Me
I teach ESOL somewhere in East London, and do a bit of translation, language is my ‘thing’ – You can see some things I’ve done here:
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/seminars/online-cpd
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/seminars/esol-workshop
http://tlp.excellencegateway.org.uk/cliffhangeresol/demovideo/cliffhanger-video-demo.html
http://www.skillsworkshop.org/users/phil-bird
Life
I may or may not have been shaped by the following places:
I’ve lived here:
I’ve studied here:
Swansea University http://www.swan.ac.uk/hispanic/
Tower Hamlets College http://www.tower.ac.uk/teachertraining
Imperial College London http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/humanities/translationgroup/mscintranslation
University of Greenwich http://www2.gre.ac.uk/study/courses/pg/edpc/esol
UCL – http://www.ucl.ac.uk/language-centre/DELTA
Blogs
This is a just a blog inspired by work, to allow me to reflect on teaching tips, techniques and tools. I’ve got a couple of others here:
Mastering Translation – Reflections and Observations on Translation, inspired by the Masters I’m doing at the moment
Abrazado por las Nubes – Reflections on, erm, anything really
There’s also an old dead blog I tried to write a couple of years ago (ahem) http://certesolfiles.blogspot.com/
Social Media
Follow/stalk me via the following tools
Twitter: @pysproblem81
Flickr: Pysproblem
Hi!
I love your blog & I look forward to meeting you in Brighton!
xox Karin
I do like the ‘pictures as explanations’ thing in an About page. Any captions underneath them, to give a little more away?
Dom
Hmmm…. I think they are all geotagged if you click through to Flickr…. All places I’ve lived, for varying amounts of time… I could add another one now – I’m down in South East London now…