General Introductions : introduce yourself to others on Brighton Online - please say 'Hi'
We'd like to welcome you all to the 45th IATEFL & Brighton Online.
I'm sure you'll be meeting up here on the Brighton Online webiste with others who have been part of previous events.
Why not introduce yourself, say where you're from and tell us what you're looking forward to this year from the Conference and Brighton Online.
Thanks and we look forward to bringing you some nice bits from Brighton!
Brighton Online Team
Mercedes - hope to meet you in the flesh, at last :-)
Hi Mercedes
I will recognise you straight away! Looking forward to meeting you.
Candy
Hi Mercedes!
I'm really excited about finally seeing you in person - without Skpe!
A bientot!
Bethany
Dear Mercedes,
Thanks to your kind invitation I have been actively taking part of two forums at the online seminar.At the same time I am doing a Critical Thinking online course with Oregon University-And of course, working at CES and CFE at the same time!
I just wanted to wish you the best and let you know that I will be popping in regularly and maybe I will be able to see you in action!
Best
Gabriela
Thanks Gabriela for you message.
Hope to meet you f2f soon.
Best,
Mercedes
Hi Mercides
I am Abdul ,from India.Great to hear that you are attending the event.I too was keen to attend this conference but I could not make it this time. Hope you would keep us informed with your posts.
Have a great time!
Abdul Khadar
Dear Julian & Dear All,
I am very pleased to join in and wish you an enjoyable, proficuous work through this year's IATEFL Brighton Online.
I am Maria Costa, based in Évora - a World Heritage Town - Portugal.
This is my third year of participating in the IATEFL Conference Online. The 2009 and 2010 Conferences were milestones in my ongoing personal and teacher development. Hope to exchange teaching/learning experiences with colleagues from other countries.
Cheers,
Maria
Hi Online team,
As ever, highly impressed with the quality of this platform - even at this early stage for this year! Looking forward to using it even though I'll be there in person - it's a great addition and extension of the whole thing.
Hi Julian and the Brighton Online team. Congratulations on the site - like Anthony, I'm very impressed - it looks like it's going to be the best IATEFL Online yet.
I'm coordinator of the IATEFL LEarning Technologies SIG, a teacher at the British Council in Barcelona and social media consultant for the British Council. I also manage part of two European projects for the British Council: ITiLT, looking at best practice with IWBs; and aPLaNet, helping language teachers to use social networking and PLNs (Personal Learning Networks).
I'll be at the conference in Brighton, presenting on 'Digital Play', which will be all about using computer games in language teaching and featuring ideas from the forthcoming Delta Publishing Teacher Development book of the same name, which I've co-written with my colleague Kyle Mawer.
Look forward to meeting people there, and here online too!
Graham
@grahamstanley
@digitalplay
Hi all,
It's great to be back for Brighton Online and moderating the EAP forum. I've found these forums great for stimulating my thinking and connecting to teachers involved in EAP all round the world.
I work at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, where my main role is on the in-sessional programme, teaching scholarship to students who are already studying on their degrees. Together with two colleagues Sue Argent and Jenifer Spencer, I wrote EAP Essentials: a teacher's guide to principles and practice, published by Garnet Education. Sue and I are now working on two coursebooks for students: Access EAP and we will be presenting our ideas about scholarship at the Brighton conference.
I'm looking forward to some good discussions in the next few weeks.
Olwyn
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Hello, Olwyn and all in the forums/fora :)
Nice to have seen you back in February for the ESP/LSP conf. :) in Belgrade.
Natasha
Belgrade, Serbia
Hi Natasha,
The conference in Belgrade in February was a great experience for me. I learned a lot about EAP/ESP in different contexts and enjoyed lots of discussion. Plus the local food was fabulous :-)
Looking forward to renewing our discussions online.
Olwyn
Hi Natasha
Nice to meet you virtually again this year!
I haven't heard from you for quite some time. At least now we can find time to discuss our favourite ESP topics.
Albert
Morning Brighton Online
Really looking forward to moderating the BE forum this year and once again a great job being done by the "backroom boys".
Cheers
Candy
Hello , Candy!
