Online Teacher Development Works Best – 15 Reasons Why

This post was originally written for Nik Peachey’s Learning Technology Blog and it has been reproduced here with his kind permission.  I’ve started this article with quite a bold statement, but it’s a conclusion that I have been coming too over the course of quite a few years now. I should really put this into […]

#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?” […]