Cobden 3: Our showcase room in Manchester Can you flip a summer pre-sessional? And how? These were the questions posed at the University of Sheffield over two years ago, in the quest for a solution to the (not unpleasant) issue of having more students than classrooms. Guest blogger Claire Basarich, alongside the Director of Technology […]
Every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, we published some recordings from the LTSIG archives. All of these were captured at the IATEFL PCE in Liverpool (2013), our SIG day in Liverpool (2013), as well as our SIG day in Harrogate (2014) and at Digital ELT Ireland, 2015. Detailed information about those events can still […]
Teaching teenagers is not so easy as you could imagine, they get bored so fast and as teachers we are always looking for new strategies which can trigger their motivation, boost their interest, writes Mariella Sorrentino in this guest post. The etwinning project, entitled, ‘Teacher for a day’ was a successful attempt to make my […]
by Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Sallı, the IATEFL LTSIG Roving Reporter Ayşegül Sallı with Nikki Fortova in Brno Another successful professional development event has inspired a lot of participants for their future professional development goals. The 25th P.A.R.K Conference took place at Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic on 9th November 2019, Saturday. This great event […]
Every Thursday for next 10 weeks, the Learning Technologies Special Interest Group will be publishing a recording of a presentation from the archives. These will mostly be for Members only, accessible via the Members’ Area of the website. We will share news via our social media channels of the latest video every Thursday, with the […]
This is a brief review of ‘VR in the EFL class’ by Raquel Ribeiro and ‘Using immersive 360 videos to reduce language anxiety’ by Sarah Rogerson and Tom Booth. They were written by our Glasgow 2017 Roving Reporter, Will Leung. Note: This is a previously unpublished review by our Roving Reporter at the conference. If […]
We have a plan. We have a poster. We are very excited about this. Our Pre-Conference Event (PCE) in Manchester next year, as previously announced on our social media channels, is going to take an in-depth look at Artificial Intelligence (AI). We touched upon this topic in our PCE in Liverpool earlier this year. This […]
Brno in Summer.Photo by @sandymillin on flickr.com/ELTpics (Creative Commons 2.0) The 25th edition of one of the most popular ELT conferences in the Czech Republic, the P.A.R.K. conference will this year be a special anniversary event at Mendel University, Brno, on November 9th 2019. The conference organisers have lined up some great sessions by speakers […]
