Author: ts-master

Mike Marzio has been on my list of potential interviewees for a long time because of his innovative Real English video materials. But the reason that I finally got round to interviewing him for the Absolutely Intercultural podcast is that he has a personal project for which he needs to raise €30,000 to cover the…

I’m often asked how I know so much about tools available to help in the language classroom. The honest answer is that I don’t carry this knowledge around in my head. I think that I have learned to read the online landscape and if I see something I like, I know that there are a…

When I arranged to speak with Adrian Pilbeam about the intercultural training courses he offers I was surprised to find out that you could get EU support with your expenses to attend. Not that I am unfamiliar with the Grundtvig scheme which pays for adult educators to attend 5 day courses in EU countries since…

I’m not sure why it hasn’t occurred to me before to explore the intercultural aspects of the EVonline sessions for language teachers offered by TESOL. For 8 years now I have been enjoying and benefitting from the international mix of teachers who sign up for these free development sessions and so in the last Absolutely…

In order to hide the fact that I have parked a website on a subdomain of foxdenuk.com I only needed to add (NOT REPLACE) two lines of code to wp-config.php define(‘WP_HOME’,’http://greenlandwhitefront.org‘); define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’http://greenlandwhitefront.org‘); Neat!

I have just finished a project with my technical students in which my subject Communication and IT was linked with sociology. The sociology teacher had a role play she wanted to use and so in the end the six week project revolved around that role play. The final project was a good mix of the…

Roundabout now is when I usually post a summary of the latest episode of the Absolutely Intercultural podcast and indeed the sound file and show notes are ready to go but disaster has struck and we are unable to post the episode. They are working hard in Germany to rectify and rescue as much as…

OK so it took a little while but it has started. I had my first three spam comments today here on elgg. I don't want to restrict comments to logged in users since that kind of restricts the potential for conversation. Could we have a gate like on some blogs where an alphanumeric code in…

I would like to be able to publish on a web page the entries or a selection of the entries for a specific delicious tag. I have been trying all week to find out whether this is possible and if so how to do this but with not much luck. I have a feeling OPML…