In last month’s workshop the Cambodia teachers lunchtime project was to photo their school lunch using the XO and then present to the class. Here’s the lesson plan if you’d like to try it. or a Gorgeous French Guiana Breakfast? Over on the forum we’ve been chatting about breakfast videos and Carol, from the comments…

I woke up in Siam Reap, got breakfast, had a great chat about the project and about the amazing things that are being done with education in Ontario before getting a tuk – tuk for the ride back to the airport and then Bangkok. I crashed for the night at Joel‘s house. He’s also doing…

Then it was time for home. I’ve only been here two days, but we’ve done so much it feels like I’ve been here for ages. Everyone was so, so friendly asking so many questions and it’s just been such a positive experience. So we stocked up in a Cambodian “drive through” i.e. shouting out from…

This school is also trying out the $100 laptop “buy one get one free” scheme where people in the US buy one machine and another is donated to places like here in Cambodia. Yesterday I had a look at and to be honest I wasn’t too impressed. “Laptop” probably isn’t the best way to describe…

School starts at 7 AM here. Kids start arriving at 6. School finished at 5PM. One advantage of not having Playstations at home I guess. Showers were cool, one teacher has to pump the water using a “stairmaster” like machine whilst the other teacher gets a shower! They called it “natural temperature” water. I called…

One of the specific questions today was how to teach grammar. I got this a lot in India as well. The thing with Genki English is that you don’t explicitly teach grammar. The kids learn it from context. This is a much better way than the traditional “identify the nouns in this sentence” approach which…