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It has been a week now from the beginning of the spring semester in Russian universities and I decided to write a short post about what I see as an important question to address.Russia is one of the countries with a long-standing tradition of Teacher-centered classroom which I see as a great obstacle to the development of the students' learner autonomy.Just today I posted a task for my students to complete in the course of academic writing  they are taking. I posted it in the wiki I use to…

Dear All--

I can't say I am a vigorous Twitter user partially because until this starting course I could not quite come to the understanding of how it might be used in my teaching context. I was introduced to Twitter back in the summer of 2008 during the Hornby Summer School all devoted to teaching using the technology. I remember how excited I felt then but my enthusiasm soon dwindled because back home I could not see a place for it in the classroom. What I completely…

Dear All--

I'd like to share with what I have been busy with over the last week, which was actually promted by our sessions and discussions. Thanks to the activities in our group I've realised that what I really want to do and am interested in is teaching online. Well, I have had some experience in e-moderation for the British Council but what I started thinking about is teaching as a freelancer. So as a first step to doing this I made a google search and one of the first…

Greetings to all course participants!

I am writing this blog post from Oxford where I am currently staying for my Christmas/New Year break after attending my graduation ceremony at the University of Leeds where I studied for my Master's in TESOL and ICT.

I am really excited about this new opportunity to work together with teachers from around the world discussing some issues associated with literacy in its current interpretation. It would be interesting to…