The usefulness of online translation crosses the minds of many a student and teacher, in many a language class, in many an institution. Some teachers advocate intelligent, informed use of online translation services, while other teachers abhor it. One teacher-colleague…
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about work-life balance, it’s the importance of having hobbies that fulfill you in ways work does not. I won’t go into the importance of having people outside of your work life… but that’s important…
As a teacher, I’m interested in helping people become good at things and to help them develop strategies for doing that. So when I listened to a Freakonomics episode (I listen to this podcast a lot – can you tell!?)…
Hello, dear readers – I’m back from a short break in blogging! Work got busy and my list of ideas sat untouched for a bit. But I’m back, and will blog more this summer – hopefully every other week. I’m…
Today as I was surfing around internet rabbit holes – which I often fall into while daydreaming up fun lesson plans – I ran across some advice online by and for language teachers that explicitly suggested having native speakers make…
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