Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters

Language Teaching, Teacher Education & New Technologies

Making a Machinima in Second Life – in 19 Steps

Second Life, Tech Tools & Pedagogy Series January 14th, 2012

For the next few weeks I will be working and helping moderate the MachinEVO course in Second Life, one of the TESOL EVO courses. We are all hoping to learn how to record Second Life and to create recordings which will be useful to our language learners. There are already more than 110 participants on [...]

Politeness in Conversational English – a Discourse Perspective

Blog post December 11th, 2011

Many teachers who have had the opportunity to read discourse analysis either at University or on a PD course such as the Cambridge DELTA,  express great interest in this way of studying connected text or talk, but just as many find it  hard to incorporate it into their teaching; apart from an occasional lesson focusing [...]

My Nominations for the Edublogs Awards 2011 – #eddies11

Blog post December 2nd, 2011

I still remember how much I enjoyed being nominated for some of the awards as a new blogger and tweeter in 2009 and how much this encouraged me to keep blogging and to try to keep getting better. Some people may still think these nominations have no value – well, they do; it’s our colleagues [...]

My 11 from ’11

Blog post November 30th, 2011

Am taking up  Adam Simpson’s challenge, well, not really a challenge, more like an invitation but such a nice way to look back at what I have blogged about this year.  Adam said, “Choose the best 11” but I must confess I don’t write as many posts as all that. Some people seem to be able to churn [...]

Embedding Creative Thinking Skills Training into our EFL Practice

Conference Presentation Report, ELT Methodology November 27th, 2011

Post Updated with videos downloaded from Upstream   Videos of  most of my talk at IATEFL Harrogate 2010 Part A about 22 minutes  (conntent of slides 1-7 below is not included)   Part B about 8 minutes   A Summary of my talk  It has been suggested that creativity (or, as it is also termed, divergent [...]