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Mr. Danoff has taught English in Switzerland, Japan, China and online. He has a BA in English and Economics from Colgate University and completed TUCK's Business Bridge Program at Dartmough College. His Résumé/CV has more details.

Educational Consulting

College App Resume Coaching for students applying to US colleges.

Digital Curriculum Vitae Development for educators.

Tutoring

EFL/ESL 1-on-1 Skype English lessons with Mr. Danoff! Only study the English you want to learn!

English Research and persuasive essay composition specialist.

Teaching Certifications

Cambridge University's Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA)

Indiana University School of Education's EPDE Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language

Open Educational Resources (OER)
What are OER?

Teaching English as a Second or Other Language (TESOL)
Mr. Danoff edited the FUN WITH ENGLISH (FWE) 7B & 8B: Unofficial Teacher's Handbook (OL ID: OL24606597M) published by Pedia Press in February 2010. The book has lesson plans for instructors using the FWE books. You can download a copy in PDF or Kindle formats. You can also read and edit the mediawiki version on Wikiversity. Mr. Danoff also published the 9 lesson plans he wrote as part of his CELTA training.

Mr. D's Notebooks
Notebooks on educational topics (e.g. video editing software, thunderbird, etc.) looking for contributors.

Mr. D's Studies
Study notes and links from Mr. D's Handmade quarters, for other students to use.

Open Course Ware (OCW)
What is OCW?

ESL 101 Conversational American English
Course under development on "common" spoken American English. In April I published the first video lesson on "Greetings". You can watch it on Facebook or download the MPEG and ogg formats.

Open Access (OA) Scholarship
What does OA mean?

TESOL
Mr. Danoff contributed 4 articles to Teaching English in Global Contexts (OL ID: OL24610948M) including an article on China's ELT Curriculum.

Collaborative Lesson Planning (CLP)
CLP explores how can teachers work together to write and give better lessons. Currently I'm co-organizing a study group in cycle 6 of The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). I'm Implementing CLP by sharing my lesson plans I used teaching English in China at Wikiversity. In May I exhibited my research at the Interactive Show at NYC Resistor in Brooklyn. Previously I co-organized two 6-week in cycles 4 and 5 of P2PU. In Gdansk, Poland I gave a speech at the Wikimana 2010 conference.

How to Build an NBA Dynasty
Researching the best way to assemble a team to win multiple championships. Currently I am taking notes on Wikiversity and last fall I wrote a paper summarizing my work thus far as part of a P2PU course.

Paragogy
Paragogy is a theory of peer-based learning. I have co-written two papers on the topic with Joe Corneli, one from late 2010 is "Paragogy: Synnergizing individual and organizational learning".

Cf.
What does Cf. mean?

OERcisians and concerts
Essay I wrote in January 2011 on money and educators making OER.

Mr. D's Ideas for a Better Internet Proposal
Proposal for Harvard Berkman Center & Stanford Law call for ideas to make the internet better.

Kitty's Writing Portfolio
Kitty is a Chinese junior-high school student from Anqing who worked with Mr. Danoff, her portfolio showcases her growth as a writer.

Hannah's Writing Portfolio
Hannah is another Chinese junior-high school student from Anqing who worked with Mr. Danoff. Mr. D also wrote an unpublished paper in 2010 analyzing her written English development.

Becoming an English Teacher article by Mr. D for the August 2010 EPDE Newsletter.

What's new in the lab?

Lesson Plan for KCCC English Corner, or EC, No. 1

This is a lesson plan I made for my first an introductory English lesson for adult ESL students.

Read the html version here and PDF on Wikiversty or download the PDF (74 kb) by right clicking the PDF link and selecting "Save ...".

How to Collaboratively Plan Lessons

This is a one page "how to" document for teachers on collaboratively planning lessons. The water cycle at bottom is meant to represent the collaborative lesson planning cycle described in steps 4 - 7. The document was prepared for The Interactive Show in Brooklyn on May 7th.

Download: PDF (224 KB)
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The Public Domain Paradox

This is a sixty second short exploring the public domain paradox: Why is it easy to make it hard for others to share, consume and/or change works you author, but difficult for it to be simple to do those things? Published online on April 26th, 2011. Note this video is not made by a law firm and is not legal advice.

Download: MPEG4 (1,012.6 KB) :: Ogg Video (17.6 MB)
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