I received a letter yesterday from CTOT, the Canadian embassy equivalent in Taipei. I was pretty happy, because the last time I got a letter from the Government, it was the one that said i was approved to sponsor my wife.
this was not the same kind of letter.
This one said that according to the information [...]

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2 months ago I posted a video on my teaching blog, with accompanying comprehension and opinion questions as an assignment. It’s a video about binlan girls, which I thought would generate the kind of discussion I only dream of from my 8th graders. It was a moderate success.
A few days ago I recieved an email [...]

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Is there really anything to add to this?

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This semester, I am giving the 2nd year students a weekly blog assignment. Here is the post on that.  I am not entirely optimistic that this will be successful by any reasonable standard, but who said anything about being reasonable?
I just finished reading “The World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman. In it, he extols the [...]

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