Category Archives: ESL Links

Cyber-Journalism is following a promising path from the bottom up and is now percolating into many major Univrsities. Check out this course at New York University. Titled “Digital Journalism” and taught by Christopher Allbritton at NYU’s Journalism School, it features … Continue reading →

This rather impressive photo appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles Times this morning.  The guy in the foreground is an armed guard for the Cheif Iraq Administrator Paul Bremmer.  Now, since Bremmer is target number one on … Continue reading →

In a conversation with a fellow language teacher today the following question came up. When one hears one of the increasingly common TV commercials with a voice-over by a famous actor (as we are writing one for a telecommunications company … Continue reading →

A Tuareg nomad stands near the 13th century mosque at Timbuktu, Mali, where U.S. Special Forces have been training the Malian army to better police the Sahara Desert, March 19, 2004. The Tuaregs, many of whom make their living from … Continue reading →

Several of the participants in my Blogging demos yesterday at the TESOL Conference here in Long Beach asked for the address of SchoolBlogs.com, the Adam Curry sponsored site where educators can start a free, Manilla-based blog. Of course, in the heat … Continue reading →

Always on the lookout for new recipes, time-saving innovative applications of modern technology and reasons that we need a beamer, the Dowbrigade was delighted to learn that the austere German automaker has unveiled a new system to allow drivers to … Continue reading →

The Electronic Village has it’s rules and regulations. No food or drinks at the station. No e-Mail or web access. Basically the place exists for demos of small-cap or homemade learning software. The No Web prohibition is particularly galling since … Continue reading →

Popping back up this morning from beautiful Southern California, we are officially in “Arnold Country” now. Got in late last night and of course, with the convention in full swingy, 7,000 wacky ESL eccentrics swarming over this small city, there … Continue reading →

Just a quick post from the office before we head to the airpost. It was surprisingly easy to cut the cord on our cable modem this morning – the server was down when we tried to post at 6 am … Continue reading →

Let the healin’ begin…..

We can’t cut the cord. Everything else is cut, cancelled, discarded or stored. The cats are gone, to a legal studio in East Cambridge. Number two son is gone, finally moved out by the force and finality of having no … Continue reading →

Better hurry up with that digital downloading. The government wants to impose penalties of up to ten years in prision for downloading a single file…. A draft bill recently circulated among members of the House judiciary committee would make it … Continue reading →