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		<title>Geocities closing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a Geocities site beginning some time around 2000-2001. Some important elements of the English/ESL site have been stored there, but Geocities is closing in October 2009.
I have managed to rescue those posts here. You can see them in the Pages Guide in the sidebar, and also listed below. The tedious business of correcting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=738&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Essay writing: Module C “Conflicting Perspectives” – the introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any guide to essay writing will tell you what an introduction should do. For example:
What is an introduction paragraph? 
The introduction paragraph is the first paragraph of your essay. 
What does it do? 
It introduces the main idea of your essay. A good opening paragraph captures the interest of your reader and tells why your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=708&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The hidden power of language</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea that language shapes (if not determines) our perspectives, indeed what we may think, has been around for a long time. I have encountered examples of the phenomenon in teaching ESL and EFL (English as a Foreign Language). For example, some Chinese students and I once disputed the colour of something we were all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=707&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>English/ESL nominated</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year English/ESL came in at #75 in the Top 100 Language Blogs 2008 on Lexiophiles. I have just been informed that English/ESL has been nominated for the Top 100 of 2009. 
Phase 2: Public Voting (July 8 – July 27)
At the end of the nomination phase, we will prescreen every blog and put it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=706&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Sylvia” (2004)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 &#160; I watched this partly out of HSC-related duty, but also out of interest. I have to say I was very impressed by its accuracy and fairness. The lead review (at the moment) on IMDb pretty much sums up my reaction.
In 1998, &#34;Hilary and Jackie&#34; explored alleged episodes in the short life of cellist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=701&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On not seeing the wood for the trees – HSC Advanced 2009-12 Module C</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People, I really have had a problem interpreting the rubric for Module C Elective 1.
This module requires students to explore various representations of events, personalities or situations. They evaluate how medium of production, textual form, perspective and choice of language influence meaning. The study develops students’ understanding of the relationships between representation and meaning…
In their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=696&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Someone has posted on Ted Hughes (HSC Module C)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And I am very grateful, for one. See Fulbright Scholars some notes. Thanks to Mel McGuinness, who has in turn kindly referred students to this blog for Frankenstein and Blade Runner.
 
I propose to say something about Module C myself shortly.
Update 24 June
Some references I have found.

Sylvia Plath Info – a blog. See especially posts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=692&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>These posts are really popular!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to WordPress, since this blog moved here from Tripod in December 2006 there have been 48 posts and pages read more than 1,000 times each. Here are the top five:

Studying the Gothic, or Emily Bronte? 19,627 reads
Physical journeys and Peter Skrzynecki&#8217;s poems 18,963
How should I write up a Science experiment? 16,686
Workshop 02 &#8212; NSW [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=687&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I’ve had a request I can’t really answer…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For starters, I can’t really offer advice online, except for general clues as in this post. The only ones I can directly help are those I see “live” and even there I never help with assessment tasks, except to help clarify the meaning of the task. That said, here is the request:
I&#8217;m a student doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=683&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good academic writing source for seniors and university students</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/English/esl--AndMore/~3/0D4Az__Qa9U/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In answering a recent comment I found the following site from Monash University. It is very good.

Posted in English language, English studies, esl for students, exams and assessment, HSC, literacy, questions asked, student help, study skills, writing       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=676&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading “Jane Eyre”</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/English/esl--AndMore/~3/N7SlTfGW-Fw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 22:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For someone I am helping I found these:
On this site this post on Wuthering Heights gives some ideas on genre and background. There is heaps on The Victorian Web. See also this City University of New York site – it includes a chapter by chapter analysis.
Do you have doubts about Mr Rochester? See this insightful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=672&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking at a visual text</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/English/esl--AndMore/~3/fLqShjdMP2Q/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 10:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is something I prepared to help a student in Year 11 ESL, but I find it is also helpful for others. I am indebted to Paul Grover’s excellent Visual Texts (2004), part of the Australian Heinemann English Project.
 
&#160;
Writing about a text
An old way is to ask: WHO is saying WHAT to/for WHOM, WHEN, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=669&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good resource on speeches</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/English/esl--AndMore/~3/xLpranpfjsg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are doing the HSC module on speeches, go to Erudite.net: Speeches 09.
Fair enough too, as quite a few people come from Erudite.net to this blog!  
Posted in English studies, HSC, student help Tagged: 2009-2012 HSC, English resources      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=657&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pause for some stats</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[6,070 views so far this month.

