The title of this post is a somewhat obscure reference to a ten-minute talk I did last year at IHTOC (IH Teachers Online Conference) in which I used the lyrics of Aladdin to try and persuade my audience of the benefits of attending a conference! It also reflects the reason for this post. The truth is, even though I did manage to see over 20 talks  for every one I saw, there was at least another I also wanted to see and missed! Too many things to see… 🙂

Fortunately, the British Council IATEFL Online 2016 site means I (and many others) can play catch-up! The conference lives on a little while longer. 🙂 Thank you, British Council folk and IATEFL folk involved, for making this possible!

Here are a few of the talks I plan to have a look at:

• Self-marketing for English Teachers – use your strengths for competitive advantage
• Q and A session relating to David Crystal’s plenary session
• Enhancing speaking and writing outcomes using Google Apps
• Forum on special educational needs – creating positive inclusive learning opportunities
• The ELTJ debate – “This house believes that teacher training is a waste of time”
• Forum on encouraging teacher reflection
• National Geographic Learning Signature Event – What does it mean to be a Global Citizen?
• Chatting in the academy – exploring spoken English for academic purposes
• Reviewing qualifications and CPD: helping meet teachers’ training needs
• ELT Conversation
•  Visual literacy in creating classroom materials
• Catering for trainee diversity on CELTA courses

All of these recordings can be found on the Sessions page of the British Council IATEFL Online website. What a valuable resource!

I also want to have a look at some of the interviews that were conducted during the conference, all of which can be found on the Interviews page of the British Council IATEFL Online website. For example:

In addition to the sessions collected on the British Council IATEFL Online website, you can also watch sessions done and recorded by Macmillan, which will be available on their page here. The two I most want to catch up with are:

• Flourish not flounder: using teaching competences for professional development
• The teacher of tomorrow: professional development through informal learning

Plenty to wade through, then, but that’s ok – I’ve got nearly a whole year to finish before IATEFL rolls round again and this particular list gets topped up again! Similar to my newly made language learning contract, this is a mini CPD contract – the difference is, though, that the language learning one accounts for the sum total of my language learning while this one doesn’t account for the sum total of my CPD!

How about you, which IATEFL online talks and interviews do you want to catch up with?!