Leigh in Azerbaijan

This is my avatar after it’s been altered by Be Funky. 

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After all this time here’s some current data on The International School of Azerbaijan where I teach.

The school is organised into three sections:

The Baku Toddler Club (Age 2) – 35 children
The Primary School (ages 3-10) – 350 students
Secondary School (ages 11-18) – 200 students

Over 48 nationalities are represented in the total enrollment.
TISA has 63 full [...]

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I’ve only just worked out what Diigo is.  Just last week I went in search of online highlighting tools and had decided on Awesome Highlighter, however it looks like Diigo is even better as it manages a myriad of functions. In fact, I’m posting this from within the Diigo home page, which makes annotating web [...]

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This will test students IT knowledge. I think I have another poster. (from this site)

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“Here be dragons and critical thinking.”  This has to go on my classroom wall this year.  Here Be Dragons, is a 40-minute video introduction to critical thinking by Brian Dunning. “Here be dragons” was used by cartographers for those sections of the map where explorers had not yet been.  I guess it was a reasonable [...]

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