#ELTchat – 31,226 Tweets and counting!

The original posting appeared on my TEFL Matters blog but I though it was worth reposting here as well! This is not the image a heartbeat. It’s the burst of energy of hundreds of tweets which are sent by the many ELT professionals participating in an online discussion called #ELTchat every Wednesday at two different […]

Do you blog or do you just do Facebook?

Many of my contacts in Greece have Facebook accounts. It looks like Facebook is more or less, slowly but surely, becoming mainstream. Nowadays, when I ask fellow teachers or new trainees if they are on Facebook, the answer is mostly “yes”, where even one year ago, many would say “No” or even “What is Facebook?” […]

Would you like to develop your own Personal Learning Network (PLN)? aPLaNet EU Funded Project

Can you imagine having a global staffroom at your fingertips? Can you imagine looking for help for an idea and getting not one but ten answers within the hour? This is how quickly you connect with colleagues, educators from all over the world. aPLaNet EU funded Project CELT Athens is participating in a proposed project […]

How to make things fall apart – A behaviour model for creating incompetence

This short post includes my notes from a presentation I did some years ago at a local conference where I was specifically asked to present a workshop on good classroom management. At that time, I had been training a group of  directors of studies and had used  Gilbert’s (1978) excellent “Behavior Model for Creating Incompetence” […]