Category Archives: tutoring

Methods of Learning French…

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: March 13, 2009

Today calls for celebration!… I wrote 100 posts (including this one) over the last six months!… Sometimes I wonder where I did find the time to actually achieve that! Well… apparently I did because the figures are right before my very eyes. Though I wonder if I had been that prolific without my students’ stories [...]

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My New Virtual Classroom… So Cool!

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: March 2, 2009

I am always looking for anything that might improve the way I work with my trainees… At the beginning of 2009, thanks to the 50 day public transit strike in Ottawa, I launched my online training service for public servants or future public servants living outside the National Capital. It did not even take 24 hours [...]

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Sometimes I Seriously do Wonder…

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: February 15, 2009

This morning, when I turned on my computer, my Sympatico MSN home page had an article by Marc Saltzman featured at the top and… I could not resist the temptation of clicking on the title and reading it. It was an interview with Stuart Ackerman, the Toronto-based founder, writer and host for Tutorgiant (I think [...]

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