Hi there, and welcome to the #ELTchat website. This is the central resource for all things relating to the #ELTchat discussion sessions on Twitter. Here you’ll find the chance to vote on topics for discussion, check out the archives of previous chat sessions, and read articles by guest bloggers on important themes in the ELT world.
The #ELTchat sessions will be on Wednesdays at 12:00 pm London time, at 21:00 pm London time and will last for one hour.
How it’s done
Every Sunday there will be a poll posted on TwitPoll and embedded here on the website where you can vote for the topic that appeals to you most.
We rotate the top choice each week so that one week the early session gets the first choice and the next week the later session will get the top choice. That way people in the different time zones will be treated as equally as possible.
From time to time we want to invite a guest Tweeter to host a discussion or a Q&A on a subject of their choosing. More on this in a future post.
But #ELTchat doesn’t begin and end with the discussions – the hashtag is there for anyone who has news and views on the ELT world whenever the need arises. Simply add it to your tweets and everyone can benefit from your contribution.
If you want to propose a question, then wait for the call for topics on Twitter and add your suggestion as a comment. We welcome all topics for discussion as long as they
- have not been covered already in previous #ELTchats
- are relevant to ELT teachers and teaching foreign languages
- are not targeted attacks on individuals or institutions
- are simply and clearly expressed.
The #ELTchat moderators reserve the right not to post comments or to include them in the poll if they do not follow the above guidelines.
Have you got an idea for a new way to use #ELTchat?
Then send a message on Twitter to@ELTchat or add a comment below as feedback. We look forward to hearing from you!
#ELTchat Summaries Index
We get many questions from new #ELTchat followers who would like to read through previous discussions and summaries contributed by our members of our community so here here is how you can find them:
- You can read them here on this blog by clicking on the #ELTchat Summaries Index and this will call up all the summaries
- You can visit the #ELTchat wiki ( work in progress) and click on the Summaries link on the front page which should immediately show you all the summaries we have so far uploaded.
6 Responses to Welcome to #ELTchat
Hi everyone,
I was wondering how can I contact with other teachers in this website. do we have access to the e-mails?
You can contact the other teachers on Twitter. Create an account and follow the #ELTchat hashtag!
I would like to watch your interviews or your videos on ELTChat how can I find them? Thank you.
Podcasts and videos we have done so far have been listed here eltchat.com/chat-reviews/
When a visitor lands on this page, it’s really not immediately apparent (1) where to vote on the next topic, or (2) what the current topic is going to be. Could you put links into the paragraph that only tells us (but doesn’t show us i.e. doesn’t link us) to the relevant areas? The sidebar links are really dense and difficult to grok. I have difficulty knowing how to recommend ELT Chat to my network without having to post 4 different links to different areas of the site.
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