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 a quick post to publish the links and some of the videos shown to the members of TESOL Greece who attended my talk on March 15. With apologies to readers who were not present at this talk (if this doesn’t make sense to them) In the first part […]
Με την ωραία ευκαιρία που μας δόθηκε πρόσφατα, μετά τα καλά λόγια που έγραψαν για μας στο Γερμανικό περιοδικό Focus και θυμώσαμε όλοι αφάνταστα, έτσι για να μην ξεχνιόμαστε, διαβάστε αν θέλετε ένα αρθράκι που έγραψα εδώ και αρκετά χρόνια, το 1999 για την ακρίβεια. Η συνέχεια εδώ (το άρθρο […]
<![CDATA[Panayotis used to be one of my Proficiency students. When I took over his class, he had already taken the examination twice… and failed both times. There were few words for which Panayotis could not provide synonyms, antonyms, but translation was his forte! Always keen to share his treasure trove, […]
Many of my contacts in Greece have Facebook accounts. It looks like Facebook is more or less, slowly but surely, becoming mainstream. Nowadays, when I ask fellow teachers or new trainees if they are on Facebook, the answer is mostly “yes”, where even one year ago, many would say “No” […]
<![CDATA[The interest in the qualities of good teachers is not new. This post includes some thoughts on a study I conducted a few years ago with two groups of different […]
The interest in the qualities of good teachers is not new. This post includes some thoughts on a study I conducted a few years ago with two groups of different learners (50 adults and 60 young learners between 11-13). The adults who took part in this interim study were contacted […]
Excellence in Early Childhood Education: Making books with children Αρθρο μου που φιλοξενήθηκε στο ιστολόγιο Αμερικανίδας εκπαιδευτικού που διδάσκει παιδιά προσχολικής ηλικίας και γράφει σχετικά θέματα.
<![CDATA[In this post, I am going to look at Wordle, Wordsift , Word it out and Word Mosaic and try to briefly compare them as I think they all have great potential for a variety of learning activities. This post was inspired by a great discussion in the SEETA course […]
This lesson outline was produced during the SEETA course on EasyWeb 2.0 tools run by Nik Peachey – many more lessons and lesson ideas can be found there but here is mine: The text was to be chosen randomly (in case you were wondering why I chose this particular one). […]
Can you imagine having a global staffroom at your fingertips? Can you imagine looking for help for an idea and getting not one but ten answers within the hour? This is how quickly you connect with colleagues, educators from all over the world. aPLaNet EU funded Project CELT Athens is […]