From: <Leo.Selivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: summer Dear ETNI-ers I've had a very busy summer and am now going through the posts from the last two months. Thanks for the British Council mentions in your messages about the summer ETAI conference. I particularly liked Ellen's comment below: "I heard today that there are over 14000 English teachers in Israel. Less than 500 were at the conference. You don't know what you are missing." I think those of us who are among that 500 have a task cut out for us: try and bring the other 13500 to ETAI and show them how it can benefit their professional development. I am also happy that the Pre-Conference Event (PCE) organised by the British Council provoked a debate about smart phones in the classroom. Gavin Dudeney, who was the guest speaker at the PCE and the main conference, will be giving an online course in digital literacies on the SEETA website: http://www.seeta.eu/ <http://www.seeta.eu/> . As an ETAI member you can take part in SEETA courses FOR FREE. Finally, if you missed my PCE workshop, the collection of lexical tools I presented can be found here: http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/p/essential-lexical-tools.html Hope you've had a restful summer. LEO See British Council mentions in messages about the summer ETAI conference: http://www.etni.org/links/bcouncil_messages.pdf ************************************** ** Join ETNI on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/31737970668/ ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** post to list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** help - ask@xxxxxxxx ***************************************