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akardm · Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 3 Location: Modesto, CA

Greetings from Modesto, California!

As a former MLI instructor (1998-2000), I am interested in recent goings-on. I hear rumors that the MLI is defunct. Is that true? Could someone kindly help me catch up with the present state of things?

Gratefully yours,
Michael Akard

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veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Did you try a search? I think there are still some MLI goings-on threads hanging around. Quite a few of them got axed when things started getting personal... as often happens during major melt downs.

MLI as you knew it is completely gone and there is supposedly something going on related to it under the HCT CERT umbrella, but no real news has shown up. No one has posted of current news... don't know if the current employees are 'shy' or if there are none left.

VS

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:17 am Post subject: Jes'disinterested

After being offered a low blow contract at the last minute and being spread all across the country with jes' 72 hours notice, most of them probable jes' don't care anymore. The only real shaft of sunshine was Uncle Billy being shown the door...ooops!, I forgot...having a sudden family emergency.

james van cleave · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 59

Bill got the boot? Lucky dog! What ever happened to the rest of those coordinators? Anybody hanged?
The MLI was by far the screwiest place I've ever worked in the Middle East, and I've worked in some really screwy places.
We were forced to teach those students how to make blogs and web pages when most of them could barely read or write. I actually had the temerity to point this out to my own fearless coordinator, only to be severely chastised. "Use the communacative approach!- They can't read. Use the communacative approach!"
The MLI was the only place I've ever taught where the students actually complained that they weren't learning anything. Very depressing.

Truth Hurts · Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 115 Location: Truthville

james van cleave · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 59

OK, so I'm semi-literate! I guess that's why the MLI hired me in the first place.
I just felt that the curriculum we taught at the Institute was not appropriate for the majority of students there. I mentioned this a couple of times to the lead faculty-only to be rather hostilely dismissed. As were, apparently, many of the self-same faculty, albeit, in a more literal sense, just a year or so later.