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 […]
We are all getting excited here at LTSIG commitee HQ – not an actual office building but an online space called ‘Slack’. The 53rd IATEFL conference in Liverpool is nearly here and we have lots of great things going on, especially on 1 April – our Pre-Conference Event, which has already been widely promoted and […]
The LTSIG Showcase Day was held on the 10th of April at The Brighton Centre featuring 7 key speakers who shared interesting talks on incorporating online tools that could empower teachers to deliver better teaching experiences overall, writes Elisa Effendy. Jennifer Dobson began the day by outlining the teacher’s role in facilitating the online experiences […]
The Basics Deborah Healey talks about turning your classroom into a gaming environment. See this inspiring preview of Deborah’s upcoming talk ” Gamifying the Classroom: The Basics”, for the LTSIG Showcase, April 10th, Brighton. Abstract Language teachers have long used games, but gamification – the use of game elements in non-game settings – […]
The LTSIG Day at this year’s IATEFL conference brought together many members and interested delegates who were keen to find out more about what the SIG does. There were five presentations in Boisdale 1 and two more in Forth, inside the Clyde auditorium. There was also an open forum where the joint coordinators, Shaun Wilden […]
