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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I’ve been meaning to post this video for a while now. My good friend Nathan made it a couple of months ago. He’s gone now and I miss him. This is a video/photo montage that includes students, buildings, old people, watermelon, hello kitty and dog passenger. Enjoy…
YouTube - Where I am Calling From: Taiwan

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I was really looking forward to the talk by Mr. Mishra. I saw it “advertised” on Big Ell’s blog. Here was the write-up:
The Taipei Salon
Poor but Democratic: Democracy in India in the Age of Globalization
Many rulers like to claim democracy only comes after wealth. What about India then?
Indian democracy is one of the world’s greatest political experiments and it has [...]

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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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