Well, first of all, apologise for not posting a summary last night but my server went down! So there's one black mark against the Internet and email as a tool...
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Ingrid Gürtler
ingrid.guertler@...
May 1, 2005 9:23 pm
Well, first of all, thank you, Adrian, for fielding the discussion. It has made me think a lot about ways in which I could use the internet more efficiently....
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Ranivoarisoa Aimée...
ranivoarivir...
May 14, 2005 5:25 am
dear colleague, Hi! Thanks a lot for your big courage to undertake this exchange between english teachers. For my part, I don' have my own computer available...
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Schools in Egypt
schools_in_e...
May 15, 2005 2:36 am
Dear All, ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS needed to work for private schools in egypt with a great salary. send your C.V. , photo, and contact information to: ...
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Ranivoarisoa Aimée...
ranivoarivir...
May 18, 2005 6:27 am
Dear responsible, Hi! I would like to get detailed informations about the job offer for an english teacher. Here are some requests: -is there a contract for...
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Howard Smith
brumfitmoona...
May 27, 2005 10:12 am
Dear All, Picture it: A smoky bar in the Welsh capital at the height of IATEFL 2005. Soft music, dim lights and a group of committed ELT professionals...
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colin mackenzie
colinfrance
May 29, 2005 7:55 pm
Dear Howard, Dear All I think generally for their to be real fertile ground for development there needs to be support from both the management and the...
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Charles Hadfield
chadfield@...
May 29, 2005 8:19 pm
Hi everyone It's not a bank holiday down here in NZ, tho next weekend we do have a long weekend to celebrate the Queen of New Zealand's birthday. This...
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Howard Smith
brumfitmoona...
May 31, 2005 11:00 am
Howdy all, Sorry I didn't manage to get anything off for Monday. I very cleverly set my email here to forward any contributions to my home email. Unfortunately...
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Krystal Jamet
krystal.jamet@...
May 31, 2005 1:07 pm
Hello, I would go along with the preceding point that the first teaching experience cuts deep. My cut healed well, happily enough. I had found myself (no...
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colin mackenzie
colinfrance
May 31, 2005 7:11 pm
Dear colleagues Just a quick note to draw your attention to a fielded discussion scheduled to take place on the GISIG discussion list from 13th-17th June. ...
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colin mackenzie
colinfrance
May 31, 2005 8:36 pm
Dear All I think that the great thing about my first school was not that they expected me to be professional. There didn't seem to be any pressure to come up...
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colin mackenzie
colinfrance
May 31, 2005 8:40 pm
... COLIN: I really like that. If we don't respect the learners, we don't respect teaching and will probably never get any better ... COLIN: Krystal, I do find...
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Ingrid Gürtler
ingrid.guertler@...
Jun 1, 2005 7:19 am
Dear All, Something that has not yet been mentioned is the fertile ground that some of our own teachers provide / have provided. I can remember a few cases,...
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Wilkinson B (LANGUAGES)
unst1975
Jun 1, 2005 11:54 am
Dear All I have rather erratically followed the fertile ground discussion. I agree that first influences can be very formative, and as Ingrid mentions, the...
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Howard Smith
brumfitmoona...
Jun 2, 2005 11:26 am
Firstly, sorry no round up yesterday. I was up to my knees in what makes ground extremely fertile and still haven't fully extricated myself. However, onwards...
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Ranivoarisoa Aimée...
ranivoarivir...
Jun 2, 2005 2:03 pm
Dear colleagues! Thanks a lot for your explanations and your sharing which I always enjoy though very often I am a lost ie I don't get some of the points. And...
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Adrian Tennant
adrian.tennant@...
Jun 2, 2005 8:00 pm
Mmm, Lots of talk about initial experinces (mostly positive), formative experience from school - i.e good teachers (although I wonder how many people, like...
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colin mackenzie
colinfrance
Jun 2, 2005 8:33 pm
I agree with Adrian, fertile ground is in the mind, but the mind can be affected by the environment around it, which is probably why we have been saying that...
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Krystal Jamet
krystal.jamet@...
Jun 2, 2005 8:36 pm
... Thanks for your interest and attention! -Krystal ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
Jun 3, 2005 4:05 pm
Songs/music, Krystal? How about movement as a major tool for teaching language? I'd be curious how your colleagues would react to that idea! Juliet ... ...
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Howard Smith
brumfitmoona...
Jun 3, 2005 4:15 pm
Dear All, Well - another Friday, and to be honest the latter part of this week has been a bit of a mare. Various staffing problems all came to a head and I ...
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Krystal Jamet
krystal.jamet@...
Jun 3, 2005 7:00 pm
How would you do movement in a business english class Juliet? My one colleague gets people to mime different actions verbs in front of the others. I suspect...
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Krystal Jamet
krystal.jamet@...
Jun 4, 2005 5:10 pm
Hi All, I'm sorry Howard is so spaced out with his computer that he's not on-line on the week-end to field the week. I admit the intrigue of Bill Clinton's...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
Jun 4, 2005 5:27 pm
Krystal, We've zoomed off topic here - my fault! I'lll reply to your personal email. Juliet ... ...
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Howard Smith
brumfitmoona...
Jun 6, 2005 9:33 am
Hello again all, Back in harness after the weekend and for what I think is the last day of our little discussion - I'll post a round up this evening (I'm...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
Jun 6, 2005 8:41 pm
Hello out there, It seems I just lost all my thoughts to Cyberspace, so here goes again. Are we really finishing up already? Shame, I’ve enjoyed this...
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Ingrid Gürtler
ingrid.guertler@...
Jun 6, 2005 9:03 pm
Probably as I write this Howard is rounding up, but I just got home. Of course Britain is an hour behind, so there is still hope. Yes, I was also rather...
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colin mackenzie
colinfrance
Jun 7, 2005 7:51 am
Dear All Can I just say thanks to Howard for fielding this discussion. I think everyone would agree his contributions were stimulating, informative and at all...
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Howard Smith
brumfitmoona...
Jun 7, 2005 5:09 pm
Dear all, Well well, thank you very much all who contributed/read the discussion; it's given me plenty to think about and I'll mention Colin's observation...