Reading Activities Spiced Up with Web 2.0 for IATEFL TD< JOINT SIG EVENT
You can see some student examples from here and also from the links of my class blogs. You can download the handout.
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IATEFL LT&TD SIG Joint Event
I’m looking forward to being at Yeditepe University this weekend. I’m sure it will be a great event. If you have already seen the speaker list, you will understand what I mean. I will be one of the British Council Roving reporters so if you are there and if you happen to bump into me,…
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Can Comenius Project Change a Thing, part 5 ( at our school)
Finally we hosted our partner schools in Istanbul. My school was very glad to have this opportunity. We, the language department teachers worked very hard yet we enjoyed and learned a lot. On the first day, after the short tour in the school, we gathered in the conference hall and presented ‘What Comenius means to…
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Can Comenius Project Change a Thing, part 4
Well, I’ve already learned the answer but I want to continue with this title. May is a wonderful month. It is warm, sunny and energetic and we are lucky beacuse the 3rd meeting of our project ‘The Magic of Reading, The Power of Reading’ is going to be held in Istanbul this week. We, the…
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An Unprepared Storytelling Session
I’m so much exhausted these days. There are many thing at school that we have to do. Our Comenius partners visit us next week. Actually it is very exciting to plan everything. We have to deal with arrivals, presentations, meetings, day tips, etc. We are even planning a Europe Day celebration on May 9th. I’m…
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Third ELT Students’ Conference
I will be at Boğaziçi University tomorrow for the Third Elt Students’ conference. Unfortunately I’ve missed todays sessions as I had to be at school for Teacher-Parent meeting. I’m looking forward to being there tomorrow as it is organised by a group of ELT students from Bilgi and Boğaziçi University. As far as I follow,…
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Who is this net generation?
I’ve been thinking about the change. We are all talking about the digital natives but I think I’ve just met them. The ones I graduated from high school last year, the previous years were just the pioneers and now I have to deal with the real ones. If we really know them, we can guide…
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I want my students back
I always supported the idea that if a teacher is willing, eager and motivated, sooner or later the most demotivated students will respond but unfortunately this year I realised that a teacher, no matter how idealistic, eager, motivated she is needs some leader students who will help her to make others want to learn….
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IATEFL Chronicles Year 2: Last post
This time two weeks ago I was in Glasgow. I was both excited and nervous as this would be my first presentation at IATEFL. Although I had presented at many conferences in the past three years, just after stepping into blogging, twitter and social media, yet IATEFL was something else. A dream, a last stop,…
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IATEFL Chronicles, Year 2
Sessions I attended My session was on 22nd of March. It was a part of the Technology and Teens symposium. I was a bit stressed but it all went very well and we all received very positive feedbacks from the participants which made all of us very happy. It was a great feeling when one…
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Can a Comenius Project change a thing? Part 3
The Magic of Reading The Power of Discovering Ourselves Guest post by Talar Bedikoglu and Culya Yapıcı The second project meeting took place in La Palma del Condado,Spain from March 4th to March 10th 2012. La Palma del Condado isin the province of Huelva. It has a population of 10.000 inhabitants. It is popular for its…
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IATEFL Chronicles Year Two, 1st day of the conference
My 3rd day in Scotland Today was the 1st day of the conference and I started this year’s adventure with Weronika Salandyk’s session called ‘Fun with Flashcards’. Weronika is a friend whom I met from IATEFL Brighton and last year she made me admire her because of her passion and enthusiasm to teaching. Well, what…