Blog carnivals to motivate you to share your ideas

There are several options if you want to write a blogpost to join the online community, without committing to writing a whole blog.

1. First of all, there is an EFL blog carnival every two months. Larry Ferlazzo invites submissions and hosts. Anything related to the teaching of English as a second language, including student work, is welcome. Your writing is first published in a blog of your choice, and then the link is entered in the carnival.

What to do if you don't have a blog?

• Open one using Posterous.com.The easiest solution around! Perfect if you want to post only occasionally!
  
• Write in our group blog Ask Auntie Web, a blog with a techie focus.
• Contribute a guest post to the most excellent http://www.teachingvillage.org/ run by Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto, which currently contains a lovely article by Emma Herrod on using LEGO rods (the way you may have seen Cuisinaire rods used). Directions on how to become a guest blogger are here.

June 1st hosted by Mary Ann Zehr, Learning the Language

August 1st will be at David Deubelbeiss’ EFL Classroom 2.0

October 1st will be at Ms. Flecha’s My Life Untranslated: Adventures of a New ESL Teacher in New York City.

You can contribute a post to any of these by using an easy submission form.
If the form does not work, you can send the link to Larry Ferlazzo using his Contact Form.

You can see all the previous fourteen editions of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival here:

EFL Carnival of Lessons

Karenne Sylvester has just published the latest EFL blog carnival, dedicated to lesson plans. She's put the whole thing in a great looking presentation on her blog, Kalinago English.

I just had a look at them all (same order of sequence as presented) and took short notes on who did what:

• Sabrina De Vita - reviews the Present Simple and Present Continuous with a movie segment
  
• Mike Harrison - has students lipreading from a video, a new and interesting approach
  
• Nightwalker - is teaching students how to brainstorm most effectively
  
• Johanna Stirling - created a spelling code to crack / spelling puzzle to solve
  
• Shelly Terrell - presents Tagul, a tagcloud builder, and vocabulary resources to work with
  
• Anne Hodgson - uses 2 videos for business English (writing reports, small talk)
  
• Jessie Voigts - a collection of icebreaker ideas for YL and teens
  
• Larry Ferlazzo - does a class survey with activities about sleeping enough
  
• Mr. Foteah - is awarding medals for words
  
• Nick Jaworski - uses a video his students find funny to lead into creative writing
  
• Diana Diodati Konrad - is setting up the framework for negotiating in business Engl.
  
• Jeremy Day - is reflecting on how and how not to teach ESP
  
• Vicki Hollett - her dictation is "similar but different" to the listening comprehension
  
• Arjana Blazic - turns texts into Hotpotatoes gapfills, also has students writing
  
• Natasa Bozic Grojic - has nine roles to play in an argument over children using mobiles
  
• Barbara Sakamoto - uses the "sight barrier" information gap technique and realia with pre-intermediate adult learners
  
• Janet Bianchini - explores how to teach ppt from her own learning experience
  
• Eva Buyuksimkesyan - discusses the pros and cons of playing games in class
  

What a wealth of lessons! All the links here.