Don't Squeeze the Turtle

Tales from an Online Classroom

Jinny Alexander

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Over Spilled Ink
20 September 2025

Diaries, letters & journals; Language teaching theory & methods; Humour collections & anthologies

An eye-opening look at life as an online teacher of English.

Often funny, sometimes poignant, always real.

In this book, author and long-time educator Jinny Alexander takes you on a fly-on-the-wall journey into the world of online English learning.

Have you ever thought about how people around the world have learned to speak English as a means of global communication? Jinny has taught English classes to students as young as three and as old as eighty, but it's usually the children who have the funniest things to say.

Or the teacher:

""Ask Grandma to put some clothes on."" ""It looks like you are at a swimming pool?"" ""Are you still in the bathroom? Microphone off."" ""No, not the European Onion."" ""Please don't squeeze the turtle.""

This book presents Jinny's diary for nine months of online classes to children across the globe. In these pages, you'll find an eye-opening glimpse into other cultures alongside a heart-warming and often hilarious look at life in the online classroom with an experienced ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher.

Often funny, usually heart-warming, sometimes difficult, sometimes heart-breaking, but always trying to remain professional and compassionate, Jinny opens the Zoom window for you to peek into her daily classes. Eavesdrop to your heart's content, but please, keep your microphone on MUTE.

Jinny Alexander has over thirty years of experience in the education sector, from nursery school to youth work and everything in between. She's taught children to read, to swim, and to become proficient in using Zoom, sometimes all at the same time. She also writes fiction, and is the author of the Jess O'Malley Irish Village Mysteries and the Mrs Smith's Suspects series, among other works.

By: Jinny Alexander
Imprint: Over Spilled Ink
Country of Publication: Ireland
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm,
ISBN: 9781916814165
ISBN 10: 1916814166
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 20 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jinny was first published in Horse and Pony magazine at the age of ten. Since then, she's turned to novel-writing, and is the author of the Jess O'Malley Irish Village Mysteries; the Mrs Smith's Suspects cozy mystery series, and a handful of standalone contemporary fiction novels. Jinny has an MA in Creative Writing and has been published in magazines, anthologies, etc, and placed and listed in several writing contests.Jinny also teaches English as a foreign language to people all over the world. Her home for now is in rural Ireland, which she shares with her husband and far too many animals. Her two children have grown and flown but return across the Irish Sea when they can. She quite likes to shut the door on them all and write.

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