ELTMentor News
Here’s our weekly digest of forum comments, upcoming dates and other snippets of useful information.
The Forum
Marcia has created a poll suggesting dates for her run through of her #RSCON presentation – please go along and choose the best day for you
Have you given Connie feedback on her new blog yet? Here is the address
Cintia starts her CELTA course today – fantastic Cintia please keep us posted of your progress on the forum and post any successes so we can celebrate with you!
The same goes for everyone else of course!
If you haven’t managed to find the forum yet let me know.
#eltmentor
We will meet at 12.00 today for a Q&A session following Shelly’s webinar. I hope you can make this.
(Sign up to twitter, then sign up to tweetdeck and post a comment there. If you need any help with this let me know).
The twitter Q&A session will now become a permanent feature after each teleseminar and webinar session.
Useful articles
I’m just getting back online after two weeks of a virus that went around my family (and the poor student I had here too – luckily for him he got it just as he was leaving so we didn’t miss any lessons)
I will get back to #eltchat this week and hope to get more things to share – but in the meantime I did come across these articles:
General tips on blogging and getting and keeping your audience
and this from Henrik Oprea (@hoprea) – hot off the press but very relevant to us here.
http://hoprea.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/the-five-stages-of-pd-for-teachers/
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 🙂
I’ll be doing a presentation at #RSCON (Friday 29th time still to be confirmed) on E-learning and will be featuring Gapfillers in this – hope you can get to some of RSCON – maybe Marcia’s presentation
Dates coming up
Our next teleseminar is on July 25th (next Monday) 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?
Don’t forget to vote on Marcia’s poll and look at Connie’s new blog.
If anybody else needs help with anything just post in the forum, or on twitter or email me or message in Gapfillers. I am really pleased that you are using the forum – it’s becoming a buzzy place.
I have a request – I am still waiting for more members to this programme from schools I am in contact with, once they have completed their CELTA/TESOL courses – but at the moment we are still a very small and VERY select group but if you could pass on the details to people you come into contact with for who you think participation in the programme would be beneficial – it would be great.
Until next week
Berni