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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>
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		<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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		<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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		<category><![CDATA[Cindy Sherman]]></category>
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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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		<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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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[classroom practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learner autonomy]]></category>
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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>an interview with kip cates &#8211; global education and language teaching</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/27/an-interview-with-kip-cates-global-education-and-language-teaching/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/27/an-interview-with-kip-cates-global-education-and-language-teaching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 20:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[download here an interview with kip cates from darren elliott on Vimeo. Kip Cates is an English teacher based in Japan but with an interest in collaborating with teachers and learners across Asia and the rest of the world. Just over twenty years ago, he founded the Global Issues in Language Education (GILE) SIG in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a class with no teacher</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/25/a-class-with-no-teacher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/05/25/a-class-with-no-teacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 07:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read and enjoyed Jason Renshaw&#8217;s post about teacher silence in class, and thought I&#8217;d try it out myself. I have a class of students who are all very smart and engaging young people, but perhaps a little too relaxed. Most of them know enough English to do what they want to do&#8230;. which [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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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>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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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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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>
		<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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		<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>metaphors for teaching &#8211; the teacher as geisha</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/23/metaphors-for-teaching-the-teacher-as-geisha/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/23/metaphors-for-teaching-the-teacher-as-geisha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a classic symbol of Japan, and a dying breed, the geisha is a skilled practitioner of her art. She is elegant, highly trained. Unfortunately, this is not the parallel I am going to draw between &#8216;Geisha&#8217; and &#8216;Teacher&#8217;. Let&#8217;s skip ahead to the modern era. There are now said to be about 2000 professional [...]]]></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>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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		<title>the collaborative lesson plan project &#8211; fork handles</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/04/the-collaborative-lesson-plan-project-fork-handles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/04/04/the-collaborative-lesson-plan-project-fork-handles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[classroom practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To paraphrase David Letterman, the teacher switch has no off position. Everything is fair game&#8230; newspapers, in-flight magazines, menus, tv commercials&#8230; all squirrelled away with the thought &#8220;Hmmmm, I can use that!&#8221; I had just such a moment yesterday, meandering through youtube. But as I tucked it away, I had another thought&#8230; why not get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an interview with jennifer jenkins (podcast)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/31/an-interview-with-jennifer-jenkins-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/31/an-interview-with-jennifer-jenkins-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English as Lingua Franca]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download Here I talked to Professor Jennifer Jenkins about English as Lingua Franca, what it is and what it means to us as teachers. As usual, a google scholar search turns up quite a lot of good reading in this area, but I would recommend this short article as a good starting point. Barbara Seidlhofer&#8217;s [...]]]></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>
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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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		<title>an interview with angela buckingham (podcast)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/22/an-interview-with-angela-buckingham-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/22/an-interview-with-angela-buckingham-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download Here Angela is a texbook writer, teacher, teacher trainer and sometime commenter on this very blog! You can see her interview in video form here. If you like this podcast, please subscribe in iTunes, and write me a review! More are available in the archive &#8211; just click the &#8216;podcast&#8217; tag below. I am [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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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		<title>looking for something to listen to? ELT interviews &#8211; podcast news</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/15/looking-for-something-to-listen-to-elt-interviews-podcast-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/15/looking-for-something-to-listen-to-elt-interviews-podcast-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to get the podcast versions of the interviews off the ground &#8211; there are now four available for download as mp3 audio files, either manually from this blog, or via the one-click iTunes subscription up in the top corner of the sidebar there. There will be more to follow, as I edit the audio files [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an interview with scott thornbury (podcast)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/14/an-interview-with-scott-thornbury-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/14/an-interview-with-scott-thornbury-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An audio version of the video interview we did at the JALT conference in Shizuoka, Japan. Download Here LINKS Window-dressing vs. Cross-dressing in the EFL Sub-culture. (The article I referred to in the interview&#8230; revived by the magic of twitter) The New School- Online MA programme which Scott Thornbury (amongst others) is teaching on. Scott&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an interview with miles craven (podcast)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/14/an-interview-with-miles-craven-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/03/14/an-interview-with-miles-craven-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An audio version of the video interview we did at JALT 2009 in Shizuoka, Japan. I first saw Miles speak a couple of years ago at another JALT event, and at the time was very impressed with his fair but candid assessment of writing and publishing in ELT. When I started this series he was [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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>
