I enjoyed your message Sue, so spontaneous, simple and true !! I fully agree with you ! Marianne ... English as ... teacher is ... everytime, every ... game in...
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camdencollegeofenglish
camdencolleg...
Mar 5, 2007 3:31 pm
Hi all, After 17 years in the same building, my school is moving to a new location in a couple of months. Language school classrooms tend to be quite similar...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Mar 5, 2007 4:25 pm
Hi Stuart, what an opportunity. 12 is an extremely modest class size and makes things a lot easier. Here are my thoughts. First off, I would avoid having a...
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Katie
jmbsdb1
Mar 5, 2007 9:13 pm
Hello I really like the idea of the normal whiteboard all around the walls and no desk for the teacher. As long as the chairs are comfortable and can be...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Mar 6, 2007 9:13 am
I'd modify Luke's idea re: whiteboards. Although it's nice I think there also needs to be space for things to be pinned to the wall, so I'd have some areas...
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Julian Bamford
julian12jp
Mar 6, 2007 9:25 am
Good point, Adrian. And if the whiteboards are magnetic, the pinning can be done with magnet clips or small round magnets. --Julian ... [Non-text portions of...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Mar 6, 2007 9:50 am
Prompted by a quote of mine from Andrew Wright to the effect that learning can be more effective when teaching is not focused on the matter to be learned, Hala...
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Russell Kent
russkent321
Mar 6, 2007 10:06 am
Fascinating Dennis, thanks for the link. Cheers Russ _____ From: dogme@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dogme@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Newson Sent: 06 March...
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lukerowland
Mar 6, 2007 10:11 am
Why not ask the students their opinions???...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Mar 6, 2007 10:54 am
Not sure what the three question marks are for Luke, maybe Stuart already asked the students - but it's a good question. Just by limiting class size to 12 one...
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Russell Kent
russkent321
Mar 6, 2007 11:39 am
Hallo, I agree with all that has been suggested, but if there are going to be 8 or 9 classrooms, I would make one of them a self accessed IT/Internet centre. ...
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Tom Walton
tomdoliveira
Mar 7, 2007 5:29 am
Hi... As someone who sits in an Internet Room used by students for many hours a week, can I suggest we "forget" to buy a printer...? The easier it is to print,...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Mar 7, 2007 5:37 am
May I just ask whether there is any objection to replacing at least one of the whiteboards with an interactive whiteboard and a few tablet PCs for the students...
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Celso
celsocamargors
Mar 7, 2007 12:25 pm
And I thought "teaching unplugged" meant no excessive technological aparatus, a "return to basics".... What can we say to teachers in the third world about...
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Tom Walton
tomdoliveira
Mar 7, 2007 4:43 pm
Yeah! Teaching unplugged ought literally to mean no equipment with a plug attached to it (except a coffee maker ,-)! Tom Celso <celsocamargors@...>...
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areej alawad
awad63
Mar 7, 2007 4:43 pm
Hi Stuart and everyone, I like how you get to design your own classes, a blessing!! And to all of you, I like each and every idea. About those white boards...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Mar 7, 2007 4:57 pm
NB: This is an edited version of a recent post sent by Luke Meddings. Hi Celso I think you make a really good point here. I was reading on the Guardian site...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Mar 7, 2007 7:21 pm
... My post was originally a query about possible objections to an IWB and tablet PCs. You ask what we would say to teachers in the "third world", but the...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Mar 7, 2007 9:46 pm
Diarmuid, I don't think any of us need to get tied up in knots about being dogme or undogme in what is recommended as long as we always centre on learning. ...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Mar 7, 2007 9:51 pm
Dennis I think you have misunderstood my post. Diarmuid...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Mar 7, 2007 10:14 pm
If I was able to design a school in London: there would be a large library...large as in many books, if rooms were in short supply. Students would be able to...
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Celso
celsocamargors
Mar 8, 2007 3:02 am
Diarmuid wrote: "My post was originally a query about possible objections to an IWB and tablet PCs. You ask what we would say to teachers in the "third world",...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Mar 8, 2007 4:16 am
Very sorry if I did misunderstand, Diarmuid. You know how it is on discussion lists, though. If you enjoy them and profit from them, as I do, it can happen...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Mar 8, 2007 4:41 am
Diarmuid, Don't forget, even the Great Scott communicates with the list by email, which means he has a PC, or even a laptop at his disposal. As for the...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Mar 8, 2007 5:27 am
Celso It is an international discussion list. I hope you don't feel that I have tried to deny your right to discuss anything. The fact that I replied to your...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Mar 8, 2007 5:35 am
Hi Dennis Now we're in harmony! And I think that Celso has caught the essence of the dogme spirit. Personally, I think that this is more important that the...
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Daniel Tourt
somethingfor...
Mar 8, 2007 9:19 pm
School design: No doors No desks (couple of tables will do) Comfortable seating TV (why not?) Cut down on the whiteness and strip lighting People who work...
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Russell Kent
russkent321
Mar 9, 2007 6:22 am
Hi All, Speaking of pubs (and why not), a teacher I was on a course with said she used to take her Business English students to the Irish Pub in Dusseldorf to ...
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Simon Gill
pangill2001
Mar 9, 2007 7:09 am
Sunbeds on the roof? In LONDON? Global warming really must be getting out of hand... Simon in CZ = -- Powered By Outblaze...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Mar 9, 2007 7:15 am
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