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• ELT Publishing Trendspotter 2010 Part One

  
  TEFLtastic with Alex Case — Authority: 128
  Flicking through the 2010 Pearson Longman was quite interesting (interesting for TEFL okakus ), and here is what I noticed: - More books bought off of smaller publishers by big publishers to fill a hole in their catalogue, this time off of the Victorian textbook workhouse that is Express Publishing. I wonder if ...
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• I need to find out who this kid is and then never piss it off. Also, I should maybe not refer to my students as "its."

  
  Swim Parallel — Authority: 100
  Students at the South Korean elementary school where I teach English have decorated the cafeteria with their projects -- mostly colored pencil drawings, and most of them surprisingly artistic for the age of the kids doing them. The left wall is a wash of color with blues, greens, oranges, and yellows, with scenes that ...
  2 days ago

• Who is the sexiest man in ELT?

  
  Kalinago English — Authority: 113
  Normally on a Thursday, I post up the She-in-ELT series... Normally at the beginning of a month, I work on producing my monthly wrap-up of the blogosphere... My S-i-E posting for this week didnt arrive in the in-tray. DN... am awaiting the posting on Daff. The wrap-up is a double-monther this time round: was ...
  3 days ago

• Guest post- The Homework Conundrum

  
  TEFLtastic with Alex Case — Authority: 128
  By Paula Swenson, regular TEFL.net reviewer , submitter of my only ever guest worksheets (so far!) and online purveyor of something too modern for me to understand at  http://englishexcellence.wordpress.com/ . Today though, she’d like to set you a homework conundrum or solve your homework conundrums, you’ll ...
  3 days ago

• What Did They Tweet?

  
  Teacher Reboot Camp — Authority: 419
  December 1st edition! My guilty pleasure is…. Twitter… as you can tell by this weekly series, What Did They Tweet? Kid’s Digital Stories @JohnMikulski’s students have created beautiful digital stories using Storybird . Storybird is one of my favorite applications that you can read about here ! John ...
  5 days ago

• ESL Holiday Lessons

  
  TEFL.net Edition — Authority: 414
  This resource site for teachers, developed by Sean Banville (Breaking News English), offers dozens of English lesson plans on a variety of holiday themes. Each month the featured lessons are placed at the top of the site, making it easy for teachers to plan supplementary activities ahead of time. The holiday lessons ...
  6 days ago

• New games and other photocopiables November 09 Part Three

  
  TEFLtastic with Alex Case — Authority: 128
  As promised, here are the good ones to make up for the crappy ones in Part Two below. Btw, if something sounds almost what you are looking for but not quite, a good tip I’ve worked out over far too many hours on the internet is to click on the link anyway then to delete just the last part of the URL in your web ...
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• Conference Report: BESIG 2009

  
  Kalinago English — Authority: 113
  Last week, the annual Teachers of Business English conference was held in Poznan, Poland. I made the trek all the way there to have a look at what’s been going on in my field of teaching English to adult learners. Poznan is a gorgeous city and having arrived early in the morning, I got the chance to have a wander ...
  6 days ago

• Cool “Collaborative” Sites by Özge Karaoğlu

  
  Teacher Reboot Camp — Authority: 419
  Collaboration has become the key concept to learn and engage ourselves through web. Web tools offer us the opportunity to collaborate and learn from each other; so this week, I would like to share my top collaborative tools for Shelly’s Cool Sites Series . Palbee is a free online service that allows you to ...
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• What Did They Tweet?

  
  Teacher Reboot Camp — Authority: 419
  Thanksgiving edition! Have you ever come across a tweet you wanted to share? Check out this weekly series, What Did They Tweet? to discover valuable resources! Once again I have changed the format to provide you with the best way to see the resources. Please leave a comment to let me know if you prefer this format! ...
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• “Save UK ELT” Number 10 petition

  
  TEFLtastic with Alex Case — Authority: 128
  I haven’t yet signed because I know nothing about the law in question (I usually wait for Melanie Butler of EL Gazette to make up my mind for me on things like this). If you want to find out more or sign yourselves, the petition is here . If you want to persuade (or dissuade) me, comments are below.
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• “Save UK ELT” Number 10 petition

  
  TEFLtastic with Alex Case — Authority: 128
  I haven’t yet signed because I know nothing about the law in question (I usually wait for Melanie Butler of EL Gazette to make up my mind for me on things like this). If you want to find out more or sign yourselves, the petition is here . If you want to persuade (or dissuade) me, comments are below.
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• On the CELTA, Japan, and very small learners

  
  TEFLtastic with Alex Case — Authority: 128
  An interview with Charlie Richards of Learning Tree English , a private language school for 16 and unders (sometimes far unders!) in Osaka. “I first came across your school through your excellent examples of young learner lessons on YouTube. Typical lessons or selected highlights? Thanks for the complement but I ...
  2 weeks ago

• On the CELTA, Japan, and very small learners

  
  TEFLtastic with Alex Case — Authority: 128
  An interview with Charlie Richards of Learning Tree English , a private language school for 16 and unders (sometimes far unders!) in Osaka. “I first came across your school through your excellent examples of young learner lessons on YouTube. Typical lessons or selected highlights? Thanks for the complement but I ...
  2 weeks ago

• 5 Cool Sites

  
  Teacher Reboot Camp — Authority: 419
  Every week, I share my favorite finds in this weekly series ! Test these tools out. If you want instant access to these fantastic websites connect with me on Google reader ! Cutting Edge Technology Wiki David Kapuler has created an amazing wiki dedicated to various Web 2.0 technologies . The wiki provides ...
  2 weeks ago

• Goal-Setting with English Language Learners

  
  Teacher Reboot Camp — Authority: 419
  Part of any curriculum should involve goal-setting. Ideally goal-setting should occur at the beginning of the year and be a collaborative effort between students and teachers. Each year, I look for a better approach to getting students to really ponder their language learning goals. I finally came up with a lesson I ...
  2 weeks ago

• How I nearly learnt Japanese

  
  TEFLtastic with Alex Case — Authority: 128
  Although starting yet again on yet another language with the usual recipe of vocab lists, graded readers, self study textbooks and horribly uncommunicative language classes was about the biggest pain in the arse I could possibly imagine, unlike Darrrrren Ellliottttt I actually really got into Japanese through a ...
  2 weeks ago

• How I nearly learnt Japanese

  
  TEFLtastic with Alex Case — Authority: 128
  Although starting yet again on yet another language with the usual recipe of vocab lists, graded readers, self study textbooks and horribly uncommunicative language classes was about the biggest pain in the arse I could possibly imagine, unlike Darrrrren Ellliottttt I actually really got into Japanese through a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Spend The Winter In Nice France Learning to Teach Business English

  
  Wicked Good Travel Tips — Authority: 123
  The TEFL Language House invites you to the balmy beautiful French Riviera this winter to earn a certification to teach EFL in France. Beginning in January 2010, Language House is opening a new facility in chic, alluring Nice!  The one month certification course allows graduates to teach English to Students of ...
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• What I just learnt on YouTube

  
  TEFLtastic with Alex Case — Authority: 128
  A rare occurence, I know, but this kansaikidsdotcom YouTube channel (of a school called The Learning Tree which I had never heard of- thank you Google!) had lots of little teaching ideas for young and very young learners that I’d never thought of or seen: - Get the students to whisper their answers to the ...
  2 weeks ago

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