Paper review: CALL-past, present and future by Stephen Bax

In this entry I reviewed the paper "CALL-past, present and future" by Stephen Bax. The original paper can be viewed here.

Paper review: the death of Cyberspace and rebirth of CALL by Mark Warschauer

In this entry I made an attempt to review the paper "the death of Cyberspace and rebirth of CALL" by Mark Warschauer who is a major figure in field of educational technology.

The original paper can be viewed here.

Paper Review: The Internet for English Teaching: Guidelines for Teachers by Mark Warschauer & P. Fawn Whittaker

This entry is a review of the paper "The Internet for English Teaching: Guidelines for Teachers"
by Mark Warschauer and P. Fawn Whittaker. The original paper can be viewed here.

Diary: Presentations: Laptops, new softwares, green movement and other stuff: part two

Presentation is definitely an art. It is a skill that should be developed. The presentations that we all have had have provided us with a very clear message: We all should work more on the art of presentation. Americans are good examples. They are real experts in turning everything into a show, even a war. I can vividly remember the very first day The United States attacked Iraq. They had live reports from inside the tanks heading towards the battlefields. They successfully transformed reporting a naturally dirty stuff into something exciting. There are useful sources available online on tips and points about making an effective presentation. A simple search on the World Wide Web will definitely show us some.
In this entry I have tried to review another paper in the book Innovation in English Language Teaching which I was supposed to present but I couldn't because of lack of time.

Diary: Presentations: Laptops, new softwares, green movement and other stuff

I have acquired something unbelievably valuable. You can perform something relatively well on stage without having the mastery you should essentially have. I owe this great achievement to my own efforts towards finding a new presentation software within the last few month resulting in finding Articulate software. Unfortunately I just could find the free trial version of the software which is a fully functioning version but limited to a 30-day use.
I was supposed to present three papers in the book Innovation in English Language Teaching. But what I did out of the classroom was working on only two of them and what I did in the classroom was presenting just one. This entry deals with the first paper which I presented in the last session of the class:

Designing the Discourse Syllabus by Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter

Diary: You are not the king anymore!

When our city's most famous physics teacher died, our city experienced one of the biggest unplanned funerals. Thousands of people rushed into the roads and exhibited a state of pure sadness. I can vividly remember on the very first morning after his death when I was anxiously looking for a place to have some of his photos color-copied – based on a promise I made to his son- the man who finally agreed to do this on that Friday morning – and of course was not happy at all to do that on a weekend- looked at the photos and suddenly recognized him. He copied all the photos for free. Why was he so popular? Where did that charisma come from? Now I can certainly say that he was a perfect conveyor of knowledge. He was an expert in transferring knowledge to students. He was a charismatic teacher.

Diary: Group portrait with Student

Human beings – maybe as an internal tendency – tend to model the natural phenomena occurring around them. They have always been showing great enthusiasm in adopting models to explain natural events with which – sometimes – no thorough scientific justifications are associated. To highlight my academic background – maybe in order to show off a little- I would like to depict an example which may help me find a better way to elaborate on what I am trying to convey.