IATEFL Conference! Where,how, who?

Following online!

Today is the last day of the IATEFL Conference which started on 19th March in Scotland, Glasgow. The IATEFL team is really doing an excellent job this year making it easy for all of us who are not there to at least be present online and to try and follow some Live sessions and livestreamed interviews with the presenters and wonderful ELT members. All the interviews are recorded and can be found here.

It's great to see ELT members having a talk about their work or presentations. There are some really inspiring interviews. The first one that really made an impact on me was the interview with Chia Suan. The name was very familiar from the ELT world. I know I have seen the name on Twitter or Facebook, have heard the PLN mentioning her, so I finally got the opportunity to see her on the IATEFL Live Stream Channell. She is so interesting, amusing and to the point.

 I am glad to be able to share her interview with you.  

She has done a talk at BESIG PCE about the topic of Politeness and Pragmatics.  So, check it out  and also don't miss her blog where you can find another of her interviews talking about the same topic.

I mustn't forget to mention that after her short IATEFL interview I visited Chiew's IASKU site. He did a short interview with Chia about how she became a teacher. What I realised from that interview is that teachers can be anything in the class. We are actors, dramatist, bosses and sometimes even friends. I can finally tell my students who told me so many times that I should have become an actress and not a teacher; well I can do both now at the same time :)))

Due to illness I wasn't able to write more posts before but will make it up, so stay tuned because more stories about IATEFL and the Power of Twitter coming soon.

A quick and easy poll maker

I have stumbled upon the easiest poll maker ever. Thanks to my Facebook ELT friend David K who definitely writes an interesting and very useful blog that you can check out here. I really like this Pollmo he has presented.

Pollmo is still in beta version and I would say it's a three step poll maker. You need to write your question, possible answers and choose the template colour. When you create your poll you can get both embed code and URL to share it with the rest of the world :) The most important thing is that you do not need to sing up for it. 

Check out the poll I have created. I will soon have a talk with my students about youtube, so vote please. Thank you. Also, check out David's webpage and his post about Top 10 Sites for creating Polls or Surveys.

Voki Image tutorial - BaW2012

Dear participants and mods of BaW2012. I created a Voki which you can find at the bottom of this post.  This Voki is sort of a Welcoming note to BaW2012 family!
To embed a Voki in a post you need to choose its embed code from the Voki page that you get
when you create one!

Here are some images  on creating a Voki:

Image1: If you use mic to record the message click "allow" button in Adobe Flash Settings window & type of mic

          

Image2: Press "record" and save your message - max 1 min.

Image3: If you want to embed choose above code,  if just want to share URL, click  chose Standar Voki link and copy URL

To paste it in your blog you need to choose "HTML" section that is shown in your post window.
This is how it looks in my Dashborad, as I have new blogger settings. (Check images)
Then you return back to "Compose" where you can continue writing your post, if you want.


Here are the images of my design dashboard in the Blogger- the process while creating a new
post on the blog and adding embed code!

Image4: Add title; under "Compose" you write your post BUT to add embed code press "HTML"

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Embeding HTML code!

Back to "Compose" - also click "preview" before you "Publish"

My Voki!!
                           As you have noticed I have chosen small size of a Voki, you can see
                          the choices availabe in the Voki image Nb 3 above.

I am sorry if the photos aren't so clear. This is my first so to say Image tutorial!

Hope it helps :)

Using web tools in an English Class

This is a presentation that I had for my collegues at the ELT Regional Meeting. I think it can be very useful especially for a newbie. I want to thank my PLN for many useful informations and for encouragment.  Using web tools in an English class

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