Introduction. Hey, teacher. You know how there are no original ideas and everything is a remix? Don't feel like you have to come up with an original idea when there are tons of stuff freely available on the web. Great ideas come from building on the ideas of others, so feel free to steal a little bit. You can gain a lot of inspiration from borrowing little things other teachers do to become more efficient.

I am writing this to help you learn/teach learning new vocabulary. Feel free to comment. I request my students to have their own vocabulary books. I also insist that they find definitions and usage examples for the words they learn on the web. Macmillan Dictionary and Twitter are good for that. Alternatively they can use Merriam Webster and Google Blog Search, or whatever they like. Some students have their vocabulary books as Google docs shared with me. I also give them a helping hand, for example here: http://g.ua/jumH

That is the first in a series of a dozen posts about my outlook on vocab teaching. My blog is here: http://teflinfoki.tumblr.com/