Comments on: TEFL links of the month March 2009

By: Darren Elliott

Darren Elliott — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:52:53 +0000

What DO you have against Jennifer Jenkins, Alex?

http://pigstyave.blogspot.com/2009/03/module-5-assignment.html

Email me?

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:48:02 +0000

Interesting blog entry on how the Macmillan Webinars went:

http://slife.dudeney.com/?p=172

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:34:47 +0000

Actually, I can. Two certificates in it

Link to the best article on Good Dave’s for a long time:

http://www.eltworld.net/times/2009/03/is-teaching-english-in-china-really-for-you/

By: TEFLista

TEFLista — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:43:07 +0000

And from the IATEFL 2009 Conference Programme, here are my votes:

A presentation to see:

Ten reasons to love lists
Lindsay Clandfield (Freelance)

A presentation to miss:

Online training courses for pre-service teachers
Jenny Johnson (Cactus TEFL)

And a presentation that I actually haven’t seen before:

Teaching culture using tap dance
Jung-min Lee (Seoul Global High School)

This presentation will show how to motivate learners of English by introducing the target culture in enjoyable ways. Tap dance is the main topic and the students were involved in a variety of activities using four skills, after-school tap dance class, and online interaction. The result shows interests in culture, cultural
background knowledge and confidence in English generally increased

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Alex, can you tap?

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:24:57 +0000

Reminder to self- check this out as looks like lots of good links:

http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2009/live-sessions

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:21:58 +0000

From an email from Onestop:

“Thanks for noticing onestopblogs and blogging about it! As you can see, the site is live. It is a blog aggregator and it’s based on a bit of technology developed by one of our colleagues. It does cool things with blogs and is quite clever as long as it has plenty of content to play with. For example, if it spots the same terms and tags and keywords in several blog titles, it will aggregate them as a Top Story – but we’ll need lots of blogs in the aggregator to make this happen.

We started with 47 blogs and will continue to add ETS-specific blogs over the coming weeks. If anyone objects to having their blog listed, we will of course take it down immediately. This is a service to complement onestopenglish and should help individual bloggers to increase traffic to their blogs and to reach the wider TEFL community.

So, today we’ve done another round of testing and fixing. The site is looking better by the minute. If anyone in the TEFL community notices anything, we’re hugely grateful for comments and suggestions, which can be sent to the onestopenglish team. [mailto:webeditor@macmillan.com]. You can also send your blogs to this address.”

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:25:03 +0000

Here’s another good one- CHina’s love hate relationship with English:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90872/6623808.html

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:11:09 +0000

Here’s another original way of using/ topic for blogs- a whole blog on conditionals!

http://conditionals-equipo19itesm.blogspot.com/

By: The power of hyperlinks « ELT Publishing Review

The power of hyperlinks « ELT Publishing Review — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:07:14 +0000

[...] like to thank Mr. Alex Case, Review Editor from TEFL.net, for putting my new blog into his links of the month post. This post is a nice collection of hyperlinks he writes in order to help teachers find interesting [...]

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:52:26 +0000

Here’s the best TEFL related journalism in ages:

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/life-times/article/13960.html

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:34:01 +0000

Although TEFL Marxist appears to be the latest resting place of Private Eye’s late Dave Spart, it does have a sense of humour and occasionally publishes something really worth reading.

However, their latest “Open letter to the TEFL Blacklist” seems to be another case of token gesturing, seeing as the TEFL Blacklist hasn’t published a thing since last December (the author may even be in hiding or behind bars!) and the ‘story’, concerning the BNP’s language school in London, is hardly as fresh as this morning’s bread.

Actually, I was always more attracted to the Trotsyite faction than the pure Marxists, even the Marxist-Lenininsts … but I do hope they don’t hold that against me! Anyway, now I’m officially an Agnostic, so there.

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:54:48 +0000

If TEFL news is your thing, the always excellent TESall.com ticker is active again after a bit of a rest:

http://tesall.com/

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:47:37 +0000

As I owe you one or ten, will let you into my one and only blogging secret- by email!

Here’s another great looking link that I just stole off someone’s delicious page:

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAJH.htm

By: Lindsay Clandfield

Lindsay Clandfield — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:35:43 +0000

Great Alex, thanks for these (how do you find out all this stuff?). The Marxist folk I had never heard of, although I see they are using the same wordpress template as Mr Trouble of ELT publishing. Any relation?
Anyway, thanks again!

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:51:02 +0000

Hmmm, onestopblogs must be new, because when you click on “set up your own blog” sends you back to that same main page without letting you do anything of the sort