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By coincidence, the Oxford Dictionaries blog just added a post about Tumblr English. It’s useful if you’ve just gotten started and feel confused by the jargon. I take issue with one premise o...

https://talktotheclouds.com/2013/05/28/oxfordtumblr/

First, do you teach college-age students? Check out Tumblr. You may have heard of it because of its purchase by Yahoo!. It’s a simple blogging/sharing site primarily aimed at images. Text and s...

https://talktotheclouds.com/2013/05/25/tumblr/

Check out the promising new magazine, Babel, written by linguists for non-specialists. I’ve read a bit of the first issue and I thought it was at a fairly nice level–new ideas if you haven’...

https://talktotheclouds.com/2012/11/28/babel/

It looks like the post-hacking cleanup is ongoing. The site has been reset to its defaults as I’ve installed a fresh version of the theme I was using, so bear with me if things look odd or diff...

https://talktotheclouds.com/2012/06/25/oh-dear/

I was at an ACE FELI all last week. It was pretty amazing. If you get a chance to go to one, or if you can request one for your community college, absolutely go! I’ll write more later if I have...

https://talktotheclouds.com/2012/06/22/ace-feli/

What’s the oddest place you’ve found a lesson or lesson resource? I just ran across an old Trader Joe’s Fearless Flyer. Trader Joe’s is a specialty grocery chain where I do a lot of my sh...

https://talktotheclouds.com/2011/05/19/ound-resources/

I’d like to spotlight a new addition to the recommended blogs here, Surviving in Japan (without much Japanese). This blog/how-to-directory is an ever-growing guide to how to improve your life i...

https://talktotheclouds.com/2011/03/29/spotlight-thriving-and-surviving-in-japan/

I do not accept guest posts or link exchanges with “online degree” sites or “online TESOL certificate” sites. Of course, people contacting me to offer such undoubtedly have never actually...

https://talktotheclouds.com/2011/03/28/no/

I wrote before that Twitter was like a magic cafe or an eternal, really good TESOL conference, but it can actually be a lifeline in times of disaster. When the Tohoku Earthquake hit Japan, I was ...

https://talktotheclouds.com/2011/03/22/twitter-as-a-lifeline/

Please consider donating to ongoing relief efforts in Japan. Many people in the northeastern areas still do not have access to sufficient food and other supplies, and those coastal villages were ...

https://talktotheclouds.com/2011/03/21/pleasetakeamoment/