1 teaching position is opening up in the junior high school after Chinese New Year.
Please apply only if you are currently in Taiwan. Please address an email containing your resume and covering letter to Gary/Patrick for the Junior High. The address is at the end of this post. Please try to [...]

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In a Murphian twist of fate, it turns out the student was not *exactly* the culprit. The photograph which he had linked to belonged to a (financial) site, which was hacked into. I contacted them to clarify the matter and indeed, they had no idea some smutty pics were on their server. It remains unclear [...]

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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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April was a bit of a stagnant month for me, but I think we are getting back on the ball. Bawl. Bowl. Bald. This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to step it up a notch in my class, using da blogs. There is a new blog site called edublogs.org. ANd as the [...]

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