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Social Media & Education: Using Facebook for Teaching
Teaching / Web 2.0 / Online

Social Media & Education: Using Facebook for Teaching

by Sascha Funk on Dec 19, 2011 • 2 Comments
Social Media is definitely a huge field with numerous possibilities to interact or getting started. However facebook somehow simply is the one network which is widely known as ‘the social network’ or even ‘the internet’. So it seemed quite reasonable for me to start my series ‘Using Social Media for...
Head-fake Learning
Teaching

Head-fake Learning

by Sascha Funk on Aug 18, 2011 • 1 Comment
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....
Degrees of Happiness - the balance is the key
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Degrees of Happiness – the balance is the key

by Sascha Funk on Jul 24, 2011 • No Comments
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...
Teaching & Social Media
Teaching / Web 2.0 / Online

Teaching & Social Media

by Sascha Funk on Mar 23, 2011 • 2 Comments
Social Media HELPS teaching During the last years there have been lots and lots of articles in blogs or newspapers about the fact how bad social communities and the internet per se are for our children. It keeps them away from homework, enables them to check out inappropriate content like...
Culture Clash: Thai Laziness, Politeness & Smile
Travel

Culture Clash: Thai Laziness, Politeness & Smile

by Sascha Funk on Mar 7, 2011 • 2 Comments
This is going to be a tough post. I don’t want to rant to much since I really like it over here and the people are still amazing. So please do not consider my words as unhappiness – it is just a comparisson and one or two suggestions from a...
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Facebook announces Videochat and Groupchat - lame news
Web 2.0 / Online

Facebook announces Videochat and Groupchat – lame news

by Sascha Funk on Jul 7, 2011 • No Comments
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
Teaching

Mobile English Learning – Cambridge Apps

by Sascha Funk on Jul 4, 2011 • No Comments
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+
Web 2.0 / Online

my first days with Google+

by Sascha Funk on Jul 3, 2011 • 1 Comment
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
Teaching

NNES – why non native English teachers even might have advantages

by Sascha Funk on Jun 27, 2011 • No Comments
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...
secret teaching ingredient: trust
Teaching

secret teaching ingredient: trust

by Sascha Funk on Jun 25, 2011 • 1 Comment
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
Web 2.0 / Online

Google is not the Internet | web (re)search is work

by Sascha Funk on Jun 5, 2011 • No Comments
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...
The old foreigner / young Thai girl phenomenon – Thai love lockout?
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The old foreigner / young Thai girl phenomenon – Thai love lockout?

by Sascha Funk on Jun 4, 2011 • No Comments
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?
Web 2.0 / Online

A new Notebook – do brands still matter?

by Sascha Funk on May 30, 2011 • No Comments
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?
Web 2.0 / Online

Does paid content need money?

by Sascha Funk on May 12, 2011 • No Comments
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
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Hair retention shampoo – hell’s gate

by Sascha Funk on May 7, 2011 • No Comments
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...
The Stream – AlJazeera’s social media community
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The Stream – AlJazeera’s social media community

by Sascha Funk on May 3, 2011 • No Comments
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...
2 weeks backpacking | Thailand and Kuala Lumpur
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2 weeks backpacking | Thailand and Kuala Lumpur

by Sascha Funk on May 3, 2011 • No Comments
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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