Today's tea: Discovering an ELT blog!

This week's topic is evaluation! We are suppossed to find a blog/website related to ELT and write down our opinions about it. The blog's name I want to evaluate is "Emily blogs". You can check it by clicking here. The blog's scope is about teaching and publishing for young learners and also the environment of the ELT classroom; the author gives tips and suggestions to create a picture of a class which is appropriate and healthy.

The website is authored by Emily Hird. If you check the blog and click the "welcome" button, you can see the information about her qualifications and her background. 

"I am a qualified ELT teacher turned editor and published materials writer. I have been working in the publishing industry for over a decade, at Cambridge University Press, as Publisher for ELT Primary and Pre-Primary, and freelance." ¹

Emily's blog's content is ranging from the gender to reinforcing elements for teaching. Her particular interest in young learners, early years and CLIL makes it easy for us to read her posts delightfully. The target audience is her colleagues. All EFL teachers in the world can benefit from the posts Emily shares. 

The pupose of this website is to give suggestions and tips to her colleagues; by increasing the awareness about some classroom issues such as gender, she helps to find the right enviroment. 

The website has not been updated recenty; 22rd February 2018 is the last time the author shared her post. But it does not mean that it was the last post. Hope we will receive many more posts in the near future. 

I have tried to read the sharings as much as possible. Actually I could not find any unlogical issue. The contents were related to 21st century learning and the accuracy of information was quite high according to my findings about this century's learning ways. 

The links that the author shares with us are working; there is no broken links. 

The website's background colour is white which I find it rather fresh. The pictures used in the posts have high quality and the font is not bothering our eyes. I totally find the blog reader-friendly.

The sharings can easily be applied to EFL teaching; they are really helpful and efficient. I find a criticism about this website that I'm definitely agree with: 

Her publishing background is evident from her lucid and well-laid-out blogposts that clearly outline how each topic is applicable to our classrooms, top tips and suggestions, and the follow-up steps we can take e.g. further reading, etc. ²

It is really a good feeling that we can find so many websites we can benefit from. This website is one of them and there is no harm in searching some ways to facilitate our teaching; These kind of websites are ready to help us. ☺❤

The Internet-Based Project

Greetings everyone! I’m here to give you some information about my internet-based project. Creating a wall in Padlet was the task of this week and we were supposed to do this project with a group of 5 to 8 of our friends. I’ve really enjoyed with the people I worked because they were always friendly and helpful throughout the process of the work. We were get along with each other and there were no disagreement between us.

Firstly, we submitted our ideas about the topic and and then settled on the traffic issue in Istanbul. Our experience with the congestion in everyday life had pretty much influenced us to decide on this topic. Then we divide the work into 4 parts (describing the problem, sharing the causes & effects/some public opinion and offering solutions). We were eight, so one duty was undertook by two people.

We completed our project collaboratively which I found very efficient in terms of 21st century learning.

Padlet as a tool also helped us in sharing our project. Because it is easy; there is a simple link sharing allows for quick collaboration and it supports (almost)
every file type. It is beautiful and fun; it allows us to choice colorful wallpapers and themes. 

It was really enjoyable to work with my friends in Padlet. Hope you all enjoy it as well <3