Category: Summary

A PLN for ELT Professionals

If you could recommend one particular webtool for the classroom, what would it be, and why? #ELTchat Summary 29/02/2012

This is the summary of the second #eltchat on Wednesday 29th February. To find out exactly what #eltchat is, click here. (Since this post is full of links which may change/move at a later date, please let me know if any of them are broken. Thanks!) “IF YOU COULD RECOMMEND ONE PARTICULAR WEBTOOL FOR THE CLASSROOM, WHAT WOULD…
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Introducing CPD to Dinosaurs – #ELTchat summary 02/05/2012

Photo Credit: yyellowbird via Compfight cc   This is a summary of the #eltchat which took place at 12 noon BST on Wednesday 2nd May, 2012. The full title of the chat was: Practical ideas to introduce workshops on CPD to dinosaurs 🙂 – what is important and how to go about setting up a programme. The chat…
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How to combine F2F and online learning in blended courses? #ELTChat Summary 25/04/2012

    This summary first appeared on Eduardo Sandos’s blog, ELT Bakery, and was reporoduced here with his kind permission. May 2, 2012     The topic of last Wednesday’s evening #ELTChat on April 25 was How to combine face-to-face and online learning in blended courses? The experience with blended learning varied quite a lot among participants, which…
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What’s in your Essential Teacher’s Kit? #ELTchat Summary 25/04/2012

This summary was contributed by Chris Wilson and was first posted on his blog here where the tweets look much better! It is reproduced here with his kind permission.    What’s in your Essential Teacher’s Kit?   This Wednesday’s (25/04/2012) 12 pm chat topic was “what’s in your essential teachers kit” all the things you wouldn’t…
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How effective is Guided Discovery in the ELT classroom? Can it help promote learner autonomy?’ #ELTchat Summary 04/04/2012

This summary was contributed by Adam Beale and has been copied from his blog with his kind permission   Guided Discovery – Summary   So out of guilt, seeing as it was my proposal to talk about Guided Discovery, I volunteered to do the summary for the ELTchat that took place on April 4th. The…
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Demand-High Teaching – Summary of #Eltchat 28/03/2012

This #ELTchat took place at 12:00 P.M. GMT on 28/03/2012 and Jim Scrivener agreed to take part in this as a follow up to the issues he raised in his talk at IATEFL Glasgow. The chat started with Mr Scrivener sending a series of tweets to briefly outline the main points he raised in his…
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How can you make the most of films / movies in and out of class? #ELTchat Summary 28/03/2012

This is a summary of the #eltchat which took place at 9pm (GMT) on Wednesday 28 March 2012. It was contributed by Steve Muir @steve_muir https://twitter.com/#!/steve_muir Apart from the odd occasion when I’ve lurked a little, this was my first #eltchat since I started using Twitter just over a year ago. It had been on…
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How can you make the most of films / movies in and out of class? #ELTchat Summary 28/03/2012

This is a summary of the #eltchat which took place at 9pm (GMT) on Wednesday 28 March 2012. It was contributed by Steve Muir @steve_muir https://twitter.com/#!/steve_muir Apart from the odd occasion when I’ve lurked a little, this was my first #eltchat since I started using Twitter just over a year ago. It had been on…
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Time Management for Teachers – #ELTchat Summary 29/02/2012

The full title of this #ELTchat was ‘Time Management for teachers – in particular, how easy do people find it to juggle the various demands of the job?” and the summary was contributed by David Petrie, alias @teflgeek  It is reposted here from his blog with his kind permission. Thank you David!!!    Summary A…
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How can we get the most from conferences whether we attend or not? #ELTchat Summary 14/03/2012

This is the summary of the first #eltchat on Wednesday 14th March 2012. To find out exactly what #eltchat is, click here. This summary was contributed by Sandy Millin – @sandymillin on Twitter – and was first posted on her blog. It is reproduced here with her kind permission.   With IATEFL 2012 fast approaching and in the midst of…
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