ELT Blogosphere & Twitterverse, Summary Feb 2010

Top posts on Kalinago English in February

• Crowd Wise:  a new series on edu-e-communities
• Getting students learning with YouTube
• Videos for Valentine's Day
• More ELT teachers on Twitter
• Twitter 4 students 2?
• R u U online?
• Dogme ELT 2.0
• Creating cross-cultural guides

Reminder: 
ELT Carnival of Lessons, deadline March 21st, 2010


And the stuff I really enjoyed reading last month....

Teaching English and other ELT Related Issues

Thought-provoking, challenging and interesting posts on teaching from out there in the Blogosphere

• Life, Learning (and food) by Clarissa Ryan
• Spell check this by Tristan Verboven
• How much change do you really want? by Alex Case
  
• My ELT library (series) by Henrick Oprea 
• Rules for teachers in 1872 by Lindsay Clandfield
• I only thought I knew my students by Ric on Barbara Sakamoto's blog 
• School of Rock by Willy C Cardosa
• Crazy or Enlightened by Nick Jaworski 
• Why grammar is overrated by Nick Jaworski

Lessons, Tips and Ideas for the classroom

• JK Rowlings' on Failure, lesson plan by Daniel Kirk
• Listening: what's the aim? by Jeremy Day 
• Small pleasures by  Ian James
• Google Search Stories by Anne Hodgson 
• My first and worst legal English lesson by Jeremy Day 
• The opposite is also true by Vicki Hollett (cross-cultural Japanese/American tip)

Articles and Links to Share with our Learners

• The Connatation Series by Toby Crawley (for Adult Business Learners)
• How not to improve your speaking skills by Neil Barker
• Best Sites to learn about cool cars!  by Larry Ferlazzo

Technology Related News, Issues and Tips

• Collaborative Storytelling by Sean Banville
• ICT terms you want to know, but were afraid to ask by Chiew N Pang
• Simply Boxed by Valentina Dodge
• Hot Metal Apps, dogme in the world of Avatar by Jeremy Harmer
• Website for creating meaningful student dialogues by Shelly Terrell 
• Show me what's wrong (by video) by Ana Maria Menezes
• Urban Dictionary website by Chris Cattaneo 
• 25 tips for teaching language learners by Judie Haynes 
• Vocabulary 2.0 tools and sites by Shelly Terrell
• How to integrate blogging in EFL teaching by Christina Markoulaki or Barbara Sakamoto's blog

• hat tip @grahamstanley: Make an interactive video in minutes
• hat tip @carolrainbow:  The Future of Web Content

Social Media

• PLNs: the what, the why, the how by Darren Elliott
• The help, the comfort by Eva Büyüksimkeşyan
• Ten Twitter Turn-offs by Sue Lyon Jones
• Twitter Apps by Ozge Karaoglu

New!!! ELT-Bloggers to check out

• Judie Haynes, 20 tips on communicating with English Language Learners
• Marina Shvet in Russia.  32 most commonly misused words
• 26 letters by 26 letters 
• Adam Simpson, a year in the life of How to present at a conference (series)

Useful links related to this posting:
Teacher Reboot Camp, What did they Tweet
Larry Ferlazzo, Monthly Best Twee


Best,
Karenne