lingKRIS

Monsters Rock!

lingkris — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:07:43 +0000

Class Panda has been studying vocab and describing people recently, and they drew some exceptionally cool monsters in the process. I want to keep a record of this type of work for both the students and myself, so I have set up a wiki for each of my classes; giving each student a page to keep any projects they do. Hopefully the students will enjoy the process and see their own development over time. Also, I have set up a wiki to collect projects by theme, this wiki is open to any teachers / students to join and add projects of their own. The monsters page is already up, so any teachers interested in adding student work about monsters (in any language) please do! More projects to come…

Shaanxi Teacher’s Uni Foriegn Students Raise Money for Sichuan

lingkris — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:52:46 +0000

Last week a group of Chinese Language students at Shaanxi Teachers University (陕西师范大学）held a food fair to raise funds to help the victims of the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan. Students made food from their home country and sold it out the front their classroom building on a day when many students had spent the night outside due to further aftershock warnings. The currnent death toll in Sichuan is approx 50 000, entire villages will have to rebuild. If you can, please dontate to the Red Cross. (Check out more photos here)

Our Teachers Event instigater Alaaddin, from Turkey.

Korean feast

Kazakh students Polina and Assem

First taste of a Doner Kebab Friendly encouragement

First International Collaboration

lingkris — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:30:33 +0000

I’m really excited to be in the process of my first collaboration, The Lunchbox Project. Currently students from China, Australia and most recently Turkey are participating. The project was initiated by Jess McCulloch in Australia, the idea being that students from different parts of the globe produce a project describing what they have for lunch. Students will produce material in their first language and the language they are learning, this gives the students opportunity to learn about other cultures as well as get a glimpse of the language learning experience of students in other parts of the world. Please click on the link occasionally and check out the students’ progress, or if you have students who are suitable for the project please participate!

Welcome 欢迎

lingkris — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:14:25 +0000

I have been teaching English as a foreign language in China for the past four years, learning Chinese for the past two. My aim for this blog is to document some of the work happening in both the classroom environments I spend my time in. I am interested in the use of web tools and online learning for language learners and have begun to gradually integrate this into my EFL classes, starting with blogs and online networks such as Ning. I would like to use this space to share ideas and resources, to talk about language and culture and connect with other language teachers and learners.

Happy learning.