Lots of new stuff, but surprisingly...no audio:(

Yep, another week of no audio. Looks like I've gotta put some extra work into the podcast to make sure these mistakes don't happen so often.I found this video from real english. I actually found the video on Google video. I think it's a great example of teaching language acquisition. The more senses you involve increases the learning potential.Another little video is of some young kids singing. I think a large majority of American teachers teaching young kids in ESL are women. You can see that it must be fun and gives them a feeling of accomplishment, and they think the kids are cute, and so on and so forth. I myself will be happy to teach any age group. I think it's important to teach more people multiple languages but you need to look beyond that. You should always think about what's next. I don't just mean what's next for your class, or next assignment but what's the next big step. We need to learn how to constantly better language acquisition across the globe. We also need to keep in mind that we are also constantly improving our own education here at home, and apply that. You really have to take a lot of things into consideration. Bettering yourself and the world is more than just teaching a 4th grade class for 5-10 years. Think about the people who are moving and shaking the earth, and what they did to get where they are at(in any profession or education) You have to think big. I am looking forward to teaching ESL, but I will be thinking beyond that. About improving the educational standards, developing my own curriculum, ALWAYS learning more to better myself.I am also thankful to places like google video, for now I can have video casts as well as just audio. I have a cheap little miniDV. It doesn't have a lot in the way of features, but I had bought it just for a simple point and shoot, so that's OK with me. I created a little cam test. I think I got some very good quality video out of the camera. It is a bit dark, but that's not the cameras fault. It was at night and pretty dark in the room already.I really want to thank my listeners and everyone visiting the site for being so patient with me.I've been pretty busy with classes. My literature classes all have me writing papers that are due around the same time. So I've been a little overwhelmed. It's a lot of reading, you know. Some fun, some not so fun. I've really enjoyed covering the book "The Woman Warrior" Written by a Chinese-American. I love Eastern culture. Specifically I concentrate my interest on Japanese culture, but I like other Eastern cultures as well, so It was fun to read.I've started doing more with the blog. I've been slipping in more personal interests into it, and I think that's cool. It gives the blog, and podcast, a little more life.I've also been working on my other site, and podcast--so I guess that AND my schooling has contributed to not having a podcast this week. Anyway, I had it pretty much set up, then I started discovering all the cool blogger skins available. So now I don't know. I found one that is kinda neat, but it just isn't functioning the way I'd hoped. I'm trying to get help with it, but it's kind of at a stand still right now. So I'm also still looking for another skin. The one I found, I became kind of attached to.Finally I'll end this weeks post with a couple videos I found on human development. This is an introduction to a course being offered at Wheelo(c)k college. Yeah, it's best use is for a student who is deciding whether or not to take the course. However it kinda talks about what I was just saying about learning, and continuing to learn. You may not see it explained right-out, but she talks about developement of a person(including the brain) Well if you start thinking about it and how a person develops throughout their life, you'll see how you need to present material to them. We can think, by seeing this video, that there's ways we are learning...how people learn, and that affects how we teach. It's not being cynical or thinking negative, or being pessimistic. It's actually taking everything into consideration and learning to get the most out of life, and how to better help individuals and the world. Here is another video relating to the first that better explains what I'm trying to say with my very poor speaking(typing) skills If you're confused at what I mean, or how I think this relates to the video, or anything else you want to ask, just leave me a question in the comments...or email it, or even better, it would be great to hear it, and play it on a future podcast, so you could call the voicemail.OK well, that's it for today. I'll leave you with this one last video( a fun one). I don't understand enough Japanese, but it's pretty easy to tell from the video that it's impressions of what technology, and our lives, could be like in the near future. It shows different aspects of life-shopping, talking on phone, school, etc...each introducing some cool futuristic gadget. Totally fictional, mind you. I look forward to hearing what you have to say, and I'll answer every single question I get.Have a good day, and a great week!