secret teaching ingredient: trust
During the last days I had a lot of time (thanks to my dislocated knee) to think about my teaching style, compare it, think about changes and try to figure out what the ‘best’ way to teach our students could be. Difference as advantage While there is obviously not ‘the one and only right’ way...
Google is not the Internet | web (re)search is work
During my studies I happened to use Google a lot. I learned a lot from it but also a lot – or even more – about it. One thing I learned quite fast: Google is NOT the internet! Now that I am working as a teacher as well as internet marketing freelancer I see a...
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The old foreigner / young Thai girl phenomenon – Thai love lockout?
One of the pretty cool things to work as teacher at a college is that you talk to a lot of different students. Obviously. The other day I started to talk about intercultural communication, we analyzed different cultural habbits and somehow ended up talking about one of the most common phenomenons in Thailand: The “old...
A new Notebook – do brands still matter?
4 years after buying my first Mac ever he decided it was time to put our relationship on a higher -well actually hotter – level. Due to the incredible amount of heat he produces right now (repair would cost as much as a new one) I thought it is about time to think of a...
Does paid content need money?
Currently I can see a lot of discussions about paid content going on in my timeline. Actually I thought this is quite an odd discussion (started years ago, stilborn child due to publisher’s attitudes). But somehow I started to think about it agai...
Hair retention shampoo – hell’s gate
May 6th 2011. A sad day! One of the saddest days in current history. At least for me. Today I was shown the undoubted sign that the devil of aging comes after all of us. With the 30 only days away that was exactly what was missing. Thank you destiny! I will unfriend you on...
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The Stream – AlJazeera’s social media community
AlJazeera – the immensly growing and weight gaining news network who especially became famous due to it’s good (and more objective) coverage of crisis areas, now launches a new social media community. A stream. The Stream! What is the Strea...
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2 weeks backpacking | Thailand and Kuala Lumpur
Since the life of a teacher is a very hard and stressfull one (stop laughing!) it is more than logical that we have some weeks off from time to time. I spent the last 3 weeks on the road while backpacking across Thailand and Kuala Lumpur. Here are some of my higlights. Chiang Mai –...
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City Role Model – Kuala Lumpur
If there is something like love at first sight it just happened to me. It was the first time for me to enter Malaysia and its capital Kuala Lumpur. Despite all warnings and scary stories about Kuala Lumpur – which is mostly referred to as KL R...
25 years after | Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Tomorrow (April 26) 25 years ago the worst nuclear disaster ever took place. The international nuclear event scale classified it as level 7 accident (with 7 being the worst possible). It all took place in Chernobyl in the former USSR (now Ukraine) and affected great parts of Europe in some way and still shows effects...
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Skating Thailand: The Udon Thani Vocational College
Got those 8 wheels under my feet I can fly so high I can fall so deep But who do I see coming up the track? A little green man with inline skates on his back. (sorry for the bad cover version. See the original song here) To make it short: I finally have some...
Learnable – Ordinary people, extraordinary knowledge | Review
A few days ago I stumbled upon an interesting e-learning platform. On learnable.com there are “ordinary people” giving courses in things they are good in and for what they have a passion. So learnable turns the everyday normal guy into a teacher. Right now I did not take a course so I am not sure...
