I wrote upwards of 20 posts while I was at IATEFL 2015, so thought it would be a good idea to index them all in a single post so that they are easier to locate! 

Day 0 – MaW SIG Pre-Conference Event Day

I divided up the SIG day into 4 posts – two sessions per post.

Part 1

• Sue Kay – “Writing multiple choice activities – What I have learnt”
• Ben Goldstein and Ceri Jones – “Maximising the image in materials design”

Part 2

• Nick Tims – “A Technological Toolkit for writers”
• John Hughes – “Writing ELT audio and video scripts. From basic principles to creating drama”

Part 3

• Kieran and Anna – “How to write ELT activities for authentic video and film”
• Julie Moore – “Does a corpus have the answer? Corpus tools for ELT writers”

Part 4

• Evan Frendo – “Tailor-making materials from an ESP author perspective”
• Christien Lee – “(Mis) adventures in self-publishing”

 Day 1

• Donald Freeman – Opening plenary
• Tina Kuzic – EAP Writing: teaching strategies for effective paraphrasing
• Wayne Rimmer – Swimming and pronunciation
• Heather Buchanan and Julie Norton – Uncovering expertise in course book writing
• David Read and Will Nash – Through the looking glass: creating a video-ready classroom
• Martyn Ford – Let’s see! Drawing skills for teachers
• Dr Barbara Howarth – Structured reading tasks for using authentic materials to teach academic skills

Day 2

• Joy Egbert – Plenary Day 2
• Tyson Seburn – Academic Reading Circles
• Georgios – Making up grammar rules OR what a teacher can do to motivate students during a grammar lesson
• Johanna Stirling – The how and why of self-publishing
• David Coulson – 21st Century teacher education: the knowledge and expertise we need to teach with digital technologies
• Mina Patel – IELTS Swap-shop workshop
• Various – Academic Writing Forum
• MaW SIG Open Forum (my fingers had fallen off by this point! I may do a retrospective post based on what I remember, if I get round to it!)

Day 3

• Ann Cotton – Plenary day 3
• ELTJ Debate – Language testing does more harm than good
• Viv Lambert and Mo Choy – Storytelling in the 21st Century primary classroom
• Niki Joseph – Teaching and reaching teens: making it AWESOME
• ELTJam – An engaged tone: how ELT might handle the EdTech revolution
• Jane Templeton – Bringing corpus research into the language classroom
• Me – Fostering autonomy: harnessing the outside world from within the classroom

Day 4

• Harry Kuchah – Plenary day 4 (coming soon, final editing still in process)
• David Crystal – IATEFL Signature Event 
• Me – Why I love IATEFL/why everybody should come to IATEFL next year! 🙂