2015-Sep-26 Sat at the first SKA ELT Conference / Bratislava,SK

After a fairly succesful Friday at our very first SKA ELT Conference, it was time to step up the game with more plenaries, talks and general fun.

First, Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto gave us a plenary on Moving beyond 21st century skills

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These are the sketch notes from her talk via Mike Harrison 

In the outside study of the Faculty of Philosophy, I met the trio of representatives from Serbia,

Anica Đokić, Jasmina Milicevic and Gaga Andric.

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Daniela Clarke gave us Warmers and coolers for young adults/adults

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Tomáš Andrášik taught us how to Impro(wise) to improve

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Sylvie Doláková gave us tools for English from the very first word

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Péter Medgyes both entertained and informed us about Humour in the ELT classroom

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Michael Harrison, the author of the sketch notes above, gave us interesting ideas about using Sound activities for the classroom

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Dragana Andrić (see above) had ideas on how to Liven up your lessons with drama

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And then, Dana Hanesová from UMB, asked What shall I do when …

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Meanwhile in the Moyzes Hall: Just before lunch, Lynda Steyne asked us (the chamber of teachers) the hard questions: What's your role as an English teacher? What's your role in SKA?

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And this is also where I got this book:

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Louel Ross Caleja, whom I met and stayed with at Hradiště conference, asked again about Language correctness: Black and white? Or shades of grey?

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Here are again, Mike Harrison's sketch notes. These are from Louel's workshop:

Jana Chocholatá made us dance in her workshop Primary CLIL: English naturally

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Daniela Clarke talked about Chalk and Cheese: Teaching mixed ability primary classes

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David Fisher asked a rather obvious question, Having fun while teaching – should we do it?

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And we answered:YES!

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Or not really?

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Here's Sue Barfield Integrating Roma culture into English language learning through ‘Children of the Sun’

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And Júlia Stehlíková with Pair work for young learners? Why and how?

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Barbie Bujtás advised us to Let some Minecraft in!

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And here's her prezi about it:

Eva Reid told us all about Culture in English lessons

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 Mona Arvinte paraphrased Abba in Knowing me, knowing you…let’s act together and be true!

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Mark Andrews asked the hard question What’s in a name? The power of vocabulary choice

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Lyn and volunteers were always on guard!

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Same as Niki Kálnová, who worked with us, taking care of the speakers and exhibitors

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And the others from the organizing committee - Me, Lyn, Lucia and Ilona

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See you next year in Eastern Slovakia!

2015-Sep-05 Saturday at Shades of ELT / Uherské Hradiště

Here's for the second round of my ramblings at this marvelous conference, after pictures:

And now for the Saturday sessions themselves (there were a lot!). First of all, there were even co-plenaries.

Gary Anderson was trying to persuade us that CLIL Won’t Kill (I & II)—Au contraire!

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Russel Stannard on the other hand, gave us Key tools that can impact on teaching and learning

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After Gary, it was Dana Hánková who continued On the way to CLIL

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Teaching English through Music Marek Vít

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and Helena Zitková

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In the meantime, Jana Čadová was showing us What's behind the Young English Learning:

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While Auburn Scallon was bringing “Real Materials” into the classroom

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And lastly, Gareth Davies was telling us, What's in a word

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After a welcome coffee break, there were two more rounds of sessions:

First was Ondřej Ježek driving screenagers to your ELT space

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"Howdy, y´all",  Lucie Podroužková told us about Teaching and Living in Texas:

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While Markéta Špinková gave us Recipe for 21st century reading

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Then we got to dance with CLIL in aPrimaryClassroom with Jana Chocholatá

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And Nikki Fořtová has shown us a way to Navigate your learners to success

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Meanwhile, Daniela Clarke gave us the Communication Toolbox:Getting youngadults andadults to speak

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And I finally got to watch Daniela Valíková, whom I missed on Friday

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Kamil Feidl was showing unique textbooks and digital technologies

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James Thomas was DiscoveringEnglish withSketch Engine

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Shortly after his plenary, Gary Anderson told us more on Developing Thinking Skills in the Young Learner Language Classroom

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And Šárka Dohnalová was wondering over Dys - a problemor a personalenrichment?

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After lunch, in the second round of concurrent plenaries

Hugh Dellar was  Localising the global coursebook

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While David Fisher was explaining  What is the Difference Between an English Teacher and a Maths Teacher

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..and in another two rounds of sessions..

Auburn Scallon has shown us Methodologymaterials inEnglish learner’s magazine

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Daniela Clarke has proved there are Lessons UpYour Sleeve

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Russell Stannard gave us Tools thatencouragecollaborationand sharing

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Sylvie Doláková has shown us how to do English from theVery First Word

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And Roman Kožnár from PARK told us What makes agood teacher

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Michaela Sobotková found a way to Make it personal!

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Slavomíra Klimszová has led us to CLIL and scaffolding in primary education

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Mark Andrews received Methodology Reminders from his two-year-old son

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While Marija Lukać is Not young enough to know everything, but...!

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And finally, Hugh Dellar asked Taboo or not Taboo? It's all in the question

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The eventful Saturday continued with an evening performance

David Fisher and his Bear Theatre gave us a great rendition of The Proposal by A.P.Chekhov

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and ended in the true Moravian fashion in the wine cellars

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The only thing left now was to get up on Sunday...