I train TEFL teachers at CELT in Athens Greece and online - our main courses are Cambridge CELTA and Delta. I interact with educators from all over the world through social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and through blogging
This post is written in response and as part of a twitter conversation with Martin Sketchley – @ELTexperiences on Twitter. His blog post on his own Dogme observed lesson can be found at the end of this post. In the days before writing his experimental asignment for the DELTA course, […]
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3431038/Xenoglossi – Made with wordle Πολύ το έχω παραμελήσει αυτό το μπλόγκ – καιρός να γράφω κάτι και στη γλώσσα μου! Αν πάτε στη διεύθυνση κάτω από την εικόνα και βάλετε τη διεύθυνση του μπλόγκ σας ή της ιστοσελίδας σας, το προγραμμα θα δημιουργήσει για σας ένα σύννεφο από τις […]
<![CDATA[A quick and fun mini blog challenge by David Dogson in his blog post here – I fed my blog URL to Wordle and Tagxedo and look which words they have gone for! Here is my blog in the clouds! I still can’t embed this Tagxedo properly to show the […]
<![CDATA[ Once an English teacher has put a few years of experience under their belt, they often come to a point in their teaching career where they are beginning to feel the need for further professional development. This is a stage akin to the intermediate learning plateau that learners of […]
<![CDATA[The noontime #ELTchat on 09/03/2011 focused on how to motivate teens to extend their speaking activities, so as to go beyond “I agree” “I disagree”. A numbers of issues was raised such as motivation, being relaxed, students’ silence etc. This summary was contributed by Anastasia Kararoudi – @tasoulazac on Twitter […]
<![CDATA[ Last week’s #ELTchat focused on teacher burn-out and here is the summary contributed by Priscilla Santos @teacher_prix on Twitter! Many thanks, Priscilla:-) #ELTchat Summary March 9, 2011. How can we best help burnt-out colleagues? How do we help them get their enthusiasm back and encourage sharing and support? The […]
Our guest post this month was written by Dina Dobrou, a teacher who followed our CELTA course in July 2010 and who was one of our first trainees who took to Twitter like a duck to water! Dina’s post is an account of a week of free Professional Development which […]
Since Sunday the 27th of February, I have been ‘teaching’ this online course focusing on reading skills development on the SEETA Moodle platform. I was extremely happy to have been asked to run this course for SEETA (South Eastern Europe Teachers’ Associations) as this is the first time I am […]
Reading and listening are highly complex activities and, yet, in the foreign language classroom, they are often approached as if texts are just collections of words and grammatical patterns which […]
The original posting appeared on my TEFL Matters blog but I though it was worth reposting here as well! This is not the image a heartbeat. It’s the burst of energy of hundreds of tweets which are sent by the many ELT professionals participating in an online discussion called #ELTchat […]