Author: @tesolgeek
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Some Elementary School Entrance Procedures, aka, when your kid is 6 and ready to start school… Part 1
Elementary school in Japan begins in first grade. Children begin in the year they turn age 6 before April 1st (i.e. if you child turns 6 before April 1st, they go to school that year). Foreign children are not required to attend school, however, if you are a resident, in many (most?) places public school is…
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Help, I got accepted on JET and my spouse or partner didn’t!
This pops up as a comment on JET forums and facebook posts several times a year. I will try to put down as many comments as I have seen, and keep it updated when I hear some more useful advice. Firstly, for the married couples, the visa is easy, the spouse just gets a dependant…
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Flipped Classrooms for the EdTech Loving TESOL and TEFL
So, by now you’ve probably heard of the “flipped classroom” or “flip teaching“. (If not, keep reading!) The idea is that the students do more of the active learner role: first they learn and study on their own, at home or in a study space, possibly with video lessons prepared by their teacher or by…
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Animated and not Animated GIF
I found these in an old file folder on an old hard drive. They remind me of the old websites I used to make, long long ago, when animated GIF were AMA-zing and it took big graphics forever to load… and hamsters would dance. Anyways, I thought someone might enjoy them. By the way, when did…
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A Day of Fire… and AR
This is a re-blog from my post on Medium. Like, I got this on Pixabay by searching for VIrtual Reality, but it’s really AR… right? Whatever, it looks cool. Why am I obsessed with castles? I’m a geek. There I said it. It doesn’t hurt. Millennials probably don’t get that sentiment. Ha ha, young ones!…
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Noxon Logo
So my husband and I developed this logo several years ago (2012 to be exact) in order to have a creative way to mark our belongings. I also made a new version with my name on the front. I hadn’t used it on our websites because I wanted to make sure no one stole the…
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Mystery Location Calls, Hangouts and Skypes
So this morning I led the above Hangout and I promised a list of the links I mentioned… so here they are: What Mystery Location Calls are: Cybrary Man’s Mystery Location Call – http://cybraryman.com/mysterylocationcall.html Mystery Hangouts for Foreign Language Teachers – http://mysteryhangouts.blogspot.jp/ Infographic – http://www.slideshare.net/dambrosio7/mystery-hangout Breaking Down Classroom Walls with Google Hangouts: One Classroom’s Mystery Hangout Journey…
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Teachers and Snowflake Moments
Reblogging my article from LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/teachers-snowflake-moments-erin-noxon Teachers and Snowflake Moments Ever look at snowflakes? Actual snowflakes? I hadn’t as a child. I grew up in Florida, in the southern part of the United States. In the city I lived in, it never snowed. Once, when I was in Kindergarten, they had a “snow event” so we…