Britain's worst teacher

From The Independent comes this article about Britain's worst teacher, who has been banned from the teaching job.

Professional podcasts

The British Council site offers English learners at intermediate and advanced level this series of podcasts that can help you improve your English, while they cover a large range of business and work fields. You can download the audio files, the transcript and a pack of activities with each podcast.

Some questions on education

Effective Questioning (subtitled) from ddeubel on Vimeo.

I remain a zombie

I remain a zombie is an online game that is played while reading the story of the game as a narrative story. It is a great way of getting everybody reading. Playing the game becomes a comprehension check.

Smashing pumpkins

Fill in the blanks in the first several paragraphs of this article about pumpkin smashing. Use your own words and phrases, or click "read more" to choose from a scrambled list of the words or phrases that were removed.

Iphone artist

Great NYT video story about someone who uses an iPhone app to make sketches of people on the New York subway.

Revenge

This is an article of Los Angeles Times about revenge, you may find some interesting ideas...