Please Welcome Melikadothechacha As Our New TA
Greetings fellow students,
This announcement is long over due. So with out further ado, I would like to present to you a new assistant TA Melikadothechacha (aka Doug). Doug has had been doing a lot of behind the scenes work helping us out with HFW site. He has been working on some off site research on projects that are not in the spotlight. If you don’t see any of his work then he is doing a good job.
Who is Douglas Shaw? … he’s just this guy, y’know? ‘55 model Ohio boy living in Florida - likes to go fishing. Former Boy Scout, Explorer Scout and Army Veteran. College educated with a degree in Electrical Power. On hiatus after 25 years of consulting in the Engineering field. Homestead Speedway and Morroso Motorpark corner safety flagman for Championship Cup Series, Formula fuel motorcycle races.
About the photo of the lanai on the back porch at his Mom’s place in Oakland Park. She’s a past president of the local ladies garden club.
Captain Jack
LTA
P.S. Yes Capman911 will remain a TA too.
Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
If you’re anything like me, you wait for this day all year long. Well,
thankfully you probably aren’t a lot like me and that’s a good thing.
The Official International Talk Like a Pirate Day website.
Lesson # 1
Talk Like a Pirate Day: The Five A’s
Lesson # 2
How To Talk Like a Pirate
Lesson # 3
Now Try Out Your Singing Pirate Voice: You Are A Pirate (Lazy Town)
Lesson #4
Work On Fighting Technique Against a Ninja
Now you’re well on you way to celebrating International Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Now go and getrr booty you scurvy sea-dogs, before I have you keel-hauled! 
- Captain Jack
New Projects
Friendly Greetings Fellow Students,
I wanted to keep you posted on some projects I have been working on for HTW. Many of you have given me some new ideas for HFW site. Alx, had an idea for a glossary of words that some of us know about but not others. For example the word morpheme. Sure anyone could look it up, but how would you add it to your vocabulary without knowing how to use it in a conversation? Alx sees that a glossary would invoke conversations about these words and help others learn how they are used in our language. I’m presently looking into the possibility of having Marina adding this to HFW.
Some of you suggested word games. I have found a few that I will look into implementing into HFW. There are many things to consider when adding something like this to an over worked server. Alx found one website called Free Rice. Try it out and tell me what you think. I’m looking into some flash based games that should not interfere with the server and are fun to play. I’ll keep you posed on these developments.
That’s all I have for today. Please contact me if you have any questions or suggestions. You can always just leave a comment below if you so wish.
Captain Jack
LTA
New TA Announced!
Greetings fellow students,
With full approval from our dear teacher, Marina. I would like to announce a new assistant TA Capman911 (aka Mike, and aka Moose and Squirrel). Mike has had been doing a lot of behind the scenes work helping me out with HFW. He has been an outstanding door greeter to new visitors at HTW.
Mike is a retired Captain for the Fayetteville Fire Department. The man to the right of the first photo is his son Michael who is on Eastover Fire department I myself have fought fires in Navy simulators and know a bit about what Mike does. The idea of going into a strange burring building to put out the flames and rescue people and property makes one think how risky that kind of job is. It takes a brave individual to risk his own life to save others. Mike is a modern day hero.
We are still accepting applicants for TAs, so don’t give up. Keep visiting and contributing to HTW. Oh and yes I’m still a TA.
Captain Jack
LTA
Teacher’s Assistant Captain Jack
Greetings fellow students,
I am Captain Jack. The new lead Teacher’s Assistant for HotForWords. As you may already know Marina spends full time in working on her HotForWords show. She does this all by herself. It’s a big undertaking running the classroom of a million plus students, making new video lessons, answering questions, updating the website, etc. That is what I am here to do; to take on some of the drudgery work for her. In this way she will have more time finish other projects she has been wanting to work on to make the whole HotForWords learning experience better. She has many great ideas to explore that I think you’re going to like.
A little about me. I am a US Coast Guard Licensed Captain and Instructor. Like Marina, I too am a teacher. I teach students on what they need to know to pass the USCG licensing exam, so they can get their license to become ship Captains like me. You can learn more about me at my website: captainjack.ws
I do not have a Philology degree as Marina does. I am not an expert in Philology. I leave all that up to our dear teacher. I do some etymology as a hobby. Mostly I study origins of Nautical words. Those intrigue me the most.
For all you that are applying for a TA position. There is still need for more TAs. So go ahead and let us know you are interested.
Well I have to go to work now. Marina is asking, “Where’s my coffee I asked for?!!”
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Jay was the pervious TA and did an AMAZING JOB! You can find his page here.
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