Author Archives: roycross

1. I thought this blog post by Maha Bali, Students Talk to Me About Webcams, was an exemplary, really interesting piece of co-authorship by a teacher and her students: https://blog.mahabali.me/educational-technology-2/students-talk-to-me-about-webcams/ 2. Malgorithm is a good neologism, I reckon. It’s the … Continue reading →

1. Many of the readers of these messages of mine are indebted in one way or another to A S Hornby. Some of you have benefited from MA scholarships and some have attended summer schools and workshops funded by the … Continue reading →

1. David Malpass is the President of the World Bank Group, which makes him an important person in all our futures, I guess. He’s giving a talk for the LSE at 17:30 UK time on Monday, 29th March on Tackling … Continue reading →

1. Time to catch up with the Pearson ELT podcast: https://www.pearson.com/english/about/podcast.html Since I last paid a visit, David Crystal and Jennifer Jenkins have both been interviewed, about English Conversation and English as a Lingua Franca, respectively. Lots of other good … Continue reading →

1. Most – but not quite all – of our countries have been at one end or another of a colonial relationship with another country. This event next Tuesday, 30th March, at 18:30 UK time, Empires Past and Present: empire … Continue reading →

1. While I was exploring the LSE website the other day, I came across the very clear, three-minute-long video on (the right-hand side of) this page explaining How the US Government Works: https://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player and I’d been hoping to find a twin … Continue reading →

1. TERN https://www.wearetern.org/ and Techfugees https://techfugees.com/ are organising an event on 25th and 26th March on Tech & Digital by and with Refugees. More info and registration here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tech-digital-with-and-by-refugees-an-event-by-tern-techfugees-tickets-142240991635 and you should feel free to pop in and out over … Continue reading →

1. ‘Being English Teachers in Gaza’: next Wednesday, 24th March, at 12:00 UK time, four teachers from Palestine – Diana Abu Zayed, Tasnim AlAsttal, Somia Rajab and Laila Saleh – will be reflecting on and discussing their professional identity as … Continue reading →

1. The next in NILE’s Insights series is on Critical Perspectives in ELT, at 16:00 UK time on Tuesday, 23rd March, and investigates how and why might language teachers incorporate social justice education into their language teaching practice? More info … Continue reading →

Here’s another of the ECML’s project micro-sites, this one on teacher competences for languages in education: https://www.ecml.at/ECML-Programme/Programme2016-2019/TowardsaCommonEuropeanFrameworkofReferenceforLanguageTeachers/tabid/1850/Default.aspx Lots of material, including a short introductory video. I’ve attached the project flyer below. 2. Three good recent posts on the Oxford English … Continue reading →