail)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/07/09/what-teachers-want-from-technology-epic-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/07/09/what-teachers-want-from-technology-epic-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Xtranormal is a site I have championed around the blogosphere before. It allows users to make animated movies by clicking and dragging icons, and converts text to voice in a variety of computer generated accents. If you have time, it is a great way of creating skits with students. We can work on body language, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an interview with larry davies &#8211; organisational structures, educational administration and online learning</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/06/11/an-interview-with-larry-davies-organisational-structures-educational-administration-and-online-learning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/06/11/an-interview-with-larry-davies-organisational-structures-educational-administration-and-online-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download Here I talked to Larry at the JALTCALL conference  in Kyoto about his career, technology, the future of higher education and had a great time! Please enjoy! His presentations, via Prezi, are here&#8230; and worth a look. ] an interview with larry davies from darren elliott on Vimeo. www.livesofteachers.com]]></description>
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		<title>an interview with joy egbert &#8211; engagement, technology and flow</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/06/07/an-interview-with-joy-egbert-engagement-technology-and-flow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/06/07/an-interview-with-joy-egbert-engagement-technology-and-flow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  an interview with joy egbert from darren elliott on Vimeo. Download Here Joy Egbert was in Kyoto, Japan for the 2010 JALTCALL conference and gave the keynote speech on student engagement. In this interview we talked about that, teacher training, creating &#8216;flow&#8217; and &#8216;micro-flow&#8217; situations, and working in limited technology contexts. Joy has a book [...]]]></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>a vast pool of human knowledge, neglected</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/21/a-vast-pool-of-human-knowledge-neglected/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/21/a-vast-pool-of-human-knowledge-neglected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 05:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I very much enjoyed the recent &#8216;ten blogs&#8217; deal doing the blogosphere rounds, and I also love the monthly round ups that Shelly Terrell and Karenne Sylvester (and others) often do, but I got to thinking about all those other blog posts that are going to waste&#8230;. Maybe they appeared before the blog took off. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an interview with hayo reinders (podcast)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/11/an-interview-with-hayo-reinders-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/11/an-interview-with-hayo-reinders-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 05:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download Here This is the audio version of my video interview with Hayo earlier this year. I’m by no means a gamer*, but I was fascinated to hear Hayo address the question ‘Do computer games really contribute to language learning?’ as keynote speaker at the 4th International Wireless Ready Symposium in Nagoya, Japan. The answer? They can, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an interview with barbara hoskins-sakamoto (podcast)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/03/an-interview-with-barbara-hoskins-sakamoto-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/03/an-interview-with-barbara-hoskins-sakamoto-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download here This is a podcast version of the video interview available here. If you have ever taught children, you may well have come across the ‘Let’s Go!‘ series, now on the third edition and a multimedia behemoth! I met with Barbara, one of the authors, at the ETJ Chubu Expo in October 2009 and she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ten blogs</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/29/ten-blogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Coming Soon&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/27/coming-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/27/coming-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have three interviews scheduled for next month, and I am inviting questions. The first interview is at the PanSig conference in Osaka, with Kip Cates. Kip has been active in promoting global issues in language education for many years, and I am looking forward to talking about his work with the Asian Youth Forum, JALT, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what they don&#8217;t tell you about blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/15/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-blogging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/15/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-blogging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too tired to write anything thought provoking or challenging today&#8230; the new semester has started and I am full of the joys of actually TEACHING.. meeting new students, putting into practice all the improvements I&#8217;ve been dreaming up over the last couple of months. I&#8217;ll tell you more when I get time, but for today, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an interview with hayo reinders (computer games and language learning)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/23/an-interview-with-hayo-reinders-computer-games-and-language-learning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/23/an-interview-with-hayo-reinders-computer-games-and-language-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Interview With Hayo Reinders from darren elliott on Vimeo. I&#8217;m by no means a gamer*, but I was fascinated to hear Hayo address the question &#8216;Do computer games really contribute to language learning?&#8217; as keynote speaker at the 4th International Wireless Ready Symposium in Nagoya, Japan. The answer? They can, but&#8230;.. I meant to ask [...]]]></description>
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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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		<title>the uneven spread of technology</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/04/the-uneven-spread-of-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/04/the-uneven-spread-of-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[classroom practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A serious question on twitter this week, which I couldn&#8217;t answer in 140 characters. So, here is the full answer. Don&#8217;t you just love being pigeon-holed? I&#8217;m a gen Xer, who grew up on three kinds of video &#8211; game, nasty and pop. Before me, the baby boomers. And after? Generation Y &#8211; the millennials. Students [...]]]></description>
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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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		<title>choosing the technology that works for you</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/20/choosing-the-technology-that-works-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/20/choosing-the-technology-that-works-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A presentation at the Japan Association of Language Teachers conference in Shizuoka,  21/11/2009. Choosing the technology that works for you! from darren elliott on Vimeo. You can download a copy of the handout here. I&#8217;d love to hear your feedback on the presentation itself or, better, any of the technology you are using. How do you [...]]]></description>
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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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		<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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		<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>
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		<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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