Wow ,another ELT person in the forum here I admire :)
Looking forward to being 'moderated' by you :)
Fings are lookin' very good :)
Natasha
Hi Natasha!
Lovely to meet you in another "space"! Looking forward to meeting you too.
Candy
Hi everyone.
Looking forward to seeing many of you in Brighton. Check out the BESIG events - we've got lots going on at the conference as well as two moderators.
Marjorie Rosenberg
BESIG Joint-Coordinator
Hi all
as many of you know, I'm a self-confessed conference addict.
Looking forward to being in Brighton 'in real life' and shaking hands / giving & receiving kisses, and co-moderating the Learning Technologies forum.
Given the highly controversial nature of using technology in language teaching, it will be a great pleasure to be involved in the current debates.
Especially nice to form professional friendships with people around the world who can only attend due to the power of technologies!
Congrats to the on-line team for setting up a superb forum.
Chat soon!
Predip (aka Pete) Sharma
Oh Pete I am going to miss seeing you.
Have a great conference
Sheila
Hi Pete,
I'm really looking forward to meeting you f2f.
Are you delivering a presentation this year?
Best,
mercedes
Hi everyone
The much-awaited Brighton online is live now. Though I received the announcement from Julian a week ago, I couldn't post my introduction and say 'hi' to you all due to connectivity problem.
Glad to meet many familiar persons virtually. My association with the IATEFL online for the past four years have brought me closer to many ELT practitioners. We have had discussions on many topics.
My area of specialization is ESP in general and English for Engineering in particular. I look forward to taking part in discussions and getting enriched.
Albert
Dear all,
I am Higor Cavalcante from Sao Paulo, Brazil; this is my first IATEFL and I'm really, really looking forward to it!
I see there's a fellow South American here. Hi, Mercedes! =) I wonder if there are many people from Brazil taking part this year as well, and I'd bet there are!
May 2011 be the first of many for me! =)
All the best,
Higor
Hi Higor,
Thanks for your message. This is my first IATEFL too..
There are many people from Brazil and Argentina, too. I think, I'm the only one from Uruguay. (size counts!)
Carla Arena (from Brazil) set this wiki for people going to IATEFL and there are people from Brazil and Argentina.
Maybe you can join.
http://iatefl2011.pbworks.com/w/page/33260751/FrontPage
Best,
mercedes
Hi Julian, Gavin, Graham, Graeme, Martin, Albert, Marjorie, Natasha, and everybody else who I have neither met on-line nor in the flesh YET!
I’m Susan Hillyard based in Argentina, but travel to about 7 countries per year, besides 3 or 4 Ar provinces, mainly working on Drama in ELT, CLIL and Global issues/ World Englishes with pre service and in-service teachers. I’m a veteran of NILE and EVO Drama on-line and am now doing my 3rd year tutoring on-line the MA ELT Module, Language and Globalisation, I authored at La Sabana Uni in Bogota, Colombia.
I work as a trainer for 20 teachers at the Special Ed Dept of the Min of Ed in the city of Buenos Aires teaching English through Drama in hospital schools, orphanages, transplant units, shantytown schools, schools for the physically challenged and all the remedial provision in the city, including home visits for children with terminal illnesses like cancer, diabetes and HIV. This conforms to the new law of inclusion and is the first time these students will have the opp to learn English.
We have a PLC with an ongoing NING, WiZiQ classes and monthly f2f meetings on Saturdays, the only day we all can make it. Keeping 20 teachers on track in a city of 13.000.000 is not easy. Without technology it would be impossible!
Like Martin I started with a ZX Spectrum Plus which Father Christmas brought down the chimney for our son when he was five. James then proceeded to teach me all I know.
Thank you all for setting up this forum so we can participate in the spirit of IATEFL as remote participants. I have never attended an IATEFL conference but would love to.
Thank you for ”La Buena Honda” and for thinking of including those who cannot make it …..even those living “al Fondo del Mundo”
Susan H
Argentina
Hi Susan
Great to meet you online.
Albert
Hi everybody,
Congratulations on a great site; I'm looking forward to meeting many people online and watching some of the events I don't make it to in person.
