Category: General Announcements

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Topics for #ELTchat in March 2017

Hello #ELTchatters!   If you haven’t read the announcement of some changes to how we choose topics for #ELTchat, have a look at my previous post.   Here are all the topics we covered in March 2017 and a small intro for each one reminding #ELTchat users of some of the related posts.   This months…
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#ELTchat DJ/Moderator of the month!!!

Dear #ELTchat friends and afficionados,   For some time now, it has been difficult to solicit a sufficient number of topics each week to merit a poll. We have a long tradition of involving #ELTchat followers in the selection and voting of the topic to be discussed each week, but of late, we have not…
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#ELTchat is back!!! What would you like to talk about?

Time flies!!   Here is the fab post we put up for our 5th anniversary last year! It’s full of great comments about #ELTchat by some of its creators, friends like Barbara Sakamoto and Shelly Terrel, and words of appreciation from many more people who learn from #ELTchat and help the learning of others through…
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Have a great summer, #ELTchatters

#ELTchat is closed for the summer – See you all on Wednesday, Sept. 14th 2016           This year has been great for #ELTchat: we have introduced a slow-burn chat to accompany our fast-paced one and we  managed to reach even more people in different countries. It is, however, time for our regular summer…
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New time for #ELTCHAT

Pedro Szekely via Compfight       Dear #ELTchat followers and friends,   Changes, changes   After quite a few not very well attended early chats, and difficulties even for us moderators to be present because of daytime work commitments, we have decided to change the time of our weekly chats.   Important change of…
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Happy 5th Anniversary #ELTchat!

Today is the 5th anniversary of #ELTchat and the initial thought was to write a blogpost about it: what it means for me, for us. However, thinking about it, I realised that #ELTchat is not about me or you or anyone in particular; it is for all English language teachers who not only wish to…
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#ELTchat 5th Birthday – Join our Celebration chat on the 16th of September at 21.00 p.m. BST

  For the past five years, #ELTchat friends and moderators have met every Wednesday noon or evening to talk about teaching, learning, new technologies, techniques and tools for the classroom, class management, the large and small issues of English Language Teaching but, most of all, building community and connecting with one another to share and…
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#ELTchat on a Summer Break!!!! See you in September!

Hi all great #ELTchat people!!!   I don’t need to tell you that most TEFL people work their hearts out in the summer!!!   So do we all on the moderators’ team and taking a short summer break   See you in September! But meanwhile, if you are one of the lucky people on a…
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IATEFL 2015 Online – Live Coverage from Manchester!

Dear #ELTchat friends,   We know some of you were very disappointed that we are taking a break for IATEFL and for Easter but 4 out of the 5 moderators are going to be at IATEFL so we hope you will understand!     @Marisa_C I understand fully but am disappointed. I’m finally on vacation!…
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Talking about Apps – on the 11th of March

The topic for the 11th of Marchat 12 p.m. GMT Announcement We have decided against doing a poll this week as a lot of the topics suggested below have to do with new apps for tablets and phone       Next #ELTchat on Wednesday 18/3 at 21:00 P.M. GMT   To check the time we’ll…
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