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June News 09
publication date: Jun 4, 2009
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author/source: Jason West
June '09 Newsletter (1)
Hello to everyone Out There I'm keeping the pressure up on the government and they appear to be crumbling. I hope your June is blazing and that you get some well deserved time on the beach. This is what I have for you this week: First independent review on TEFL.net - check it out Intermediate teachers' lessons published as a print-on demand book very soon Committee with no names - Speaking candidly to the editor of a big TEFL website Legendary expense claims First EOT materials review on TEFL.net - '21st century vocabulary and situations' - It seems we have done something right for once. Clare Welch, a highly experienced online English teacher has written a review of our materials commissioned by TEFL.net for their website. You can read it here: http://www.languagesoutthere.com/articles/first-independent-review-LOT-materials-TEFL.net POD (Print-on-demand) is a fairly new phenomenon, but we will soon have our first EOT coursebook available to purchase at very little expense via Lulu.com and Amazon.com...almost ready now. As I work and write and try to advance the cause of Out There I often run into things I find astonishingly unfair. In light of the brouhaha (uproar, angry noise, hubbub) about UK MPs' expenses I thought it time to disclose a couple of email conversations I had with an unnamed person who edits one of the UK's biggest ELT websites on behalf of a part publicly funded organisation with a global remit to promote ELT and which has a royal charter, an equal opportunities policy and a published list of core values: http://www.languagesoutthere.com/articles/Speaking-candidly-comments-to-a-big-TEFL-website-editor Legendary expense claims: Two journalists write: "This one might be apocryphal. A journalist based in Egypt known for submitting somewhat over-the-top expenses once claimed £200 for a camel. His editor suspected he was making it up and said the paper would only reimburse him if he provided the camel. It was, after all, the paper's property. "The next month the journalist submitted a new claim: £75 for camel burial." Until next time... Cheers Jason |
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