ELTMentor News
Here’s our weekly digest of forum comments, upcoming dates and other snippets of useful information.
First of all sorry for the delay this week. I hope you found all the links from last week’s webinar and that you are thinking about how you might use these in your teaching and blogging.
The Forum
Don’t forget to post your blog addresses on the forum
Connie has started a blog – fantastic! It is great here is the address go and have a look and give her some feedback 🙂
Keep your suggestions coming for topics.
If you haven’t managed to find the forum yet let me know.
#eltmentor
I see one or two of you have found this. I haven’t managed to be online much in the past week but will try and post some more under the hashtag this coming week.
(Sign up to twitter, then sign up to tweetdeck and post a comment there. If you need any help with this let me know).
I think it would be good to use it as a Q&A from the webinar.
Can I suggest we do a 30 minute #ELTMentor chat on Monday July 18th if you can make it. This will be good practice. Let’s make it the Q&A from the webinar so any questions you have from that session bring along and we’ll explore them then.
Useful articles
I have not been much on twitter this week so haven’t seen things coming through. I did find this interesting piece.
Bring chaos theory to English language teaching – Maurice Claypole
And this from Nick which details mostly BBC and BC BUT it does feature Sue Lyons-Jones @esolcourses fab free site!
Online alternatives to language classrooms open up to students – Nick Peachey
Gapfillers
Don’t forget to give me feedback if you use the site for yourself or with students. Also if you have suggestions they’re always welcome 🙂
Dates coming up
Our next teleseminar is on July 25th at 12.00. I’ll send out details nearer the time. We’ll be looking at teaching one to one.
After that we meet on August 29th.
I’ve kept the dates lean in the summer because of holidays and I’ve done the same in Dec/Jan.
Need help with anything?
I know that Marcia is going to set a date to practise her presentation for RSCON (let me know Marcia we can schedule this on WIZIQ).
If anybody else needs help with anything just post in the forum, or on twitter or email me or message in Gapfillers.
Until next week
Berni