I participated the first day of ELT 2010 Istek and was very surprised to find out that most internet sites and the widgeds presented by the speakers have already been used in our school by the teachers and the students.
We have been using blogs for a long time, most classes have their own blog sites administered by their teachers. We have regularly used voicethread application for speaking homework for the last four years and all our worksheets and most materials are already online. We keep directing our students to useful websites and engage them on the internet, too.
Some of my colleagues and I were there to see the innovations in language teaching. We were surprised when we found out most of those were new to the majority of the teachers attended. While chatting during the breaks and after the last plenary session we were proud to be going ahead of many schools and teachers in Istanbul and Turkey.
Thanks colleagues for your being such hard workers and open-minded teachers.
