Host: Lowrie

0. Small Talk

1. New teacher: Melanie, living in New York City, studied Environmental Studies at Boulder, Colorado. She taught English for 4 years in Chile.

2. Connection test: 

Group A (Excellent): Megan from Seattle & Colleen from NC, 

Group: B+ (Good): John from Virginia Beach, Lowrie from Philadelphia, 

Group B (Enough): Melanie from New York, Courtney from Taiwan, Sharon from NC, 

Group C (Not enough): Joshua from Guatemala. 

Comments: The test says: Which computer, including the mic and the webcam, a teacher has is often more important than Internet speed. As long as the download speed is higher than 5 Mbps and the upload speed is higher than 5 Mbps. That is the reason why Megan and Colleen's quality are higher than John's.

3. New rule: If parents complain about a teacher, insisting that the teacher is doing something else in class, we will let know other teachers about it on time.aloud.kr. In addition, the teacher won't share the bonus rate (19% of the school fee(netto) that month) and the other teachers will get more that month. This can result in a 23% lower paycheck. 

Please don't send messages to others in class. If you send a message to Kevin then just send one short word like: yes, no, Ok, bye. If Kevin sends you a message on Skype, you don't need to answer immediately if you have a class. Please be careful, sometimes teachers do something else in class unconsciously if the class is boring: reading other books, sending messages to someone else, or downloading files on the Internet. It would be better "doing nothing in class" than "doing something else in class".

4. We will watch one of the best collections of our class videos one more time (the first half):

Ikee's class with James

Teacher: Ikee, English Aloud

Student: James, 13 years old, Seoul

                   Textbook: More School Subject Readings 1 (Compass Publishing)