#37, Blog of the week: Richard Byrne’s ‘Free Technology for Teachers’
By Tarun Patel
Dear friends, Richard Byrne’s Free Technology for Teachers is the blog of the week for the issue#37.
Richard’s blog features reviews of free technology recourses and how teachers can use them. At the core of the blog the content deals with the ideas for Technology Integration in Education.
Talking about his blog, Richard says, “The purpose of this site is to share information about free resources that teachers can use in their classrooms. In 2008 Free Technology for Teachers was awarded the Edublogger Award for “Best Resource Sharing Blog.” Free Technology for Teachers is read by an audience of more than 8000 subscribers.”
Here are some of the interesting posts from Richard’s blog:
- Witty Comics – Easily Create Simple Comics
- Brain Flips – Create, Share, and Search Flashcards
- What Browser Explains What a Web Browser Is
- CNN Student News – Review of Global Headlines.
Go ahead and keep reading Richard’s blog now 
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October 9th, 2009
#36, Blog of the Week: huffenglish.com
By Tarun Patel
Hi friends, huffenglish.com is the blog of the week for issue #36.
Dana Huff runs huffenglish.com. The tag line of huffenglish.com is “Issues, ideas, and discussion in English Education and Technology”. Dana teaches 9-12th grade English and a 10th grade Writing Seminar at the Weber School, a private Jewish high school in the Atlanta metro-area. She has been teaching since 1997; She taught middle school Language Arts and Journalism for two years and pre-K for one year and all the rest have been high school English.
At huffenglish.com Dana writes on Professional Development, Assessment, Technology in Teaching, Teaching Literature, Grammar and Writing, and more.
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October 3rd, 2009
ELTWeekly Issue#34, Blog of the week: Sue Swift’s ELT Notebook
By Tarun Patel
Sue Swift’s ‘ELT Notebook‘ is selected to feature in Blog of the week column of ELTWeekly Issue#34.
Sue Swift is an EFL teacher and teacher trainer for over thirty years now and has lived and worked in a variety of European and Asian countries. She is the author of a number of published courses, and runs a small language training business in Italy.
ELT Newsletter, ELTWeekly Issue#34, English Language Teaching, ICT and ELT, Tarun Patel
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September 18th, 2009
ELTWeekly Issue #25, Three Must Read ELT Blogs
By Tarun Patel
UsingEnglish.com is a general English language site, specialising in ESL (English as a Second Language) with a wide range of resources for learners and teachers of English, and has been running since the beginning of 2002. Different varieties of English are used; there are contributors from the United States, Canada, Pakistan and non-native speakers, but much of the site uses British English as it was set up in the UK.
Prof. Larry M. Lynch has created this blog for foreign language learning, for teaching English as a Foreign Language, to develop skill as an Article Writer or give polished Speaking Presentations.
This blog covers teaching, learning, reading, writing, culture, literature, classroom management, new technologies, health… anything related to education. (plus some Spanish and Catalan).
ELTWeekly Issue #18, Blog of the week: Alex Case’s TEFLastic Blog
By Tarun Patel
Tefltastic is loaded with the variety of resources for the teacher of English. Alex Case has posted multiple blogs and articles. He covers almost all the topics in relation to the teaching methodology. However, he has focused more on the linguistic areas useful in teaching English language.
Apart from linguistics he has also contributed a lot in the other areas such as how to deal with the students with different capabilities and students with some common problems i.e. shyness, hesitation, etc. Importantly, he also proposes few creative and innovative ways of teaching in the classroom.
In addition to this he also discusses various teaching methodology in different countries of the world. Hence, he discusses the problems faced by the teacher in the foreign country and how to overcome those problems with ease.
Indeed, for the teachers of English the blog created by him is full of worth. Lets see some of the topics he has discussed in his blog and some of is articles. The topics of various blog posts are as bellow.
- Corpus linguistics
- Discourse analysis
- EIL (English as an International Language)
- ELF- English as a Lingua Franca
- evolutionary linguistics
- Good language learners
- Teaching English Abroad
- Alternative teaching techniques
- Functional language
- ELT publishing
- and more.
To conclude I would say that he touches upon multiple issues related to the modern style of teaching. Importantly, he also shows in his posts how body language can create an effective teaching in the classroom and its significance in the classroom management.
Alex’s TEFLastic blog is available at http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/blog/