Hello, my name is Alex. I've been reading this forum for a couple of months but this is my first post. I'd just like to add my voice to those who have already...
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mike_corea
Feb 2, 2009 3:42 pm
Hello list and happy 2009, I am finishing up teaching on a teacher training course and I mentioned IRF a few times. Just on a whim I popped IRF into the search...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Feb 2, 2009 4:26 pm
Thanks for that, Mike. It is indeed a great way to familiarize oneself with the texture of dogme. I would add (in Bon Scott voice), For those about to dogme,...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Feb 3, 2009 8:27 pm
I would still enjoy reading accounts of dogme in the classroom from list members who've not yet posted these. For Dennis' record: Bon Scott was not alive to...
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diarmuid_fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Feb 4, 2009 5:25 am
... Relieved... Nous avons notre bon Scott...and I prefer Almub to Album. Well done, Rob....
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steve mundy
mundysteven
Feb 4, 2009 11:47 pm
Well then here's a fairly quick Dogme-style lesson I did this week. I was teaching a vocab class and some of the students had copies of the tabloid paper they...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Feb 5, 2009 3:36 am
Thank YOU, Steve, for adding a fresh voice to the list and contributing another stimulating account from the "front lines" Cheers, Rob ... [Non-text portions...
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diarmuid_fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Feb 5, 2009 7:03 am
... Education as warfare, eh? Would we be responsible for the smart bombs?...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Feb 5, 2009 3:08 pm
The term was used intentionally (note the quotation marks) in deference to our Head Kiwi. If memory serves, he's used it in this context. That you didn't...
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Linda Martin
eslindasd
Feb 6, 2009 1:34 am
We were the first to split the atom as well. Oh, and to be really controversial, first to fly as well (before the Wright Brothers). Yours in national...
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diarmuid_fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Feb 6, 2009 6:16 am
...and the first (only?) country in Australasia to make some reasonably decent gestures of reconciliation towards the original inhabitants of the land? (Now...
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Shawn Mooney
shawnrmooney
Feb 6, 2009 7:44 am
I'd be grateful if you lovely ppl could keep your posts substantive and relevant to the topic of this list. Otherwise, kindly email the person directly that...
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Linda Martin
eslindasd
Feb 6, 2009 10:38 am
Dear List Members So sorry if I flirted with, complimented or insulted anyone! Heaven forbid we make lighthearted non-teaching non-dogme remarks to each...
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Celso Camargo
celsocamargors
Feb 6, 2009 11:27 am
It never ceases to amaze me how things that are written by "professionals of communication" can be sooooooo misinterpreted by yet other "professionals of...
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Celso Camargo
celsocamargors
Feb 6, 2009 12:31 pm
(Please note, this is written in a friendly tone, NOT to generate any angry replies, ok? ) Linda, to teach dogme is to never say I'm sorry.... hehehehehe and...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Feb 6, 2009 12:48 pm
CELSO, we English teachers can take ourselves awfully seriously at times, I've often wondered why. I think it is partly because language teachers, the ones on...
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Luke
luke@...
Feb 6, 2009 2:58 pm
Well Diarmiud has been accused of a few things on this list (and has made a few accusations), but I'm not sure he's ever been accused of flirting before. Here,...
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Celso Camargo
celsocamargors
Feb 6, 2009 3:43 pm
DENNIS, you definetely nailed it. I would also like to add to your very pertinent observations, that control freaks abound in the field of education ( teachers...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Feb 6, 2009 4:50 pm
Celso, you wrote: P.S.: Rob, I occasionally do watch that mainstream propaganda on CNN, maybe because I am "eclectic";, maybe for lack of alternatives..........
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diarmuid_fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Feb 6, 2009 9:09 pm
...as if I was going to resist the poking... If this is equivalent to a staffroom, perhaps we sould just count our blessings that so much of the chitter...
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Celso Camargo
celsocamargors
Feb 6, 2009 10:39 pm
How could I possibly resist as well ? Diarmuid writes: "Well, I'm not sure that this is a strict definition of the word. " For a professional of communication...
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Celso Camargo
celsocamargors
Feb 6, 2009 10:57 pm
Oops, I did it again... Forgot the last, but not least part: From Diarmuid's post: " What I do find unusual in an educational environment, at least in a...
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diarmuid_fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Feb 6, 2009 11:59 pm
... misinterpreting what I wrote. Thank you, Celso for your attempt "to illustrate" me. I was reminded of a line I am sure I read in a poem sometime that went...
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Celso Camargo
celsocamargors
Feb 7, 2009 12:34 am
A propos of nothing at all, I stumbled across this very interesting website, I thought I'd share with you all.: http://home.comcast.net/~wwftd/ I have been...
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Shawn Mooney
shawnrmooney
Feb 7, 2009 2:49 am
Hey everybody, My slightly cranky post last night has generated a lot of response. I did intend it to be a polite request, and I'm sorry if anyone took...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Feb 7, 2009 5:25 am
Celso, http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/ http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html Call me biased, but these sources are, in my view,...
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diarmuid_fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Feb 7, 2009 8:01 am
Shawn I don't think you need to apologise for anything (and I'm sure that Stephen Fry would agree with me). Matters do get off course sometimes and people do...
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Celso Camargo
celsocamargors
Feb 7, 2009 11:07 am
Rob, thanks a lot for the links. However off-mainstream, these sites seem to focus mostly ( if not exclusively ) on American politics and economics. That's...
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Celso Camargo
celsocamargors
Feb 7, 2009 12:35 pm
Well, as usual, Diarmuid misintrerprets my writing, which says loads about his (in)ability to stick to the subject at hand and not to extrapolate into...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Feb 7, 2009 5:34 pm
Celso, For world news, you might try this http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1004 The thing is that local and national news are generally...
