http://www.mikejharrison.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:39:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/06/iatefl-webinars/ http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/06/iatefl-webinars/#comments Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:20:11 +0000 Mike http://www.mikejharrison.com/?p=11190 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } In case you don’t know, IATEFL (the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) has started a series of monthly webinars on different topics relating to EFL, English, language and teaching. There are some really interesting names and sessions coming up, so take a look at the line up at http://www.iatefl.org/membership-information/iatefl-webinars. What’s so [...]]]> http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/06/iatefl-webinars/feed/ 0 http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/05/tutorial-how-to-make-a-flip-on-teded/ http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/05/tutorial-how-to-make-a-flip-on-teded/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 21:30:08 +0000 Mike http://www.mikejharrison.com/?p=11148 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Here’s a short video tutorial about how to make ‘flips’ or online video-based lessons on the TED Ed website at ed.ted.com. If you have any questions, you can leave a comment below or shoot me a message on Twitter. Happy flipping!!!  ]]> http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/05/tutorial-how-to-make-a-flip-on-teded/feed/ 0 http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/05/ted-ed-flips-write-lessons-based-around-online-videos/ http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/05/ted-ed-flips-write-lessons-based-around-online-videos/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 18:32:39 +0000 Mike http://www.mikejharrison.com/?p=11138 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I just randomly clicked on the TED-Ed link from a video I had been watching on the main TED site, and was interested to be directed straight to a page where it was possible to design a lesson plan and materials (commentary, comprehension questions and discussions) around a video from YouTube. A fairly quick registering [...]]]> http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/05/ted-ed-flips-write-lessons-based-around-online-videos/feed/ 0 http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/05/site-update/ http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/05/site-update/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 16:42:56 +0000 Mike http://www.mikejharrison.com/?p=11135 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Just a very quick post to point you in the direction of a few things I’ve done over the last year and a teaser of something to come quite soon. You can now find links to things I’ve written and videos of interviews I’ve done (one for IATEFL last month and one from back in [...]]]> http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/05/site-update/feed/ 0 http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/05/exploratory-practice-in-elt-iatefl-talk-notes/ http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/05/exploratory-practice-in-elt-iatefl-talk-notes/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 15:04:27 +0000 Mike http://www.mikejharrison.com/?p=11116 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } First up, apologies for taking such a long time to put something up here related to my IATEFL talk, which was called ‘Exploratory practice in ELT: an opportunity to develop yourself’. If you came to the talk on Wednesday at the Annual Conference last month, I am sorry for making you wait so long. (aside) [...]]]> http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/05/exploratory-practice-in-elt-iatefl-talk-notes/feed/ 0 http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/a-quick-note/ http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/a-quick-note/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:24:31 +0000 Mike http://www.mikejharrison.com/?p=11101 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Readers over the past few days may have noticed that I have been engaged with a form of blog challenge, a blogathon if you will, set by Tyson Seburn of 4C in ELT. The challenge? To write 5 ELT, or teaching related blog posts in 5 days. I’m ending with, in my opinion, on rather [...]]]> http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/a-quick-note/feed/ 1 http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/course-book-consensus-not-for-me-thanks/ http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/course-book-consensus-not-for-me-thanks/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:55:24 +0000 Mike http://www.mikejharrison.com/?p=11092 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Another brief report from the IATEFL conference in Liverpool last week, and this time I’d like to focus on the ELT Journal sponsored debate. The event saw Scott Thornbury proposing the motion: This house believes published course materials don’t reflect the lives or needs of learners and Catherine Walter opposing. As far as heavyweight names [...]]]> http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/course-book-consensus-not-for-me-thanks/feed/ 0 http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/putting-the-social-into-association/ http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/putting-the-social-into-association/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:16:22 +0000 Mike http://www.mikejharrison.com/?p=11080 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I went to the IATEFL conference in Liverpool last week wearing a variety of hats. Not literally, but rather to do with the multiple roles I find myself in at the moment: An ESOL teacher very much interested in professional development, wary about actually putting into practice or even remembering the insane amount of learning [...]]]> http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/putting-the-social-into-association/feed/ 4 http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/the-dullest-blog-in-the-world/ http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/the-dullest-blog-in-the-world/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:46:02 +0000 Mike http://www.mikejharrison.com/?p=11065 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Thanks to the inestimable Gavin Dudeney sharing it on Facebook, I have today been acquainted with the above mentioned ‘dullest blog in the world‘. And it seems to be exactly that. The minutiae of the day to day life of the creator of this work, a Dave Walker, are captured in the form of mini [...]]]> http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/the-dullest-blog-in-the-world/feed/ 8 http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/empty-vessels/ http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/empty-vessels/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:52:21 +0000 Mike http://www.mikejharrison.com/?p=11052 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } For those people who are newer readers of this blog a brief explanation of my teaching situation (if you know me or have been reading for a while, feel free to skip this section): I teach ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) in the south east of London. Because we’re in London (an attractive draw [...]]]> http://www.mikejharrison.com/2013/04/empty-vessels/feed/ 11