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Dennis John Newson, M.A (Cantab), P.D.E.S.L (Leeds)

formerly
Universität Osnabrück , Germany

Blumenthalstr. 2
D-49078 Osnabrück
Phone + 49 541 430109 Fax + 49 541 430107

E- Mail djn@dennisnewson.de

We might have met at:

The King's School, Peterborough, England 1946 - 1953
Uckfield/Bodmin (National Service: The Intelligence Corps. Russian course) 1953 - 1955
St. John's College, Cambridge 1955 - 1958
Exeter University, School of Education 1958 - 1959
Ghana - (Sekondi College, Sekondi-Takoradi - St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast) 1961 - 1965
University of Leeds, Department of English, Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching English as a Second Language, 1965 - 1966
Bo Teacher Training College, Sierra Leone 1966 - 1968
Doha, Qatar, 1969 - 1971
Norges Technisches Hogskole, Trondheim (Lecturer in Technical English)1971 - 1975
At an IATEFL conference any time after 1962
The MOD English Language Centre, Sarajevo, 2000 or 2001
A British Council teacher training course in Kosovo, 2000 or 2001
Conferences at the University Troya-Canakkale, Turkey, 2002 or 2003
YLSIG workshop Bielefeld, Germany, 2003
TTEdSIG workshop, University of East London, 2003
Gavin Dudeney & Nicky Hockley’s online workshop October 2003
TTEdSIG Worskhop, Cologne, Germany, 2004
NATE 10 Tambov, Russia, 2004
Berlin-Spandau British Council ELT conferences - 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
British Council ELT (05) Innovation Awards, 2005
Hornby Summer School, Spandau, Berlin, 2005
16th, annual IATEFL conference, Gödölö, Hungary
Webheads BaW online course 2006
On the most fantastic list I have ever belonged to: Learning with computers, LwC
On any of the lists mentioned below, or a number of other TEFL lists

Classic article on the status of English language teaching in German universities

English language courses at German universities: Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty? Mary Snell Hornby

Former projects

Message: A Socrates project on multimedia education

An English Experience A student excursion to London

Tambov Project 2004/5

Viewing British Films Critically in a Variety of Cultural Contexts

Advertisement-free alternative site: http://www.britfilm.org

Inner-circle Kosovo Reports

Emails sent to a goup of friends and relatives on my first visit to Kosovo in 2000

Kosovo Reports

WebQuest

WebQuest: My Beautiful Laundrette

Sites of former interest

Fachbereich 7 (Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften)

Institut für semantische Informationsverarbeitung

Universität Osnabrück

Blogs

Blog with photos of 3-week visit to South Africa 2007

Wikis

Astonishingly, the Wiki for Beginners in Second Life that I wrote as a tutorial for the members of the list Learning with Computers has, up to March 2009 had 3,300 hits:

SLwiki

This figure impressed me until my nephew, Steven, told me had got a 1000 hits for this photo:

1000 hits