International House Barcelona ELT Conference 2019

The IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG is excited to announce its strand at the International House Barcelona ELT Conference to be held between 8-9 February 2019. Our expert line up includes Nicky Hockly, Pete Sharma, Paul Sweeney, Christina Giannikas, and Sophia Mavridi, who are to address key issues in the field of Learning Technologies.

Special rates for all IATEFL members

The International House Barcelona ELT Conference is aimed at teachers of English to adults, children and business students as well as language teaching managers, directors, and teacher trainers. All fully paid-up IATEFL members will be invited to attend the conference. LTSIG members will receive a 15% discount and all other IATEFL members a 10%. Members interested in attending will receive an email with instructions and the promotional code they will need to use.

The Roving Reporter scholarship

We are delighted to offer a grant to an LTSIG member who wishes to be the ‘LTSIG Roving Reporter’ for our strand.  In 2018 our roving reporters were Amadeu Marin and Anna Venuto. You can read their reports and watch their video here.

The grant winner will be expected to attend all five sessions of our strand and write articles on them for LTSIG publication. To help capture the feel of the strand, it is expected that five write-ups will be produced within a week of the conference and a short review of the strand will be produced during the conference.

The Roving Reporter scholarship provides quite a significant professional opportunity for our members; not only because the winner is subsidised for travel, accommodation and registration fees, but because the winner is challenged to contribute to the community at large by producing and creating content for our international teaching communities. Such contributions, by default, result in high visibility online, featured posts on our website, and the forging of new, tangible relationships with inspiring teachers around the world.

Active membership and inspired challenge can surely open doors for those of you who wish to truly avail of significant professional development opportunities with the LTSIG.

Scholarship details

The award consists of:

• a total of 300 GBP for travel and accommodation
• waived registration fees for both days

In order to qualify for the award, you:

• must be a fully paid-up member of the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG
• can’t have won a LTSIG scholarship in 2018

In addition, you must:

• produce 5 write-ups of our strand sessions within a week after the conference. The write-ups can be 700-1,000 words
• produce a short review of the strand with video, text or a combination of both right after the conference
• take an active part during the LTSIG strand by sharing information on social media

The call will close on 10 December 2018 at 8:00 pm GMT. Winners will be notified within 10 days of the closing date.

Apply for the Roving Reporter scholarship here.

We look forward to receiving your applications.  

On behalf of the LTSIG Committee,

Sophia Mavridi

LTSIG Co-ordinator