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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Nice site found: Free ESL Materials.com

Following other teachers via Twitter has its uses. I probably wouldn’t have found this lovely site without it: Blogs: Free ESL Materials.com | Blogging | Lesson Plans. If you are an ESL teacher like me, it is a great resource.
I especially like Breaking News English.  Here you can find not only topical texts but also

warm-ups
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Teaching the news

If I ever have to teach TV news again, I’ll definitely use this lovely video:

It is hillarious, it is so true, but it will definitely need subtitles or a transscript for my students. Nevertheless, it is worth the work!

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Bitten by Metacity: Bug 555027 – autologin failure …

I got bitten by this ugly bug (Bug 555027 – autologin failure …) and could no longer login to my lovely Gnome. With the help of the fine lads at #opensuse-gnome on Freenode and in the forum, I was able to find a patch here.
Now everything seems working again.

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Inkscape classes

If you (like me) have no idea of what to do with Inkscape, hop over to Inkscape Class Day 1 « Máirín Duffy for an eight session course by Máirín Duffy.
Originally held for 7th grades in the Boston area, all of us can enjoy the course via blog and PDF.
Impressive!

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Moodle for 2nd language and history teaching

This book (Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching) seems to be exactly what I was looking for. Strangely, there are no reviews on Amazon for it yet. The contents are impressive, as is the price tag: a hefty €35-40.
The book is promoted in the Moodle Language teaching community and probably worth the money, so I’ll [...]

If Gnome hangs while you log in …

… this might help you: GnomeLoginHang < Computing < LEPP TWiki.
It sure helped me this morning.

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Hi there!

I really thought I could do without a blog. Well, I still had my photo blog over here, but it seems that one can not  always express one’s opinion in the 140 characters of Twitter.
So, this blog is back!

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