As editor of IATEFL 'Conference Selections' I am anticipating many great sessions! If you are presenting in Brighton and would like more information on how to get published in 'Selections', please come to my 'how-to...' session on Tuesday morning. I will also upload my handouts and PPT here for those of you who can't make it.
When I'm not attending conferences or editing articles, I am curriculum coordinator of an EAP programme in Canada; I do some teaching, some admin, and quite a bit of materials development.
The annual IATEFL conference is the highlight of my professional year, and I'm really looking to Brighton; see you soon!
Tania
Hi everyone,
I'm so glad the IATEFL time of year is already just round the corner. The IATEFL online environment looks superb, absolutely fatastic job, well done to the team. I am lucky to be attending the conference again this year and will also be accompanying the discussions online and sharing all this with our teachers here in Brazil. Lst year many accompanied IATEFL online and this led to 10 of then deciding to participate personally at the conference. So, IATEFL Online does it´s job indeed.
The best thing about IATEFL and IATEFL online is the tremendous opportunity we have to share aspects of our practice together and I am really pleased to have the chance to meet so many colleagues from Latin America and Brazil (I actually think we´ll have a great number of Brazilians participating this year, Higor, so will look out for you.)
Look forward to seeing you all in three week´s time.
Valéria
Hi Valeria,
Carla Arena (from Brazil) set this wiki for people going to IATEFL and there are people from Brazil and Argentina.
Maybe you can join.
http://iatefl2011.pbworks.com/w/page/33260751/FrontPage
Best,
mercedes
Hi everyone, especially Online Team and Julian! Is Nik Peachy here? I'd like to say thank you to him. I am Olga Penkovsky from Russia and I have two-year experience as online participant and moderator (TEA forum) and I'd be happy to participate this year. I have my students at hand, they are greatly interested in the conference.
Nice to meet new-comers,
best, Olga Penkovsky
Hi I'm Phil, an ESOL teacher from London - I'm presenting at the ESOL SIG's pre-conference event, and will be around for the main event.
Feel free to follow me at @pysproblem81
Hey everyone, really looking forward to Brighton after a wonderful experience in Harrogate last year. My special interest is teens / young adults and online learning platforms (I'm the co-founder of English Attack!); and I'll be talking about Homework -- the final EFL frontier? -- at 2pm on the Saturday, Room 9. Can't wait for the sessions, the buzz, and the tweet-ups to start! In the meantime, you can follow me at @paulmaglione
Hi everyone,
My name is Dasha. I'm an EFL teacher in Moscow. It's going to be my first IATEFL conference, really looking forward to it:-)
Hi everyone
It's nice to see a mix of new and more familiar names and faces! I spend most of my time working on the TeachingEnglish website, but will be at the conference working with the Brighton Online team - so look forward to meeting some of you there, and others here on the site.
Rob
Hi everyone,
My name is Sirin. I work for the British Council in Turkey as e-learning projects coordinator. This year, for the first time, I've joined the Brighton Online team with communication tasks. It is very exciting and really good to be able to interact with colleagues all over the world and share ideas about education. Looking forward to sharing lots of inspirational messages and resources with you.
Sirin
Hi Everyone,
I'm Shaun and am looking forward to IATEFL. Can't believe it is only a week and a bit away....really need to finish my talk :-)
Shaun
Hi, this is Scott Thornbury checking in. I'm looking forward to connvening the Dogme Symposium on Monday 18th April at the IATEFL Conference, along with my comrade in arms, Luke Meddings. Both of us were presenting this weekend at the ISTEK Schools Conference in Istanbul. Next stop: Brighton!
Thoroughly enjoyed your talk at #istek, Scott. Is it uploaded anywhere, I wonder?
Thanks Patrick - I'm not sure (if talk will still be available). Check the ISTEK website perhaps?
Will it be mushrooms? Will it be chips? We'll have to wait and see!
IATEFL virgin (talk on Sunday 13:35/Paganini...no not the sandwich, dummy) feeling a bit nervous. In a good way. In a good way. Just keep breathing.
