Dear All, I had an idea that we could try and keep one thought line with one title as it was pointed out that we aren't very systematic. How do you feel about...
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David French
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Jul 3, 2000 10:27 am
Graham mentioned that he introduced himself at the last IATEFL Conference as 'just a teacher'. He was saying that that species was few and far between at the...
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sthornbury@...
Jul 3, 2000 8:46 pm
I've spent the weekend attending an IATEFL Special Interest group conference called "CALL for the 21st Century" - mainly because it happened to be here in...
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Luke Meddings
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Jul 4, 2000 8:44 am
... I get the feeling that we're collectively feeling more and more committed to the bare essentials. And you're right, meeting up - in a way which, like a...
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David French
david@...
Jul 4, 2000 9:29 am
... Which shows that what we're doing is a way of thinking which can apply to varied teaching environments. ... that's not my experience. ... Was there,...
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sthornbury@...
Jul 4, 2000 9:39 am
David asked (in an aside): " Should we talk about the limitations of our approach? Is it supposed to be a way of working with the 4 skills and the full monty,...
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David French
david@...
Jul 4, 2000 9:43 am
I imagine a free faller is doing quite a lot as they fall through the ether. I wouldn't imagine they passively drop like a sack of potatoes. The old senses...
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G Hall
g.hall@...
Jul 4, 2000 10:24 am
Hi ... that it >remains the least of many teachers worries, that analytical skills are neglected in >favour of classroom management at pass-the-parcel level. ...
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David French
david@...
Jul 4, 2000 10:37 am
Graham and I are going to be working on putting together a short article for the informal education website. We have found that our communications to our ...
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Dan
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Jul 4, 2000 10:52 am
Hi everyone, I took a week (and a bit) out to work on a netletter for the school but I'm back now. i'm very pleased to see that the debate hasn't stagnated ...
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G Hall
g.hall@...
Jul 4, 2000 12:20 pm
David, I tried to contact you from a different e-mail address but it obviously failed. If you'd like to try from your end, my address is hall.graham@......
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G Hall
g.hall@...
Jul 4, 2000 2:14 pm
Hi ... i'm asking whether what separates Dogme from the other forms of teaching we know and loathe is the way we choose what to discuss and focus on (not...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Jul 4, 2000 4:29 pm
Hi Graham ... I agree, and stopping worrying about who would turn up or who would leave early to get to work etc was the starting point for me in all this. The...
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sthornbury@...
Jul 4, 2000 9:59 pm
In response to David's worry that I am undervaluing CMC (I meant computer mediated communication, not mediation, a typo), especially of the kind that we have...
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sthornbury@...
Jul 6, 2000 9:54 am
Luke mentioned drawing strength from areas of convergence with past or current thinking: while accepting the need to avoid “dogma” part of me responds...
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G Hall
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Jul 6, 2000 12:54 pm
Hi As I mentioned earlier, there is a huge push here for IT-delivered (that word again)courses. For me, this is unfortunate. Scott and David have outlined some...
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Dan
dan_humm@...
Jul 6, 2000 2:03 pm
Dear All, I've been thinking as you know about the nature of Dogme and what makes a lesson a dogme lesson and again I was made to think about it with Graham's...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Jul 6, 2000 3:59 pm
This is great stuff and I thoroughly agree with most of it! In particular the expressed aim of point 2, though I think expertise has a place in the classroom....
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sthornbury@...
Jul 6, 2000 4:16 pm
Yeah. I wasn't going to include point 14 (about being a "loved" person), but I thought it situated the whole "manifesto" in its period: it was just two years...
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David French
david@...
Jul 7, 2000 9:46 am
My initial response to Graham, after reading about his online stuff is that it is very like the stuff Ira Shor describes in the writing classes he runs for ...
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David French
david@...
Jul 7, 2000 9:55 am
... Again, with reference to Ira Shor he attempts to root out topics which may become 'generative themes'. If I understood it right these are themes which can...
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David French
david@...
Jul 7, 2000 10:06 am
... That's dogme! We'd better not stop doing that. I'd like to say at this point that I reckon I'm really getting a style going now, two years after starting...
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David French
david@...
Jul 7, 2000 10:12 am
From my point of view there's nothing wrong with having a list of rules or principles but you can't become a prisoner to it. Myself and the essence of what it...
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Dan
dan_humm@...
Jul 7, 2000 1:08 pm
Dear all, This is primarily in response to David because the discussion seems to be IT based at the moment and I don't know much about it. I did enjoy the...
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David French
david@...
Jul 11, 2000 10:17 am
... I meant an individual house style (yours). ... What's wrong with that? ... I think I asked the question because now my repertoire of activities is limited...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Jul 11, 2000 12:20 pm
Developing emergent language . . . . . This came out of a conversation with a teacher who wasn't sure how far he could take a language point. My view is that...
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sthornbury@...
Jul 11, 2000 9:43 pm
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sthornbury@...
Jul 12, 2000 11:37 am
I'm re-posting this as it came out as an attachment on the discussion board (for some odd reason). Sorry Footnote to Luke's message, from a footnote in...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Jul 13, 2000 10:06 am
This morning's observations: [rare teaching opportunity!] 1 Don't sit on the opposite side of the room to the students even in 'circular' table layout - it...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Jul 13, 2000 10:24 am
I was fascinated by this paragraph in the Evening Standard, quoting verbatim an air stewardess who atempted to break up a brawl on a flight from Gatwick, UK to...
