Ideas From The Guardian: Family

I like to challenge my students. I like to choose activities and stimuli that will prove to be thought provoking and different. I have no desire to make them, or me, feel uncomfortable, but I do feel that I need to be pushing them mentally in order for them to come up with an interesting response to the materials I provide. So in the spirit of 52, I took a look in the January 28th Family supplement of the Guardian newspaper to see what I could find... Michelle Hanson writes about her embarrassing parents. Q. Have you ever been embarrassed by somebody? How and why? Original article Steven...

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Just Say Yes

About a year ago, I made a decision. It was the kind of decision that people have made careers out of, especially the writer Danny Wallace who coincidentally was at my university at the same time as me. Since he studied Journalism and became a writer and I studied Media, specifically television, and became a teacher of English as a foreign language, I’m going to assume that his days at the University of Westminster were rather more productive than mine. He went to write a book called Yes Man, which was Hollywoodified (that's my word but you can use it...) into a movie staring Jim Carrey,...

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Quotes of the Day

Here are a couple of quotes that I came across recently that resonated with me and my teaching so I thought I'd share them with you. Do they mean anything to you? Click on the image to make it larger. Taken from here. Taken by me here. Louis Agassiz biography he...

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