Meet Mike Marzio
Welcoming Mike Marzio who joined us late in the session, in his words, as "student or coach" most likely the latter. Thanks (and blame) for the picture above to Mike's collaborator in Real English Online, Elizabeth Hanson-Smith. It's a picture of Mike and his wife Valery out biking where they live in southern France.
Mike IS a coach. Right now he's giving a Real English workshop which began February 14, 2005. Instructions for joining are found on Mike and Elizabeth Hanson-Smith's YahooGroup portal for Real English Online ("a homebase for teachers using video in all media") at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Real_English_Online/.
The instructions are:
- "go to Mike's site at
http://michaelmarzio.free.fr/.
- "Click on the link at
the top to see the week-by-week details in the syllabus at
http://michaelmarzio.free.fr/2_Syllabus_REO2005.htm.
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"Also, click on the link to the "Achieve" page at
http://marziomichael.free.fr/index.htm. "
"Mike is attempting to make Hot Potatoes Exercises with lots of QUESTIONS for TEACHERS about the way he is using HotPot, in order to find valid and interesting ways to use this wonderful, simple tool."
Though not specifically mentioned here, the focus of the YahooGroup and of the workshop is embedding video in language learning materials, especially Hot Potatoes. Mike also makes a living at this stuff, http://www.real-english.com/ .
See the index of all participants at
http://webpres2005.buzznet.com/user/?p=1&id=776980
