Your Name and Title: Rob Howard - founder
School or Organization Name: EFLtalks
Co-Presenter Name(s):
Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Brazil
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience(s): English language teachers, old, new and future
Short Session Description (one line): Demonstrating the EFLtalks platform for teachers.
Full Session Description (as long as you would like):
EFLtalks is a concept to produce an open and free space to share advice, tips and ideas for both new and future EFL teachers, but also a place for seasoned professionals to divulge their businesses, sites, books, blogs etc. to the next generation of EFL/ESL/ELT professionals. The project mixes the ideas of a webathon with a Pecha Kucha and TED talks all into one.
The event, 10 in 10 for 10, held in October to celebrate World Teacher’s Day, kicked-off a free 10 hour marathon of webinars each 10 minutes long and utilizing only 10 slides. The idea was to quickly get to the heart of the subject matter. We opened one webinar room lasting 10 hours with a host introducing the 50 speakers from all over the world.
All presentations were recorded and posted on the website, www.efltalks.com, and on our YouTube page all organized and searchable like the TED site. We have also a bio page with contact info for all presenters.
This was a non-profit mission to provide “one-stop shopping” for sources and resources worldwide. We have a reach of well over 100,000 teaching professionals through social media. Helping new and future teachers is our goal, creating a collective and well devised location for introducing professional advice, products and services internationally is our aim.
The project will be presented and discussed including how teachers can join in subsequent events throughout the year.
Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session: www.EFLtalks.com, www.facebook.com/efltalks, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJUhh3Bj_lOIcz0CUyjU0_A
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