I thought I was the last person on Earth that wasn’t tweeting so I decided to sign up. Now I keep asking people if they’re on Twitter and they look at me with confused eyes and say, “What’s that?” Anyway, you can see my twitter messages on the right hand side of the screen - […]

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You might recall I won a prize for a Christmas card design when I was eight years old (see here). Well I won another prize last Wednesday night and this time I didn’t cheat!

It was the British Council Innovation Awards (the ELTons) and one of the three UK prizes went to TEFLclips. I’ve written a […]

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What sort of people try to trick their loyal customers with double negative questions? After spending 30 minutes on the National Express website, attempting to buy a coach ticket from London to Leeds, they tell me:
We regularly send out details of our special offers and promotions
Now it goes without saying that I don’t want to […]

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This is, without doubt, the most common question that is asked during a teachers’ workshop that I give titled Do YouTube? I recently made an instructional video for TEFLclips that demonstrates the following:

How to download or ‘capture’ YouTube clips quickly using a website called savevid.com
Why it can be important to rename the video files on […]

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Just spent a few days at my parent’s home in Scotland. I found this buried in a drawer - an old photocopy of a Christmas card that I made when I was about eight years old.

This was my entry for the annual school Christmas card design - a very prestigious competition I seem to remember.
The […]

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Just wanted to nominate a couple of ELT blogs for the 2008 Edublog Awards:

Best individual blog: The English Blog (Jeffrey Hill)

I am in awe of the time and effort that Jeffrey puts into keeping his blog which seems to be aimed at both teachers and learners. I especially like the postings which offer ideas for […]

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