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		<title>Making a Machinima in Second Life &#8211; in 19 Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marisa Constantinides</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the next few weeks I will be working and helping moderate the MachinEVO course in Second Life, one of the TESOL EVO courses. We are all hoping to learn how to record Second Life and to create recordings which will be useful to our language learners. There are already more than 110 participants on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to make things fall apart &#8211; A behaviour model for creating incompetence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marisa Constantinides</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was originally written in 2009 on this blog which was very very new and had very few readers. I have updated it with two videos of a Pecha Kucha which was inspired by it and you will find them at the end of the post. Both post &#38; original talk and PK&#8217;s are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politeness in Conversational English &#8211; a Discourse Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marisa Constantinides</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many teachers who have had the opportunity to read discourse analysis either at University or on a PD course such as the Cambridge DELTA,  express great interest in this way of studying connected text or talk, but just as many find it  hard to incorporate it into their teaching; apart from an occasional lesson focusing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Nominations for the Edublogs Awards 2011 &#8211; #eddies11</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marisa Constantinides</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still remember how much I enjoyed being nominated for some of the awards as a new blogger and tweeter in 2009 and how much this encouraged me to keep blogging and to try to keep getting better. Some people may still think these nominations have no value &#8211; well, they do; it&#8217;s our colleagues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 11 from &#8217;11</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marisa Constantinides</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am taking up  Adam Simpson’s challenge, well, not really a challenge, more like an invitation but such a nice way to look back at what I have blogged about this year.  Adam said, “Choose the best 11” but I must confess I don’t write as many posts as all that. Some people seem to be able to churn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embedding Creative Thinking Skills Training into our EFL Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marisa Constantinides</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post Updated with videos downloaded from Upstream &#160; Videos of  most of my talk at IATEFL Harrogate 2010 Part A about 22 minutes  (conntent of slides 1-7 below is not included)   Part B about 8 minutes &#160; A Summary of my talk  It has been suggested that creativity (or, as it is also termed, divergent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little &amp; Often: Integrating Technology on Teacher Development Courses</title>
		<link>http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2011/11/21/a-little-often-integrating-technology-on-teacher-development-courses/</link>
		<comments>http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2011/11/21/a-little-often-integrating-technology-on-teacher-development-courses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marisa Constantinides</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago (April-June 2011*)  I wrote a report on a survey on the use of technology amongst CELTA tutors. The results were rather disheartening and the prevailing attitudes among many of my respondents ranged from the completely negative (&#8220;It is not our job/place to introduce technology on CELTA courses; there are more important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>aPLaNet &#8211; Promoting Teacher Autonomy</title>
		<link>http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2011/11/19/aplanet-promoting-teacher-autonomy/</link>
		<comments>http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2011/11/19/aplanet-promoting-teacher-autonomy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marisa Constantinides</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ aPLaNet Online!!!! I am writing these lines while our third meeting is in progress in Brno, in the Czech Republic.  So far we have generated a lot of interest amongst the members of our PLN who have joined our Ning and our Facebook group And we have been working very hard and have produced a great variety of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dyslexia Checklists</title>
		<link>http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2011/11/16/dyslexia-checklist/</link>
		<comments>http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2011/11/16/dyslexia-checklist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marisa Constantinides</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does it feel to be a dyslexic student? Watch this video. &#160; Checklist 1 taken from Dyslexia Action  &#160; If the answer to most of the following questions is &#8216;Yes&#8217; it would be wise to seek advice: All ages 1. Is he bright in some ways with a &#8216;block&#8217; in others? 2. Is there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going to Conferences, Connecting with Fellow Teachers &#8211; #TESOL France</title>
		<link>http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2011/11/14/going-to-conferences-connecting-with-fellow-teachers-tesol-france/</link>
		<comments>http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2011/11/14/going-to-conferences-connecting-with-fellow-teachers-tesol-france/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marisa Constantinides</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My online life has become a source of continuous Professional Development and constant contact with my Personal Learning Network (PLN), which includes inspired and inspiring educators from all over the world. I talk to them on Twitter and Facebook every day. We hold organised discussions on Twitter every Wednesday. But meeting with them in [...]]]></description>
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