Month: October 2009

  • Where are you and where do you want to be? (a poll)

    [poll id=”4″] Click on the “Polls” category below or to the right to view and vote in the previous poll. Comments are welcome! I work in the US currently but have not yet given up on my original plan of working in Japan, at least for a year or so. Shorter-term projects in Taiwan would…

  • Online TESOL Certificates, By Popular Demand

    For a long time, people on internet communities have been asking whether TESOL (the international professional association) accredits or endorses any online certificate program, or whether they offer one themselves. The answer was always no, and so people always wound up advising against nearly all of the online TESOL (the profession) certificate programs. Most seemed…

  • 10 Ways to Make the Best of Your Time in…

    At The View From Over Here there’s an excellent post on “How to Make the Best of Your Time in Korea” with some great specific advice for people teaching EFL in South Korea. The other writer has kindly agreed to let me borrow her list framework as a springboard for my own general EFL list,…

  • International Kindle at Last

    So, previously I posted some caveats about the Kindle, but the fact remained that it was and is a very appealing piece of technology for internationally travelling teachers who don’t want to carry suitcases full of books with them. Even if you didn’t experience the USB issue that my friend experienced, though, the fact was…