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Merry Christmas Wishes to my PLN!

<![CDATA[ …. and thank you notes to all those who affected my professional life in the past year This has been an amazing year for this blog and this member of a strong and ever-widening PLN. My Christmas stocking is filled already with the gift of friendship of an amazing group of colleagues from the…
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My Nominations for Edublogs Awards 2010

<![CDATA[A hard choice since I follow so many great bloggers – but a choice had to be made and here are my nominations for the Edublog Awards 2010 Best individual blog Scott Thornbury’ Blog An A-Z of ELT for generating some of the richest and greatest discussions in the blogosphere and for changing the role…
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Tradition Revisited & Revamped: "Something old, something new…."

<![CDATA[ What are the good things you can draw from each of the approaches labelled traditional? How have you adapted them or changed them/renovated them and how do you integrate them into your teaching practice? The discussions during the #ELTchat of November 10 had us running in two directions: there were those colleagues who wanted…
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Blog Challenge: Tradition Revisited & Revamped

<![CDATA[Inspired by the #ELTchat of November 10, 1020, here is a blog challenge to collect and learn how you use traditional practices in your modern innovative class The topic we discussed was: When you think of traditional ELT approaches, are they all totally bad? What are good things you can draw from each of them?…
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Animating Stories

<![CDATA[I have been playing with story animation tools for a long time, learning from colleagues' blogs and links on Twitter.  Recent posts include Burcu Akyol’s  4-3-2-1 Action! Online Tools For Making Movies in the Language Classroom and Shelly Terrell’s presentation on Digital Storytelling which includes some excellent ideas. Here are a few additional ones, which…
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What about your concept questions? The famous CCQ’s

CCQ’s – in the TEFL jargon which we all use – are those questions which you need to ask right after you have taught something or are revising  a lexical item a group of words a grammar point a functional exponent   Generations of my CELTA, TEFL and DELTA trainees have agonised over their CCQ’s and this…
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Κρίση ή έλλειψη κρίσης;

Θεοδώρα Παπαναγιώτου Το σημερινό δημοσίευμα είναι γραμμένο από την πρώτη προσκεκλημένη μου, Θεοδώρα Παπαπαναγιώτου.  Η Θεοδώρα διδάσκει Γερμανικά και Αγγλικά στη Θεσσαλονίκη από το 1994.  Είναι Απόφοιτος Γερμανικής Φιλολογίας του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης αλλά και κάτοχος CELTA (Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults)  TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test) – πιστοποιήσεων επιμόρφωσης  που δεν είναι χρήσιμες…
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Peace Education and ELT

<![CDATA[This is a post which has been brewing for some time now and I have taken the opportunity to publish it on this day of September to celebrate the International Day of Peace. In my local ELT scene, Greece, many of the ‘givens’ we used to take for granted are no longer true. We used…
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One Year of Blogging

<![CDATA[ I have great reason to celebrate: one year of blogging! Well, one year and something…. Although this post is rather late, mainly due to a really heavy teaching schedule in July and August, I have been thinking about it and writing bits and bytes whenever I had a few minutes. On the 1st of…
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Multitasking or "making a hole in the water"?

<![CDATA[ I have neglected this blog and this post is by way of apologising to my readers but here was my day – the list below repeats itself day in day out with some changes, but that’s a standard day…Here is the story today: Ran input sessions in the morning from 9-1 Observed teaching practices…
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