Posted by Yassine on March 3, 2009
Cardiff Online 09
For over 75 years IATEFL have been organising annual conferences in different countries for teachers of English around the world. The two past years the conference workshops and seminars were made available online for people who cannot attend the conference in person. I could virtually take part in both conferences organised in Aberdeen 07 and Exeter 08. The original links are by now dead but the people out there could make a nice compilation of the featured workshops and talks of the conferences and put it for reference here.
This year the conference is organised in Cardiff on a different platform (earlier sessions were hosted on Moodle). The online Cardiff website address will be very soon announced on the official IATEFL blog promising an enhanced experience and a coverage of 40 sessions.
I will keep you posted.
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Posted by Yassine on December 24, 2007
I have just learnt that
ELT can well be blended with the Sience of Hapiness.
This site, by Marc Helgesen, gathers a nice collection of
tasksheets and
Powerpoint slides that illustrate this concept.
The site writer is intersted in ways to use ideas from
positive psychology in the
ELT classroom.
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Posted by Yassine on August 15, 2007
A: Do you know how to handle emails?
B: It’s a piece of cake buddy !
A: What do Cc and Bcc stand for?
B: Hmm… That has nothing to do with emails, has it? I’ll check my dictionary and get back to you…
Well, Mr. B is actually a teacher who is fond of using technology in the classroom but doesn’t know where to start. Geek books are full of jargon and give him intolerable headaches. Still Mr. B needs to exchange hundreds of emails, save files and share others, manipulate images, text chat, even dreams of videoconferencing and most of all know what is wrong with the printer when it breaks 10 mins before his class!
Luckily there is a onestop place for that; Tech-Ease is website that offers Quick answers to real classroom technology questions. An online service of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse.
I have gone through the website and here are my best ofs (or best ovs?):
http://etc.usf.edu/te_win/index.html
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