April 2012
The TeachingEnglish Blogathon 2012 ran from 16 January until 12th February 2012, on the Teaching English website. Forty eager English teachers participated in the competition from Israel, along with hundreds of others from across the Wider Europe region including Armenia, Croatia, Georgia, Turkey and Russia.
After much deliberation, the results of the TeachingEnglish Blogathon 2012 are now in…….
1st prize – the Gold Award - has been awarded to Nahla Shaw who wrote the most outstanding blog. Nahla won an all-expenses paid trip to the 46th Annual IATEFL Conference in Glasgow from 19 - 23 March 2012!!!
You can read Nahla’s fantastic posts from the conference.
2nd prize – the Silver Award - has been awarded to Naomishema, Gildanie and BarriSilverberg. They have won a free British Council Israel online course.
3rd prize – the Bronze Award – has been awarded to Sharona and margiecj. They have won ELT books and resource packs.
Well done to all the winners and to everyone who took part in the Blogathon! You can read their blogs on the TeachingEnglish website. Hope to see you online again next year!
The aims of the TeachingEnglish Blogathon were to connect English Language educators in the wider Europe region, providing them with a forum to exchange ideas and experiences from the classroom as a way to aid their continuing professional development. It also gave participants an opportunity to hone their blogging skills and was thus an incentive to introduce technology into teachers’ repository of skills.
Those who held fast in the race were rewarded by their fellow participants in the way of anecdotal stories, teaching advice and links, as well as lesson plans and inspirational ideas for the classroom. One eager participant even contributed poems and songs on the competition itself!
The TeachingEnglish Blogathon also hosted guest bloggers, including ELT professionals who gave words of encouragement to the participants.
A survey sent by the British Council Israel to Israeli Blogathon participants following the conclusion of the competition, recorded positive feedback and productive suggestions for future Blogathon competitions. One teacher commented on the “great diversity” of the blog posts, adding, “imagine what we could do if we got together as a group.”
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What is the TeachingEnglish Blogathon?
Just what it sounds like - a blogging marathon.
The TeachingEnglish Blogathon invited all teachers to find out more about trends in English Language Teaching during an online event that:
brought together international English teachers to share good practice in ELT
helped teachers to build an online professional network
encouraged 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.
What is a Blog?
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:
• Blogs in plain English
• Tips for writing a good blog
These are our favourite ELT Bloggers
Check out the blog of last year's Blogathon winner-Karin the CoffeeAddict
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