Head-fake Learning
The term head-fake learning is one of my favorites when it comes to discussions about teaching methodologies. The credit for this term goes unfortunately not to me but to one of my biggest inspirations when it comes to teaching and advice in all terms of mastering ones life, Randy Pausch. Randy considered head-fake learning as...
Send a student to school – vittana
There are trendy and hip startups, there are startups that simply make sense and then there are a bunch of crappy startups or copy cats (heello and others). Once in a while you come across a startup that simply lets you say ‘yes, that’s great’. That just happened the other day when I came across...
The real garage band – The Foo Fighters
Imagine: You are a platinum selling, million dollar earning rock band with countless top 10 singles and even more successful albums. Sold out arenas all over the globe. What could be the next thing to do? Bigger? Better? Nope! Cooler! One of the most famous and – in my humble opinion also one of the...
the open mouth unsexiness
Welcome to another post in my still not publicly available category “getting old stinks”. After covering a problem that might happen some time far far in the future and talking about cheap hair retention shampoo marketing strategies and the gate to hell today we will face another ugly fact that hits everyone of us when...
Degrees of Happiness – the balance is the key
The other day I came across a quote by the Dalai Lama on Facebook (yeah, somehow I did not find him on Google Plus) and considered it as pretty straight to the point and well said. He talks about different degrees of happiness and that it is essential to find the balance between those differences....
What do you love? – Google shows heart
A night quickie for the weekend (pretty late already over here in Thailand): Google just launched a new and fun search service: What do you love? It is not totally perfect (as you will see in the short video) but quite a nice idea though. Give it a try and spread the love! After entering...
the winning and losing in teaching | often to close
When I talk about teaching I usually talk about how much I like teaching and that it is a wonderful experience and the best decision I ever made. That is still my opinion and I am still very happy but today it is time to talk about some things that can drive you crazy and...
Google Plus is not Facebook!
Actually I stopped blogging about recent hypes and stuff that is cool just at the very moment since I think there are many platforms out there that cover all the new fancy things, there is no need for my humble little opinion (or to say it like a friend of mine “there are enough smart...
Facebook announces Videochat and Groupchat – lame news
So today facebook had a product announcement for all of us social network fans and freaks. One week after Google+ rocked our social media world facebook was expected to try to close the gap and pull out video chat. And well…the obvious happened. During an extremely boring (man, someone please give Mark Zuckerberg an introduction...
Mobile English Learning – Cambridge Apps
This is only a quick tip for everybody who tries to improve his English while being on the run. Mobile applications for your smartphone can help you to use your time on the bus, the train or wherever to improve your language skills. Cambridge offers quite a lot of useful applications for almost everybody. Just...
my first days with Google+
So the first few days of hectic testing, screaming and craziness are over. I finally had some time to sit and think about the first impressions of Google’s latest and final run into the social network field. And Google+ (say: googleplus) started with a bang! Right now it is still closed and only for some...
NNES – why non native English teachers even might have advantages
Oooooh yeah. I just had a looooong discussion with a fellow English teacher over here in Thailand. He, born and raised Brit – from London to be precise – told me that he considers it as quite nice and amusing that a German like me teaches English to those who can not speak but he...
