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One of the many jobs I did when I lived in China was working at a recording studio attached to the country’s biggest audio-visual publishing house as ‘token British female’. Over the four years I lived there I must have recorded hundreds of hours of English language learning materials. These were used across China as part of [...] Since it’s Monday. Minor [...] Loving this post about buzzwords in education. I’ve had to sit through a lot of meetings and read a lot of emails recently about whether my editorial team should be training our writers to utilise the ESA (Engage, Study, Activate) methodology, or the PPP methodology (Present, Practice, Produce). Then again there’s TTT (Test, Teach, Test) or [...] I’m back from the training course I was helping to run in Shanghai and now I have a team of three fresh, enthusiastic writers making their first foray into materials development. My job is to guide them through the next three months, and try to keep their spirits up as the creativity falters and the production line [...] Pudong skyline: fifteen years ago this was all agricultural land. The view from my hotel. At night I’d occasionally see a light on in the tower crane driver’s box to the right of the picture. Did he sleep up there? Shanghainese shoes on the 93rd floor: spot the Chanel. Down at street level things can be a little more [...] I haven’t been blogging much because I’ve been working flat out, and when I haven’t been working I’ve been eating, and when I haven’t been eating I’ve been recovering from all the working and eating. Today I worked in the recording studio of the Shanghai foreign languages university, recording some English language learning materials. Six hours of [...] I’ve spent a fair portion of the past week observing classes in the schools where the materials I’ll be editing will be used. The schools are extremely swish looking, but the classroom materials they use (PowerPoint presentations) are clunky and don’t match with the online course the students follow at home and in the language labs. ‘Check [...] When I used to live here, the varied and unpredictable social life was one of the main appeals of this crazy city. Aside from the fact that everything is cheaper so it’s easier to go out five or six nights a week, new places open (and close) at such a phenomenal rate that there is always [...] |
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