Spring Blog Festival - Slides for A Blogger's Story: Top Ten Topics
I thoroughly enjoyed presenting at the Spring Blog Festival 2015 on Saturday March 21st. Below you can see the slides for my session. I do hope you like them. There is a full list of resources from...
View ArticleIATEFL Manchester 2015
I have booked my train ticket to Manchester and I will spend 2 days there, more or less. I haven't attended a live international conference like this since IATEFL Brighton 2011, when I presented as...
View ArticleSEETA Guest Blogger for April
I am proud to be this month's guest blogger for the South Eastern Europe Teachers Association. I am currently having a break at the momen, so I am posting reflections and insights into teaching and...
View ArticleIATEFL Manchester Feedback
I originally wrote this feedback post on another blog, but thought I would like to add it here on my main blog. Better late than never :-) I was very happy to be able to travel to Manchester on...
View ArticlePennadomo, a Unique Village in Abruzzo
Recently we travelled to Pennadomo, a small village about an hour away by car from where we live. It was a memorable visit. We had read about Pennadomo in the local paper, Il Centro, and found out...
View ArticleElectronic Village Online 2016
I am currently doing the EVO Moderator training for 4 weeks and am enjoying the experience very much! Even though 2016 will be my third year of moderating on the eTextbooks for Teachers session, all...
View ArticleRegistration now open for EVO 2016 sessions!
A very happy new year to everyone! I hope 2016 is going to be a great year for us all full of happy occasions and inspirational events:-)CPD Opportunity for 2016! This week from 3rd - 11th January the...
View ArticleBelated Happy Birthday Wishes, Dear Blog!
Seven whole years have passed since my world opened up in November 2008 and a new dimension was discovered. Blogging has brought me much joy and expanded my knowledge of the world. I have met many...
View ArticleEVO Ebook 2016 Feedback
Five weeks have flown past and today is the last day of the Electronic Village Online sessions. I have been co-moderating the eTextbooks session and enjoying the experience enormously. Under Shelly...
View ArticleHappy Easter Wishes
Wishing all my readers a very Happy Easter! You can read about what happens here in Abruzzo in this post by Life in Abruzzo blog called Easter in Abruzzo. I hope to write a new post soon about IATEFL...
View ArticleIATEFL Birmingham 2016
This year IATEFL will be holding its annual teachers' conference from 13th - 16th April in Birmingham, and I am happy to be attending on one of the days. You can attend online if you are not able to...
View ArticleAmalfi, Villa Rina
Touring the Amalfi Coast by motorbike was a wonderful experience, if a little bit hair raising, especially on the many hairpin bends along the 40 kilometre coastal route! We booked a one-night stay at...
View ArticleIATEFL Glasgow April 2017
It's been a long time since my last posting but now is the time to begin again. It is the IATEFL conference in Glasgow this year and it starts on April 3 and runs until April 7. It's going to be an...
View ArticleIt's been a while......
.........since I last posted, and I am now going to set thngs right, before even more time passes. The honest reason for my recent lack of posts is that I simply lost 'the flow'. I have discovered...
View ArticleJanet's Abruzzo Edublog is 9 years old!
Image source: Razzle.com Janet's Abruzzo Edublog is now officially 9 years old! My very first post was on November 8th 2008. It was a short and simple introduction. I remember feeling a bit nervous...
View ArticleSummer Teaching at the Lake!
I think I am now ......... regarding blogging for the moment! This rather belated post is going to be about my teaching at the Lake School of English during the summer months from July through to...
View ArticleCastle in The Sky: Roccascalegna
A visit to Abruzzo should include a special trip to the medieval Castle of Roccascalegna, perched precariously high up on a steep rock cliff. I first read about it in Life in Abruzzo's post here....
View ArticleCongratulations to the Lake School of English!
In 2018 the Lake School of English will proudly be celebrating its 40th year as a hugely successful English language school in Oxford. This is an enormous achievement, and a glowing testimony to the...
View ArticleOlive Oil Harvest 2017
Thankfully this year was a good one for olives and we were delighted to have a bumper crop in November. We picked each olive by hand over 5 solid days and the result was approximately 255 kilos,...
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