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How to Teach Online Without Selling Your Soul (Book Release Notes and Thanks)
Another phase of intensive work comes to end. That’s right, my new book “How to Teach Online Without Selling Your Soul” is finally done and ready to see the light of the world. The reason for writing this book is simple. When I started working as a language teacher online in January 2009, it was like a…
Logging in to Log Off: Non-Mediated Nostalgia and the Point of No Return
As regular readers know, much of my writing circles around the awesomeness of being connected, like being able to work from anywhere and get access to all kinds of cool people and information – and the looming recognition- that being connected all the time warps our daily life into something which is characterized by being…
Din & Denial in the Digital Garden of Eden
Remember the days when a piercing was shocking? Or a tattoo? Nowadays, you have to implant ‘devil horns‘ under your skin, get eyeball jewelry or other forms of bodymodding to turn some heads. The practices applied range from splitting your tongue, permanently cutting your ears into elves-shape, to drilling holes into your skull! Who wouldn’t…
Getting Rid of the ‘Mindful’ Myth
Sometimes we use words without thinking too much about what they mean or where they come from. And while it is true that in everyday communication, where we tend to speak very vaguely, the “gist of it” is generally enough to make yourself understood, today, I want to take a closer look at the word…
Three Ways to Leave a Legacy in the Land of Online Learning
In my last post I talked about the fundamentals of becoming an online teacher without supporting huge investor-fueled teaching platforms or business practices you don’t agree with, don’t understand or simply don’t care about. Today I want to talk further about how you can establish your own legacy instead of indirectly fueling an impersonal brand…
Remembering Comes After Learning, Not Before
Modern memory aids in language such as the Pimsleur language learning system and smart.fm are good for what they are designed for: helping the brain memorize information. I do not have a problem with their performance in this area. The problem I have is with those who would counsel relying on such methods as a…