Mary Shelley, &#34;Frankenstein&#34; &#8212; and &#34;Blade Runner&#34; 538 in the past seven days
How should I write up a Science experiment? 303
The &#34;Belonging&#34; Essay 198
HSC English NSW Area Study Standard and Advanced &#34;Belonging&#34; 1&#160; 168
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Physical journeys and Peter Skrzynecki&#8217;s poems 127
Belonging pages: HSC 2009-2012 125
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		<title>It’s not every day I sing the praises of a “crib”…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ … but I am prepared to laud Maya Puiu and Lisa Edwards for their Pascal Press Study Guide for “Belonging” and Peter Skrzynecki’s Immigrant Chronicle. It really is a thorough and extremely intelligent guide.
It is in fact so good it could be dangerous for some students, if they were to draw on it too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=640&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visualising new media</title>
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		<comments>http://neilwhitfield.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/speaking-of-pretty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pretty, eh! Not the new template, but this.
 
It’s called “Conversation in the digital age”.
Hat tip: The Tubes are Diverse and Crowded (Reverend Jeremy Smith).
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		<title>200,000 views coming up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to WordPress, the total page views here will reach 200,000 today or tomorrow. That&#8217;s since December 2006. There were 500+ yesterday.
Including pre-WordPress (that is Tripod etc) Sitemeter says we&#8217;ve had 260,009 page views since 2002 from 177,474 visitors.
My own visits are not counted.
Update 20 February
The 200,000th page view happened at 7.15 this morning. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=626&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For many kids Civics is arid, deadly dull and is thus hard to teach</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That, I suspect, is part of the problem behind the story in today’s Australian &#8212; Students do badly in study of civics. I really don’t think results would have been much better fifty years ago when I was fifteen.
STUDENTS&#8217; knowledge of Australia&#8217;s system of government is lower than expected, with only one in three Year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=625&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The bushfire and the Australian imagination</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a good article in today’s Australian by Simon Caterson: Living with the embers.
IT would be hard to overestimate the strength of the hold that bushfire has over our physical environment and over the Australian imagination. When in 1988 a series of ceremonial bonfires was lit during the Australian bicentenary celebrations, historian Geoffrey Blainey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=624&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A week of respect and solidarity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am closing off all new posts on all my blogs for the rest of this week. I just do not feel like “business as normal.”
&#160;
 
Go to
Bushfire appeal launched
Victorian Bushfire Appeal 2009
National Bushfire Appeal
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		<title>Breaking the silence!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am coming out of mothballs to draw your attention to something very significant from the USA. To quote an email which has just arrived:
Dear Educator:
As a valued edweek.org user, you are invited in for a sneak preview of Quality Counts 2009: Portrait of a Population. The official release date for this highly valued annual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=588&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mothballed but not closed</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/English/esl--AndMore/~3/uX1B4mcS9Yo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From January 2009 no fewer new posts will be added to this blog. Some posts and pages will be updated from time to time. There is a very strong possibility that new pages relevant to existing pages or to the 2009-2012 HSC in NSW may be added, and in that event there will be an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=580&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two to look at</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students of ESL or EFL will find much to use on Real English. There is also an associated blog.
 
The next is an Australian educational blog that came my way. It has much to offer teachers, especially but not only those dealing with very young students. I commend the ESL page, not merely because I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=574&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HSC English NSW Area Study Standard and Advanced: Belonging 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this first post I will simply look at what is in the Board of Studies Prescription for this module:
The Area of Study must be considered in the context of the Area of Study description in the syllabus, course objectives, content and outcomes. (Reread English Stage 6 Syllabus, p 32 and pp 35–38; p 50 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=570&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NSW Module A English HSC Advanced: on not seeing the wood for the trees…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My coachee was unfamiliar with the expression “can’t see the wood for the trees”, so I explained that it means losing sight of the whole pattern because details grow and grow at an alarming rate. This is a state many HSC students find themselves in. So how to guard against it?
 
