no comment

A friend ot mine said, “You write in this blog, ok, but your students don’t comment at all. Have they started these dreaming communities yet?”.

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Reality check

I have just opened the balcony door, so I can hear the coarse voices of teenagers walking by. Opening a window might seem like peeping into reality; a young friend of mine once told me (passionately), “Open the window and look out. The world is not what you can see on your computer screen.”
Well, can [...]

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our blogs 3

Would you like to read the latest post we have written? There are two ways to do it:
1. Look at the COOLEDGE category and click on “latest from our blogs”
OR
2. Look at the top right corner, just below my photo. There’s an orange square and a link “FROM OUR BLOGS”
Try both and see which [...]

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our blogs 2

Yesterday a student said he would never write in his blog again because it is only I who seems to be reading it
If you write more often, and if you read other people’s blogs and comment more often, we could make a real community.
To make things easier for you, I have made [...]

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our blogs

some are active, so you might wish to read them
some are not, so you might ask me to delete them from the blogroll if you have forgotten your passwords
some are not added to the blogroll - could you paste the addresses if you want me to add links to them here?
I left the other job, [...]

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Why should I be given the opportunity?

A couple of years ago a girl wanted to spend her senior year at a US high school. Of course, the high school wanted to know why. I felt her only reason to go was the superstitious belief that if she graduated from a US high school, she would be accepted by a US college [...]

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дойде звездният ти час

Искаш ли да напишеш сценарий, който да бъде превърнат в истински филм?!?
Ако не вярваш, копирам писмото на Алексо Петров, режисьорът на филма “Баклава”
Здравейте,
Lost Vulgarros обединява режисьори и сценаристи в ново предизвикателство –
КОНКУРС ЗА КЪС ФИЛМОВ СЦЕНАРИЙ на тема “Gara Bulgara : двама непознати мечтаят заедно”
Конкурсът е първа част от проект за ново [...]

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Is college all about lectures?

Yesterday I met a student who complained that she did not feel she was learning enough because all her classes are lectures. She lacks discussions, and she tries to use labs as the only way to corner a teacher and ask a question.
I have always thought that it’s a good idea to go to a [...]

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I refuse to know

(I didn’d know there was a book about Flatland! You can download it by clicking here .)
Some students say that they don’t need to study a subject because it will never serve them in their “real lives”. Others say that they don’t trust a scientific theory because they have not heard of it at school. [...]

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how far would you go

Ben has flown as far as Haskovo, Bulgaria.

because he heard his calling, I guess

I hope he has something meaningful to say on Peace Corps 70th anniversary

I hope even the most cynical now see the difference between the American Peace Corps and the American army
You’re welcome, Ben!

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