Month: May 2011

A PLN for ELT Professionals

What would you like to talk about on June 1st?

Please post your topics for our next #ELTchat on Wednesday, June 1st. Suggestions from last week will automatically be added to this week’s poll but is there anything else that you think might make a good topic for Wednesday’s chat? Top choice will be discussed at 21:00 & 2nd choice at12:00 PM PM. All times are London times.…
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What would you like to talk about on May 25?

Please post your topics for our next #ELTchat on Wednesday, May 4th. Suggestions from last week will automatically be added to this week’s poll but is there anything else that you think might make a good topic for Wednesday’s chat? Top choice will be discussed at  12:00 PM & 2nd choice at 21:00 PM. All times are London times.…
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What would you like to talk about on Wednesday May 15?

Please post your topics for our next #ELTchat on Wednesday, May 4th. Suggestions from last week will automatically be added to this week’s poll but is there anything else that you think might make a good topic for Wednesday’s chat? Top choice will be discussed at 21:00 PM & 2nd choice at 12:00 PM. All times are London…
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Do teachers benefit from evaluative observations? #ELTchat summary 25/05/2011

Summary of #eltchat at 21.00 BST on the topic of evaluative observations provided by Diarmuid Fogarty, @Imadruid on Twitter 25th May 2011  On Wednesday 25th May 2011, 53 people sat down at their computer or stared hard at their mobile phone and between 2100-2220 GMT, they sent 699 tweets consisting of a total of 11949…
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How do you deal with students with low levels of literacy (even in their L1)? #ELTchat summary 04/05/2011 Part 1 of 2

This summary (Part 1 of 2) was contributed by Mike Harrison – @harrisonmike on Twitter – on his blog and is reproduced here with his kind permission. Many thanks Mike and we look forward to Part 2!   Summary Part 1   Finally, I got my topic for #ELTchat! I had proposed the topic of…
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What would you like to talk about on May 11 2011?

Propose topics for our next #ELTchat   Please post your topics for our next #ELTchat on Wednesday, May 4th. Suggestions from last week will automatically be added to this week’s poll but is there anything else that you think might make a good topic for Wednesday’s chat? Top choice will be discussed at 21:00 PM &…
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Revisiting Dogme – Thoughts After IATEFL & the DOGME Symposium #ELTchat Summary 27/04/2011

This summary was contributed by James Taylor – @theteacherjames on Twitter – and was first posted on his blog. It is rerpoduce here with his permission. Thank you James!   Unfamiliar with the terms Dogme or teaching unplugged? Try this article.     Ever since the term was first appropriated by Scott Thornbury back in…
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What would you like to talk about on May 4th?

Propose topics for our next #ELTchat Please post your topics for our next #ELTchat on Wednesday, May 4th. Suggestions from last week will automatically be added to this week’s poll but is there anything else that you think might make a good topic for Wednesday’s chat? Top choice will be discussed at 12:00 PM & 2nd…
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