Welcome to my blog

Welcome to my Fresh 101 blog. I'm thrilled to be exploring the world of blog writing together with you all... I'll be sharing some of the ideas that will come up in our lessons and some other thoughts that might not make it into our classroom. I'll also be referring to your blogs and provide some pointers for you.

I'm looking forward to reading your posts. :-)

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Final remarks

Having finished (re-)reading your blog entries I just wanted to say that I was amazed by some of the ideas and creative approaches - but even though I wanted to comment in this final round unfortunately I couldn't...I really wish some of those posts had been written earlier so that I and maybe some of you could have actually responded to them... - which you didn't do in general - but who knows...?

I hope you could see some value in  this process other than just trying to get a grade for it... ?

So long...
TAKE CARE...

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Ezgi, in one of your recent posts you referred to teenagers' confusion about the place they occupy in the world which reminded me of a quote I quite like and thought I could share with you all:

"The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place." St. Therese de Lisieux

Feel free to comment on my posts

I was a bit surprised to see that 55% of those of you who have already* answered my "surveymonkey" feedback questions said that they felt like commenting on my posts - but I only got one comment by you my dear students...? Naturally I asked myself "why?"

Could it be because I never explicitly invited you to comment? - I thought it would be obvious and needless to say...? so if that was the case I'm doing it now - better late than never... 

If you still feel like commenting on anything I've written (in anyway you like - challenge me, ask me questions, provide other examples / perspectives... whatever...) please feel free to do so....:-)
  
* if you haven't done it yet - you still can...
 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JXL3NPJ