It's 8 am, Monday morning. I'll leave in an hour to begin the second week of fall term. As the heat and light of summer fade, rain sets in here in the Pacific...
Hi Rob, Thanks for your interesting description of your use of information technology in your dogme class. I've been using these tools for quite some time now,...
Hi Mark, I appreciate your reply. My students would love to have laptops, but until our grant budget increases we'll have to settle for access in the computer ...
Hi, Rob, I teach a multi-level class of ten students who are anything but digital natives, as my class if for those over 60. They are all newcomers to Canada. ...
Hi Kelly This has echoes of Sugata Mitra's hole in the wall experiment http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html , which I've seen Scott speak about as...
Hi Kelly, Thank you for the reply and your wonderful description of newcomers to Canada becoming computer literate. I really like the Newcomers to Canada...
Yesterday, with the afternoon group, we unplugged for some really fun learning. After I'd asked everyone how they were doing, we started to chat about this and...
Thank you so very much for that, Rob. As I have often noted, these detailed accounts of what goes on in other people's classrooms are rather rare, aren't they?...
Hello all: I have a couple of one-off lessons at a community centre coming up this weekend and would love to try some dogme ideas with them. They are all ...
Hi Alison, Thank you so much for your introduction to this wonderful opportunity. By the way, some of the students I work with could be described as beginners....
Alison I can't pretend to be an expert in teaching large groups of young children, but I think I would begin by making a whole array of Creating Materials...
Alison, I must join Diarmuid in his self-alleged lack of experience with this age group but from my genuine "interested observer" position I would say: Think...
Hi, Rob! Wow, thank you for the positive spin on what I am feeling a bit nervous about. ... So what you are saying in dogme terms, is that the room will be...
Hello, Diarmuid: When I first read your post about being creative, it kind of frightened me. It must be because I don't think of myself as being very artistic!...
Hello, Dennis: Thank you for being an "interested observer". So nice to have your support in the classroom. :-) Your idea of making sure to have a game, a...
This is so funny! I just re-read my post to Diarmuid and I am asking him all these questions about what kind of picture to draw and whether to break up into...
Hi Alison (and everyone else!), The chance to do something different sounds great. That being said, one hour is not much time. In my experience, you can tell...
Apologies for inspiring fear! I seem to have that effect on people... Despite having taught a fair few Japanese students, it has always been in the context of...
Hi again, Alison, please see my *comments below. Sorry to be brief but I'm off to work then away from wifi for a couple of days. ... *Glad to hear it. ... *To...
Hi Alison It's been great reading through this thread and seeing all the ideas that have come up - I have stored some of them for future use myself! Like you,...
Hi, I teach JHS in Tokyo (and unplugged lessons with adults) and I'm well aware of all the apparent reasons 'not' to unplug your lessons, reaction of the team...
...but IF we want to maintain some semblance of whatever it is that makes dogme Dogme, then there has to be a limit to the amount of activities and steps and...
Exactly, Diarmuid. Hi Alison, I've only just read the thread and, yiha!, finally someone else interested in dogme with kids! I work more with teens, but I've...
Dear all: First of all, I just want to say how wonderful it is to get so many replies and to see so much interest in using dogme with young learners. Before I...
I agree that what Diarmuid posted below is extremely important, and that Diarmuid's post about letting the kids be creative with their pictures and not...
Luke, Thank you for your response! It was a bit of a thrill for me to get a personal response from the co-author of my favourite TESL book. Yes, I have seen...
Rob, Thank you for such a warm welcome to the group. Not all TESL discussion groups are so cordial. ;) I can't wait to use todaysmeet with the advanced class...
I have read the posts from this group for a while now and am quite intrigued and believe in the validity of the Dogme approach. However, I am practical person...
Hi Bret In the files section, I posted some records of work from my classes. It was a long time ago, but they provide an example of how dogme works. Perhaps...
I know the idea of a Dogme coursebook is perverse and doesn't really live up to the ideals of material light, etc. but if you take it as something which would...
