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Chat summary: Gamification with Paul Driver, 3/10/13
‘Paula Owen, Science Musuem, Lates – Climate Change’ by Samuel Mann Thanks to Nicki Blake for writing this summary. Check out the full transcript of the chat here. Gamification as a concept has so many...
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Project Hope – Volunteer Teaching in Palestine
In October of this year, Tristan Quigley and I travelled to Nablus in the West Bank to volunteer teach with Project Hope. In Sydney we work as ESL teachers, and like many other AusELT-ers we were keen...
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There’s a time and a place…– #AusELT chat with Scott Thornbury on edtech, part 3
“Though the educational potential of the internet is limitless, it’s becoming apparent that students use technology less to learn than to distract themselves from learning…” – Hal Crowther, 2010...
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The future of educational technology – is resistance futile? #AusELT chat...
Recently Lindsay Clandfield wrote about ‘Six Cool Tropes in ELT Edtech’. One trope he didn’t mention is that of inevitability, or, to paraphrase Neil Selwyn (2014″32), the notion that the...
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Upcoming #AusELT Twitter chat: Management Issues, with Andy Hockley
In response to recent interest in discussing ‘management issues’, we’ve invited honorary #AusELTer Andy Hockley (@adhockley) to join us as a guest moderator in our next Twitter chat, which will take...
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#AusELT summary – Psuedoscience and Neuromyths 1/5/14 with Russell Mayne @ebefl
Russell Mayne announced himself as the new pin up boy of ESL at the recent IATEFL conference with his attempted burning at the stake of pseudoscience (PS) and neuromyths that pervade/populate (circle...
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Summary of #AusELT chat with Huw Jarvis on Mobile-Assisted Language Use...
Many thanks to Huw Jarvis (@TESOLacademic) for agreeing to be our guest for the August #AusELT chat. Thanks also to @ElkySmith for moderating. It was an interesting hour where several lines of...
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Are you ready to talk about learner autonomy?
Our next Twitter chat will take place on Thursday 4th September at 8.30pm Sydney time (check here to see the time where you are) and will be on the zeitgeisty topic of ‘learner autonomy’. We are...
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5 Things to Remember when……..Covering a Class at the Last Minute
If you missed last month’s post, the first in this series, you can read our reflection on 5 things to remember when listening to your colleagues complain right here. This month, we turn to that dreaded...
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#AusELT chat summary: Conference Swapshop (9/10/14)
October’s Twitter chat got off to a bit of a shaky start as several people (who shall remain nameless) managed to forget that the clocks had gone back in Sydney . . . Anyway, sausages were burnt,...
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Perspectives on developing a ‘learning organisation’ approach to PD – Part 2
This is the second in a short series of blog posts inspired by Adrian Underhill’s workshop on Developing a ‘learning organisation’ approach to PD, which he delivered at various locations in Australia...
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Upcoming chat – systems thinking: an introduction to fast and slow thinking
Our next chat will take place on Thursday 6th November at 8.30pm AEDT (you can check how that corresponds to your own time zone here) and we will be talking about systems thinking. The interest in this...
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App sharing: summary of #AusELT Twitter slow burn
Over Easter 2-6 April 2015, #AusELTers shared their favourite apps and discussed ideas for using apps with English language learners, and also some apps for teachers. Read Sue Valdeck’s (@sujava)...
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#AusELT chat summary “Getting Away from Grammar” with Daniel Midgley, 4 June...
An extremely lively, fast-paced and interesting chat with guest moderator Daniel Midgley, @talkrtr, Lecturer in ESL and Applied Linguistics at Edith Cowan University, WA, and known to many through the...
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Article discussion group: “Using wikis and forums for writing practice in...
Getting started with the discussion. Using wikis and forums for writing practice in ELICOS courses, by Jade Sleeman from La Trobe Melbourne International College. You can download the article here or...
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Vote for Thursday’s #AusELT chat
The next #AusELT Twitter chat will take place on Thurs 3rd September 2015 at 8.30pm Sydney time (click here to see the time where you are in the world). Vote for the topic you would like to talk about...
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Upcoming: #AusELT Twitter chat Thursday 3 September 2015: LGBTQIA issues in...
Our next #AusELT chat will look at LGBTQIA issues in course-books and classrooms. While some communities and countries are moving rapidly towards greater equality and acceptance, others go more slowly,...
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October’s #AusELT chat: advance warning
Now, usually we are due for an #AusELT chat on the first Thursday of the month – but for October we have made a decision to postpone by one week, for the following reasons: the English Australia...
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AusELT/English Australia Journal Article Discussion Group: Voting page
Welcome to the voting page of the third Article Discussion Group. The idea is for us all to vote for our preferred article from the latest English Australia Journal, read it, and then join in a...
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