{"id":3362,"date":"2012-05-19T10:56:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T09:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltchat.com\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2012-05-19T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T09:56:55","slug":"eltchat-at-the-eltons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltchat.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/19\/eltchat-at-the-eltons\/","title":{"rendered":"#ELTchat at the ELTons"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;\" width=\"402\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"8\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"bodyContent\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#0E76BC\" width=\"489\">\n<h1 style=\"font-size: 30px; font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; color: #ffffff; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 30px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: block; text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">ELTons Awards Nomination News<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; color: #ffffff; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: block; line-height: 18px; text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">May\u00a023, 2012<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"bodyContent\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; text-align: left;\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" width=\"489\">\n<h2 style=\"color: #0e76bc; display: block; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 26px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a style=\"line-height: 150%;\" href=\"http:\/\/marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org\/files\/2012\/01\/eltons-17tdaul.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3380\" title=\"eltons\" src=\"http:\/\/marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org\/files\/2012\/01\/eltons-17tdaul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"245\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Innovation<br \/>\nin Teacher Resources<\/h2>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 15px; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><br \/>\n<\/span>We are very\u00a0proud,\u00a0pleased and\u00a0honoured\u00a0to\u00a0be shortlisted in the nominations for an\u00a0ELTons \u00a0award, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishcouncil.org\/learning-eltons.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n&#8220;the only international awards that recognise and celebrate innovation in the\u00a0field of English language teaching (ELT).&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 15px; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica;\">For a whole\u00a0week this\u00a0blog will\u00a0be\u00a0celebrating\u00a0the ELTons \u00a0award\u00a0nomination\u00a0and\u00a0shortlisting\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eltchat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the #ELTchat website<\/a>\u00a0 and\u00a0#ELTchat,\u00a0a\u00a0weekly online discussion on Twitter \u00a0followed by hundreds of educators around\u00a0the globe.in the\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Innovation in Teacher Resources<\/span><\/strong> category. This weekly conversation has very quickly\u00a0evolved and developed into a great sharing community with<strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eltchat.pbworks.com\/w\/page\/35043342\/ELT%20Chat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">a wiki<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eltchat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a blog<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>which we maintain to share knowledge, ideas\u00a0and links in a series of<\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 15px; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>blog posts\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>summarising the main chats<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>podcasts<\/strong><\/span> and\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">videos<\/span><\/strong> containing interviews with colleagues, teachers and\u00a0well-known authors on the topics of the weekly discussions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 15px; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica;\">The nomination is not for a product, but\u00a0for <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">content co-created<\/span><\/strong> through our conversations and the volunteer\u00a0work of us,\u00a0the moderators, and #ELTchat participants, who share their knowledge\u00a0generously\u00a0and freely, and by those of them who undertake to write up the\u00a0summaries of these conversations, making them coherent, easier to read and\u00a0accessible to all. It is those <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">summaries<\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0collected and\u00a0presented together, that make all the difference and which have\u00a0evolved into <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">a formidable resource for\u00a0teachers<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 15px; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica;\">Some absolutely marvellous posts have been written up\u00a0for the\u00a0benefit of all who follow #ELTchat &#8211; and even for those who don&#8217;t follow\u00a0but\u00a0have discovered this treasure trove of ELT resources.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>On May 23, 2012,\u00a0during the awards ceremony in London, UK,\u00a0which will\u00a0be held at\u00a0BMA House &#8211;\u00a0the\u00a0building\u00a0of the\u00a0British\u00a0Medical\u00a0Association, the winners will be announced and\u00a0the shortlist includes some well known ELT professionals.\u00a0We may or may not win,\u00a0but we all feel very happy to have brought the first\u00a0co-created content to this\u00a0event!<\/h4>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 15px; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica;\">Please click<strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishcouncil.org\/learning-eltons-2012-shortlist.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">he<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishcouncil.org\/learning-eltons-2012-shortlist.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">re<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> to view this year&#8217;s nominees and categories. At\u00a06.30 BST, the ceremony will be livestreamed\u00a0and \u00a0Scott Thornbury\u00a0will be\u00a0presenting the awards. We will add the link to the livestream the day before and\u00a0of course, we will tweet it and put it up on our\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/eltchat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook group<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 15px; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica;\">We hope some of you will be able to follow this great annual\u00a0event\u00a0for English Language Teaching and perhaps be inspired to join Twitter and\u00a0follow\u00a0this great online community of educators who offer their time voluntarily\u00a0for\u00a0Continuous Professional Development. If you would like to find out more\u00a0about\u00a0the topic, please follow the links below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 15px; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000080; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;\">The #ELTchat\u00a0Moderators<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 15px;\">Shaun\u00a0Wilden<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 15px;\">Shelly Sanchez Terrell<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 15px;\">Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 15px;\">Bernadette Wall<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 15px;\">Marisa <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 15px;\">Constantinides<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;\">More updates when we have them!\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 150%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"bodyContent\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\" valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#2175BC\" width=\"245\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eltchat.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/images-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679\" title=\"images (7)\" src=\"http:\/\/eltchat.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/images-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;\">#ELTchats Summary Index<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #505050;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Here is a list of all of the eltchats which have ever taken place, including\u00a0links to the transcripts and summaries where available. Please let us know if\u00a0you would like to write a summary for chats which don\u2019t already have one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #505050;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Read the summaries list<\/span><br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/eltchat.org\/wordpress\/?cat=13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #231f20; display: block; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org\/files\/2011\/01\/tweets-ucp9fz.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2566\" title=\"tweets\" src=\"http:\/\/marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org\/files\/2011\/01\/tweets-ucp9fz-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"105\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #505050;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">99,000 tweets and counting!<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"color: #505050;\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"color: #505050;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">What is #ELTchat?<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #505050;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffcc;\">Every Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. GMT and 21:00 p.m. GMT, a great number of ELT<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffcc;\"> teachers from all over the world log into their Twitter account and for one hour<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffcc;\"> they hold an online discussion (chat) on a topic they have selected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Continue<\/span><span><span style=\"color: #505050;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a style=\"color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org\/2011\/01\/29\/eltchat-31226-tweets-and-counting\/#.T6q4wJ8thxJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reading<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bodyContent\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\" valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#F4F4F4\" width=\"244\">\n<h6 style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #231f20; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #f4f4f4;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3202\" title=\"eltchat\" src=\"http:\/\/marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org\/files\/2012\/03\/eltchat-2jyygoy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"175\" \/><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; 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