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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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