NEWSLETTER 7
REGISTER
With over four hundred registered users on the site and discussion board databases,
there is almost certainly someone linked here who is near you or has similar
research and teaching interests. If you would like to join us or find a kindred
spirit, please send me a "register
me" email and I'll get you on the database and / or put you in touch.
Use me and the site to put you together.
DISCUSSION
BOARDS
There are now thirty-one boards up and running with over
150 postings from 80 registered members that have been viewed several thousand
times.
Now if we can get everyone to post when they view --- we'd have the start of
the largest ELT conversation in the world.
The
Journal Writing Forum is our attempt at an online journal on journal writing
and now gives you a sneak view at how seven of us over four continents are putting
our TESOL presentation together.
The
General Board now has thirty boards including these six themes:
A call for all DELTA
tutors to get together and share their expertise.
English as a
creative and descriptive language.
The
MSc Discussion List Archive Project.
Distance
Learning - doctorates.
Research
and the Net.
Web
Design Tools.
So, please join us by:
visiting the discussions
registering on the discussion list
replying to the discussions already started
starting your own thread.
SITE
UPDATE
The pages that have seen the most growth over the last
few months are:
Skills - with new links and pages on each of the four.
Lesson Planning - with a traffic
lights approach that really works.
ELT Management - with my DREAM
Management approach and Faculty Appraisal
course in development.
Materials evaluation
If you see any gaps as
you browse through or need something that is not here, just
email me and I'll do everything that I can to fill that gap and need.
ELT
EVENTS
As always, the next few months see a hive of professional
activity around the world:
TESOL
links to major conferences
TESOL2006
Convention - Tampa, Florida. March 15-19.
TESOLArabia 2006
- Dubai, UAE. March 29-31.
If you would like to see a specific conference in 2003 included in the newsletter, just let me know by email on Conference To Include.
REVIEWS
Two unsolicited reviews of the site have been published
in the last few months in ESLMag by Christine
Meloni and in TESOLArabia's Perspectives
Magazine by Jim Buckingham. Click on the
authors' names to see the articles and let
me know if you agree with them.
Go straight to the Aston MSc page with links to the first unit of every module on the Aston MSc in TESP/TESOL.
Doing the DELTA? - Just click here.
SOMETHING MISSING? Just email Phil and let me know what you want included. It'll be up in a week or two.
This site is maintained by
Phil Quirke
as part of his PhD with
ASTON UNIVERSITY.