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….
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Day 1 Arrival I spent the weirdest night/morning on Saturday. I couldn’t even sleep before a long journey. When I was checking my handouts, my talk and all the other necessary papers, I realised that there was a mistake on the ticket. We, I don’t know how, but somehow booked the March 18th flight to…
Time for IATEFL 2012 I’m sitting at my desk and working on my presentation. just finished my power point (though not very sure) just finished a handout (still needs revising, I guess) just written a text for my talk ( still not sure if I’ve included everything I planned) Last year was my first IATEFL…
It is mid-term break now. At the moment I’m enjoying myself reading blogathon posts and doing some preperation for the first week of the school. February will be a hectic month and I have to pre-plan everything. Reported Speech is the grammar point that we will study but I want to challenge them with something…
I took a challenge this month. Yes, it’s EVO time and there are wonderful sessions for every teacher’s needs. As I’m a big fan of using digital tools in the classroom I decided to take the Digital Storytelling for Young Learners. The course is moderated by a dream team, Shelly Terrell, Esra Girgin, Barbara Sakamoto,…
On Tuesday this week, I had my first lesson of the new year after the Christmas break. I wanted to do a session where the students would reflect and make resolutions. I had some wordles(I prepared them for another lesson but hadn’t used) with quotes and proverbs on learning, motivation and acieving goals. I put the…
Nowadays I’m in need of a good collaborative writing tool and while searching I’ve come across with these goodies. Have a look, you will like some of them. StudentPublishing.com I liked the tool as it allows students to draw pictures, upload from desktop and create and publish their stories. You will also find lesson plans,…
It’s that time of the year again….. Time for feedback, time for resolutions…. Here I go! What happened to me last year? Oh how much I owe to twitter and my PLN, I really can’t express that. Last year’s number 1 event was my blogathon experience. I couldn’t win the GOLD but I was lucky…
