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
<![CDATA[ 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 every Wednesday at two different times, at 12:00 p.m. GTM and at 21:00 p.m. GMT. What is #ELTchat? […]
The world moves on and the situation of many foreign language centres in Greece (as well as in many other countries) has changed dramatically. In the last couple of decades or so, a new generation of foreign language school owners has emerged in Greece, and I suspect the same has […]
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 5,700 times in 2010. That’s […]
<![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 […]
<![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 […]
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 […]
<![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 […]
<![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 […]
Dear Blog Readers, This a post in response to a challenge set by Jason Renshaw (English Raven) to all fellow bloggers, to bring out and highlight our blog’s hidden gems, in other words, posts we really enjoyed writing or which engaged us and our readers in conversations that we thought […]
I have been writing about Making Big Books for a very long time – since a first short article for a local teachers’ association newsheet in the late 90’s. Later, a slightly different version, addressed to ELL teachers and pre-school and primary school teachers in the US, appeared as a […]