Yvonnz's Documents

  • 16 p.

    Crown workshops 16 July 2011 'Flipping the Classroom'

    My first attempt at 'Petcha kutcha' for a presentation on writing feedbacks using screencasts. The links, references to academic research, Communities of Practice etc are in the notes. Spread the word!

    Category:School WorkReads:100Uploaded:07 / 16 / 2011Add to collection
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    YVONZ Lime Cordial Concentrate

    Lots of limes on the tree this year and as well as salty lime pickle and marmalade, this is my favourite way to use them all.

    Category:Recipes/MenusReads:68Uploaded:06 / 26 / 2011Add to collection
  • 8 p.

    Introduction unit Cultural Views of KEEPING CULTURE IN MIND -

    This is the introduction unit (unfinished) in a 14 unit book on intercultural communication. KEEPING CULTURE IN MIND Based on the four principles outlined by Dr Jonathan Newton (Victoria University, Wellington, NZ): 1. Identify 2. Investigate 3. Reflect 4. Decide Cultural blocks to communication to be explored with cultural links to NZ Preview unit: your view cultural bias ethnocentrism uncertainty world view 1. Birth – New Year NZ summer hols gift giving face body language 2. Weddings/love/sexuality/national days St Valentines Waitangi Day collectivism/individualism 3. Education rules and thought patterns school enrollment 4. Language story telling humour (Easter/Eade) verbal processes/speech characteristics social hiatus literacy/orality time sense April Fool’s Daylight Saving 5. Family roles/gender/social organization (classes) Mother’s Day 6. Royalty/Heads of govt/politics social organization nationalism Queen’s Birthday shortest day 7. Housing buildings art music dance artifacts/$ physical characteristic rainy weather 8. Holidays sport (Nth hemisphere) proxemics (space) rainy weather 9. Change/rites of passage (haircut/numbers-Age Driver’s licence) transport high and low context/time sense spring Daylight Saving 10. Religion (Easter/Eade) master symbols/preconceptions Halloween/Easter 11. Famous people/History/confrontation power/heirachy Guy Fawkes 12. Death fatalism euphomisms free will Xmas New Year longest day Exit unit: culture shock/re-entry shock personal behaviour experience adaptability Major themes in black but ‘minor’ themes could be explored as well. All the major themes of culture, how they are organised, body language associated with the theme and possible specific literacy issues associated with the theme. I thought it was a good opportunity to use the title page illustrations to teach image literacy 'reading' as well as this is not developed enough. The reflections and decisions from each unit will be used for research in the near future and I am hoping that it can be easily adapted for moodle, which Unitec is using now. Unitec has given me a grant to complete the book so not all of the units written in 'granted' time off work will be published on the site. There is also a bicultural element to the book as NZ is a bicultural society - Maori are predominantly a 'collectivist' culture living in an 'individualistically' dominated country now. The majority of ESOL students in NZ are from collectivist cultures and the teachers are predominantly from individualist cultures. Intercultural communication has many roadblocks and this book aims to examine them all and look at ways to overcome them or at least become more aware of them. I am hoping it will be finished before the end of this year. 11 units have been written but not all images have been selected yet, editing and rewriting to go!!

    Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:196Uploaded:02 / 04 / 2011Add to collection
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    Pukematekeo Sunshine Chilli Sauce

    A hot delicious sauce to accompany seafood, pork, chicken, tofu/vegetable dishes.

    Category:Recipes/MenusReads:173Uploaded:06 / 06 / 2010Add to collection
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    Rabbit Pie

    This is a 'game' pie recipe which has been successfully adapted for all kinds of poultry and game. Once eaten never forgotten!

    Category:Recipes/MenusReads:186Uploaded:12 / 17 / 2009Add to collection
  • 9 p.

    Why Teach How to Guess Un

    This was an article written for the TESOL quarterly magazine (NZ) relating to the workbook 'Throw Away Your Dictionary!' .

    Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:1,405Uploaded:12 / 17 / 2009Add to collection
  • 9 p.

    Why Teach How to Guess Un

    TOEFl newsletter 15th June What are the strategies for guessing unknown words in context? When we are doing a reading skills lesson it is common to hear, “What does this word mean teacher?” “It means…” we reply. We have all given meaning of words in the classroom and there are pragmatic reasons for this but what students desperately need are the strategies to guess that unknown word’s meaning by themselves. TEC progressions (Tertiary Education Commission) identified this in the seco

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  • 98 p.

    Throw Away Your Dicti#B4A43

    This is a workbook for ESOL students to help with guessing unknown words in context and was desktop published in New Zealand this year. I am happy for anyone to use it.

    Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:567Uploaded:12 / 17 / 2009Add to collection
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