Category Archives: Twitter

Your DoS’s RMCITE (aka Nick’s Scale of Awesomeness)

Posted on 05/01/2010 by alexcase

A guest piece by Nick Jaworski of Turklish TEFL blog “Do you ever wonder why your Director of Studies likes others and not you? Do you ever get the feeling you’re being measured against some unknown scale? Well, this is … Continue reading →

Posted in CELTA, CPD, ELT management, links, personal learning network, TEFL blogs, TEFL interview questions, TEFL workshops, Twitter | Tagged , | 12 Comments

What was the biggest change in TEFL in the Noughties?

Posted on 21/12/2009 by alexcase

If you’d asked me in 1999, I probably would’ve predicted that Task Based Learning was going to take over the TEFL world, for better or worse. What a damp squib that turned out to be, with apparently even Cutting Edge … Continue reading →

Posted in British Council, Dogme, Electronic dictionaries, ELT publishing, Humanistic language teaching, IELTS, Interactive whiteboard, International House, Pilgrims, Teaching English in Japan, Teaching English in Thailand, teaching online, Technology, TEFL blogs, TEFL in the UK, Twitter, Wall Street | 10 Comments

Netiquette and TEFLers

Posted on 13/12/2009 by alexcase

Please don’t Ask Auntie Alex if you have specific questions about netiquette, because I remain the least technology aware of all TEFL bloggers and proud of it (or so I tell myself when I stand in front of my mirror doing … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology, TEFL blogs, Twitter | 8 Comments

An alternative to Twitter for TEFLers

Posted on 28/08/2009 by alexcase

Just to give you a teasing taster before I tell you what it is, let me tell you what it can do: – You can send messages that are as long or short as you like to as many people … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology, Twitter | Tagged | 6 Comments

15 reasons to TEFL on Twitter

Posted on 25/08/2009 by alexcase

or Twitter on TEFL, or Twaddle on TEFLON, or whatever it should be… 1. You were still teaching SMS language/ textese even though it had actually virtually died out in the UK due to predictive texting, and you now have … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology, Twitter | Tagged | 7 Comments

TEFLtastic on Twitter

Posted on 25/07/2009 by alexcase

… is never going to happen. Got nothing against other people twitting till the electronic cows come home, just not my kind of thing. If I tell you that one of my favourite expressions is “worse than Facebook”, I think … Continue reading →

Posted in TEFL, Twitter | 7 Comments

Guest piece- Blogging for teacher development

Posted on 28/04/2009 by alexcase

By Darren Elliott, TEFL.net Book Reviews contributor and the man who inspired my 15 Tips for People Attending TESOL Conferences “I can remember my first email account. It’s still out there somewhere, full of spam. I also remember running all … Continue reading →

Posted in CPD, links, Onestopenglish, Teacher associations, Teacher training, TEFL, TEFL blogs, Twitter | Tagged | 3 Comments