A few days ago I came across a google+ discussion started by a quite famous German PR guy where he asked what people think when somebody tells them that they didn’t read their post, article, statement or paper and, when asked about it, simply rep…
Since I am kind of in the review mood right now, another review that might not be liked by many of my ‘colleagues’. As you can see I chose the headline: Don’t trust foreign teachers. Being a foreign teacher myself this might sound k…
After having spent some time looking for a new and interesting job that combines both of my professional preferences, teaching and online marketing, I figured that looking at Universities might have the biggest potential in providing the right environm…
After 3 terms of teaching on a ‘volunteer’ contract in Thailand I decided to change. I loved the experience and students here but now that most of my classes graduated I felt like this is the right time to change. Furthermore the money was …
The other day I came across an important and good campaign regarding school drop outs. Even though it’s focused on the US it is quite interesting to read through the facts since most of them might also apply elsewhere. Boostup.org tries to help students to stay in school while showing them why it is important Read More …
Social Media & Education Volume I shows and explains all major social media platforms and provides you with hands on advice and best practice examples. It is completely free of charge and you can download it for just a single tweet or facebook upda…
Here is another hands on example of how to use social media for teaching purposes. You already know how to use websites, facebook, twitter and so on so let’s cover another real best practice. While teaching languages it is obviously important to improve the writing skills of your students. So why not do it in a [...]
Once more a hands on post about something I tried in class this term. The first time ever that somebody over here tried to pull an ‘interactive’ game off so it wasn’t that easy to get the people involved but in the end it worked out. Not perfectly, but still funny and with the desired [...]
The past few weeks have been all about censorship (or demonstrations) in the world wide web with it’s peak when Twitter started to censor, or to allow governments to censor, content. For some time I wasn’t able to open links who were send via twitter since the local government blocked them all. Most of my students here however weren’t really bothered [...]
This is probably the first disappointed entry in my ‘teaching diary’ here on nomadteacher.org. And it doesn’t even affect social media or student behavior – well in some way it does, but not in the obvious way. The other day I gave an assignment to my hotel management students where I teach ‘English & Internet’. [...]
