Not to me, let me make that perfectly clear from the start. My good friends over at the TEFL News Network gave me advance warning that this was coming and I have to admit to a little foaming at the mouth in anticipation of this interview. I’m not going to copy and paste sections, as [...]
The Truth in TEFL blog has raised a really interesting issue in a recent post about who really owns discussion forums. This, more than any other form of webpage, is where content is driven by contributors. As far as ELT World is concerned, I feel that the forums would be nothing without those who contribute. [...]
EFL Geek, an English instructor and language learner in Korea, has started a Wiki for his EFL blog which can be accessed here at EFL Geek Wiki. The Geek writes:
The wiki is hosted by EFL Geek and discussion about articles or ideas for the wikis future can be done in the EFL Geek forums. [...]
Somewhere between five and eight years, if your responses are anything to go by.
This topic drew a lot of heated debate over on the forum. Here are some of the things that have been mentioned:
The Prodigy:
‘I was in EFL for about a decade, went back to UK and did a couple of years out of [...]
Here’s the latest on the proposed changes to the DELTA course, courtesy of the excellent mmcmorrow over on the Teacher Training Forum:
There’s a fairly comprehensive review article about DELTA and the changes that are coming up from Sept 2008 at:
http://www.cambridgeesol.org/rs_notes/rs_nts29.pdf
Essentially, the main change will be modularisation. There will be three distinct modules, the first one [...]
The forum Your Life Teaching English has proven to be very popular with forum members. Several threads have popped up over the last few weeks about teachers’ lives away from the classroom.
First up we had the My Life Teaching English thread, in which forum members gave a brief overview of their teaching careers. This was hastily followed by Life Before [...]
I’ve always thought of myself as being more of a saloon man than a cafe dweller, and Raoul’s China Saloon has confirmed it! The Saloon is an excellent forum based on TEFLing in China. Naturally, being a one-country type of forum has enabled Raoul to specialise a bit more than the worldwide forum here at [...]
‘Why did you start your own English teachers forum?’ I’m often asked. Quite simply, I used to be a member of Dave’s ESL Cafe job discussion forums many, many moons ago. I stopped using the site when it became practically impossible to either talk about jobs or have any sort of worthwhile discussion there. To [...]
We’ve opened a brand new forum: ideas to help newbies. DMB, one of the fine moderators of the ELT World forums, is the man behind this great idea and remembers, ‘we were all newbies once and in need for presentation ideas.’
I hope this forum will be a great resource for anyone starting out in the profession.
Post [...]
You may have noticed a new addition to the moderator team over at the forums: Guy Courchesne. Guy also has a very interesting blog in which he chronicles the many experiences he’s had teaching English in Mexico. In fact, the blog goes far beyond detailing get togethers such as the one in the picture below, [...]
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