Made in Thailand, it was never copyrighted. Originally in DVD format all files were converted to MP4. Each video is now small enough to fit a single CD and easily played on Ipod.

To download these files you will need a file share program such as Emule or uTorrent (utorrent.com)

Note: a TESOL/TEFL certificate is NOT required for teaching in Thailand.

Latest requirements: http://blog.esldaily.org/2008/03/17/new-regulations-thailand.aspx

The Thai Ministry of Education has declared that all foreign teachers must have a Teacher Profession Certificate in order to legally teach in the country.

1) Foreign teachers who have a right to hold the Teacher Profession Certificate (must have been working in school before June 12, 2003) and want to extend their certification in 2009.

2) Hold a bachelor degree or higher in Education and has experience in teaching at least 1 year.

3) Hold the other fields of a bachelor degree or higher and already hold the Teacher Profession Certificate from abroad

4) Hold the other fields of a bachelor degree or higher and already has experience in teaching at least 2 year. Hold an educational certificate that takes at least 1 year of study.

The Tefl International “Thai special project” where you work in Thailand while taking that course does NOT meet above requirements.

If you are arrested, jailed or deported Tefl International will not be of assistance, you are on your own.

Sounded a lot like bullshit. He was harassing me too for defending my beliefs. Anyway I took a look at his sites, then did a whois, found his name/s, did some searching and finally unearthed the whole story of TELFWatch.

He had been sending me some nasty PMs and when I confronted him about this issue, he denied it and blocked me from his inbox, lol.

He said he wasn’t Whitey, but his site in SocialSpark is http://www.teflwatch.com/ and http://www.ax697.org/ so I guess he’s lying his ass off haha.

Thanks

TEFLtastic blog- “All the truth that’s fit to teach”- http://www.tefl.net/alexcase

A further question is: Why is it that some of the most obnoxious posters, become the admin’s favourites?

The only way a problem can arise is if a board member is personally known to another who then reveals the true identity through a posting. An honest moderator should be quick to defend the fundamental principle of anonymity and delete the post. In the early days of forums, (and if I remember correctly, Ajarn was one of them), the administrators checked the option in the CP to approve all submitted posts before publishing them. Admittedly on a site like with 500 new posts arriving every hour, one would need a team of twenty mods working round the clock to do that – and on such a large team it is inevitable that there will be a rotten apple in the barrel.

Many of the probs arise because the mods are not even personally known to the administrator – they get where they are by joining and making a lot of intelligent posts to instill confidence to become a mod, to later abuse their position of responsibility and work on their own agenda.

Anyone with a web domain and a hosting can start a forum, nobody needs to be a geek to do it and the price of a domain is less than a couple of beers in Soi Cowboy. – many are even free like this blog. A truly commercial sites need to pay at least some lip service to their advertisers otherwise they will lose them, but one thing is sure: the admin would need to be awake around the clock. Where probably a bit of naming is justified, is when an organisation is clearly and provably working a scam, (and we all know which one is the prime candidate for that label). The posters, however, want to be really sure of their facts and not just post on heresay.
There is now a plethora of TESOL forums out there and thier owners will just have to live with the competition and learn to stop calling each other names.

Many Thai boards today are full of trolls and the worst ones don’t even live in Thailand, nevertheless they are hell bent on cranking up their posting clocks with single smileys, one-liners, and expletives, daily searching every forum on the board to get their oar in wherever they can. They are totally obnoxious and will start a flaming war for funwhen they have nothing better to contribute.

In the past , people have tried to build up an almost complete database of schools in LOS with the intention of making a colour list, but it never works, the most cards you get in the db are never more than a dozen or so, and it’s a drop in the ocean. If anyone has the guts, the time and the stupidity to do it, a suggestion would be to create a blog of the nicknames of those nasty posters instead, and drop a link to it in every offending thread.

The bottom line is that instead of being a benefit to the world of TESOL, most forums are now so full of BS and claptrap it makes the world of TESOL – from teachers to ESOL trainers – look like a bunch of losers and boozers – which from my experience, sadly, far too many of them are.

Good, honest moderating (editing, warning, deleting) without getting involved is all that is required and if a forum bites the dust, that’s exactly what was lacking. Three new Thailand TESOL boards have opened in the last three weeks, time will tell if anything really changes.

I’m sure everyone is asking why would such a respected admin such as David Vincent do such a thing…a forum admin that promotes free speech.

But what many people don’t know is apparently David is only interested in one side of the story…he’s unbiased as long as his buddy Uncle Che doesn’t get too much abuse…..but don’t believe me…check it out for yourself!

Its incredibly amazing how his little rules say things like don’t mention peoples names…but I’d bet you could find a post with my full name on it, a post were Greg is accusing someone of claiming someones a pedophile (his favorite!) but neither time the admin has stepped in…I’ll let you form your opinions…join ELT World and learn what the word hypocrite means.

Here is the “gist” of the PM. Posting PM’s is a bad thing so I’m only going to provide a hint at what the admin of TSR threatened:

“Still dwelling in the past? No worries, mate. Bob XXX and Richard XXX are going to be synonmous with some nasty stuff when I get done. Try as you may, you’ll never know who I am. My motivation? I’ve seen your behavior in action.”

For the life of me, I wonder why he feels so “threatened” by this blog. After all, he’s said I can’t post on TSR, so that can’t be the problem, so I guess making him look like a whinging little twat here has upset him.

You heard it here first!

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd314/TWTopper/threat1.jpg

I wonder when a poster is going to remind the site admin there of how the previous admin sold out the teachers fighting against Bruce or point out that TI was in the Hall of Shame before or that the explanation of why the previous admin removed the threads?

Must be a case of selective recall syndrome.