The race is on in the ELT Blogathon

It’s that time of year already.

The British Council is once again running a month-long blogathon on the Teaching English website. The Blogathon is a blogging marathon that brings together teachers of English (this year including teachers in Armenia, Croatia, Georgia, Israel, Turkey and Russia) to share good practice in ELT and find out more about blogging.

Last year I applied to be a part of the event, but things just didn’t happen. So, this year I was determined to make sure I hit the ground running. Although I already blog regularly here, the experience of taking part in a different forum is quite fun. We’re encouraged to keep posts short and sweet, a maximum of 250 words. Needless to say, someone like me who is used to waffling on is finding this a bit of a challenge, so I’ve been splitting my posts into several parts and posting them over the course of each day.

My goal is to post something every day over the course of the next month, which means there won’t be too many posts here for the duration of the blogathon (thank God for small mercies, I hear you say!).

I will be making a list of everything I write here, partly to help me keep track of what I’ve been writing and partly to make sure that you don’t lose interest in my blog. I’m intending to mix things up, with a lot of focus on practical teaching ideas (something I probably don’t do often enough here), aspects of teacher’s lives outside of the classroom, and a bit of theoretical stuff.

This is going to be a long month, so wish me luck!

Here’s my blogathon journey so far (I’ll be updating the various links as I go on):

Introduction to blogging for newbies

50 great ideas for blog posts that will help you complete the blogathon (part 1, part 2 and part 3)

Practical teaching ideas

Great kids games to use with adult language learners (part 1, part 2 and part 3)

Killer ice-breakers (Where in the World…, The Idea Sprint…, to be continued!)

Life outside the classroom

Things to do while commuting to work (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5)

17 admin tasks that teachers shouldn’t have to do

Theoretical stuff

The daily motivational: how modern motivation theories explain your students’ behaviour (introduction, expectancy-value theory, achievement motivation theory, self-efficacy theory, to be continued!)