Shiun will only have five teachers moving! Which is very fuew, considering the school probably has about 60, all told. Shimokasai will have about three changes, it looks like. None of my English teachers are changing ( Read more... )

Yep, it's Man Island day. (Ogijima) This is going to be a slightly dull update ( Read more... )

First the good stuff: Web typography! Reading the notes for the slides, I actually laughed out loud when I got to page 18. What's that? You didn't laugh? That's odd ( Read more... )

So people are blogging about WorldMapper again. Which is cool - it's a cool website. They're not linking to the website, they're linking to some UK newspaper article that didn't provide a link, but okay ( Read more... )

Today I'm going to help with a lesson about 'can.' Sentences like 'can I ...?' and 'can you ...?'

We're going to start out by doing some model dialogue, and I'm going to ask some questions to the kids. Like, "Can I use your pen?" And one of the sentences the teacher suggests I use is, "Can I touch your hair?" which is so, so creepy. So creepy.

There was a fan-made homage/parody/rip-off of Phoenix Wright/Gyakuten Saiban done with characters from The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi. Here's the trailer on YouTube.

I am going to Thailand from 3/24 to 4/1. I'll actually be getting back on 4/2, though, thanks to the trip back ( Read more... )

I'm going through a pile of papers by third graders (9th graders) who are describing where they live. It's an exercise in using sentences like, "There is/are ~." One student could only muster "I live in Takamatu." Most of them are pretty bad. Most are copied directly from the example in the textbook. You never really know if they could do a good ( Read more... )

I've been working on a couple new projects in my spare time = I've been letting all my other projects rot in a ditch. Still, they're interesting. I'll post something about them when I have something real to post. In the meantime, I talk about some games I've played, and the writing in them.

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Here's an article from the Mainichi about a beer that's made from milk.I have a kind of negative opinion of the Mainichi because it seems like they focus on the zany, weird, sensational, and simply perverted news stories to the point that they exclude 'normal' news. It's not hard to see why that would be - most English speakers reading Japanese ( Read more... )