Short-term- Create a list of quotes, songs, images, videos, and more that inspire you to be a great educator. Share this list with us. Then let us know where you will place these sources of inspiration so that you will see them daily and they will fuel you with the passion and motivation to be an inspired educator.
Long-term- You have other personal goals to accomplish. Begin to find sources of inspiration for those goals and place them where you will constantly see them. Begin to have rituals such as running …Continue

Just a few lesson plan competitions I became aware of recently. Thought I’d share.
 
TED wants you! to nominate educators, come onboard as an animator or propose a lesson plan based on their talks.
Tailor Made English believes teachers are nothing more than the blind leading the blind. The ultimate dogmé challenge-a lesson plan for students in the dark. The winner gets $50 at Amazon.com or equivalent. Nice!

I was insanely pleased to learn that I took third place in a ‘Professional English Online’ lesson plan competition sponsored by IATEFL BESIG and Cambridge University Press.
As of yet, they haven’t sent me the edited version of my lesson plan, but this is what I sent them: Market Watch
It’s designed to tackle an area I know many learners have issues with, the difference between the present continuous and the present perfect. Especially in business where you talk about changing numbers a lot, it’s important to recognize and use …Continue

I got reinvigorated to look at my blog as a CMS system. While I don’t have a ton of free time to devote to the blog, I did at least look up a few themes and plugins. For the record, Listings from Woo Themes seems like the way to go if you want to create a bunch of different custom post types and especially if you have a lot of people contributing to your blog. It looks beautiful and it seems to make all those customizable fields wicked user-friendly. But …Continue

A few plugins and a hack on one of those plugins that keeps this blog running smoothly and looking so very awesome! Specifically, how to modify the Wordpress Popular Posts plugin to handle custom post types and plugs for the WP DBmanager plugin, the Revision Control plugin and the Redirection plugin.

How to style posts by category so they display differently.

RT @Marisa_C: Fossilized Errors Transcript now up http://tiny.cc/qz4rdv #ELTchat

Cool website that turns any HTML file into a e-book. I won’t ever need to print out another teacher’s sheet again. http://bit.ly/ebfSoR

Dear people who make funny videos on YouTube. Can you please make some w/o bad words and sexual innuendos so I can show them in my classes?

Just a shout out to p Type Converter, which made converting my old posts and pages into custom post types very very easy.

RT @DerrenBrown: Wish my Mum had never found Twitter RT @FrankHindle ur not magical u fucking queerhoe bag. Fake faggot Cunt….>we r amused

Best URL ever: deja.vu

How to change the middle category bar in the Wordpress theme Arthemia so it displays pages instead of categories.

Another good resource: fake stuff creators like Facebook profiles and trading cards via @larryferlazzo http://bit.ly/emvQOR

Took me one week to find this Summary of ELTChat on good use of Student/Teacher Talking Time http://bit.ly/hHpzsL