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28 July 2006
My Teaching resources
So that's it. I've succeeded in creating a page to share all my bookmarks concerning teaching resources. It's on the right hand side; it's called MY BOOKMARKS - Teaching Resources. You just click on the link and you will then see a page with different categories:
- Resources for the class : documents to use directly in your class: printables, time savers, video or audio extracts, etc.
- Teachers' websites : personal pages from teachers willing to share their ideas.
- Tools for teachers : useful websites, search engines or softwares.
- Lesson plans
- Advice for young teachers: how to manage behaviour and discipline and other things.
- Official websites : created by the different "academies" (how to you translate this into English?) -> direct links to the English pages.
- More general English Resources: dictionaries, literature, art, etc.
The "blogs" and "radios" sections are still empty. This will come later.
The organisation is not perfect. I've done that quite quickly but I intend to re-organize everything in a better way. The "Resources for the class" section is too full for example. I will divide it again to make it clearer.
I also want to guide you by grading the different websites. I've already put three stars (***) to some of them because I love them. I would like to do the same for all the websites (* = useful, ** = very useful, *** = absolutely necessary!!!).
I will hopefully have some time in August to do all this.
The website I'm using is www.allmyfavorites.net. It is free, clear and very simple to use. I like the fact that you can access my bookmarks just with one link on another page, so that it the blog is still pleasant to surf on (otherwise it would be full of links!).
I will tell you when the page is updated.
If you have any links you would like to share, send me the URL and I will add it. :-)
PS: I won't be in touch for a week or so since I'm about to move to Paris and I will need some time to get a phone line and an internet access. So see you all soon !
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24 July 2006
Sharing my bookmarks (I'm trying!)
What I really would like to do thanks to this blog is to share my teaching resources. The internet is a fantastic tool for teachers as it allows them to see what other teachers do and get inspired. I'm impressed when I'm visiting other people's websites - particularly teachers.
I have myself a lot, A LOT of resources on my computer, mainly files I downloaded through the past three months when I had some free time, in the hope of being better prepared for the next school year.
The problem is that I don't have enough space available here to share them with you. I should create a special website for this but I'm hardly beginning this blog and I'm still discovering new stuff every day so I don't feel ready to open a website on my own. Maybe one day.
BUT... I thought I could at least share with you the websites on which I've found some of those resources. Giving you the links would be simple.
I wanted to do it through blogmarks, a service which allows you to publish online your bookmarks.
I've not been able so far to publish them on my blog. I have a problem with the Blog Sync function. If anyone knows how to do this, please tell me!!!! :-) I'm not a geek ;-) ; I know some stuff about computers but not enough apparently!!!
If you see another solution to my problem (how to share my bookmarks in a very efficient way), please tell me!!
I hope I'll be able to share those websites with you soon.
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22 July 2006
Holidays
Holidays are just a transition for French teachers. It's a two-month transition before starting a new school year. This transition is quite eventful for me as I'm preparing to start a new life in a new place. I'm moving to the suburbs of Paris to teach. I'm not going there alone, fortunately. I don't know if I would have been able to face all those many new things just by myself.
It's going to be exciting, as it always is when it is new. My life in this current city has been nice - but it is now over. I wanted a change, after only two years living here. It was enough. I feel I don't like to stay in the same place very long. I feel I am too young to settle somewhere, somewhere sure, somewhere definite. Nothing should be definite. I should be able to accept new challenges anytime. I have to. I will turn 24 soon. This is too young for anything to be definite.
I'm sometimes longing for new places. Places where everything can begin again. Places where I am a stranger, and yet where I can feel I am in the right place.
I am longing for this feeling, this one feeling I already had. This somehow lost feeling.
The feeling of freedom, of infinite possibilities, of open future, of endless opportunities and dreams.
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We were young. Not young in the sense of not aged. Young in our spirits. We all left our countries, coming to a new one. We were all looking for something. Including me. I found what I came for. Freedom. Freedom of mind.
There was nothing to worry about. Nothing mattered. Everything was far. Only the next day counted, the next meeting, the next talk, the next kiss, the next party. Our lives were rhythmed by our encounters.
We felt eternal. There were no obstacles. Happiness was our common lot.
Then we all left.
We all left Ireland.
And the feeling was lost.
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