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Community of English Language Teachers Blogging

A community for those blogging about English language learning and teaching.

About BELTfree, our purpose together

Interested in joining our private group but you're not sure about the criteria...

We're
a) English Language Teaching Professionals

b) Bloggers with a minimum of 3 months experience and at least 10 posts

c) Freelancers

More here: What is BELTfree?

Are you NEW here? Read this page please and welcome to BELTFree ;-)
p.s. Note: to communicate with a specific blogger, write on their walls and not on your own! :-)

Whenever you're here...

Check out the bar of members' pics- notice anyone new?

Say hey, welcome them in, ask if they need help with anything or generally just make the connect!

Check out their page and visit their blog, are they writing similar stuff to your own? Want to invite them into one of the sub-groups so you can work on something together there?

Is there an outstanding question you might be able to help with in the forum?

Do you need to make a call-out for help, teach us all something cool or spread the news about something? Add a blog post.

And newbies - you can do a search on the members page for like-minded bELTrs /or check the group page;-)

SHARED DOCS FOR BELTfree

Excellent report written about creating a financially successful blog, full of practical advice:

279days.pdf

Groups

Twitter

40 members
BELTfree Wiki

7 members

Blogging For Teachers

13 members
Academic English / Prep…

8 members

Wordpress (&Edubloggers)

7 members
The Book and Material Re…

2 members

Blogging For Students

10 members
Methodology, Teacher Tra…

11 members

Bloggers On Blogspot

15 members
Innovations In Technology

13 members

Alternate TEFL conferenc…

7 members
Delicious

7 members

1 BELT A DAY

8 members
Business English

8 members

Alternative Educators, 3D

5 members
Community creators

2 members

The Moderators

4 members
Typepad Bloggers

2 members

The Language Gods

2 members
My Class Is Blogging

3 members

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GENERAL NOTICES

General
*Don't forget to set up your RSS feed(s) at the top of 'your' page so that it's easy to see what you've been writing about and visit you.

*Join as many of the niche groups on the side as fit the type of blogging that you do - so that you can meet others doing the same as you are.

*Introduce yourselves and make friends ;-). Ask questions, answer questions in the 'groups' or forums. Tell each other what you like about their blogs!

*Promote your work: list a recent piece you've written that you think others in your niche might be interested in and post links on the comment walls - if you want to promote several things to all members, do a 'blog' post and list them there.

Share. Learn. Teach. Grow.

Emails
If you've joined a lot of groups you may get lots of emails -don't hesitate to change the notifications in the 'privacy' section. Or click on 'stop following' if there's something you don't want to follow - however do make sure to regularly check your groups/page/inbox when back in.

The Funky Golden Trousers Award

September's awards without a belt will be for the TECH Guru:

To visit their pages on here or their blogs: see here

Confused what this discussion is about?

Come along and find out what the Monthly Funky Trousers Awards are...

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Our Blogs

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day

Merriam-Webster Word Games

“State Of The Unions”

Cool Idea For The Next ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival

“School Secretary Fired For Translating For Parents”

Layerpad For Webpage Annotation

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darren elliott replied to Karenne Sylvester's discussion '5 things...'

1. Everything from The Fall to The Orb, via Roy Ayers and The Pharcyde. I'm an international mixtape project member - it's great fun! http://www.internationalmixtapeproject.com/ 2. I'm just getting ready for the new semester. I have a couple of res…

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nope, not for as long as we both shall live. (We laugh about it now)

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But at least you will never forget that day! :D

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Golly, Prison for political reasons. Wow.

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4. SCARY - what happened.. a trunk?

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Anita Kwiatkowska replied to Karenne Sylvester's discussion '5 things...'

1. Depends on my mood but usually Sade, Angie Stone, Tracy Chapman, Eva Cassidy or Sting. 2. Talks in Turkey and Vienna, SEETA week, DELTA (hopefully if I find time), PK at the Istek conference 3. How Languages are Learned by Lightbown and Spada…

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Deborah Capras replied to Karenne Sylvester's discussion '5 things...'

1. Music - When I'm writing, I like it peaceful. When I'm researching I'll probably have a podcast playing in the background or a news radio streaming from the internet (NPR, BBC 4, Skai). 2. Plans: Workshop coming up in Frankfurt, Cambridge Corpor…

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5 things... 18 Replies

Wanna let us know a little bit more about you? Answer these 5 questions :-)1. What music do you listen to while blogging?2. What are some of your upcoming professional plans?3. What's your favourite…

Tagged: introductions

Started by Karenne Sylvester in Collaboration and Working Together. Last reply by darren elliott 1 day ago.

Tag, u're it 5 Replies

The other day, I was reading Nicky Hockly's latest blog posting on training online & e-moderation issues. In it, she talks about the structure of blended learning courses - the importance of so…

Tagged: introductions

Started by Karenne Sylvester in Collaboration and Working Together. Last reply by Sue Lyon-Jones Jan 29.

Defining what you blog about 16 Replies

What's your tagline?One of the most important things you can do as a blogger is make your site attractive to new visitors. The chances are that given what you are mostly writing about, your new visi…

Tagged: elevator-pitch, tag-lines

Started by Karenne Sylvester in About Blogging. Last reply by Eric Roth Feb 6.

What questions do you ask your readers? 14 Replies

Just watched a great video with Darren Rowse (ProBlogger) In general life, what sorts of questions do you usually respond to? Is this different when you're reading blogs? Have you noticed incr…

Started by Karenne Sylvester in About Blogging. Last reply by Eric Roth Feb 6.

Do you have any blogging resolutions for 2010? 20 Replies

What will you be doing differently this year? - template changes? - type of posts? - marketing of posts? - updating stuff? - commenting? Share your goals and get us to help you stick to them?

Started by Karenne Sylvester in About Blogging. Last reply by Eric Roth Jan 18.

Protecting Your Copyright 19 Replies

I'm wondering how others go about protecting their ownership of their intellectual copyright and what you do when you find someone copying your content (the whole post) onto their blog?? Is imitatio…

Started by Nik Peachey in About Blogging. Last reply by Karenne Sylvester Jul. 4, 2009.

BELT masterfeed 26 Replies

I've started building a masterfeed in Pipes of all the blogs in BELT. That way we can look at just one feed. I've added the following feeds: Sandy McManus Burcu Akyol Elena Benito Ruiz Jamie Keddie…

Tagged: blogging, syndication, BELT, masterfeed, feeds

Started by Neal Chambers in Collaboration and Working Together. Last reply by Nicholas Whitley Jan 27.