Hanna Jin - and her humorous approach on life

Hanna is a former student of mine who has really taken to blogging in a big way.

Her fantastic blog  hannalikes.posterous.com  was recently featured at bloggers.com,

http://bloggers.com/blog/let-me-introduce-you-to-80885

and she now has readers all over the world!

Congratulations Hanna!  Keep up the great work!

Unfortunately, she will have to move to a new platform now that posterous is disappearing. So by all means have a look before April 30. 2013!!

via hannalikes.posterous.com

Satire -- American style

I'm probably not the only one who finds this blog (maybe the French word "blague" is a better name for it!) very funny...

The sad thing that I'm afraid it's actually going to cause more folks to vote for the little lady than to steer clear of her and her "policies". What the heck is gonna happen if McCain gets into the White House and then falls down the stairs or chokes on a pretzel?! Then this lady would become the leader of the free world?!

God help us all!!

Of course I also had to check out what the cartoonists are doing with this theme over at cagle.com

Some good ones here!
http://www.cagle.com/news/McCainPalin/main.asp

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Year

Larry is a teacher in California. He must be a very busy guy. And his students must have a lot of fun learning English because Larry's always on the lookout for websites that make learning English fun.

Have a look and see what you can discover!

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/about/websites-of-the-year/

RSS

Use this

http://bestofcyberopps.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

if you want to subscribe to this blog.

Blog names

I haven't actually met her yet, but Rebecca seems like someone I'd like to get to know. She's currently teaching English in Austria and blogging about her experience doing so.

But what I really like is the name of her blog. Click on this link and find out what she has called her "study of all things Austrian".

This blog in German.

Seems it'll be a while before human translators are replaced by machines!


There are some really funny translations here.

Blogger for Dummies

http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/

If you have a Blogger blog, then this is the place to learn stuff that will really "pimp it up"!!

Translate!

TRANSLATE!

George seems to be one of the few students who actually reads my blog. And the guy ought to have his head examined...He even admitted that he is continuing to blog after SUK4!

So George was wondering how I got that nice little set of colorful buttons on the sidebar of this blog which link to this Google translation page
http://www.google.com/translate_t

This very useful blog is a goldmine for really tweaking your Blogger blog!

And here's the URL just in case!

http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/02/add-language-translation-flags-with.html

Need some good books for learning English?

Couldn't believe my eyes when I stumbled upon this blog...Check it out while the checking is good!!

Easy to remember the name of this fantastic resource:

ENGLISH STUDY MATERIALS

Search the site for the word "Download" or...
try one of these two "magic links"

magic link 1

magic link 2

Netvibes

Looks incredibly useful!!!!

Blogger vs Wordpress

Thinking about moving your Blogger blog to Wordpress?

I was, and actually did it, just to play around and see which blogging tool I preferred.
Here is what my blog looks like at wordpress. I haven't tweaked it in any way. I just imported the posts from blogger and choose the 3-column template. I can see some advantages to wordpress already, but blogger has a lot of good features too. Will have a closer look...

One thing I really like is the 3-columns look. I started wondering if it is even possible to create a three-column template in blogger since I did not see one in the templates they offer. Would I have to learn html?
That's when I found a site that gives a lot of information about making your blogger blog do the things you want it to do. I added a translation tool to my blogger blog because I thought that would be useful.

So which *IS* better...blogger or wordpress?

Personally speaking, the jury's still out, but in the meantime I am learning a lot about blogging using Blogger by reading this Dummies Guide to Blogger

If you are interested in making a nice blog, it's worth informing yourself a bit using a site like this. But keep in mind that what is really important at the end of the day is the CONTENT of your blog! It's WHAT you say first , and what it looks like second.

Voki

Add a picture and a voice to your blog!

It's fun! And very easy!

It took me about 5 minutes to register at VOKI.COM , create and then add Mike the Moose to my blog.

You can add your own pictures and backgrounds as well as voices or audio files. I didn't have my microphone handy so I just typed in what I wanted Mike the Moose to say and picked a voice to read it for me. (Mike was a little embarrassed about his Canadian accent...) Maybe at some point I will sing a song, record it and add a picture of Frank Sinatra and let people believe it that Ol Blues Eyes has lost the ability to sing.

At any rate, have fun with this new tool!

Larry Ferlazzo's edublog

I thought I was bad (actually I'm too busy to be bad...) ...

Anyway Larry seems to be doing what I'd like to do with this blog, namely use his blog to recommend different websites that students can use to learn cool things, like English. He's an English and Social Studies teacher at a high school in Sacremento, California.

He's obviously been doing this for quite some time.

