Month: January 2012

A PLN for ELT Professionals

#ELTchat Podcast January 2012

Here is our January podcast put together by James Taylor – @theTeacherJames , with the help of  Sandy Millin – @sandymillin – and Vicky Loras – @vickyloras.   In this January edition you will hear:   Sandy Millin‘s Round Up of #ELTchats for this pas month Barbara Sakamoto #ELTchat Moderator on promoting #ELTchat  during JALT 2011…
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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Networks for Language Teachers #ELTchat Summary 18/01/12

  Does this look familiar??   To –ing or not to –ing……that is today’s question! One of my students asked me last month why we use the –ing form for blogging, networking, computing…..Good question! My answer? Because technology is constantly changing and plus usually these actions are constant, happen often, plus they are amusing but…
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What would you like to talk about on #ELTchat on January 11?

Time to vote The highest polling suggestions from last week that were not chosen will automatically be added to this week’s poll if there aren’t enough new topics – 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 GMT & 2nd…
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New year’s resolutions as a teacher; what are you going to continue / develop / refrain doing in 2012? #ELTchat Summary 04/01/2012

This is the summary of the second #ELTchat of 2011 on January 4, 2011 at 21.00 P.M. GMT. It was kindly contributed by Sue Annan (@SueAnnan ) and you can read it on her own blog if you click on the title.     New Year’s Resolutions      Time for Resolutions – and that is…
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January 2012 Challenge: Best Method for Organizing ELT Bookmarks

@tarabenwell: “PLN blog challenges are great too. Someone should be in charge of a monthly one. #eltchat.   Last night’s ELTchat (18.01.2012) was on the advantages and disadvantages of social networking for language teachers. As you can imagine given the chat takes place on twitter, most participants were able to list many advantages to be gained from…
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What Would you like to talk about on January 4, 2012?

1st #ELTchat of 2012 Happy New Year to all #ELTchatters!!!    The highest polling suggestions from last week that were not chosen 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! How can we focus our teaching of language more…
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