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The judging panel has now made the decision about the winners and runners-up for all the countries participating in this year's Blogathon, and here are the results for Croatia:
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1st place – Ana Kodric aka singerina |
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2nd place – Dora Božanić aka dxplorer |
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3rd place is shared by Sanja Bozinovic aka bsanja and Patricia Alberina aka jazzyiris |
Congratulations to all and a big thank you to all the participating teachers. To see what teachers were blogging about, please visit the Blogathon section of our Teaching English website where you can also follow the news about the coming IATEFL Conference, including the blogs of the Blogathon winners as roving reporters from the conference via http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2012/.
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Just what it sounds like - a blogging marathon.
The TeachingEnglish Blogathon is an online blogging competition for teachers of English that:
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brings together international English teachers to share good practice in ELT |
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helps teachers to build an online professional network |
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encourages teachers to use blogging as a medium for their continuing professional development |
The most active, enthusiastic and interesting blogger will win an all expenses paid trip to Glasgow to attend the IATEFL teachers’ conference from 19 - 23 March 2012!
Fantastic prizes will also be awarded to Blogathon runners-up. Find out more about the Awards Scheme.
A weblog, or more commonly a blog, is a personal web page made up of frequently updated pages. It is used to voice opinions, ideas, views and comments on a particular subject matter, interests or current affairs. People who create blogs are known as bloggers and the process of keeping a blog is known as blogging. Some useful links:
These are our favourite ELT Bloggers
Check out the blog of last year's Blogathon winner - Karin the CoffeeAddict
The marathon will start on 16 January 2012 and will finish on 12 February 2012. The winners will be announced on 17 February 2012.
On the TeachingEnglish site.
It is up to you. The following topics will give you some ideas but you are free to blog about other topics of your choice.
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Dealing effectively with disruptive students |
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Keeping teacher talking time down, so students speak more than we do |
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Networking with colleagues nationally and internationally |
Please take a moment to read the ELT Blogathon guidelines and evaluation criteria before you start.
Simply complete the application form.
Registration closes 9 January 2012. Late applications will not be considered.
During the TeachingEnglish Blogathon, we’ll have ELT Professionals as our guest bloggers. Stay tuned to follow their blogs.
If you don’t feel confident to be a blogger yourself, you can read other bloggers’ posts, leave comments, or forward their entries to your peers through Facebook and Twitter to encourage them. That way, you can make the whole experience more enjoyable.
Have fun!
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