Dear Friend,I strongly recommend this website www.justdial.com. It's a world class local search service & I've always found anything I've ever wanted.You can...
OST is an alternative or perhaps complementary way to rrganise a conference for teachers. What do people think of the idea? There is an OST event at IATEFL...
Hello there I have recently got an email from Susan Barduhn, who had quite a lot to do with IATEFL over the decades – apart from being Associates'...
Do you remember the world before the internet? Even if you don't, I'll wager that you spend at least SOME of your life off-line. I'm very curious to know which...
01 March 2010 'English Language Teaching in Japan' Issue #2 (March 2010) http://eltinjapan.blogspot.com/2010/03/elt-j-issue-2-march-2010.html ELT in Japan...
Dear All I've ordered my t-shirt, white with black logo in the end. My mother lives in Harrogate so if you would like to get your t shirt delivered there,...
Hi Colin  Thanks for the offer. I choose to sympathise with the lady and not trouble her. Just picked up Duncan Foord's Teacher Development - will post a...
Dear Everyone Sorry, as you probably guessed, my previous message wasn't intended for the discussion list. If you would like to see the T shirt in question...
Hi all I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. At the SIG committee meeting we discussed this group and possible ways to encourage more activity and provide a...
Hi Duncan I would agree - a blog / forum tends to be much better. BESIG also uses Ning and discussion groups on Linked In, which might also be worth looking...
Ning is no longer free, so I don't think it's an option for us poor SIGs anymore, especially seen as there are better, free platforms around, i.e. BuddyPress....
Sorry, I wanted to provide a link for those who are interested.... BuddyPress.org If you are *really* interested, sign up to the demo and give it a try! ... --...
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Hodgson, Graeme (Braz...
graeme.hodgson@...
Apr 30, 2010 12:17 pm
I think using a forum on the website is a great idea, provided there is the option of receiving alerts (weekly digest). Otherwise, the likelihood of members...
subscribing to a blog is a good way to find out about updates. use something like bloglines and just add the rss feed and whenever the blog is updated you are...
If you are really interested in a demo of BuddyPress, you need to create an account with buddypress.org <http://buddypress.org/register/>. The link was ...
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Maria Nilce
mnil@...
Apr 30, 2010 2:55 pm
It might be a good change! Things are chaging so quickly. Keep me posted. Maria Nilce ... From: Pauline Johnson To: TDSIG@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April...
OTOH, I can say from experience that once you have got a mailing list together, if you lose all the e-mail addresses, it's hard to get the collection back...
Hi there . the YLT Sig now has 700 odd members but when there is a discussion only about 6-18 people are ever active participants . the vast majority are...
Hi, Wendy is right that many groups have 100s of non-participants and a very small accidental bunch (half a percent) who carry forward some discussion. Some of...
Hi all . Bill I can talk to you (and anyone else who wants) about Michael Fullan!!! He came to Hong Kong to help the ESF (English Schools Foundation) and the...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
May 2, 2010 6:27 pm
Yes, I think there is quite a bit to be taken from what both Wendy and Bill have written. I must admit to feeling unmotivated to engage in a whole new process...
The dogme group has recently gone thru the same process and it was amazing to see how many bods popped up . and it will remain open . but Scott has handed over...
Thanks Juliet, true that many of us are a long way from UK and never get to any such IATEFL get-togethers. We have no models for online groups and their...
Hi Bill That isolation was something that the ESF realized in HK … teachers actually felt that they were being de-skilled after a few years of no CPD and...
Hello Bill I used to contribute a lot but nowadays I feel so busy in my family and work life that I often feel too tired to contribute anything worthwhile. I...
... It always seemed to me that in Malaysia there was an abundance of language, LT and education conferences, and this is how the people who taught and...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
May 4, 2010 12:15 pm
Yes, Splendid Isolation (Disraeli?) . . . not so splendid in our case, spread across the world! This is where on-line groups really become remarkably central...
Malaysia has umpteen conferences but teachers here barely talk to one another in schools, at universities. This is a fact we can document nebbich. As one...
... Yes, that is , well, depressing, isn't it? Sounds like Japan. About the only reason a department meets is to choose people to deal with the powers above,...
