'Video' Category
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Jul282009
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Jul282009
Neighbor Island Music Video
Courtesy of animoto.
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Jul172009
Kauai: Drive along Waimea Canyon
Waimea Canyon Drive in Kauai, HI from Wan Yue Chiu on Vimeo.
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Jul172009
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Jul052009
Top Ten Characteristics of a Good Grammar Lesson
On Onestopenglish, I found a really great article listing 70 characterists of a good grammar lesson for all you teachers out there. These are my top ten. Read all 70 here.
Is a surprise
As strange as it might seem, a disbelieving look, a “No, really??” or most of the class getting what you are trying to [...] -
Jul042009
Kauai Sunset & Rockstar Hawaii
Kauai sunset: Lumix GH1 slow motion from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.
Sign up for the neighbor island trip to the beautiful island of Kauai! See Philip!
Check out this unofficial music video of “Rockstar” Hawaiian style. I love the businessman in the office- he rocks!Hawaii Rockstar from Madskill Movement on Vimeo.
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Jun222009
The Golden Philosophy: Alan Watts
Golden Philosophy from Sensei Studios on Vimeo.
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Jun212009
Unilearning & Word Sift: Favorite New Web2.0 Learning Tools
Unilearning is a site focused on academic writing but it uses rollover effects and interactive activities to convey differences in such things as formal/informal, personal/authoritative language, coherence, logic, and even note taking skills! Check it out now!
Now onto a great tool from Stanford University for vocabulary development: Word Sift!For those of you wanting to improve [...]
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Jun162009
Air Quote: Slang Expession of the Day
In conversation, the dual flexing of the index and middle finger of both hands, to signify the presence of scare quotes. Used ad nauseam by ‘pretentious’ and ostensibly ‘intelligent’ university students, to advertise their ’superior morals’ and ‘erudition’.
Using air quotes in this example is, like, so ‘post-modern’.
Air Quote: from Urban Dictionary
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Jun102009
Reality Television
Television is by it’s very nature inauthentic, fake, scripted, false, fantasy, NOT REAL. Still, as paradoxical as it may seem, the genre of “reality television” has been attracting more viewers than any other genre. For the next two weeks my advanced English language use class and I will be examining different aspects of the genre, [...]