Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters

Language Teaching, Teacher Education & New Technologies

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 [...]

#ELTchat – 99,052 Tweets and counting!

Blog post, Tech Tools & Pedagogy Series January 29th, 2011

  This is not the image a heartbeat. It’s the burst of energy of hundreds of tweets which are sent by the many ELT professionals participating in an online discussion called #ELTchat every Wednesday at two different times, at 12:00 p.m. GTM and  at 21:00 p.m. GMT. What is #ELTchat? Every Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. [...]

My 2010 Birthday Memories – Wallwishers are great!

Blog post, Tech Tools & Pedagogy Series June 23rd, 2010

I loved my birthday wishes this year! Thanks to Shelly Terrell who was the instigator, my PLN gave me this wonderful memory of this special birthday. I was so thrilled at your words, music, images and thoughts that I wanted to save them all here and come back and look at them all again and [...]

It’s Worth Taking a Look at this Blog

Article April 25th, 2010

I am delighted to have received this award, which is part of an initiative called “Vale a pena ficar de olho nesse blog”, which means “It’s worth keeping an eye on this blog”. The chosen blog has to copy the picture above, with a link to the blog from which it has received the award [...]

Braving it in the Virtual World: Being an Online Teacher

Article, Conference Presentation Report, Tech Tools & Pedagogy Series March 15th, 2010

This is a quick post to publish the links and some of the videos shown to the members of TESOL Greece who attended my talk on March 15. With apologies to readers who were not present at this talk (if this doesn’t make sense to them) In the first part of my talk we looked [...]