was hunting materials for my (exam) paper, and found this short n nice n neat article:
ED427318 98 Motivation and Transfer in Language Learning. ERIC Digest. Author: Ngeow, Karen Yeok-Hwa
read it through here.
Article: Reflection on Action Research
found this a good read, written by Christopher D. Sessums titled “Making It Personal: Reflections on Action Research and Teacher Professional Development“.
for teachers who have been doing action research, or department heads who have been pushing teachers to do action research, this is a good piece of article to read and reflect upon your own journey 🙂
How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century
TIME.com posted the above article two days ago, check it out and reflect upon this cover story in TIME magazine.
and interestingly how CNN tweaked the title to be “How to bring schools into 21st century”. juz an observation 😛
On social software
was working on my latest ‘production’ for audioblogging/podcasting and went to hunt down some definition of ‘social software’, gotten two good links:
1. My working definition of social software… by Tom Coates (with truly rich exchange in the comments)
2. Are You Ready for Social Software? by Stowe Boyd
Social software are built to:
1. Support for conversational interaction between individuals or groups
2. Support for social feedback
3. Support for social networks
(extracted from Boyd’s article)
Teachers sell lesson plans online
this is surely enterprising …
A new web site launched in April, teacherspayteachers.com, aims to do for teachers what eBay has done for the masses: It gives teachers a far-reaching platform for selling their lesson plans to other interested educators. Buyers say the site helps them quickly find relevant content that can be adapted for their classrooms; sellers say it allows them to earn some extra money for their work.
read the full article from eSN.