Facebook Out There Day - LOT News 17th Nov 2009
publication date: Nov 17, 2009
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author/source: Jason West
November '09 Newsletter (1)
Hello to everyone Out There
It's been a while hasn't it? I really hope that
you still read these because I haven't sent one for about four weeks,
sorry! :-)
There were some very good reasons:
Listen to this newsletter online
NEW Facebook English Out There - buy an EOT ebook, study, then practise on Facebook with your friends
NEW 38 EOT ebook courses - with free study tools and mp3s
NEW One-to-One EOT courses - 6 levels
NEW EOT website and NEW EOT mantra
Why do we talk? - Great BBCTV programme now on Youtube
Connections from Kafka - new research that explains some stuff
EOT is now British Council recognised - you bet ya! :-)
Old Jokes Home
Listen to me read this newsletter: you can see and hear me read this newsletter on our new Facebook fans page that, after weeks of editing, ebook building, collaborations, planning and actually doing has resulted in this:
On our new Facebook page you will find that you now have everything you need to teach and learn
using English Out There with Facebook, including real English speaking
practice with your Facebook friends, from just 15 pence per hour.
We told Vivox (who have just voice enabled the
whole of Facebook for free with their great app) about our courses and
they were so impressed by the potential that they agreed to work with
us to promote English Out There on Facebook using Vivox Voice (they are
cool gamer dudes who do the voice for World of Warcraft and Second
Life).
Our new page has 'how to videos' for everything about teaching and learning with English Out There..both offline and on.
Here are two tasters:
Come and say 'hi' and practise your English on Facebook with me for free:
That's our own special EOT voice channel
link...and I will have the channel open a lot over the next few days
and weeks (and you can have your own on your profile), but you can also
call this number to see if anyone is there who can help you to practise
when you have studied some new language +1 646-727-4472 x914270
38 EOT ebooks just published online
- we have turned our lesson plans into handy ecourse books...60 hours
on average...20 lessons per level....they correspond to the CEF and
come with free instructions, study tools and mp3s (where applicable).
That's why we can say that you can learn English
with EOT, take a quality modern course with up-to-date language and
topics that involves real English speaker practice for just 15p per
hour - $15 divided by 60 (hours) = 25 cents or 15p (approx.)
Of course, you can do as much practice as you like
with your Facebook friends because it is free. The more English
speaking friends you have and the more you do the cheaper your course
becomes.
We have a whole new set of courses too, six One-to-One courses for teachers to teach with online or face-to-face. Some come with free mp3s and study tools.
There's more info here on the new EOT website:
We also have a new slogan (mantra?!) - learn.english.social - which we think succinctly (very briefly) describes what EOT does and why it is so different from all other courses.
Why do we talk? - Some of you may
have seen me Tweet this but the BBC Horizon team produced a great
programme about language last week. Fantastic timing to tell everyone
who saw it that language is very much a social phenomenon and evolved
via social interaction, check it out on Youtube (6 parts):
Confusing Kafka - 'meaning
threats' make your memory for grammar patterns much stronger - the
latest research out there by psychologists Travis Proulx and Steven J.
Heine shows that if you make someone feel a little uneasy about
themselves, their place in the world or their sense of situational
certainty (i.e. what's normal or is not normal at that time) and
combine it with some teaching tasks...it improves implicit
(subconscious) learning.
They tested this with an artificial grammar, so it
can pretty much be related to language teaching I think. How
positively Out There!
Find out more by reading their paper at:
Fascinating and important stuff!
This link below means we are actually 'recognised' by the British Council:
Old Jokes Home:
Man: Doctor, Doctor, I keep dreaming about my
eyes changing colour!
Doctor: Don't worry - It's just a pigment of
your imagination.
Man: Doctor, Doctor, I keep dreaming about my
eyes changing colour!
Doctor: Don't worry - It's just a pigment of
your imagination.
Until next time...
Cheers
Jason
p.s. The hard work and lack of newsletters over the
last few weeks means I have a good stock of interesting stuff to post.
It's just this stuff above was a little bit more important right now.
Know what I mean? Keep reading.
