Tweet It’s time for a change… In 2000, the DOGME ELT manifesto was published [ read the article here ], adapting the work of the Dogme 95 film collective and their ‘vow of chastity’. I re-post part of that here: “Along with the quantity (I hesitate to use the word variety) of coursebooks in print, [...]
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Tweet My gob is smacked, it truly is… Because four times over the past six weeks I have been involved in discussions in which members of the ELT profession have expressed the view that technology somehow exerts an unexplained influence on teachers, turning them from caring professionals into dribbling idiots as they gaze upon the [...]
Artificial Dissemination
Posted: 11th May 2009 by Gavin Dudeney in GeneralTags: Dennis Newson, DOGME, ELT, Luke Meddings, Scott Thornbury, Second Life Links
Tweet There was an interesting meet-up in Second Life earlier this evening, courtesy of Dennis Newson, in which Scott Thornbury and Luke Meddings ventured in-world for a chat about DOGME ELT and their new book ‘Teaching Unplugged‘. Joined by numerous fans and interested people (Jeremy Harmer‘s avatar also came along), we chatted for about ninety [...]
Tweet I developed a lovely, rich and exuberant cold yesterday – and while I was sitting feeling sorry for myself and idly looking through Twitter to see what new people people who are following me were following (if that makes sense!) it suddenly occured to me that a directory of ELT professionals using Twitter would [...]
Tweet An idle thought, but why are most sponsored speakers at ELT conferences nice (young) men when the majority of teachers of ELT worldwide are women? Oh no…. wait…. I see what they did there…
Sunny Cyprus
Posted: 18th June 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in GeneralTags: Cyprus, ELT, teacher, technology, training, Work Links
Tweet I’m at the end of the second day of a four-day teacher training course here in Nicosia, working with a group of lively (they’ll know what I’m trying to say there, I think) teachers from all around the island. As is usual these days, the group is about 95% female, perhaps illustrating that while [...]