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Sharon Hartle
Learning a second language can boost brain power, scientists believe.
Exclusive: Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style 'walled gardens'...
'Me at 43 is just me at 36 with an even dickier knee,' Oliver Burkeman says, 'but 50-year-old me is some other chap entirely'...
The language classroom is the obvious place to let imagination run free... 
If you feel the need for satire and comedy, this cannotvfail to bring a smile to your face...enjoy :-)
Bringing you a satirical take on the week's news with The News Quiz and The Now Show from BBC Radio 4. Enjoy a satirical take on the week’s news with the cream of UK comedy talent. 
I’ve heard many students say “I want to think in English” – haven’t you? In my first years of teaching I remember saying something like that to students too.
This past week, Winnie-the-Pooh just wouldn’t let me go. Please write about me, he kept whining. And when I told him I’d already written about him ... 
My friend Clive is a serial frapist. I'm calling him Clive so as to protect his identity.
TED Talks What drives our desire to behave morally? Neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin (he calls it "the moral molecule") is responsible for trust, empathy and other feelings that help build a stable society.
Recognition and Ownership 
As anti-capitalist protesters take to the streets, mathematics has teased apart the global economic network to show who's really pulling the strings...
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We should be investimg more in providing fast wifi access in all classrooms, and less in White Elephants... Oops, I meant IWBs.
Have you heard of Twitter? Do you like to tweet? Most likely you’ve utilized social networking websites such as Facebook. So why would you consider using Twitter?
Integrating Collaborative Projects with ICTs Via Sue Lyon-Jones Article on CLT - Communicative language teaching... 
Photo: Kari ByronThe other day Kari Byron tweeted this image of her morning coffee cup, on which someone had written, "If you are who I think you are,...
Some real "food for thought here, and the most magical teas as well....Luxury Christmas Puddings from Bettys of Harrogate... 
Like the idea of time boxes "Putting it simply, time boxing is the most effective time management tool that I know of. Even if you already know it, make it better with the tips that follow. 
This made me think quite a lot as, in some Italian universities, at least people worry so much about intellectual theft that there is very limited sharing, really of resources. Fortunately this is not true on the bolgosphere where people are very generous eith the ideas they share and as a result the problem of intellectual property theft is relatcively limited.
Can you own an idea?In the lastest issue of Voices, the IATEFL newsletter, in a page of teaching ideas, there appears the following activity:Holiday photos1.Teacher borrows a notepad from... |
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