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Episode Five is all about Learning Styles. Phil Keegan, Will Corner, Oliver Hipkins and Marta Dzido Barreto chew the fat in the studio while Marjorie Rosenberg is on the line with insights and expert opinion.

This week’s guest on the podcast: Marjorie Rosenberg

Marjorie teaches general and business English in Graz, Austria at the tertiary level and works with corporate clients. Her teaching training activities have taken her throughout Europe and the US and she is a regular presenter at international conferences.

Marjorie’s publications include In Business, the intermediate and advanced Business Advantage Personal Study Books (CUP), Banking and Finance 2 (Pearson) and Spotlight on Learning Styles (Delta Publishing) as well as a number of articles for English Teaching Professional and other ELT journals. Marjorie is currently the Coordinator for the Business English Special Interest Group (BESIG) of IATEFL and a member of the IATEFL Membership Committee.

For more details on Spotlight on Learning Styles as well as an interview with Marjorie see: http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/titles/methodology/spotlight-on-learning-styles

Links and References

• International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL)
  http://www.iatefl.org
• Delta Publishing Teacher Development Series
  http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/titles/methodology/delta-teacher-development-series

The Main Square in Graz, Austria
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The KKCL ELT Podcast is presented by Phil Keegan and produced by Will Corner and Oliver Hipkins, with music by Oliver Hipkins, Steve Munns and Phil Keegan.

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Episode Four of the podcast is Technology and Language Learning Part Two with Phil Keegan, Will Corner and Oliver Hipkins, and featuring the second part of the interview with Nik Peachey.

This week’s guest on the podcast: Nik Peachey

Nik Peachey is a freelance technology consultant, teacher trainer, writer and course designer specialising in educational technology and ELT.

For more information about Nik, please see the blog page for episode 3.

Links and References

• TodaysMeet
  http://todaysmeet.com/
  Very useful for creating a chat room to use as a back channel to connect your class together and share links and interaction. For more information see:
  3 Tools for Exploiting Wifi During Presentations
  http://nikpeachey.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/3-tools-for-exploiting-wifi-during.html
• Sync.in
  http://sync.in/
  For collaborative synchronous and asynchronous writing activities. For more information see: Collaborative Text Editing Tool
  http://quickshout.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/collaborative-text-editing-tool.html
• Etherpad
  http://etherpad.org
• MailVU
  http://mailvu.com/
  For setting speaking homework tasks for and asynchronous communications.
  For more information see:
  http://www.scribd.com/doc/49549450/task-9-create-a-video-dictation-activity
• SoundCloud
  https://soundcloud.com
• GoAnimate
  http://goanimate.com
• Language Learning with Technology
  Graham Stanley. Cambridge University Press
  This is in the excellent Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers series:
  http://www.cambridge.org/gb/elt/catalogue/subject/item382380/?site_locale=en_GB
• Teacher Training Videos
  http://teachertrainingvideos.com/index.html
  Russell Stannard’s brilliant website. Highly recommended!

STOP PRESS!

Well done Jo Gakonga!
Our guest from episode two of the podcast, Jo Gakonga, has won second prize in the British Council Master Dissertation Award. Congratulations to Jo from the KKCL ELT podcast team!
You can read more here:
http://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/elt-masters-dissertation

One of Phil’s articles has been republished in Share; TESL Canada’s e-magazine:
http://www.tesl.ca/Assets/TESLCanada/SHARE+4.pdf

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The KKCL ELT Podcast is presented by Phil Keegan and produced by Will Corner and Oliver Hipkins, with music by Oliver Hipkins, Steve Munns and Phil Keegan.

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In episode three of the podcast, Phil Keegan, Will Corner, Steve Munns and Oliver Hipkins mull over the issue of technology and language learning. Nik Peachey is on the line with expert analysis and insight.

References

This week’s guest on the podcast: Nik Peachey

Nik Peachey is a freelance technology consultant, teacher trainer, writer and course designer specialising in educational technology and ELT.

He has been involved in ELT since 1992 and has worked all over the world as a teacher and ICT specialist.

He was managing editor of the BBC/British Council Teaching English website from 2003 until 2007 when he became a freelance consultant.

Since then he has published a number of free blogs and ebooks. In 2012 his Daily English Activities blog was shortlisted for a British Council Innovations Award and In May 2012 he received the Innovation Award for excellence in course innovation for the Blended Learning in ELT course he designed for Bell. Since moving back the UK in 2011 he has continued to work freelance as well as working with Bell Educational Services to develop online teacher training courses.

His free ebook, Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers, can be downloaded here.

Other Nik Peachey links:

• Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ICT4ELT
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/NikPeachey
• Portfolio: http://www.scoop.it/t/nik-peachey
• Nik’s learning and technology reading list: http://www.scoop.it/t/learning-technology

Sites that Nik recommends to get started with Technology:

• http://daily-english-activities.blogspot.co.uk/
  His own site which has a range of activities which should support language learning and the development of digital literacy.
• http://www.lyricstraining.com/
  Has songs with gap fill activities at a range of levels.
• https://www.listen-and-write.com/ Has interactive dictation activities based around authentic audio.

Phil’s desk: MacBook, PC, iPad, iPod, smartphone, landline and stress ball.
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In episode two of the podcast, Phil Keegan and Oliver Hipkins chew over the topic of motivation and also get insights on the line from Jo Gakonga.

References

This Week’s Guest on the Podcast: Jo Gakonga

Jo has been teaching since 1989 and training teachers since 2000. She has worked in a range of countries including Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Kenya and Switzerland and currently works at Solihull College in the UK. She is the co-author of IELTS Foundation, published by Macmillan.She delivers courses and free monthly training webinars at http://elt-training.com

Books and Authors Mentioned

• Essential Motivation in the Classroom

  Ian Gilbert

  A great book, full of insights and very entertaining to read. Ian Gilbert also has a website that is well worth a visit: http://www.independentthinking.co.uk/default.aspx

• From Experience to Knowledge in ELT

  Julian Edge and Sue Garton
  Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers

  An excellent book from an excellent series by OUP.

• Ken Robinson

  http://sirkenrobinson.com

  Read his books, watch his talks. Sir Ken talks a lot of sense and is also very funny with it.

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The KKCL ELT Podcast is presented by Phil Keegan and produced by Will Corner and Oliver Hipkins, with music by Oliver Hipkins, Steve Munns and Phil Keegan.

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In this episode we talk about teachers from our past who left a lasting impression and draw some conclusions about what qualities are needed to be a really great teacher.

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The KKCL ELT Podcast is presented by Phil Keegan and produced by Will Corner and Oliver Hipkins, with music by Oliver Hipkins, Steve Munns and Phil Keegan.

© 2013 KKCL.