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.
Search engines have become more popluar that address bars. That’s what I learnt from m friends and colleagues. Whenever I give them a URL (let’s say: yassine36.wordpress.com) They simply type “www.google” in the address bar then entre my URL in the search bar. In my opinion that’s the awkward way to go to a site that you know.
Luckily, Leelefever and his wife Sachi have made an In Plain English video on web search startegies that anyone can use with any search engine (not only google !!)
Google Chrome’s new browser has changed many things and now is allowing searching the web from the address bar! But that thig deserve another post….
Do you have any particular method of searching the web?
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.
