Tag Archives: writing

Tuesday, 4th March (Richmond)

1. NATESOL’s 41st Annual Conference, Learners and Learning, is on Saturday 17th May and is a hybrid event, online via Zoom or on-site at Manchester Metropolitan University. All speakers get to attend free and the deadline for the submission of … Continue reading

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Thursday, 23rd January (Cambridge)

1. A lot of the stuff on tools4Dev you have to pay for, but their blog often has interesting (free!) posts, like this one,  How to Write a Monitoring and Evaluation Report https://tools4dev.org/blog/how-to-write-a-monitoring-and-evaluation-report/ and this one, Monitoring and Evaluation Tools … Continue reading

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Thursday, 12th December (Hull)

Larkin included today, as I’m visiting friends who live near Hull on the way home to Cambridge. 1. Two tools for teaching and modelling vocabulary in the early years from Lauren Grocott of EEF (the Education Endowment Foundation) https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/early-years/two-tools-for-teaching-and-modelling-vocabulary-in-the-early-years Lots … Continue reading

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Thursday, 21st November (Cambridge)

1. Here’s all the winners from this year’s English Language Teaching Oscars, the ELTons. Truly global, with winners in alphabetical order from Benin, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Turkey, the UK and the USA! … Continue reading

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Thursday, 24th October (Cambridge)

Some reading for the weekend! 1. First up tonight, a thought-provoking LinkedIn piece from Richard Culattta, Why we need to reconsider banning phones in schools https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-we-need-reconsider-banning-phones-schools-richard-culatta-q0d1e/ 2. Ceibal, now nearly twenty years old, was (and is) Uruguay’s imaginative response to … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 8th October (Richmond)

1. I’ve mentioned Carne Ross’s blog, Gentle Anarchy, before. Here’s his deconstruction of an article in Saturday’s Financial Times by John Sawers, the onetime director of MI6, the UK’s external intelligence service, Deconstructing the Discourse of the State https://carneross.substack.com/p/deconstructing-the-discourse-of-the There’s a … Continue reading

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