http://sixthings.net/2009/06/19/the-six-things-poll/ A Miscellany of English Language Teaching Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:36:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://sixthings.net/2009/06/19/the-six-things-poll/#comment-555 Six Influential People in ELT today « Six Things Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:08:00 +0000 http://sixthings.net/?p=1187#comment-555 [...] The Six Things Poll! [...] [...] The Six Things Poll! [...]

]]> http://sixthings.net/2009/06/19/the-six-things-poll/#comment-554 Six Things Coming this Fall on Six Things « Six Things Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:23:59 +0000 http://sixthings.net/?p=1187#comment-554 [...] Yes, all this summer the votes have been trickling in and I’m just about ready to release the greatest of all controversial lists: the most influential people in ELT today. If enough people react strongly to this one (like they did on Twitter when I started the poll) then I may do other typical internet lists: ELT’s sexiest people, ELT’s greatest presenters … Anyway, there is still a little time to make your voice heard in this event, so vote now! [...] [...] Yes, all this summer the votes have been trickling in and I’m just about ready to release the greatest of all controversial lists: the most influential people in ELT today. If enough people react strongly to this one (like they did on Twitter when I started the poll) then I may do other typical internet lists: ELT’s sexiest people, ELT’s greatest presenters … Anyway, there is still a little time to make your voice heard in this event, so vote now! [...]

]]> http://sixthings.net/2009/06/19/the-six-things-poll/#comment-553 List #66 « Six Things Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:32:08 +0000 http://sixthings.net/?p=1187#comment-553 [...] I noticed a few months into blogging that I could put on my blog, at no extra cost, a poll thing. How cool is that? After some thought I decided to do a poll of influential people in ELT in order to make a new list. I felt that I would be joining the ranks of all those great internet polls (World’s Sexiest Woman, Worst Pizza Place in America etc). I proudly announced my poll on Twitter and all hell broke loose. First came the indignation of people who were left out (I had disgracefully ignored the technology people, I had missed out hundreds of names from critical pedagogy, my shortlist was very Anglocentric, very white, very male or just plain “odd”). Then people pointed out that it lacked context, that you can’t just vote for ONE person and… oh I could go on and on about that fateful morning. I felt like ripping the whole thing down. But I decided not to be cowed by the roar in the Twittersphere. I will keep gathering results with my crude and vulgar little poll and intend on publishing the list in September (after suiting up with protective clothing). You can see and participate in the poll here. [...] [...] I noticed a few months into blogging that I could put on my blog, at no extra cost, a poll thing. How cool is that? After some thought I decided to do a poll of influential people in ELT in order to make a new list. I felt that I would be joining the ranks of all those great internet polls (World’s Sexiest Woman, Worst Pizza Place in America etc). I proudly announced my poll on Twitter and all hell broke loose. First came the indignation of people who were left out (I had disgracefully ignored the technology people, I had missed out hundreds of names from critical pedagogy, my shortlist was very Anglocentric, very white, very male or just plain “odd”). Then people pointed out that it lacked context, that you can’t just vote for ONE person and… oh I could go on and on about that fateful morning. I felt like ripping the whole thing down. But I decided not to be cowed by the roar in the Twittersphere. I will keep gathering results with my crude and vulgar little poll and intend on publishing the list in September (after suiting up with protective clothing). You can see and participate in the poll here. [...]

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