Happy Friday as we start July – this year is absolutely flying by! As always, it’s been a chatty week in the Hub and there have been some great threads in the Facebook group around recommendations for Business English courses, crowdsourcing ideas for reading texts and thinking about how we share resources with colleagues in our own context and further afield.
In our Focused Forum on Tuesday, we discussed coaching as this is a topic which had come up in a number of Hub chats. You can find the link to the notes here. The Wednesday Question generated lots of interesting responses this week as we talked about our favourite aspects of phonology. Some people liked individual sounds, others features of connected speech or working with rhyme.
And then on Thursday we had an awesome chat with Ixchell Reyes and Brent Warner of The DIESOL Podcast. We talked about their favourite tech tools, how they develop an episode of their podcast, the likelihood of tech replacing teachers in the future and much more. The notes for that will be coming shortly in the webinars section.
At the end of the webinar, we also announced another new feature coming this month in the Hub: Speaker’s Corner. It’s an idea Simon and I had been thinking about for a while, but a recent thread about getting into conference speaking spurred us into action! We’ll be replacing one of the Tuesday Focused Forums with this new event and the idea is for there to be three speakers who present a five-minute talk/idea/practical tip and a question followed by a ten-minute chat in groups to discuss. We’ll be posting a call for speakers in the Hub in the next few days.
Finally, coming up next week we have Trainer Talking Time on Tuesday and our fabulous Coffee Breaks on Thursday. Have a great weekend and see you all soon 😃