A blog about learning, writing, and using technology


About me!

I'm Charles Nelson, an assistant professor of ESL writing at Kean University, Union, NJ, USA, and I've been here teaching first-year composition to non-native speakers of English—mostly immigrants who have attended U.S. public schools—since September, 2002. Before that, I taught basically the same course to international students at The University of Texas at Austin (1997-2002) and a mix of reading and writing to students in the Preparatory Program of Marmara University, Istanbul (1990-1994).

Teaching first-year composition to non-native speakers of English and researching how people learn in general, and more specifically learn to write, is a lot of fun. If you have similar interests and would like to add comments to my weblog, either use the comment form or email me

Contact information

Tel: (908) 737-0393

Fax: (908) 737-0375

Email: cnelson at kean.edu

My Kean homepage

This weblog is primarily to help focus my students on concepts, assignments, and technology that we are covering or eventually will do. It will cover what we have done and where we are headed. And it will chronicle my own learning processes with technology and writing. If you'd like to comment, please do. If you'd like to read more theoretical discussions, go to my blog Explorations in learning (see below).

Blogs I read

bgblogging
EdCompBlog
Edublog Insights
edublogs
Educational Weblogs
EFL in Japan
Explorations in learning The Linguist
Linguistic Life
Mark Bernstein
Teach story
Weblogg-ed

Websites

My homepage
Blogging in TESL
Electronic portfolios
ESL MiniConference Paul Kei Matsuda

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