I popped along to the joint meeting of ACET and ETJ in Fukuoka today. There was a big bunch of teachers who had some great ideas. Two of the teachers had planned to do the “What would you like for Christmas?” theme. It was great to see it work so well, and go so smoothly….

After my last post about thinking of getting a Mac computer, I had quite few people saying I should take another look at them. I have actually popped into the computer store a couple of times but each time the Macbook Pro crashed! ( Once with Logic Express, once with Front Row). But my main…

If you own your own English school, which Superhero are you? Visit Mark Joyner for more of his personal development brain puzzle cartoons. – Or – Visit Mark Joyner for more of his personal development brain puzzle cartoons.

Cor, it was a bit chilly yesterday, wasn’t it?. To warm you up a bit here’s the quiz version of the Dream Holiday song. This song sounds quite slow when you listen to it, but it’s actually one of the faster quizzes. As with the other podcast songs it’s designed to be a conversation starter…

What to do when you have 50, 70 or 100s of kids in a class? After last weeks disaster, I figured it would be good to go through and figure out what games do indeed work with super big groups. I wrote an article about teaching big groups in China a while back, but here…

JALT is the Japan Association for Language Learning. ( In Japanese 全国語学教育学会). Today is their huge conference, mainly attended by university teachers or private English school teachers. As it’s a pay-to-present event ( most people get their schools to pay for it), I wasn’t that interested. But as most of the workshops are in English,…