IATEFL conference 2010 - roving reporters competition
We invite you to apply for selection as one of 2010's Roving Reporters by completing the Writing Challenge below. The winners will have their conference fee, flights and connecting travel, hotel accommodation, meals and subsistence paid for.
What is Harrogate Online?
The Harrogate Online project is a British Council / IATEFL partnership established to provide online conference coverage of the Annual IATEFL Conference in Harrogate.
Now in its fourth year, IATEFL Online returns in April 2010 to coincide with the Annual IATEFL Conference in Harrogate.
We’ll be providing more information and updates on Harrogate Online here and also on the IATEFL website at www.iatefl.org
Roving Reporters for Harrogate Online 2010
We are sending two Roving Reporters to the IATEFL Conference again in 2010, (the eighth year running). (Please go to http://www.iatefl.org for information about the Conference.) [Please see competition entry instructions below]
The two Roving Reporters will report on the major debates, news and 'coffee bar gossip' at IATEFL Harrogate as it happens. They will use laptops to produce quick-fire reports, mini-interviews and personal impressions. These will be published on the Harrogate Online website during each day.
The Reporters' coverage will enable ELT professionals worldwide to keep up with the conference even if they can't attend in person. We are looking for two Roving Reporters who are able to communicate the excitement of the IATEFL conference, as well as the key points of the debates happening in Harrogate, to practitioners worldwide, whether the latter are teachers and trainers in the state or the private sector.
The two Roving Reporters will be ELT practitioners who have not had the chance to attend the IATEFL conference yet, and who have dreamt of attending but would find it impossible or almost impossible to fund themselves to do so.
We invite you to apply for selection as one of 2010's Roving Reporters by completing the Writing Challenge below. Applications will be judged by British Council and IATEFL colleagues. The two winners chosen to be 2010's Roving Reporters will be notified by late January.
The winners will have their conference fee, flights and connecting travel, hotel accommodation, meals and subsistence paid for (this will be arranged by the British Council in London). The two Reporters will need to arrive in Harrogate on 6 April; and will depart from the UK on 13 April. Laptops will be supplied for the duration of the conference.
So, if you'd like to be one of 2010's British Council Roving Reporters at IATEFL, take up our Writing Challenge below! Those sending complete entries will receive a DVD containing resources for EL teachers.
Good luck and we look forward to reading your entries!
Competition entry instructions
* Roving Reporters competition, IATEFL 2010: Writing Challenge *
Imagine that you have been commissioned by your Teachers' Association or local teachers' group to write a report of an EL teacher development event - a report that will be uploaded to the TA or group website, and that will be read by teachers worldwide.
Please base your article on a real event that you have attended as a participant, trainer or organiser, preferably during 2008-2009. (This can be a meeting, seminar, workshop, debate, conference or similar. The teachers can be from the private or state sector; and can be from any level - primary, secondary, vocational, higher education, etc.).
Your brief is to produce a piece of writing that is both interesting as well as informative. Your article will be read by those who attended as well as many other teachers who didn't get the chance to attend this time. You need to capture the 'flavour' of the event (what was it like to be there? who was there?*) as well as the key activities and discussions. And you need to reflect on the event in your article (was it successful? was it special?).
Please give your article an engaging title.
(*Feel free to use fictitious names if you wish to protect your colleagues' privacy.)
Remember that you are not writing an academic or bureaucratic report. Your article should be informative, interesting, clearly structured and not too formal. It must be your work, of course. We want to hear your 'voice', and sense how well you can reach out to other teachers through your words. Your readership covers the full range of EL teachers, from the nervously newly qualified to the 'old hands'. Keep technical terms and abbreviations to a minimum so that your piece is as accessible and easy to read as possible.
- The maximum word count is 500 words.
- Please write your name, job title and institution, email address, snail mail address plus any fax and telephone numbers at the end.
- Please confirm that you would be available to be in the UK from 6-13 April 2010 inclusive, and to attend the entire conference, including the Pre-Conference Day (7 April).
Where to send you article
Send your article, plus your CV, by email or fax to:
IATEFLHarrogate2010Reporters@britishcouncil.org or Fax: + 44 (0) 207 389 4464.
Deadline for entries:
The deadline for receipt of entries is end Friday 11 December 2009. Entries received after this deadline will not be considered. We will not be able to return or comment on any of the entries.
(Please note that British Council members of staff are not eligible to take part in this competition.)
Penny Trigg and Julian Wing, British Council;
Graham Hall, IATEFL
