Any one who needs help with English is welcome to email me as I can always change and create a second class for those who need assistance with basic English. I will help whoever requests my assistance.

Hello
My writing is not good and I want to improve my writing please help me.
Thank yu

Poems sound interesting. I’m not an expert for critiquing poems but, I’m certainly interested.

hello:D I have a number of poems already and I want it all to be criticize by an expert. I didn’t bring it now but I will post it whenever I can.

hi i donot know how to start with this group.

Thanks Francisco, I’ll be checking it out too as soon as I have time. That’s in short supply tonight.

http://jbstrategy.blogspot.com/2009/11/addressing-popular-misconceptions-about.html

But I did get that up.

I would like to restudy music based on the attitude and understanding I now have. I was a Music Theory major in college.

A few years ago I was teaching an ESL class. We got into a conversation about telemarketers. One of my students told the class the following story.

“My 8-year old daughter answered the phone. It was a telemarketer who asked to speak to her mother. My daughter said, ‘My mom’s at her English as a Second Language class. Call her back in a year when she learns how to speak English.’”

I log in 30 mins before the class starts and first upload my presentation. I then upload a copy via the file share pod for people to download. I then type the message, “I will record this class” so people first see that. I keep the audio and video off until I am ready to teach.

Great suggestions from everyone. Creating a good blog and audience takes time. I suggest you just write, play, have some fun with the blog. Maybe as you play you’ll get that “Wow it was so obvious I can’t believe I didn’t think about that” idea and find the voice and strategy for your blog.

That strategy worked well for me with my Classrooms Without Walls concept. I originally created this site to teach ESL online via Skype till I found a site called eduFire. I was rethinking how to reuse this site since finding eduFire. I also had this idea about creating a music blog (be 1 of 10 million) specifically classical music. While listening to the radio, I heard an interview about an organization called Cultures in Harmony. I realized this is what I wanted to do. To be practical, I decided to implement that type of strategy on the web and recreated my Classrooms Without Walls.

Back in June 2008, I wrote a blog post titled What Makes Good Language Learning Sites. Somebody left a comment about eduFire and as they say, the rest is history.

Francisco, though I think you greatly misunderstand the content, you have given me a great deal of motivation to use that blog to explain some things that are indeed in need of explaining, so I thank you very much.

I’d hoped to advertise my classes at eduFire, yes, and in the future, my eBook for Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” (based on my PowerPoint series) but, the content requires more explanation. I’ll keep you posted.

I tried to understand how to put Disqus onto this Wordpress blog but, that seems confusing.

Anyway, glad it’s good questions – I’m still working my way through this.

Baby steps. I’ve begun this:

http://suntzublog.wordpress.com/

I’m focusing this on Sun Tzu and “The Art of War” alone. Besides, if I deal with only dead people, it can’t upset many people. (Half joking.)

Koichi, that’s a lot of help. I’m going to have to sub your blog back. :) I’ll let you know how it all goes. In fact, if I’m going to study a blog, I’ll have to look yours over and see a bit more about how you’ve done things.

With Blogspot, there are nice things, but the basic limitations seem heavy enough – and I’ve tried working around them without much success – that basic things like appearance and aesthetics seem too limited. If I do move to Wordpress, or rather, if I create new niche blogs – which is also a BIG issue I am seriously pondering – I’ll announce it.

Thanks to everyone who’s commented!

Honestly, the notion that I’m mixing politics with education bothers me. Even just the appearance of it bothers me. The problem with strategic thinking is that it’s hard to make it work while being blind to current events. Unfortunately, even mentioning the names of people alive in the present area is certain to strike people as political. If that’s the impression that was given, that’s a shame, and I cannot allow that to continue.

Anyway, I don’t mean to make that sound like a long term problem. It’s actually quite a simple issue.

I have such a hard time blogging about this because there’s no known field or industry that successfully covers what I’m trying to cover…. with the strategy blog. (Indeed, this is the very reason I said at the top, “this is not an advertisement, I’m not satisfied with it (as it is).”) The business model I’m seeing other people use amount to crowdsourced analysis of isolated passages from Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War,” general strategic-sounding gobbledygook trading off his name, and selling flash cards and ebooks that have very little to do with the old classics except tugging on Superman’s cape. To the extent this field exists, it is comprised of websites and owners who don’t talk to each other much. That makes the traditional blogging promotion method more difficult.

Totally besides the strategic thinking angle, which I view as a long-term thing targeted at professionals, I need to separate my pure educational stuff (maybe time for a fresh blog for that then?) to wall it off from other things…. which as I said, I’m not sure is anything but the appearance of politics where I didn’t want it to begin with. I don’t care about politics; I study human behavior wherever I find it. Anyway: I’m doing two big fields from here on.

- English (incl. English as a Second Language, but not exclusively so)
- Japanese (I’ve just started laying down the foundation for teaching that on EduFire)

What I want with the English side, for instance, is pronunciation and speech coaching. Blogging may help but, I may need to resort to podcasting and YouTube before getting far with it. If people are limited to the written word, I can’t teach pronunciation all that extensively.

I’ve been delayed getting back to the Internet today, but I’ll need to find out if there’s a blogging community for that, too, which I can communicate with and work with. But, I think that helping those learning English as a foreign language to speak better American English for maximum usefulness in a global economy is a good long-term approach for me.

….One last thing, is there a counter-argument to weighing a page down with applets and gadgets and audio and video, or is that just how the Internet works here? Because, once I get podcasting and YouTube video making mastered, I’ll have a lot of material to push.