I recently mentioned the Jeonju Sori Festival and how much I was enjoying it, and how I wanted to write about it, but had been asked to write a piece for translation and inclusion in a Korean magazine. I decided to simply write the magazine piece and post it here — for the time being, unless maybe I can submit it somewhere else — in one shot. Some of the people who attended the festival this year had some pretty negative things to say about it, and I can understand some of their disappointments — although the complaints tended to …
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Mayomi
Also via Lifehacker, here’s a very cool site called Mayomi that offers a utility that lets you create a mind map. Useful for self-organization, as well as for teaching writing in the classroom, if you do that sort of thing. Something tells me Cuccu would like it. :)
News From Up North
Found this among a pile of old links I planned to blog. Source unknown, but I’d guess it’s from the Marmot sometime back. North Korean TV really sucks. Trust me. Or see for yourself.
Nice Things I’ve Heard Lately (Via Lime) and What I Really Think Earns An A+
So my girlfriend Lime told me some really nice, happy news the other day. Here’s the story: She went for lunch with one of her friends whose younger sister is a freshman student where I work. Now, the friend has never taken a class with me, but even last semester she’d heard good things about me. Well, this semester she has her Freshman English class in a room next to the room I’m teaching in during that particular hour, and apparently her classmates who study with me have said positive things about the class. Well, what they actually said was …
For Chapter Two of Inside English…
This is one of the first teaching resources I’ve uploaded in a while. I got used to emailing them to myself and downloading, and now that I think of it I should upload a bunch of those files in a batch, with a list of what kinds of resources they are. But I’ll start by trying to cultivate a habit uploading new things as I create them. This quizlet deals with the passive, and with holidays. (That’s book themes for you.) If you want to check it out, please read the rest of this post.