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-06 Sunday at Shades of ELT / Uherské Hradiště

First again, here are all the photos:

The final day of the ATECR's 2015  Shades of ELT Conference started with a plenary given by my friend, and the Slovak Chamber of English Teacher's head, Lynda Steyne. She was asking What Teachers Make?

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Following this successful presentation was the last round of sessions

Louel Ross Caleja asked about Language Correctness: Black and white? Or a myriadshades of gray?

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Jana Jílková, Ivana Chmelářová a Martina Nováková made ice cream with us at their session SELTIC: Science and English Language Teaching Integrated in the Classroom - Easy and Effective!

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Benjamin Dobbs was TeachingBusinessEnglish orTrainingInternationalCommunication 

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Gary Anderson  told us how to Keep ourTeenagers’Eyes Open withVideo toDiscover andLearn

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After all the talk in groups and pairs, it was only natural to share in a round table

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Here's a video from this roundtable shot by Mark Andrews

And those who gave feedback and stayed until the very end were fortunate to win prizes in the raffle:

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Some were even lucky enough to win http://www.sol.org.uk/summer courses in Devon, Serbia and Slovakia at SOL

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And here we are, those who stayed until the very end:

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Thank you again all so much and see you next year!