The Carnival of English Language Teaching

And it’s conference time all over the world!

TESOL-Spain, TESOL-Greece and TESOL-Arabia just finished up theirs last month and JALT 2006 is coming up. If you’re about to get your “Presentation Mojo” working, then check out AJ’s post about the wildly successful presentations of the one and only Steve Jobs for some inspiration.

Also, head over to English 360 for a “Nice presentation skills & blog site“. Although this article was first posted in October 2005, the site that Cleve directs you to is much more robust these days.

Speaking of JALT 2006; those of you planning to attend should be sure to catch APcambell’s presentation “Personal Language Learning Ecologies”. I can tell you that he’s been working hard on it.

JH from the English Teacher Discussion Forum has “A Proposal for Research in Blogging” that he would like your help with. If you’re using blogs with your students, please visit this post and give a fellow TEFLer a hand. (Watch out for the random audio!)

I’m willing to bet that there will be at least one presentation at everyone’s conference this year about podcasting. But why wait until the conference when Barbara Dieu can take you for a visit to Bardwell Road to learn about it now.

Let’s be honest: some of us don’t go to the “big” conferences unless we’re job hunting. If you’re on the prowl for a new job, Arjan Dee, “a manager for one of Thailand’s largest educational businesses” has a blog for you. It might be amusing useful.

Perhaps we should consider becoming professional proof-readers for ESL students in the UK now that we can expect universities to start sending their students to us.

Thanks to Steve Shackne’s ESL Money listserv, I found Greg Kessler’s blog about working as a consultant in ES/FL. It’s in the very early stages so there’s not much to read at the moment, but you might want to add it to your feed aggregator if you’ve got one.

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