Teaching English and other ELT Related Issues
from Kalinago English
- Melanie Butler on Glass Ceilings in ELT
- Monkey See, Monkey do 2 (mirror neurons in language learning)
- Online Teaching: how to get started
from the Blogosphere
- Shaun Wilden: IH DOS conference (+ links to filmed teacher training presentations)
- Nick Jaworski: Against Translation
- Scott Thornbury: R is for Reticence
- Jason Renshaw: The Nightmare stalking young learner education
- Paula Swenson: Why I mentor (via AlexCase)
- David Deubel: It's the small things that count (via Barbara Sakamoto)
- Catherine Carbiness: Crossing the physical and linguistic divide (via Barbara Sakamoto)
- Berni Wall: Should the current system of grading be outlawed?
- Little Miss Bossy: 2 kinds of teachers
from the Twitterverse
- hat tip @paulmaglione: Nokia, Pearson set up digital education joint venture in China
- hat tip @ddeubel: Teachers pay teachers (lessons on demand)
- hat tip @bcinfrance: The Lexical Syllabus (Dave Willis: e-book, free download)
- hat tip @harmerj: Ten Top Moderator Skills for online educators
Lessons, Tips & Ideas for the classroom
from Kalinago English
from the Blogosphere
- Chiew N Pang Water for Life
- Sean Banville: Creating a Glogster (introduction /first day activity)
- Claudio Azevedo: Crop Circles
from the Twitterverse
- hat tip: @englishteach8 Haiti, words in the news
- hat tip: @GiseldaSantos Learning Vocabulary Games
Technology Related Issues and Tips
from Kalinago English
from the Blogosphere
- Anne Hodgson: Teaching the Generations
- Hall Houston: Sound Sequences
- Ana Maria Menezes: Creating Quizzes with Photopeach
from the Twitterverse
- hat tip @helenstrong: Intro to the Semantic Web
- hat tip @dudeneyge: Zoodles: An Age Appropriate web Browser for Kids aimed at Learning
- hat tip @SeanBanville: Safe search for muslims
- hat tip @NikPeachey: Authentic conversations by authentic people
- hat tip: @ij64: Download free political documentaries
Social Media
from Kalinago English
- Face on / Face Off (regarding Facebook profiles)
- Getting language students reading language learning blogs
from the Blogosphere
- Anne Mirtshin: 20 reasons why students should blog
- Darren Elliott Death by PLN
- Janet Bianchini: Riding the wave (google wave)
from the Twitterverse
- hat tip @vale24: A special report on social networking from the Economist
- hat tip @annapires: Twitter in Real Life
- hat tip @dudeneyge: Cyberbullying and the cry of the dolphins
- hat tip @Irek: 3 ways Educators are embracing social media
New!!! ELT-Bloggers to check out
- Weighin' in (2 new heavyweights in the blogosphere)
- Eisensei: Two questions about dogme that dog me
- Ian James: Don't ask me, ask the world
Useful links related to this posting:
Lives of Teachers, Weekly Twitter Updates
Teacher Reboot Camp, What did they Tweet
Best,
Karenne
Thanks Karenne,
I thought that title might ruffle a few feathers, but it seems to have met with general approval. I'm trying to find a rhythm now, between total inactivity and burnout ; P
Loved the Melanie Butler piece, by the way. Extremely educational.
Thank you very much,Karenne.
I really enjoyed looking through your great list of stuff you wrote and enjoyed reading. The idea for Powerpointing grammar is a great one. I liked your Face on, Face Off posting as well.
I look forward to looking through some more of your recommended readings. Thank you :)
Even when I'm not busy, I really appreciate your summaries of good reads--I always miss something.
When I am busy, I REALLY depend on these lists of highlights!
Thanks.
Thanks also for including a couple of posts from Teaching Village. I always feel like the student who did something right when I get a nod from another blogger like you :)
Hey guys, thanks for your thanks! I'm never really sure about doing these and stopped sometime last year cause I wasn't sure if people liked them - but then I found myself hunting through the old ones for an article I wanted to find by another blogger and knew I'd saved it somewhere and then I realized that actually they were useful to me!
Really glad to hear you enjoy them too!
Karenne
Hi,
Love the new layout! Great stuff! Perhaps you could do a tutorial or two on how to jazz up Blogger blogs?
Carl
On the list of things to do, Carl! ;-) actually planning on running a series of posts on blogging - probably May (have to get MELTA, TESOLSpain and IATEFL out of the way first) - will let you know (it's hard but patience wins out...)
Thanks Karenne, for this useful and timely update! Can I add that I loved the Melanie BUtler article? Great addition to that series. Sorry I didn't comment on it before, I just saw it now.
Is hat-tip a Karenne thing or is it a web 2.0 thing that I didn't know about?
Hi Lindsay,
I got it from Alex... I think it means "got the information from blah, blah so I'm giving him the acknowledgment for sharing the information, however it wasn't user-generated, he got it from another source but I'm awfully grateful for the tip so I'm tipping my hat his way."
:-)K