Month: September 2013

A PLN for ELT Professionals

What would you like to talk about on 2nd October on #ELTchat?

Voting Time!!!!   [polldaddy poll=7439744]   If you have an idea for a topic for Wednesday’s chat then leave it as a comment on the blog and we’ll include it in the poll once voting starts on Monday. The top choice in the poll will be discussed at 21.00 p.m. and the 2nd choice at 12.00…
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ELTchat 25/09/2013

Greetings Eltchatters, As you know our blog was hacked at end of last week though thanks to Marisa we now have it back. However the downside of the hack was that we couldn’t properly ask and set up a poll for this week’s eltchat. We did have a couple of suggestions and have some topics…
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Classroom Discourse #ELTchat summary 26/06/2013

  This is a summary of the 9pm BST #eltchat summary from Wednesday 26thJune 2013. The topic was ‘Classroom Discourse’ and the pre- reading was the post Classroom Discourse by Geoff Jordan. It was a bit of a slow, quiet chat with reasons ranging from long days and problems with TweetDeck to hot summer evenings! Definition…
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Strategies for a New Course – an #ELTChat Summary 12/09/2013

Strategies for a New Course – an #ELTChat Summary The summary was contributed by David Petrie – @teflgeek on Twitter – on his blog  and is reproduced here with his kind permission  Like the cuckoo heralding spring, the first #ELTChat of the year has arrived.  As many teachers around the world are getting ready for their first lessons with…
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On Fossilisation – #ELTchat Summary 11/09/2013

This is a summary of the second chat on Wednesday 11th September.  The full title of the chat was: How can we tell if fossilization has set in and how do we prevent it or get out of such a state?  it was contributed by Andrea Wade – @worldteacher and first appeared on her blog…
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What would you like to talk about on September 18? Please vote!!!

[polldaddy poll=7401009] Please complete this survey about #ELTchat times   You can access it here   You can access it here How to Choose a Topic Before you propose a topic, do please check the summaries index on this blog or go to the #ELTchat wiki and click on the Transcripts link to see what has been covered so far. If you…
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#ELTchat is back on September 11!!! Join us

Are you ready for some #ELTchats? September 15 will mark our 3rd birthday – a mere toddler ! Join us on the 11th to continue on our path of free, collaborative and connected professional development A lot of people have made this great project possible but without our bloggers there would be no record, no…
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