As they say, you wait at the bus stop for 20 minutes and then three buses come at once. Same apperas to be the case with journals. Not that this one is new, but it is new to me.
This is a peer reviewed plurilingual journal of Language and Literature Teaching Methods from the Faculty of Education of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). Good to see articles on language teaching published in languages other than English.
The Learning Technologies Special Interest Group (SIG), the Moroccan Association of Teachers of English (MATE) and The British Council, Morocco are pleased to announce the 1st International Conference of ICT in Education in Marrakech, Morocco from 8th-11th February 2012.
The CALL for papers is available on the LTSIG website. The cut off date for proposals is 16th December.
This will be an exciting and interesting event, taking place in North Africa at a time of momentous change, make sure that you can say that you were there!
Gary Motteram
Event Organiser for the LTSIG.
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Tagged Conferences, EdTech, Educational Technology & TESOL, IATEFL, ICT, TESOL
LT SIG Webinars
Online seminars for teachers interested in technology
The Learning Technologies SIG will be holding regular online workshops (or ‘webinars’) which are open to the general public. These webinars will take place in the online video conferencing platform (Adobe Connect) and last approximately one hour. The webinars feature well-known and experienced practitioners talking about technology in English language teaching, and are of interest to all teachers.
More detail here: http://www.ltsig.org.uk/online-events.html
Gary Motteram
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Tagged Educational Technology & TESOL, IATEFL, ICT, technology, TESOL
As more of our current and past students are keeping blogs, I have taken out some of the more general blog links that were there before. If you would like your blog included, please let me know.
Gary Motteram
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IATEFL next year is in Glasgow, from Tuesday 20 to Friday 23 March 2012.
If you’re thinking of going, ask yourself:
Adapted from an email from Herbert Puchta, Chair, Publications Committee, and Vice President, IATEFL
Posted by Gary Motteram
Interesting report in the online Guardian about the role of English in development. A report commissioned by the British Council.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jul/05/research-backs-english-language-delotbiniere
Gary Motteram
From Gary: The IATEFL conference starts today (15th April, 2011) with Pre-Conference Events. The main conference starts tomorrow. Don’t forget that if you can’t make it, you can follow it online. See the recent posting below.
I will be attempting to Tweet at least some of the sessions I go to and writing a couple of blog entries.
Again, as in previous years, if you can’t make the physical IATEFL Conference, this year in Brighton, you can follow it online
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TUESDAY 7th JUNE, 2011
Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, Kingston-Upon-Thames, KT1 2EE
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS – We are currently calling for contributions to address the conference themes and invite proposals for presentations, workshop papers and a poster session. The deadline for submission to the panel is Tuesday 26th April 2011. For details about the conference and submissions please visit http://www.kusa.org.uk/
Conference Overview: Kingston University is delighted to host what we believe is the first UK conference to consider the impact that the full range of student and staff collaboration projects have on our universities and our students. Universities now commonly employ students on a range of outreach, peer-to-peer learning, intern, research and recruitment activities that are crucial to their institutional objectives. Kingston University has a long history of such student collaboration work and also hosts Aimhigher London South who have worked with students across the region to promote widening participation. Students working in this capacity have an enormous impact on their institutions and, in turn, such projects shape their student experience and aid the development of employability skills. This conference seeks to bring together staff and student colleagues to reflect on this unique relationship and its effect on universities. Our aim is to provide a platform for staff and students to practical ideas, good practice and research in this emerging field and we particularly welcome contributions and delegations that include or are led by student delegates. We also recognise that Aimhigher teams have delivered many student-led projects on behalf of universities and we hope to capture that knowledge and experience.
Conference Themes:
Andrea Harris | Education Partnerships Manager a.l.harris@kingston.ac.uk
There is a new issue of a book edited by Brian Tomlinson that many of you will be familiar with, but in which this time Gary has a chapter 
There is a also downloadedable chapter on using concordancers in materials development and some other useful links to relevant publications concerned with materials development.
