What is a TEFL blog, and what should it be?

Most of them have a blogroll and comment function, but I don’t think they are fundamental. I think the best blogs simply do something that wouldn’t quite fit in a TEFL magazine like ETP. That could be because it is too personal, too controversial, too topical, too short, too rambling, too silly, or just thinking aloud. If I ever had the time and energy to do TEFLtastic properly, my own model would be one that predates blogs but is full of exactly the kinds of things that wouldn’t get published elsewhere – Private Eye.

Then again, a blog platform can be used as just an easy way to set up any kind of website at all. That is especially true of WordPress with its Pages, which can easily be used for a collection of articles that you’ve written elsewhere or worksheets that you’ve used with your classes. So easy is it to do that you can easily go over the 800-odd page unofficial limit where your WordPress blog starts to seize up on you.

It is partly to sort this technical problem out that for a while TEFLtastic posts will have a certain amount of stuff that you could actually find in TEFL magazines. In fact, some of it you might have actually already found elsewhere, as it will include polished up versions of articles from Pages that I’ve removed or that were in magazines like MET.

If anyone has an RSS feed going, apologies in advance for clogging your reader with that stuff, and will try to get back to laughing at the outrageous lies of TEFL course providers soon.