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Well, During February I’ll blog at ELT Blogathon on the Teaching English website as evab2001. I know how important is IATEFL for English teachers and I know very well that the online community should also be blamed for evoking enthusiasm among fellow teachers. I also want to be there with my PLN so I’ll try my best…
It is that time of the year again. The time to make resolutions for the future and the time to recall past to take some lessons… I have lots of plans again. However, the thing that I want to share now is a bit different… I’m thinking about my 4th grade teacher… I have been…
I’m so thrilled because this blog and our wiki project that we started almost a year ago with Alexandra Francisco have been nominated and shortlisted for the edublog awards. I have thousands of words in my mind but can not find the correct ones to Thank everybody who nominated my blog as best teacher blog and…
Today I’ll write about my reflections on TESOL France’s 29th Annual Colloquium which was one of the most successful conferences I’ve ever attended. It was successful not only it gave us the chance to listen to David Crystal and watch their amazing family show, it also enabled us to attend many sessions of wonderful…
It’s difficult to make the nominations as I follow wonderful educators who help me develop professionally 7/24. I really feel guilty to leave some of them out of this list. But as David said in his post I believe all the educators who are online and helping others by sharing and collaborating are…
Well, when I sat down to write my reflections on TESOL France which was a huge success, I focused on faces rather than the sessions I attended. I saw the faces of teachers who arrived from the different corners of the world to update their skills, to learn more or to share what they’ve already…
Being a parent is a big challenge. Raising twins? That’s twice the challenge and if you are a teacher and a mother of twins then life is more difficult for you once they started school. You know the rights, wrongs. You spend days, nights trying not to compare them. You fight with people when they…
When I went to the computer lab with my young learners, I realised that creating something using web 2.0 tools won’t very easy with them as I only see them once a week. I’m just thinking about tools that don’t require registration and e-mail confirmation as it will be too time consuming. They are digital…
What does ‘being a teacher’ stand for? Does it only mean a person who teaches? A person who teaches what? Is it that important to teach maths, science, English,etc? When do we lose the kids? Do they all want to start school and learn immediately what he they have been taught? What will happen to…
For almost 16 years I haven’t had young learners. This year I have a group of 10 year olds. I just see them once a week and our idea was to give them a chance to chat in English. Their level of English is so basic, as you can guess .However, their enthusiasm is…
Everyday we come across with a tweet on whether coursebooks are evil or not. We even eltchatted about it. As an EFl teacher, I love ‘EFL course books’ and most of my colleagues who are not teaching English are jealous of us beacuse our course books are full of ideas, resources, extra materials and even tests….
I mentioned this activity in my previous post and today I asked my students tothink about their favourite objects and write how these object spend the day. While they were doing, I realised this would be great with glogster. So the next lesson, we went to the computer lab and my students created their first glogs….
