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Is it Free?

June 13, 2015

<![CDATA[I very often talk to teachers about online apps and great new tools and the standard question always is: "Is it free?'" And of course it's natural for teachers – who are amongst the world's worst paid people for the amount and quality of the work they have to do – to look for free…
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CELTA and Technology – With or Without it?

June 4, 2015

<![CDATA[ Giulia Forsythe via Compfight In a recent end-of-course evaluation report,  one of our CELTA candidates suggested (complained is perhaps a better word) that her expectations of a higher grade on the CELTA course were not fulfilled because she did not know how to use technology. Had she not been encouraged to use it (by her tutor),…
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IATEFL Manchester 2015 – five years on

May 28, 2015

<![CDATA[ Pre-Conference Events with the Special Interest Groups For me, the high point of the conference is always the Pre-Conference Day with my chosen Special Interest Group. Since 2015, I have been a member of the Learning Technologies SIG and have enjoyed the activities, the talks and the subsequent communication through the members’ website and yahoo…
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IATEFL 2015 in Manchester

April 7, 2015

<![CDATA[ IATEFL 2015 Once more, the time of the year for IATEFL International has come round. If you are going to be at IATEFL, please make sure we meet up and talk! If not, at least make sure to follow some or all the keynote talks and selected presentations which will be livestreamed – click…
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Digital Storytelling for Younger & Older Learners

March 25, 2015

<![CDATA[ Digital Storytelling & Young Learners  Picture this: …a teacher holding up her laptop or tablet and a circle of children listening to her and following the digital images of her imagination, completely absorbed in the world she has been weaving for them through her narration. Now Picture this: …a teacher holding up a book…
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From Images to Words

December 19, 2014

<![CDATA[Pictures generate talk, a fact well appreciated by all teachers. This short post hopes to review some well known ideas as well as give you some new ones on using images to develop your students’ oral skills and foster communicative interaction in your lessons. The activities can be adapted to suit a variety of levels…
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Doing the CELTA: Do’s and Don’ts

December 17, 2014

This short guide is by no-means comprehensive, but I do hope it is practical and to-the-point. It is based on my experience as a CELTA trainer, so one might say I have seen the course form the inside J So here goes! What is the CELTA? The Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other…
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Teaching styles and lesson outcomes

December 11, 2014

<![CDATA[  This is the first of a series of guest blog posts from members of my online ‘family’, my PLN. I am thrilled and  honoured to have Marjorie Rosenberg write her reflections on this topic on my blog,  Marjorie is  an active and prominent member of the ELT community, teacher, teacher trainer, author,  IATEFL BESIG coordinator,…
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I blog, you blog, do your trainees blog?

March 28, 2014

<![CDATA[This is a short post to embed my recent talk for the first Spring Blog Festival organised by Dr Nellie Deutsch, Shelly terrel and Sylvia Guinan via WiziQ   More talks through this link   My talk was based on a recent post on this blog which you can read here. It has the same…
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Tagged Again

January 17, 2014

<![CDATA[I was first tagged by Doug Peterson and did my first post here but then Maria Theologidou tagged me again with a fresh set of questions. Photo Credit: SnaPsi Сталкер via Compfight Normally, I would have thought, this is quite enough – but the whole ELT blogosphere has been having a blast tagging one another…
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