Check out Larry's website, too!

http://www.bayworld.net/ferlazzo/index.html

This is his teachers' page.

Why doesn't the teacher give us a grade on our blogs?

In this article, Konrad Glogowski from Ontario explains his approach to evaluating student blogs.

I am posting it because some of my SUK4 students keep pestering me to grade their blogs.

I am hesitant to grade them however because I think ideally students should blog in order to find their voice and discover what blogging can do for them. If they are only doing it to get a grade, then I think they should reflect a bit more on what they stand to learn by taking their learning seriously. And keep in mind that ultimately anything they do they should be doing for themselves.

Here's a self-assessment scale he came up with that I like. He apparently has much younger students in an English class he teaches in Canada.

Here's a link to Konrad's blog

Learn English thru Lyrics

This site has LOTS of lyrics that will scroll by themselves. Good reading practice even if you choose lyrics that don't exactly qualify as poetry.

RSS in Plain English

This short video (or it's bigger here will help you become a power Internet user by learning how the new RSS technology can help you have the content you like (your favorite blogs and/or news sites) sent to you automatically rather than having to go and get it. A real timesaver!

Find out exactly how in this short video.

Deeplinking

This guy's blog looks pretty cool to me. I think I can get some ideas for improving my own blog.
I like all the categories.

What's a blog?

In this short video people express some of their ideas about what a blog is.

• What about you?
• What is your blog for *you*, personally speaking?
• How are *you* using the technology to improve your English?

The-25-basic-styles-of-blogging

I'd like to tell you about two things in this post.
1. http://www.slideshare.net
this is "a place to share and discover presentations and slideshows".

2. http://www.slideshare.net/rohitbhargava/the-25-basic-styles-of-blogging-and-when-to-use-each-one/
This might give you some ideas what you can do with your blog.

BLOGS of Lisa's students in 4B and 4C

BRUXMEIER
http://de.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-FJEtp44leqjMWpB2gtUbL7kEGcXteUg-?cq=1
GEMEINBÖCK
http://linguana.livejournal.com/
HÄUSERER
http://kdenisse.wordpress.com/
KÄFEL
http://de.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-a_ayHnw8eqFomr0Jd4BOalwsIcQCPHun;_ylt=AhQNRZzkd8FZeocLUtJ1ywdMO.J3
KALLINGER
http://george07.blogspot.com/
KROPF
http://de.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-odO0nTMyd6c8yYG.mDwX1X4m
KULMER
http://lydiakulmer.wordpress.com/
KUMER
http://akumer.blogster.com/
LASSNIG
http://julialassnig.blogspot.com/
MANDL
http://christa-mandl.blogspot.com/
MARTIN
http://joannasuk4blog.blogspot.com/
MIKAC
http://360.yahoo.com/profile-HTE3pgIhcqfTn1YxW_yhAA--?inv=mEivF.lj&r=
PANZERI
http://paenz.blogspot.com/
PAYER
http://360.yahoo.com/payerjulia
PEISSER
http://de.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-QJPHjzQieqT4D61jMwI.gBAoNEFFqQ--;_ylt=At7rkxdS2ncU.MZg6Tij8sRMO.J3?cq=1
PEJIC
http://360.yahoo.com/pejicdejana
PINTER
http://snafu666.net/blog/
PIRNAR
http://tina-mojblog.blogspot.com/
PRÄSENT
http://suzie85.wordpress.com/
RIEDL
http://05riedlc.wordpress.com/
RITZINGER
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-MXv6kokieqRzwjdz20H54mPefLxj11xF_IM-?cq=1
SCHERNTHANER
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-IdeUPJQieK7zuBjHVjS7I4VlEwQnah15Oeds
SCHINDLER
http://de.blog.360.yahoo.com/nicilietta
SCHÖGLER
http://rys07.blogspot.com/
SERBAK
http://magicforest.wordpress.com/
SERDAR
http://slavica-serdar.blogspot.com/
SMOLIC
http://skywards.slo-hosting.net/
STIEG
http://de.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-ihNouAo7bqoksAjhpOCNPZ22HA--?cq=1
STRAHLEGGER
http://jacqueline-englishblog.blogspot.com/
SUSANJ
http://dynna32.blogspot.com/
TANASIC
http://maja84.blogspot.com/
TOTER
http://www.tabulas.com/~AtoterBeta/
VABUSEK
http://ivky06.blogspot.com./
VUKOVIC
http://www.machiavuko.wordpress.com/

WILFLING
http://stefwilfling.blogspot.com/
WOLFARTSBERGER
http://01wolfar.blogspot.com/