This is an opportunity for those interested to answer open questions about why you do or would like to negotiate syllabi, textbooks, and other aspects of...
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Elizabeth
eannegrenoble
May 2, 2010 9:39 am
a recent message from Susan Kelly "sksogang"; ... (no subject line - no comment - just a link) looked a lot like spam (I searched the list of members and...
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Scott Thornbury
scott_thornbury
May 2, 2010 10:12 am
Definitely spam or worse - please avoid! ("Member" has been deleted) Scott ... De: dogme@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dogme@yahoogroups.com] En nombre de Elizabeth ...
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fiotf
May 4, 2010 8:11 am
Hi, Is anyone else following the discussion on (mis)use of time, on Scott's blog? It's pretty interesting (as is the thread on native-speakerism) Here's a link...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 4, 2010 8:29 am
Thanks very much for that headsup, Fiona. I have just contributed. Dennis [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 4, 2010 9:43 am
I am exploring my Romanian student's approach to learning English and see it as an example of taking very seriously the wisdom that one must take note of ...
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dnewson2001
May 7, 2010 9:11 am
One of the Dogme commandments reads: "We are looking for ways of exploiting the learning opportunities offered by the raw material of the classroom, that is...
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Mercedes Viola
mercedesviola
May 7, 2010 4:03 pm
Hi Dennis, Wow, I feel I can only say one thing: what an intresting experience!!! All the best, Mercedes Arq. Mercedes Viola Deambrosis Directora 4D Content...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
May 7, 2010 6:06 pm
"A colleague in SL complains that he (the Romanian Sinatra, who does it his way) is difficult in a group. He wants the lessons to be taught according to his...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 10, 2010 9:14 am
I just had another 90 minutes with my Romanian learner. We are now reading, still reading, Charles Darwin's Autobiography. I was lucky today because his voice...
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Scott Thornbury
scott_thornbury
May 10, 2010 10:09 am
Love these descriptions of your SL lessons, Dennis. Please keep them coming! Scott ... De: dogme@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dogme@yahoogroups.com] En nombre de...
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dogme@yahoogroups.com
May 11, 2010 2:20 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the dogme group. File : /Images/my...
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Joel
joel_josephson
May 11, 2010 8:27 am
Educomics http://www.educomics.org/ is a European Union Comenius education project under the LifeLong Learning Program. It has built sets of resource...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 12, 2010 9:08 am
Yesterday I wrote to my learner in Second Life: Greetings, C. Let me share a thought with you. As a teacher I am a bit worried that reading aloud as we have...
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Celso Camargo
celsocamargors
May 12, 2010 1:32 pm
This semester I'm tutoring a Forensics Federal Agent, whom, much like Dennis' C. has a firm belief on What is The Best Way to Learn English. She's always...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
May 12, 2010 2:08 pm
In my experience as a teacher, and as a language learner, reading aloud is popular. While the current trend seems to suggest reading aloud is not an effective...
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Bob Wilson
autoenglish
May 12, 2010 4:29 pm
I would suggest that we do read aloud quite often in 'real life', in meetings for instance and when commenting on the news. What does seem clear from my...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 13, 2010 1:35 pm
A colleague and friend in SL with the unusual name of X reported to me a conversation that my Romanian student, C, had with him. X is a senior lecturer in...
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Manana
khvichiam
May 14, 2010 8:43 pm
I ran a seminar at our school on Dogme. And I'd love to share the experience because it showed me how much there is to Dogme and how much we still can do to...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 14, 2010 8:51 pm
Manana, What a cheering account to read. Thank you so much, and all the best to you and your colleagues and learners. Dennis...
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steph wimmer
nowordssteph
May 14, 2010 9:53 pm
What a really inspiring post Manana. I love hearing about how teachers react to Dogme. I also "did a Dogme" workshop at the end of last month with several...
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Mark Holloway
mgh4wba
May 17, 2010 1:55 pm
Hi Rob (and wider Dogme community) I was waiting to see if anyone would refer to Mark Powell in this discussion, so as nobody has, I thought it might be an...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 17, 2010 2:28 pm
Mark, I enjoyed reading your comments very much. Actually, most of the time, my learner does not let me read because he wants to read the whole thing himself,...
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Mark Holloway
mgh4wba
May 17, 2010 4:55 pm
Yes that reading exercise, like Powell's encourages the reader to recognise and "produce" chunks of language, and there's some vital language work going on in...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 17, 2010 6:24 pm
Mark, We've just bought a netbook and I already have two dongles, one for England and one for Germany... (But we do not leave for the UK until tomorrow). To...
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Mark Holloway
mgh4wba
May 18, 2010 8:55 am
Indeed Dennis. If that's what he wants to do, that's what he'll do. And it sounds like he's fulfilling other areas of his syllabus elsewhere in second life....
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nickbilbrough
May 20, 2010 8:55 am
Thanks Mark for reminding us of this brilliant Mark Powell activity. I can remember - I think when the book first came out - using this very activity with a...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
May 20, 2010 3:09 pm
Nick wrote: "I guess that if we put the put the idea of sound scripting into a hardline dogme approach we could be using it with reformulations of the learners...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 20, 2010 7:51 pm
Hi Rob and all - from South Wales - It would not be appropriate, I fear,with my student - much too teacherly.He is only particularly interested in working in...
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Mark Holloway
mgh4wba
May 20, 2010 8:33 pm
I'm lucky in that my learners (university students - mostly postgrads, or about to become postgrads) often bring their own texts to class. We'll often look at...
