Ok, I’ll be honest. My all-time favourite, laugh out loud, podcast has to be the Adam Buxton podcast, but sometimes …

Although my materials writing hat is well versed in zoom calls and delivering webinars, my ESOL lecturer hat still took …

The Japanese art form, Hirameki, is basically looking at splodges of paint and drawing what you see.  It translates as …

  What are life skills?  While ‘hard skills’, such as engineering, product design, teaching and computer coding are technical and …

In April this year I attended a fabulous one day workshop on using simple graphics.  Since then I have been …

I like to write up my reflections from conferences because I often leave overwhelmed with ideas. Blogging about it helps …

I’m delighted to now be included on the prestigious site for teachers teaching teachers, EFL Talks, alongside the likes of Dorothy Zemach, …

I was delighted to be asked to speak at the star studded English UK Scotland conference at Mackenzie School of English …

I had the pleasure of attending NATECLA Scotland‘s conference on Saturday 3rd November. As usual with these events, I left …

I spoke at the City of Glasgow ESOL conference in June.  I literally spoke about speaking. Speaking is arguably the …

Image Courtesy of Intimate Migrations My first experience of discussing LGBT matters in the ESOL classroom was not a positive …

Every time I go to IATEFL, I leave with a head so full of ideas that I genuinely fear it …

I’m off to wonderful Brighton again for an intense week of inspiration from the world’s most innovative ELT professionals at …

So I’ve read that blog posts should have snappy titles.  I hope that this one was snappy enough.  I even …

I was planning on posting my very first blog post this weekend.  It was going to be about getting students …