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1. Climate Justice: what’s it got to do with ELT? The answer according to Green ELT is, ‘Quite a lot!’ Find out more here https://green-action-elt.uk/events/ and register here for the event at 14:00 UK time next Friday, 20th January https://nile-elt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtdeGhqzsuHNOL9nepJhyBR5RkmOfNWVHV … Continue reading →

1. I’ve mentioned NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, before. Not sure they use their full, long name anymore https://www.nesta.org.uk/ Here’s their annual round-up “of the innovations and ideas that could have implications for the … Continue reading →

1. Two from the TeachingEnglish site to start with: a) A three-module, four-week, nine-hour course on Teaching English through literature, developed in partnership with Macmillan India https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-english-through-literature b) Maria Jose Galleno from Uruguay talking about effective strategies for enabling teacher … Continue reading →

Happy New Year, everyone! 1. Here’s another academic’s take on ChatGPT: Tony Bates’s Playing with ChatGPT: now I’m scared (a little) https://www.tonybates.ca/2023/01/02/playing-with-chatgpt-now-im-scared/ There’s a growing (sensible) consensus that ChatGPT is not going to go away, so we’d better find a … Continue reading →

1. The T S Eliot Prize website is now very nearly complete, just the Yomi Ṣode videos missing, I think, and they should be up soon https://tseliot.com/prize/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2022/shortlist/ Try these two poems, both short, read by their author: James Conor Patterson … Continue reading →

1. A provocative piece by Michael Feldstein on his blog, I Would Have Cheated in College Using ChatGPT https://eliterate.us/i-would-have-cheated-in-college-using-chatgpt/ ‘But I wouldn’t have thought of it as cheating’, says Michael. ‘Cheating is a state of mind.’ 2. So, I thought … Continue reading →

1. The December issue of HLT (Humanising Language Teaching) https://www.hltmag.co.uk/dec22/ includes a ‘video article’ by John Hughes, Cuisenaire Rods Today https://www.hltmag.co.uk/dec22/cuisenaire-rods-today which sent me off on a trip down Memory Lane to the time when, as a trainee teacher, I … Continue reading →

1. I’m in Graz at present, about to attend the ECML-EU joint colloquium on “Innovative Methodologies and Assessment in Language Learning 10 years on – moving forward together”. There’s a live stream this afternoon https://youtu.be/nxMgt7PmLmA and tomorrow afternoon https://youtu.be/lT9ZiwiP1Nw More … Continue reading →

1. We’ve had a plethora of ‘words of the year’ recently. I mentioned the controversial (from a UK perspective) Cambridge word of the year – ‘homer’ – on 22nd November, and now we have the Oxford one https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2022/ and the … Continue reading →

1. Timothy Snyder from Yale University is putting his lecture course on The Making of Modern Ukraine online as he goes. Here’s Lecture 1, which is an introduction to the themes of the course, which also explores more general notions … Continue reading →