ELTMentor News
Here’s our weekly digest of forum comments, upcoming dates and other snippets of useful information.
The Forum
Don’t forget to use the forum for sharing ideas, asking for help or posting successes!
Start your own thread choose whatever it is that you are passionate about and let’s get discussing it.
Your passwords should all be your name+elt on the end. If you have problems let me know.
Can anybody who hasn’t yet please post up a short bio? We can’t wait to find out all about you 🙂
Here’s the link again:
If you haven’t managed to find the forum yet let me know.
#eltmentor
Edith’s summary of the #edchat discussion on business English can be found here:
And her second summary is coming up soon! Wow Edith – amazing!
If you want to go ahead and try by yourself then follow the instructions below it is quite easy.
(Sign up to twitter, then sign up to tweetdeck and post a comment there. If you need any help with this let me know).
#eltchat
For those of you who would like to follow #eltchat but haven’t signed up to twitter and would prefer to ‘lurk’ and observe before taking the plunge, you can observe #eltchat on Tweetchat.com. Here is the link:
When you get to the site add eltchat to the # box. You can then sit back and watch the action! If you want to contribute you can sign in but this is really the best place for smart lurking :-0
#eltchat is held on Wednesdays at 12.00 and 21.00 UK time – but the # is in use at all times so you can check in anytime to see what is going on.
To find out more about eltchat here is a link to the site – even if you don’t attend the chat you can get great information and links to resources via this site:
Useful articles
I’m just posting a link to Marisa’s blog collection on disabled-access-friendly lesson plans
There is quite a lot to digest here.
Our next sessions – reminder
(this Monday October 24th – more details below)
I’m making some changes to the timetable. I’ll amend these on the timetable on the forum so you can check everything there.
We were due to have a technology webinar this month but because the workshop was delayed I’m going to postpone that to November 21st. I’ll combine this with the Q&A session on things so far.
That means that the half-day workshop scheduled for November will be too much in one month I think so what I propose do is have Christmas party online instead! This will be on December 4th. We will have Christmas/Holiday theme and share material, games, songs etc.. I’d also like to do an open mic session where you can choose a story or poem or song to share and then a Christmas Pecha Kucha.
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 🙂
If you have any students interested then just tell them to contact me mentioning you and I’ll sort everything out for them.
Just a reminder that we do offer a school licence so if your school has advanced students (if wants to use it for teachers) this is possible – just let me know.
We can also syndicate content which means we can deliver straight to your school site or intranet.
Next Session October 24th 12.00 p.m. UK time
This on dealing with disability in the ELT classroom.
My first-hand knowledge on this area is limited so I suggest I do a very short overview and then we can share experiences.
I have asked Marisa if she will pop in to give us her experience and knowledge on the topic. I am thrilled to announce that she has agreed to do this and really excited about her being there!
For those of you who don’t know Marisa, she is very experienced in the area of teacher training as well as practical teaching. Here is her bio.
You should have received an invitation from WIZIQ for the session. I usually word these myself but as I was entering the email addresses into the box the invitation shot off with the standard message. Sorry about this 🙁
Here is the classroom link http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/647471-disability-in-the-elt-classroom
Need help with anything?
If anybody else needs help with anything just post in the forum, or on twitter or email me or send a message in Gapfillers. I am really pleased that you are using the forum – let’s get more things posted to discuss.
Don’t forget to put any suggestions in the forum, this is your space to share ideas, experiences and ask questions. It’s been a little quiet there recently it would be good to get it buzzing again!
Until next week
(sorry a lot of repetition in this but it’s not long since our last one :-))
Berni