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Entries from August 2008

More paint box cover ups

August 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Remind and remember book covers

I wrote a posting a few weeks ago to show how Microsoft Paint can be used to cover up parts of images (see posting here).
I have been using the technique recently to hide words and phrases in images obtained from Amazon. For a group of students who wanted to know the […]

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Tags: Learner-friendly corpora · Lesson plans · Remind/Remember · Using images from Amazon.com

Trapping mice and trapping language

August 10th, 2008 · No Comments

A few years ago I shared a flat with a mouse. It was a very considerate mouse in that it would always do its business just beside my shower drain. Unlike other mice I have known, this one never left me inconvenient “packages” in places where I didn’t want to receive them (in my wardrobe, […]

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Tags: Lesson planning