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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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		<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>
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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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		<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>an interview with ritsuko nakata</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/16/an-interview-with-ritsuko-nakata/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/16/an-interview-with-ritsuko-nakata/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Interview with Ritsuko Nakata from darren elliott on Vimeo. Ritsuko Nakata has been involved in English education in Japan for many years, training and mentoring teachers of young learners, developing the MAT (model, action, talk) method, working on the multi-million selling Let&#8217;s Go! series, and (of course) teaching children. We discussed all these things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>books you should read part two &#8211; the lexical approach by michael lewis</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/07/books-you-should-read-part-two-the-lexical-approach-by-michael-lewis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/07/books-you-should-read-part-two-the-lexical-approach-by-michael-lewis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guest post by the mysterious Sputnik of The Tesla Coil, on A Book You Should Read.  Number two in the series, then, is a little book about chunks&#8230;.. ‘Most people would succeed in small things,’ observed Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ‘ if they were not troubled with great ambitions.’  This may certainly prove to be [...]]]></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>
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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>an interview with paul nation (podcast)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/03/an-interview-with-paul-nation-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/02/03/an-interview-with-paul-nation-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an audio version of the video interview I did with Paul Nation last November. Please head over to iTunes and subscribe to catch future podcasts. Download Here]]></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>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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		<title>books you should read part one &#8211; english next by david graddol</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/01/03/books-you-should-read-part-one-english-next-by-david-graddol/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/01/03/books-you-should-read-part-one-english-next-by-david-graddol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some eye-openers&#8230;. In 2003 an estimated 1500 Master&#8217;s programmes were offered in English in countries where English is not the first language. In 2005 about 20,000 American schoolchildren were receiving e-tutoring support from India. More than 60% of transnational companies see China as the most attractive location for R＆D A study in 2000 found that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>we wish you a merry christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/24/we-wish-you-a-merry-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/24/we-wish-you-a-merry-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[we wish you a merry christmas from darren elliott on Vimeo.]]></description>
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		<title>which english? why your opinion is irrelevant</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/18/which-english-why-your-opinion-is-irrelevant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/18/which-english-why-your-opinion-is-irrelevant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wife and children abed, the teacher was scratching his way through a stack of conversation transcriptions that his students had handed in earlier that day. &#8220;Hi, how are you&#8221; began one. &#8220;So-so&#8221; was the reply. The teacher lifted his pen to strike through the unnatural phrase in blood red ink &#8211; after all, don&#8217;t we native [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I want you to express your opinions freely (as long as they are the same as mine)&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/16/i-want-you-to-express-your-opinions-freely-as-long-as-they-are-the-same-as-mine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/16/i-want-you-to-express-your-opinions-freely-as-long-as-they-are-the-same-as-mine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or &#8220;cultural diversity is a wonderful thing (within the framework of western liberal democracy)&#8221; Sara Hannam has just contributed yet another excellent post to the blogosphere, prompted by a horrific bit of teaching in the movie &#8216;Donnie Darko&#8217;. In this case, the teacher stifles the expression of a bright young man by sticking to her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>childhood as a longitudinal research study</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/06/childhood-as-a-longitudinal-research-study/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/06/childhood-as-a-longitudinal-research-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bilingualism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most important learning takes place outside the classroom. I don&#8217;t generally teach children, but my two most important students are still very small. When I first came to Japan ten years ago, I didn&#8217;t think this would happen. To your right, you will see my wife and two boys, all Japanese passport holders. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>books you should read</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/04/books-you-should-read/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/12/04/books-you-should-read/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the pleasures of the blogosphere and the twitterverse, I generally prefer to take my literature in paper form. A cup of tea, a digestive biscuit and a good book. The quiet hush of the library and the musty aroma of slightly damp academics. The per-lunk of a freshly-minted journal as it drops through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an interview with miles craven</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/28/an-interview-with-miles-craven/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/28/an-interview-with-miles-craven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Interview with Miles Craven from darren elliott on Vimeo. I first saw Miles speak a couple of years ago at another JALT event, and at the time was very impressed with his fair but candid assessment of writing and publishing in ELT. When I started this series he was one of the people I [...]]]></description>
