Jim George

Jim George, Japan, English, EFL

Independent language school (Luna International) owner & full-time teacher. Luna is also a Cambridge ESOL open centre (JP004) & I fulfill Team Leader responsibilities wrt training and monitoring oral examiners nationwide.

Luna Student's Room
All our students are encouraged to contribute from time to time. Reflections on graded readers & projects derived from them; writing tasks generated in class or from 'homework'; teachers' bragging about cool class work & introducing new ideas to our following.

Contributors by invitation only - our school's students, teachers, and associates. Contact Jim if you want to add your voice. Comment is free, and very welcome.

Theme: pre-school, immersion, EFL, cambridge ESOL, luna international, matsumoto, nagano, young learners, YLE, english school, eikaiwa

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Damianne R President

Damianne R President, Japan, K-12

I am a K-12 technology coordinator/teacher. I've been teaching overseas for about 6 years (counting to 2009) and am currently in Nagoya, Japan.

Journey with Technology
I blog to better understand and to converse with others. My motivation comes from my learning journey as well as from the needs of those in my community.

Theme: education, technology-integration, tutorials

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Preetam Rai

Preetam Rai, China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Tertiary, Adult, Commercial, Educational Technology

Educational technologist, working across countries with a range of educational institutions. Organizes and helps out in barcamps (unconferences) in South East Asia. Traveling most of the time and happy to meet students and teachers everywhere.

preetamrai.com - currently offline
Learning events, tutorials, video blog, travel stories and popular culture.

I'll be happy to skype in if you want me to connect to your class and talk to you students about East Asia, South East Asia, learning, technology etc.

Theme: travel, education, technology, ethnography

Timothy Phelan

Timothy Phelan, Japan, University, The view from Japan

I'm Tim Phelan, professor of The International Center of Miyagi University (ICMYU) in Sendai, Japan. I support English learning through lectures in English, teach foreign students about Japanese culture and society in Japanese, and advise and help Japanese students with study abroad. I've lived in Japan now some 25 years.

phelansensei.com
I use this blog to talk about my work as a professor at Miyagi University - to publish my resume, my classes, and my research. It is also a place for me to center my presence on the web.

One of my key audiences in non-native speakers of English.

Theme: japanese studies, japanese higher education, sendai, university education, presentation studies, english language

Neal Chambers

Neal Chambers, Japan, Adult, English teaching

I teach English conversation classes in Osaka, Japan. I write a blog about difficult English questions that students ask in class. I maintain an index of English materials organized by theme and grammar level.

EnglishSpark
Advice and help on how to teach the best English lessons. Answers to difficult questions from students. Links to the best English teaching resources on the net.

Theme: EFL materials, worksheets, lesson plans, teaching advice, teaching community, finding students, private lessons

Steven Herder

Steven Herder, Japan, Junior & Senior High School, English as a Foreign Language, EFL, Oral Communication, Writing Classes

Teaching EFL in Osaka, Japan since 1989. MA TEFL University of Birmingham (Dissertation stage) and an avid collaborator. Founded MASH with some very cool people and recently put out a call for submissions for a new book. I'm friendly and approachable, contact me anytime.

Japan Action Research in EFL
Sharing thoughts and ideas from my classroom. My aim with this blog are three-fold: 1) I would like to build a network of teachers with similar interests.
2) I would like to do some collaborative action research related to junior and senior high school teaching.
3) I would like to collect research data that has been conducted in the Japanese context. I look forward to the adventures that lie ahead.

Theme: EFL, collaboration, writing, MASH, JALT, extensive reading, extensive writing

Michael Stout

Michael Stout, Japan, All Sectors, English as a Foreign Language

Teacher of English to speakers of other languages. Member of Japan Association of Language Teaching, English Teachers in Japan, AsiaTEFL. Interests include learner autonomy, project work, task based language learning, EAP, vocabulary and testing.

Mr. Stout's Blog for Students and Teachers
This blog serves several purposes: communicating with my students outside of the classroom, publishing my students' work, and it serves as a resource for both students and teachers.

Theme: ELT, EFL, ESL, global issues, community

Bill Harshbarger

Bill Harshbarger, Japan, Tertiary, Language Program Administration

Since joining the Peace Corps in 1969, I have been involved in international education, communication and administration. I have worked in the U.S., Japan, Dominican Republic, India and Oman. I am currently Director of the English Language Program and Professor in the Division of Languages at International Christian University (ICU) in Japan.

Director or Indirector?
This blog focuses on educational topics related to administration and teaching in an English language program at the university level.

Theme: education, english, administration, web2.0, networked work