Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i3TLaKm29688; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:36:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:36:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <05A19D58-9A25-11D8-8089-000393A447BA@mindspring.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: A Tom <abtom@mindspring.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:10250] Re: Calling all Ideas! TESOL time X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 886 Lines: 29 I'm not sure what they want. I got tired of being rejected. I didn't go to TESOL this year but in previous years, I didn't think their adult ESL offerings (on the whole) were all that interesting (or is that a case of sour grapes?). Abbie Tom abtom@mindspring.com Abbie Tom Durham Technical Community College Durham, NC US On Thursday, April 29, 2004, at 04:19 PM, Andres Muro wrote: > TESOL seems to like cutesy titles for their presentations. Things like: > > The beatles, "Let it be" and verb conjugation > > Loonie toons and other cartoons to teach adjectives > > Rock and roll and modal auxiliaries. > > The are not too interested in ideologcal stuff such as poverty, > access, gender issues, etc. A few years ago I was thinking of > submitting several proposals with cute titles and bogus content to see > if they got accepted. I am kind of lazy though. > > Andres >
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