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	<title>the lives of teachers &#187; metaphor</title>
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		<title>metaphors for teaching &#8211; the teacher as geisha</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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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>sakura</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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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>personal learning networks &#8211; the what, why and how</title>
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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>a gift from a flower to a garden＊</title>
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		<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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