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Connecting with South Korea

It’s always fun to help out a friend, especially when they are helping their students connect and practise using English.

Today my friend, the lovely Mrs Durff asked me if I would skype into her class of Korean middle school students attending the Global Vision Christian School Pre-camp located in Eumseong, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. to learn English during their summer break.

Unfortunately [...]

In The News

I was recently contacted by Shanthi Venkataraman, a student from Columbia University, Graudate School of Journalism, as my friend Silvia Tolisano (Around the World with 80 Schools skype project mastermind) had passed on my name as a teacher who had been using skype in the classroom for a number of years and had taken part in [...]

Skype-Connection-Fest

We’re involved in Silvia Tolisano’s short, simple yet so powerful Skype project AroundTheWorldwith80Schools. In just two short weeks we have connected with seven different classrooms in four parts of the world. And we’re not stopping there! By the end of our school year, I hope to share with you that we managed to connect right around [...]

Anything is Possible

I’m so glad that I am learning and teaching in a time when just about anything is possible.

I encouraged my friend and colleague Robin, (also new to International School teaching like me) to email a Canadian author whose books she bought with her from Canada to share with her class. Her class of 5th Graders have [...]

The Result of a Request

Some days are just an absolute joy to be at work. Wednesday was one of those days. Wednesday was the day the doors of our classroom got wide open and in streamed a little bit of Iceland.

I was really lucky to meet and get to know Alan Levine (aka CogDogBlog) at the Learning2.0 Conference back in [...]