My new Edu Blog

Another bloody blog? Yeah, this one’s about teaching Information Communications Technology.

AIS bloggers

Kevin has pointed out his ‘Linux Lab’ over at AIS. My ‘Windows Lab’ as I suppose it would be is next door. Here I teach Grades 6-9 about using technology to express themselves creatively (whenever possible).
I started the AIS school blog near the beginning of the year to showcase student blogs which I had them [...]

Those pesky kids…..

Charvey gets 10 intellectual credits for inspiring this post, or rather, requesting it.

As I come to the end of my tenure at the Korean School (thank you sweet jesus) I am forced to reflect on the last 16 months. Here I have been a homeroom teacher for Grade 4, teaching English, Math, Science, Social Studies, [...]

Dealing with Negatives

In light of recent discussions on the way people write about Vietnam, I’d like to point out how far the negativity can go. This disucssion is on the expat discussion board ‘Saigon ESL’, mainly for teachers in the city. Read it. Unfortunatly, there are negative aspects of living in Vietnam, and this illustrates them. They [...]

Teaching English in Asia

Once again the already fragile reputation of foreigners teaching English abroad is called into question and this time it is making international news headlines, as seen for example in this BBC article.
Whether the man is guilty of the murder of JonBenet is irrelevant, this case is now highlighting the issues at large in the ESL [...]

Aliens in Saigon

Have a look at this interview. It’s on www.expatinterviews.com. They contacted me because they wanted a Vietnam section on their website. I did my best to answer their questions and make it interesting, whether I succeeded is another question.
I have added a ‘Vietnam Blogs’ link list on the right hand side. It’s a nice way [...]

Busy School Days

School activities are sometimes a welcome distraction (for students and teachers) from the daily classroom schedule. Recently we had two. One was Sports Day. This however, is a Korean school sports day which involved only ONE recognised track or field event - a lap of the field outside. Most of the events took place INSIDE [...]

SPECIAL SCHOOL

Yes, in the picture, if you notice behind me on the board, is the exlamation ‘I am special’. What I am doing here is pointing it out MYSELF, rather than have people think I hadn’t noticed it and laughing and sending it into FHM along with a brilliant picture of a Chinese sign that [...]

Water Park etc

Well its been a little while since writing, not because I intended that but because I had a problem with Internet connection. Almost two weeks ago we went to the waterpark for our trip out. On the left you can see the usual banter unfolding. It was only a small place sandwiched right in [...]