Hi! I am Karin, aka CoffeeAddict, a Norwegian English teacher living and working in İzmir, Turkey. I will be visiting IATEFL for the first time this April and I am very excited about it! I look forward to learning and sharing and having fun in Brighton. See you there!
Hi everybody again,
It good to see so many people from Latin America. That's great.
I'm delivering a presenting on the roles we perfom as business English trainers.
http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2011/sessions/2011-04-17/many-roles-we-...
For most business people, English is integrated as part of their work flow, and being effective business English communicators is crucial for their jobs.
I'll be talking about our role in this current situation.
Mercedes
Uruguay
Good heavens, the year just flies by and it's IATEFL time again!
Looking forward to taking part as a remote participant based in Germany, although I just LOVE the town of Brighton and am sorry I won't be there in person. However, judging by all that is going on, the delegates won't have much time and energy for going round the Pavillion, shopping for antiques, taking a bracing walk along the beach or even a quick dip in the sea (! please post, anyone who dares to!), so perhaps the venue isn't THAT important.
Your website is really nice this year, much more soothing than in the past (I'm referring to the colour scheme, not anything technical).
Let's all enjoy what Brighton Online has to offer!
Diana
Hi everyone,
Really looking forward to meeting old friends and new @IATEFL in Brighton. Hoping for a little sunshine and blue skies, great talks, inspiration and ideas, and barefoot beach parties with beer (follow on Twitter for this). I'll be doing a couple of small workshops at teatime in the Always Learning corner - How to Flip your Classroom - ideas for using and making video podcasts with students. Oh, and then there's the Pecha Kucha (what have I let myself in for?!). Hope to see you there.
Antonia
@antoniaclare
Hello everybody,
I'm really looking forward to coming to Brighton ... and the conference of course! I'm determined to be more organised this year and plan ahead more - which sessions I want to see. I've never stayed for the whole conference before, so I think I'll take it a bit more gently this year - more breaks for my brain to process what I've heard.
But I'll definitely be attending my own talk! Well, not so much a talk as a workout - a Full-Body Spelling Workout on Monday afternoon. We'll be doing lots of fun activities that really help learners get to grips with English spelling. You'll be ready for a good stretch by that stage of the conference! So I hope you'll come along.
Or pop by the NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) stand and say hello.
Johanna
Hi Everyone!
It's good to see some familiar names and faces (and avatars) already!
Congratulations to Julian and team! I agree with Diana, interface gets better each year. Well done!
I'm Ana in sunny Recife, NE Brazil. I work online doing a variety of things for a number of international institutions and in the past few months I've been setting up a High School programme at a local private school.
If you made a wordle* out of my professional life in the past ten years or so, you'd probably get these words: variety, teacher associations, technology, online, british council, writing, courses, projects, the consultants-e, emoderation, very interesting people, curiosity, editing, voluntary work, challenges, passion, moodle, multicultural, lovely hornbies.
Wishing everyone a great conference at Brighton and on here! :)
ana
Hi Ana,
Carla Arena (from Brazil) set this wiki for people going to IATEFL and there are people from Brazil and Argentina.
Maybe you can join.
http://iatefl2011.pbworks.com/w/page/33260751/FrontPage
Best,
mercedes
Hi All
Evan Frendo here, based in Berlin. Looking forward to meeting old friends and making new ones :-)
And doing a talk on the new LCCI English for Accounting exam on Sunday - maybe see you there.
All the best
Evan
Hi Evan
I am very interested in this exam can you send me a link to the details please.
Sheila
Hello everyone
I hope you all have a great IATEFL and I am so sorry I will not be there but it is the beginning of our new semester here in Germany.
The site looks great and I am looking forward to seeing a few presentations online.
So hi to all of you who know me and I hope the conference is a great success for everyone.Of course I am sure it will be.
Sheila
Hi,
I'm Mercedes Viola, from Uruguay, South America.
Fortunately, this year I'll be attending the conference. I'm really excited about it and looking forward to it.
I participated in the 2009 and 2010 conference online and it was really amazing!
Hope this year I can contribute from the confernce.
My best wishes to everybody,
Mercedes