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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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		<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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		<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 angela buckingham</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/18/an-interview-with-angela-buckingham/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/18/an-interview-with-angela-buckingham/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Interview with Angela Buckingham from darren elliott on Vimeo. Today I talked to textbook writer, teacher and teacher trainer Angela Buckingham about how she got into textbook writing, why the characters in her books are non-native speakers, the differences between certificate and diploma trainee teachers and working with asylum seekers in the UK Further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>culture and reading skills &#8211; can (should) we teach both?</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/14/culture-and-reading-skills-can-should-we-teach-both/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/14/culture-and-reading-skills-can-should-we-teach-both/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I mentioned an article I had read on &#8216;nativised&#8217; reading materials &#8211; readings which are adapted to include local (and familiar) names, places and foods (for example) whilst retaining the vocabulary and grammar structures of the original. In the article, the researchers took a story based in New York and transplanted [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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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		<title>a gift from a flower to a garden＊</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/07/a-gift-from-a-flower-to-a-garden%ef%bc%8a/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/07/a-gift-from-a-flower-to-a-garden%ef%bc%8a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[＊extra points if you can place the title I am a sucker for an analogy. Only this week I got contorted in a lengthy comparison of the plight of Southampton Football Club, starting the season on minus ten points but now powering up the third division, to a student who had missed the first few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>podcast number one</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/03/podcast-number-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/11/03/podcast-number-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the lives of teachers &#8211; introduction It&#8217;s three and a half minutes long, it&#8217;s a test, but let&#8217;s see how it works. You should be able to subscribe via itunes, but I&#8217;m not sure how frequent the content will be. Some audio versions of previous videos to follow though, along with a few new interviews [...]]]></description>
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		<title>urban legends and critical thinking</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/31/urban-legends-and-critical-thinking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/31/urban-legends-and-critical-thinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Did you hear about that boy on the other side of town? No? Apparently, he was walking home from school quite late, it was getting dark, when he saw this woman standing on the corner. She was wearing a mask, you know, like she had a cold. As he walked past she was staring at [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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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		<title>an interview with paul nation</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/20/an-interview-with-paul-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/20/an-interview-with-paul-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Nation Interview from darren elliott on Vimeo. Paul Nation is  a researcher, teacher and teacher trainer best known for his research into vocabulary learning and acquisition. This interview was conducted by Darren Elliott for www.livesofteachers.com He presented twice at the ETJ Chubu Expo on Sunday, and between presentations was kind enough to answer a [...]]]></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>what does it mean to know a word?</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/10/what-does-it-mean-to-know-a-word/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/10/what-does-it-mean-to-know-a-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diane Schmitt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jo Moir]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A vocabulary test in which the students merely have to vomit the words onto the page, and once purged walk away fresh with no memory of the incident, is no good to anyone. How can we ensure our students LEARN words, rather than just REMEMBER them. Learner Autonomy &#8211; Are students more likely to learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>responsible racism &#8211; a guide for teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/08/responsible-racism-a-guide-for-teachers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/08/responsible-racism-a-guide-for-teachers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be crass and unfair to claim that &#8220;We are all racists&#8221;. But I do believe that we are all capable of making decisions based on our preconceptions of other peoples ethnicity or cultural background. Isn&#8217;t that just the same thing with a few five-dollar words thrown in? I&#8217;m not sure. Is there a [...]]]></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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		<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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		<title>do androids dream of electric test papers?</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/02/do-androids-dream-of-electric-test-papers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/10/02/do-androids-dream-of-electric-test-papers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this article recently, about artificially intelligent marking machines. Whilst not as terrifying as the corpse-eating battlebots which have also been in the news, my initial reaction was still one of distaste. But the more I thought about it, the more ambivalent I became. People like tests. Students like to have a piece [...]]]></description>
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		<title>freedom to read (?)</title>
		<link>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/09/24/freedom-to-read/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livesofteachers.com/2009/09/24/freedom-to-read/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extensive reading &#8211;  reading for pleasure, reading widely, reading what one wants to read, reading at one&#8217;s current level of attainment. Does it actually work? You&#8217;ll be waiting a long time if you want conclusive proof of anything to do with learning languages, but the general consensus seems to be that it is a pretty [...]]]></description>
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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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		<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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		<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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