My #TEFL365 Start – Things and People that Inspire Me
On an earlier post, Tyson Seburn (@seburnt) called us for a challenge to identify/reflect on teachers and education related people/images/anything basically that inspired us , a development he came up...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Plan? My First Challenge
Tonight, after putting the kids to bed, as I was trying to catch up with the tweets and #ELTChat one tweet, from a teacher who I greatly enjoy sharing and chatting with (and who also has a Brazilian...
View ArticleAbout Mountains, Challenges and Teaching – My guest post for Teaching Village
I was very humbled and deeply honored to be invited by Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto (@Barbsaka) to write a guest post for her blog, Teaching Village. Not only I admire Barb as a teacher and educator, but...
View ArticleHow I Try to be a Beam – Goal 1 of the 30 Goals Challenge
I have been following Shelly Terrell’s 30 Goals Challenge with great interest. In a few words, Shelly proposes a set of short-term goals related to education. The goals aim at having us teachers...
View ArticleWhat my Blog’s Word Cloud Says About Me and My Writing
Words to reflect on... Last Saturday I attended David Dodgson‘s (@davedodgson) presentation at the VRT11 conference. David’s presentation was “Not just a pretty cloud – Using Wordle in the...
View ArticleGetting to know a PLN star… an interview with Shelly Terrell
For those of you who don’t know, Brad Patterson (@brad5patterson) suggested a challenge to the PLN. If you haven’t heard of it yet, the premise is simple. Ask a member of your PLN 5 standard...
View ArticleVladmira, the Peaceful Ruler – A Guest post by Ania Musielak
My new guest author for the blog is a fantastic teacher I’ve had the pleasure of meeting in person during the last IATEFL annual Conference in Brighton. I started interacting with Ania through Ken...
View ArticleChallenges, PLN and Where They Have Taken Me
Image by Diarmuid Fogarty - found on #eltpics on Flickr - Close ups set A lot of teachers don’t know what a PLN is… Many know what the letters stand for (Personal Learning Network – or Passionate...
View ArticleHere’s The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But The Truth
Which fact about my life goes where? (photo by xtrarant on Flickr- CC license) One of my last posts here was my contribution to Dave Dodgson’s PLN Challenge, where we had to tell 5 things about our...
View ArticleTeaching is like…
Brad Patterson felt the ELT Blogosphere was a bit quiet these days and decided to shake things up a bit by proposing a new blog challenge: What is you teaching metaphor? The challenge is very simple:...
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