iPhone mobile projector

Here is a nice portable projector for your iPhone 4/4S.

As usual Jetdaisuke gives an entertaining review. Here are the key points:

  1. bright at 35 lumens
  2. maximum projection size 1524 cm (yes, centimitres)
  3. 120min battery life
  4. works as a OHP (overhead projector) with your camera

With external speakers you can add sound to your presentations.

Check out his youtube video (sorry, in Japanese, but you can get an idea of the product).

Zen and (the Art of) English Language Teaching

I will be giving a talk at the Hiroshima JET Orientation on 15 August 2012 entitled Zen and (the Art of) English Language Teaching. It will be about what we can learn from Zen and apply it to teaching English on the JET Programme, in which I was had been a participant.

Before I was an English teacher I had been lay monk in Japan. I thought it would be interesting to talk about what I had learned from Zen, one of Japan’s best known cultural exports, and apply these lessons to ESL.

Teaching function words: the cognitive and corpus perspectives

I will be giving a presentation on function words, what we can learn from corpora about them, how we understnad them in light of conceptual metaphor theory and what this all means for second language teaching.

The venue and date: PanSIG @ Hiroshima University, 16 June 2012.