Learning to Blog, Blogging to Learn

The Cambridge Online Dictionary defines a blog as a diary (regular record of your thoughts, opinions and experiences) that you put on the Internet for other people to read. It hardly sounds appealing, right? How about an Internet tool which allows teachers and students to maximize their exposure to language, share ideas about their studies (or anything else, really) and have friends comment on their observations. Better? Or even an Internet club where friends (and people from all over the world) can chat about their ideas and learn from one another? In this talk, we’ll discuss what a blog is, how to set up your own blog, how to set up a classroom blog, and activities to encourage students to make blogging a fun part of their lives and a great learning tool.

At the end of the talk you’ll have the chance to be one of the winners of five 15%-discounts, three 30%-discounts and one 50%-discount for our CAE, CPE and IHTC courses.

Higor Cavalcante has been in the ELT area for 12 years, having worked as a teacher, teacher trainer, teaching consultant and pedagogical coordinator. He has trained over 1000 teachers in more than 15 Brazilian states, and is now a teacher, an exams teacher and teacher trainer at International House São Paulo. He studied Languages at University of São Paulo (USP) and holds, among others, CPE, CELTA and is finishing his Trinity Diploma with CSL, Swansea, UK. You can contact him by email (higor@ih-saopaulo.com) or visiting his ELT blog (www.higorcavalcante.com).

When?

28/10/2011
sexta-feira - 14h às 16h
Palestrante:
Higor Cavalcante

Where?

Disal Barra Funda - São Paulo
Av Marquês de São Vicente, 182
Estacionamento gratuito. Vagas limitadas. 
Próximo ao metrô Barra Funda

Convidados: Profissionais do ensino de inglês em escolas de ensino fundamental e médio, institutos de idiomas, universidades. Professores particulares. Estudantes de letras (inglês).

http://www.disal.com.br/eventos/disal/index.asp?A1=665706814123328&A2=C&eventos=28102011

Error correction: How to correct? When to correct? When not to correct?

Students’ mistakes are usually seen as something bad, a sign that there´s a problem in the classroom. Our primitive reaction as teachers is to correct students as an attempt to help them to achieve what we consider to be correct English.

My talk aims at investigating students’ mistakes and how to implement useful techniques to really provide our students with the help they might need. Among other subtopics, I intend to discuss:

• What are the main types of mistakes?
• What triggers them and what do they really mean?
• How can we deal with different error types in different lesson stages?
• How to use effective correction techniques?

Júlio César Fagundes has been an EFL professional for 10 years. At the moment, he is responsible for training new teachers at English in the Office, where he also teaches business students (one to one and groups). He holds TKT (modules 1, 2 and 3), CELTA and FTBE (Further Certificate for Teachers of Business English).

When?

16/09/2011
sexta-feira - 10h às 12h
Palestrante:
Júlio César Fagundes

Where?

Disal Barra Funda - São Paulo
Av Marquês de São Vicente, 182
Estacionamento gratuito. Vagas limitadas. 
Próximo ao metrô Barra Funda

Convidados: Profissionais do ensino de inglês em escolas de ensino fundamental e médio, institutos de idiomas, universidades. Professores particulares. Estudantes de letras (inglês).

For more information:

http://www.disal.com.br/eventos/disal/index.asp?A1=665706814123328&A2=C&eventos=16092011