Notes from the table where teaching happens.
Two lanes: current essays for working teachers — and the scholarly record they grew out of.
Current writing.
After my lessons, an AI writes a report — on me
Feeding transcripts to Claude to catch my own teaching habits — starting with the words I hand over too soon.
From independent study to connected learning
The connection between my 2006 research, independent practice, and today’s teaching workflow.
The three minutes I reserve at the end of a lesson
A closing routine that separates confidence from independent performance and sets up the next step.
Teaching with the machine.
What AI helps me do as a language teacher
Drafting, structured records, and the decisions I keep in my hands.
Cowork for teachers: start with one clear task
A small first task, with current documentation on devices and connectors.
Project instructions: where I keep recurring rules
Where a rule should live — and how to stop repeating yourself to the AI.
Before, build, after: how I connect lessons
How preparation, teacher review, and a post-lesson debrief inform the next lesson.
The scholarly record.
Marked then / now where the old work directly seeds what I build today.
Also: time-management for independent linguistic study (VAK); MOOC-integration conference talks (2015, 2016). 30+ items total.