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4 Ways DELTA Module 2 Made me a Better Academic Manager

Marisa ConstantinidesFebruary 20, 2023No Comment

2023-02-21T00:00:42+02:00

by Geoffrey Adamson Words like ‘management’ and ‘human resources’ do not come up often in conversations in or about DELTA Module 2. Terms like these, it seems, are relegated...

The elusive present perfect continuous in the passive

Marisa Constantinides May 17, 2019 No Comment

2023-11-26T23:02:39+02:00

In all my years as a teacher, I have been reading about the elusive...

Visualising Process Writing

Marisa Constantinides September 28, 2017 1 Comment

2017-09-28T12:26:03+03:00

Reposted from my CELT Athens blog My new infographic Some time ago, I started...

Life as it used to BI

Marisa Constantinides January 20, 2017 2 Comments

2017-04-29T01:51:03+03:00

BI=Before Internet Our collective memories get so easily altered with the advent and...

What kind of School are you working for? (A Questionnaire on the ‘micro-climate’ of an institution)

Marisa Constantinides July 4, 2016 3 Comments

2017-08-23T21:48:47+03:00

This is a response to many readers and trainees who talk about the frequent...

The Giant Storymaker – Ideas for a Hundred Million Stories

Marisa Constantinides January 13, 2014 15 Comments

2014-01-20T08:26:09+02:00

Storytelling is one of the most important acts of communication. Every day, in our...

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Student Made Games

Marisa ConstantinidesNovember 26, 2017No Comment

2021-11-20T13:21:41+02:00

Market produced and teacher-prepared games have an important role to plan in the language classroom. Enjoyable and engaging, they draw attention away from too much preoccupation with accuracy and...

Can Teachers Do Research?

Marisa Constantinides December 29, 2013 16 Comments

2016-08-10T10:29:12+03:00

Research and what teachers have to do with it, whether they should be doing...

Are you a Good Language Learner?

Marisa Constantinides November 7, 2013 15 Comments

2023-11-26T19:43:47+02:00

In this post-method era, when so many approaches and methods to language teaching...

N is for New Information

Marisa Constantinides October 14, 2012 4 Comments

2021-12-10T12:30:06+02:00

This is the first of a series of posts intended to introduce some basic...

Thinking about Discipline – Part 1

Marisa Constantinides April 29, 2012 10 Comments

2016-01-21T15:51:07+02:00

This is the first part of a short series of blog posts on the...

#ELTchat Nominated for an ELTons Award!!! Don’t miss our Symposium today!

Marisa Constantinides March 22, 2012 No Comment

2012-03-27T22:34:27+03:00

Did you miss us today (Wednesday)? We know some of you turned up for...

Tech Tools & Pedagogy Series

Xtranormal has become Nawmal

Marisa ConstantinidesSeptember 24, 20154 Comments

2016-03-06T14:09:27+02:00

Bringing the glad tidings that my favourite animation tool seems to be coming back! Xtranormal was a hugely popular video making tool with hundreds of teachers making videos for...

Is it Free?

Marisa Constantinides June 13, 2015 6 Comments

2016-03-06T14:09:41+02:00

I very often talk to teachers about online apps and great new tools and...

CELTA and Technology – With or Without it?

Marisa Constantinides June 4, 2015 15 Comments

2016-04-22T22:42:33+03:00

Giulia Forsythe via Compfight In a recent end-of-course evaluation report, one of our CELTA candidates...

Digital Storytelling for Younger & Older Learners

Marisa Constantinides March 25, 2015 6 Comments

2020-08-26T11:22:15+03:00

Digital Storytelling & Young Learners Picture this: …a teacher holding up her laptop or...

Why do I blog?

Marisa Constantinides November 20, 2013 1 Comment

2014-01-25T01:18:20+02:00

I recently used the same idea which I wrote about when this blog turned...

From Curation to Creation

Marisa Constantinides September 20, 2013 3 Comments

2018-01-28T22:19:57+02:00

EP5ZXSFC7FFB From Curation to Creation by Marisa Constantinides – @Marisa_C Information overload In the...

Conference Presentation Report

IATEFL Manchester 2015 – five years on

Marisa ConstantinidesMay 28, 2015No Comment

2016-03-06T14:02:38+02:00

Pre-Conference Events with the Special Interest Groups For me, the high point of the conference is always the Pre-Conference Day with my chosen Special Interest Group. Since 2015, I...