The Kibble Palace Glasshouse in Glasgow, photo by pixelsandpaper on Flickr
We’re pleased to finally confirm that we’ll be doing a talk at IATEFL based on the first e-book to come out of the round: 52. It seems that this year has seen a bumper crop of proposals for the annual international conference so we are happy that we made it there. Luke and Lindsay will be in Glasgow talking about 52, subversive activity for language teachers and the round on Tuesday March 20.
Here is the title and abstract we submitted:
52: A year of subversive activity in the ELT classroom. Can one new idea per week make a difference? This is the question we’ve tried to answer in our new e-book 52, using radical texts, subversive images and lateral thinking. This workshop will explore how to get you and your learners thinking critically about life inside and outside the classroom – from teaching and learning to advertising and human rights.
We’ll be providing more information and updates about IATEFL as the date gets closer. Many other authors working on round projects will be there, and we’ll be scouting out new talent ourselves so look out for us lurking at the back of a workshop or in very animated discussions during the coffee break!
Lindsay and Luke
I’ll be at IATEFL this year, I was last there as a student volunteer in Harrogate in 2010. So I’m looking forward to seeing many more sessions this time, including yours about your new E-book.
But, frankly, I’m disappointed there’s not much happening on this blog at the moment. I think we need a few more posts please guys to get us talking!
There’s definitely a ‘gap in the market’ for an ELT Materials Development blog at the moment I think, particularly now the English Raven has branched off into other areas.
And I think there is an awful lot of potential for an excellent blog and discussion forum about materials development, task design, subverting coursebooks, critical thinking etc etc, but it hasn’t really seemed to have got going yet unfortunately.
Perhaps people could post up their own experiences of a lesson or a classroom task which was ‘subversive’ in some way? To get us going.
Hi Thomas
Thanks very much for this and look forward to seeing you in Glasgow.
We’d like to see the kind of discussion you’re after too, and when the book launches it will be accompanied by a support website which will hopefully generate the kind of interaction you suggest. If this works it may well become a model for other support sites for ’round’ publications.
We’re currently busy preparing ’52′ for publication, as well as working on the forthcoming projects we mentioned here http://the-round.com/2011/10/the-round-takes-shape – but we are going to keep blogging here too, so look out for more posts in the New Year!
Luke