This post exalts the many merits of the ESL Blog Carnival.
Those of you who aren’t familiar with the work of Larry Ferlazzo are in for a treat. His blog is one of the must visit ELT sites on the internet. If you’re wondering how you’ll find time even to read though all of the great ideas that Larry shares – and you will – imagine how much time he must devote to writing this blog.
One of my favourite parts of his site is the ESL Blog Carnival which is a showcase of great blog posts from English language teachers around the world. Every two months someone volunteers to host the event on their blog, sets up a way for interested bloggers to contact them and collates all of the suggestions into one mega blog post. The result: a fantastic collection of writing from passionate language teachers.
The latest carnival has just been posted by Bernadette Wall under the heading of ‘The Most Popular Posts on your Blog’ . I warn you before you click on the link: you’ll need a couple of hours spare to make your way through all of these great posts.
The 26th edition of the Blog Carnival will be held on January 1st, 2012 and will be hosted by David Deubelbeiss. After that, I’ll be taking over the reins for the 27th edition at the beginning of March. I’m not sure what the subject of David’s carnival will be, but mine will be titled 
‘Go with the’ Flow’: Great Classroom Moments.’ I’ll be posting on this blog in the lead up to the event, i.e. after David’s January carnival, but if you’re intrigued by the title, you can learn more about the notion of Flow in a nice blog post by Scott ‘grr… technology’ Thornbury.
Incidentally, you can see all the previous editions of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival here.
In celebration of my title, here is my favourite band performing a song called ‘Go with the Flow’, although this is not to be confused with the notion of Flow Theory.
The Carnival welcomes any blog posts, including examples of student work that are related to teaching or learning English. You can contribute a post to it by using this easy submission form. If the form does not work for some reason, you can send the link to Larry via his Contact Form. Let Larry know if you might be interested in hosting future editions.
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Adam – you’ve put me into the situation of having to participate in your little blog Carnival for 2 reasons:
1) it’s the second kick in the ass I’ve received to get some practical flow-lovin’ material on IF Only.
2) How can one not participate when there’s a QOTSA song involved? (and I’m beginning to wonder where the idea of blogging on ‘Flow’ came from in the first place…)
Fantastic. I find it hard to pass up an opportunity for a random QotSA video, so I’m glad it had the desired effect.