A little behind-the-scenes glimpse at the bridge-building I’ve been doing to market my tutoring service, and at the same time to share another Web 2.0 offering with teeth: the video-subtitling site called dotSUB. One of the biggest challenges I face on this limb is communicating with Korean parents who I am, and how I’m different [...]
Archives for posts tagged ‘ESL’
Using dotSUB to Subtitle My Professional Development Videos for Korean Clients
Saturday, 2 August 2008
Wordle with Teeth: U of Quebec’s Vocab Profiler
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Contents: 1) Dry but necessary (and interesting, really) background to computer-assisted “corpus linguistics”; 2) Application of Vocab Profiler to a little “Scribe 2.0″ medieval satire I had fun writing way back when; 3) Tutorial on some uses of Vocab Profiler to aid in scaffolding classroom reading comprehension; 4) Caveats and Take-Aways Dan Meyer just posted [...]
Video on The Benefits of Co-Teaching: A Blast from 2005
Friday, 4 January 2008
I don’t discuss my years as an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL, a.k.a. ESL) specialist much on these pages, mainly because there are no ESOL students at my high school. But the experience of being a second teacher in the content-area classroom when I wore this hat? That’s some good fodder for thinking [...]
