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Thu, 04/02/2009 - 01:25
Dear All
I'm very glad that the Teacher Training and Education forum has attracted a number of trainers / educators. We have had wonderful discussions.
Is it not a good idea to start a network of English language teacher trainers and educators? Such a network will help us grow professionally and update ourselves constantly.
I would like to know your views. Those who are interested in the proposal, please suggest ways to go about.
Best wishes
Albert P'Rayan
Moderator, TTE Forum
Thu, 04/02/2009 - 13:58
#2
Great idea! Albert you must have something in mind when you made the proposal. In what fields do you think networking could work?
Thu, 04/02/2009 - 14:20
#3
Hello. Well, one easy thing to do would be to set up a PBwiki (pbwiki.com) page as a place to virtually meet and discuss or organize matters / activities. If that is felt to be a good idea by many interested, I would set it up. I have been working with PBwiki for my Teacher Trainer Course with University of Zurich for a while now (perino.pbwiki.com).
Hansjuerg Perino
Fri, 04/03/2009 - 08:10
#4
Hi Pilar, Gabriella and Perino
Many thanks for your promptness and willingness to be part of the network. I welcome all your suggestions. Perhaps, Perino can throw more light on pbwiki.com and he can initiate it.
Gabriella, what I had in mind was starting a yahoo group which is very much user-friendly. We can discuss any issue that is related to ELT.
Albert P'Rayan (rayanal@yahoo.co.uk)
Sun, 04/05/2009 - 18:03
#5
Fine with me! I am not very good at creating pages like that, but if you or Perino os ready to set it up, I am ready to join and discuss things.
Wed, 04/08/2009 - 00:27
#6
I'd be very interested in joining a network,too. I don't know much about these things, but here in the US, some English (as in English literature/language arts, not ESL) teachers have a network called English Companion and they use ning. It seems like it is working well -- it's fairly new.
Wed, 04/08/2009 - 17:03
#7
Hi Frazier
You are welcome. Do tell us more about yourself and English Companion. How does it work? Do they have a website?
Albert
Tue, 04/14/2009 - 15:36
#8
Quite a few people at IATEFL Cardiff weretalking about Ning, and on return to london I googled it and set it up. It takes about 5 minutes maximum, and if I can do it, anyone can! It creates a page a little like Facebook, you can make it public or private. i haven't really had time to 'play' with it properly - you know what it's like, you go away but the work keeps coming! But when I have caught up on everything I will be able to spend a bit more time on this. In the meantime, perhaps people on the Learning Technology SIG could help? The good thing about Ning is that it's open source [i.e. free!]
hi Albert,
I´m in.