Russell Stannard: Plenary and YLs Workshop

Last autumn, one of our members, Jana Pastorkova, contacted us to tell us about Russell Stannard. She’d heard him  at IATEFL Hungary’s annual conference and learned so much that she thought we should invite him to our conference this year. Russell is a ‘technologist’. That’s an English blend (remember your university courses on lexicology?) meaning ‘technology specialist’. In…

Presenting the Using ICT in ELT Workshop Facilitators

Technology in the classroom is a rather hot topic these days. Some people think it can – and will – solve all our educational problems (and many governments spend a lot of money on it) while others think it should be banned entirely (which is what most of our schools do with kids’ mobile phones)….