Comments on: New TEFL articles etc Jan 2009

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:00:34 +0000

Do you think it could go viral David? Seeing as my article was also a blatant rip off I think everyone should get involved and the next person should write a blatant rip off of yours…

Sandy- I’d usually edit nasty comments like that more heavily, but Paul is an exception so you more or less get away with it this time

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:46:20 +0000

Yes, I’m afraid that Paul Lowe, the Patron Saint of sw[EDIT]ndlers and ch[EDIT]rlatans, has been back on the prowl. He has left his slug-like trail all over my blogs! Eugh…!!!

By: David V.

David V. — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:54:03 +0000

Is he talking to you or me, Alex?

Meanwhile… David V. in ‘blatant ripoff of TEFL Tastic post’ shocker

http://www.eltworld.net/blog/2009/01/if-you-really-must-go-to-that-tefl-conference/

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:53:45 +0000

Paul, where is the mockery in this post? And why are you too ashamed to write under your own name? Surely, if a comment is only worth posting anonymously it isn’t worth posting at all (to paraphrase a mother’s saying from an earlier, politer age)

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:15:31 +0000

YOU DO NOT EXIST. YOU ARE A FIGMENT. GO AWAY. CEASE YOUR MOCKERY.

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:28:56 +0000

Eh?

By: ANONYMOUS

ANONYMOUS — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:25:03 +0000

DO NOT MOCK DO NOT INSULT YOU ARE PLAYING WITH THE INFLAMMABLE

By: David V.

David V. — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:07:42 +0000

I’m not drunk, despite what my numerous typos may suggest.

By: David V.

David V. — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:06:43 +0000

RE: 15 tips for people attending TESOL conferences (a great selection of advice), I woould add a few things.

- Find out if the presenter is sponserted by a publisher. If they are, they’re probably selling you a book.

- If someone is presenting research they’ve conducted, it will be very, very boring. You have been warned and only have yourself to blame.

- Plan on attending a workshop at least one in every two sessions. Time tends to pass quicker and you generally come away with something you can use in class.

- People from the most exotic locations give the crappest sessions. I have no idea why this is.

- Jeremy Harmer is quite entertaining, as is Scott Thornbury. Hugh Dellar, despite his ‘Innovations’ being worth a mere 67.1% is another who has the whole presentation thing down to a fine art, as is Michael Swan.

- I avoid ‘conference dinners’ like the plague so can’t comment, but can suggest that avoiding them like the plague has always done me fine.