Photo by Neil Whitfield [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=558&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Dolphin or a Lonely Transvestite? Thoughts on the story of English.</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/English/esl--AndMore/~3/3Gj6af-9aJw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That puzzling headline is taken from a fascinating review article on Slate.com: “A Dolphin or a Lonely Transvestite? How best to talk about English in English.”
… But it&#8217;s hard to resist the urge to pick a particular kind of animal as the perfect emblem for English. McWhorter says it&#8217;s a dolphin among deer. He calls [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=552&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” — and “Blade Runner”</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/English/esl--AndMore/~3/wDKdz7h_dVQ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no lack of material on the Internet about this famous novel. Those of you doing the 2009-2012 HSC in NSW must compare it with Scott Ridley&#8217;s 1982 movie Blade Runner, which you will also find on this site. You must attend especially to the context in which each work emerged, issues of genre, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=540&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>October 08 best ever! Thanks to you.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Already, according to Sitemeter, this is the best month ever on my English/ESL site, both here and previously on Tripod, since counting started in November 2002: 9,200+ visits to today for October, and 11,900+ page views. WordPress stats credit March 2008 with 12,167 views, best so far, and give 11,230 views so far this month [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=534&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations SHS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ That is, to Sydney Boys Highs School and Sydney Girls High School, side by side since 1927-8, and this year celebrating 150 years service to education in NSW. Yes, I have a stake, as I went to Sydney High &#8212; there&#8217;s the evidence on the left &#8212; and indeed saw the 75th anniversary! I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=531&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food for thought</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/English/esl--AndMore/~3/h89p5yQTrek/</link>
		<comments>http://neilwhitfield.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/food-for-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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Posted in challenge, future schooling, Teachers Who Change Lives       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=521&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another good edublog</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/English/esl--AndMore/~3/dWKTJ9P9gew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one comes from Victoria. It came to my attention because it has linked to me, so I visited and liked what I saw.
 
Much more sophisticated in IT than I am!
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		<title>The Sourcebooks Shakespeare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are just brilliant, though I admit I am judging from just two &#8212; Othello and Macbeth &#8212; which (glad to say as a pensioner, sad to say from the publisher&#8217;s viewpoint) I bought last week at the remainder shop at the end of the Devonshire Street tunnel at Sydney&#8217;s Central Station. I have been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=515&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Worth visiting</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[And yet another email informed me about this site:
 
&#8230;which is how it looks in Google Chrome.  
MULTIMEDIA ENGLISH CLASSROOM is a free online classroom to learn English, designed for students from all around the world. It uses authentic material and is targeted at students of English who already have a basic knowledge of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=507&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Viva — Wollongong 11 October 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another email, this one from the South Coast Writers&#8217; Centre.
Poetry Viva
SCWC PROGRAM11 October 2008
Join our most exciting contemporary poets for an afternoon of challenge and contemplation. Featuring Dorothy Porter, John Tranter, joanne burns, Judith Beveridge, Peter Skrzynecki, Barbara Nicholson, Chris Mansell, Elizabeth Hodgson, Merlinda Bobis and more reading from their work. Call in to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=504&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>August wrap-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been &#8212; or may have been &#8212; a record month for English/ESL. Sitemeter says 9,046 visits and 12,340 page views; the previous best was November 2007 with 8,515/11,255. WordPress, counting slightly differently and not including visits to the other bits of English/ESL on Geocities, comes up with a second-best outcome &#8212; 12,167 views [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=503&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spell it like it is | spiked</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spell it like it is &#124; spiked by Frank Furedi, author of Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting Twenty-First Century Philistinism (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004), is a mix of sense and nonsense in my view. First the nonsense:
In essence, variant spelling is a true companion to the idea of variant truths. Contemporary cultural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=496&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 100 Language Blogs – Lexiophiles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t say I was displeased when I received an email pointing to Top 100 Language Blogs &#8211; Lexiophiles because English/ESL has been listed there &#8212; at #75. I strongly recommend your browsing the list as some very interesting blogs may be found there.


Now that we have our very own Top 100 Blog List there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=477&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is zero singular or plural? For example, if no-one answers this, will I get no reply or no replies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If that puzzles you, you will see on funtrivia.com that you get sent here!   Thanks to Brian in Canada &#8212; who found we had the answer&#8230;
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		<title>A Twist In My Story: He Made A Difference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I happened on this while randomly surfing through BlogExplosion. It&#8217;s not a total waste of time, you know, as every now and again something of real interest comes along &#8212; a whole blog, or a particular post. I mentioned BlogExplosion in Around 500 Education blogs… last year; sadly, since then, the site has had its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=474&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>101 Ways to Cope with Teaching Stress | Smart Teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one for the teachers. It arrived via an email from one of the people involved with the US site on which it appears.
101 Ways to Cope with Teaching Stress &#124; Smart Teaching 
Stop smoking: That little buzz you get from a cigarette may calm you down temporarily, but the nicotine that’s blowing into your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neilwhitfield.wordpress.com&blog=586087&post=471&subd=neilwhitfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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