Day 2 is over. After a wonderful Pecha Kucha event hosted by Jeremy Harmer, I almost forgot my tiredness, sleeplessness ( my biologic rhythm, unfortunately, hasn’t realised yet that I’m in Brighton and I keep waking up exactly at the same time I have to get up at home)Last year I watched the PK live…
And the real event started on Saturday. It is already Sunday today but I’ll be able to post this in the morning. I had a fantastic day at the conference, not because I met some of my twitter friends for the first time and hugged and kissed each other as if we had known…
I’m in my hotel room in Brighton now and thinking about the day. I attended Learning Technologies pre-conference event. The talks were on IWB. We started the day with Connie Gutenberg’s brief introduction. She demonstrated how she used it with her class. The texts she chose for the session were amazing. I really loved the…
When I read the tweet about last year’s conference and learned most of the presenters and educators whom I admired were coming, I was thrilled. The conference sounded very promising and it was a great opportunity for the teachers who can’t go to conferences very often as it would also be live broadcasted. ELT VIPs, enthusiastic teachers,…
Life is too hectic these days and also I have many things to plan and arrange. Since the day I learned I’ll be attending IATEFL this year, I’ve been very excited. IATEFL has been a dream for me and I remember I wrote it in one of my posts last year. Well, when I…
http://www.box.net/embed/ug80qzymob5k7ip.swf My reflections will come very soon.
And only 2 days to go to Istek Schools International ELT Conference2011. I remember last year. It was such a big excitement to wait for the event. I met most of my PLN there and had the chance to chat and enjoy every break. It was not just a conference. I had great fun…
Since Sunday I’ve been reading posts about my friends’ blogs. I couldn’t attend any of the Virtual Round Table sessions but I tried to catch something. Dave Dodgson in his presentation challenged us to make a word cloud from our blogs. Today I couldn’t resist the challenge and created my blog’s poster. As…
It all started with the reading text in our course book called ‘Boys R Us’, Going for Gold, Upper-int. (Longman) The story was about a teenager who was a reluctant student but changed when a teacher assigned them to write a 20 page- story in 2 months. The teenager went home and wrote his 20…
This post is written for Shelly Terrell’s #30 goals challenge. It was some years ago. I had the prep classes then which means I had 12 hours with the class to teach grammar. The students I had that year were the laziest or the most demotivated ones in my teaching career. They…
Am I too late? Just found this poem ‘The colour of my dreams’ by Peter Dixon while searching for something else in my files and I thought it would be lovely to take it to staff room to think once again on success rates, even to the classroom to make students realise there are…
With my year 10 students we will start reading Jamaica Inn (level 5) and as a pre-reading task I prepared the glog and at the lab they researched and answered the questions. They are very curious about the story now and they are looking forward to reading it. http://www.glogster.com/flash/flash_loader.swf?ver=1300206555 I’d like to hear your ideas…
