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Answer Our Hanukkah Quiz And Get A Free Book Download!
As our way of saying thanks for supporting our blogging and publishing in general and our Hebrew entry in the recent conceptboard contest in particular, we want to give something back to you today. Today is the first day of Hanukah, also known as The Festival Of Lights, in other words: The perfect day to…
Vote For The Future Of Online Language Learning!
Ever since we found out about this cool app called Conceptboard (thanks Kay) we’ve been experimenting with it here in and outside of lessons. I’ve written many times about it and even came to call it the “Mercedes among whiteboards”, once. (No, they didn’t pay me to say that. Remember that stuff about selling the…
Can You Help Us Out Here For A Second?
More than 1,200 people are subscribed to this blog via email and feeds, 3,200+ people on Facebook and 570+ more on Twitter. I love to write and share stuff here, but I’m also wondering what you would like to see! Some people will probably ask: “What, you don’t know what you should write? Then why should…
How You Can Join The FREE Movement
It was an interesting week. 5 days ago I finally released my latest ebook “Education Is A Cow That Anyone Can Milk” after integrating all the feedback readers of this blog have sent in. Sylvia Guinan wondered why I released it for free. And this was my answer. Kirsten Winkler followed up with even more…
Education Is A Cow That Anyone Can Milk
There’s the word: education. And then there’s the actual work of education. But all of too often the twain never meet. Is is unfortunate that while the actual learning conditions in many countries could be a lot better, often the only thing that improves over time are the speeches about education. Talking The Walk And…
4 Simple Ways To Save Your Local Library
When was the last time you visited a library? And to what purpose? The word library comes from liber which is Latin for book and originally meant “the inner bark of trees”. But the most popular “book” among kids today has nothing to do with trees. I’m talking about Facebook, of course. Sounds far-fetched? A…