Blogged (Jan 01 - Jan 10, 2010)

Lesson Plans / Tips

Wrote

• Predictions 2010 - 2019
  (dogme-style tips)
• Bring on the teenies
  (w/ link to conversation prompts)

ELT issues

Wrote

• 2 more IATEFL scholarship(Latin Americans/developing countries' nationals)
• L1 in the classroom? (do you ever use it?)

Read & Recommend Reading

• 3 kinds of English teachers by Anita Kwiatkowska on NickJaworski's TurklishTEFL
  
• An interview with Darren Elliott on Alex Case's TEFLtastic
• Natives and non-natives, justified discrimination by Jeremy Day
• Six language teaching trends by Lindsay Clandfield

Teacher Training

Read & Recommend Reading

• Classroom management techniques by Berni Wall
• K is for Krashen by Scott Thornbury
• On being nervous by Jeremy Harmer
• When did I become a teacher by Conchi Martinez de Tejada

Language & Linguistics

Read & Recommend Reading

• Metaphor shakes things up by Vicki Hollett

Technology in Teaching

Wrote

• Ask for help(part of the tips for TEFLteachers series)
• 8 radical technological changes which rocked education(tongue in cheek posting)

Read & Recommend Reading

• It's not about the tools. It's about the skills by Silvia Tolisano
• They were wrong by J Cabello
• Excellent clip art site by Larry Ferlazzo

Social Media

Wrote

• Weighin' in (an introduction to two new VIP bloggers)

Read & Recommend Reading

• Communication is a 2 Way Street by Sue Jones
• Your own personal learning network by Jason Campbell
• The Right Writing Style by Terry Freedman

For Our Learners

Read & Recommend Reading

• Narrative tenses by Berni Wall
• 10 Learning communities by Karen Schweitzer
• Best reference sites for language learners by Larry Ferlazzo
• How to start and end a Business English letter/email by Clare Whitmell
  

Enjoy,
Karenne