Vibrant Wall Posters for Korean School English Zones & Classrooms
Schools in Korea are rapidly building “English Zones” in which they hang posters posters that show and describe foreign places and cultures. For one reason or another, these posters tend to be less-than-stellar, with spelling/grammar mistakes or obscure and boring info on them. Instead, I’d like to offer these four country posters that I made myself…
Click here to read moreESL Jeopardy – Free High Quality Apple Keynote & Powerpoint Presentation Templates
It’s tough to find a good, high quality Powerpoint version of Jeopardy, and even harder to find one for Apple Keynote. Here’s a useful Jeopardy template (5 categories x 5 questions per category) for high-beginner to intermediate ESL Learners for both Apple Keynote and Microsoft Powerpoint.
Click here to read moreHow to Print from Mac OS X on Foreign Printers using Gutenprint
It turns out that, out of the box, your shiny Mac doesn’t necessarily know how to talk to the printers in many parts of Asia and some parts of Europe. What’s worse, often the printer manufacturers and your office tech support are no help at all. Here’s how to get almost any international printer working on Mac OS X with a minimum of hassle…
Click here to read moreBookmarklet for any web browser: How to remove 90%+ of recruiter ads on Dave’s ESL Cafe
In the past, I showed how to use Firefox + Greasemonkey to remove recruiter job ads from the Dave’s ESL Cafe Korean Job Board. This time, I present you with a bookmarklet that will work in any web browser with absolutely no extra fuss. Just bookmark the link inside…
Click here to read moreHow to get plugins like TDO Mini Forms working on WordPress with PHP Safe mode in effect
I am hosting one of my websites, searchESLJobs.com, on NearlyFreeSpeech.net. So far, it seems to be a pretty good hosting provider, except for one glaring thing: they have enabled PHP Safe mode on their server. This is meant to be much better for security, but it causes hell for Wordpress and its plugins. Here’s how to fix some problems:
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I have a background in using IT in interesting ways to make life easier. I build templates and workflows that improve my teaching or fix issues that crop up abroad. I invite you to use them too.
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SearchESLCafe.comThe search feature of ESL Cafe does not work very well, so why not let Google do a better job? You can use this search to find lesson plans, English teaching ideas, and general info about living as an expat in Korea and abroad.
SearchESLJobs.comI put together the Largest & MOST Accurate Way to Search ESL & EFL Teaching Jobs… that I know of. It currently indexes several million pages of ESL job ads, and I built in a bunch of added features, such as permalinks to searches, recent search
TeachingRecipes.comI am the co-creator of TeachingRecipes.com. TeachingRecipes.com is the simplest way out there for teachers to share simple lesson ideas, games and resources for ESL/EFL classes and other language classes.
