Published on July 16, 2019
By kierandonaghy
Registration for the Image Conference in Brussels on 5th and 6th October is now open. The Image Conference is the annual conference of the Visual Arts Circle, and this year it is being held with the collaboration of the Global Issues SIG of IATEFL. Leading […]
Published on October 9, 2017
By kierandonaghy
Helena Oliveira and Celeste Simões are both Portugal-based teachers and trainers. Here they talk about their session “The Power of Images in the Classroom”, at the Image Conference in Lisbon on Friday 13th October. You don’t need to be a tech savvy to make your lessons more motivating for your students; the right image will […]
Published on November 6, 2016
By kierandonaghy
Rob Howard, who talked about how to use video effectively in ELT, answers the Image Conference questionnaire and talks about his experience in Valetta, Malta. 1.What did you enjoy about The Image Conference? The networking with colleagues, the chance to share and hear new ideas. 2.How was The Image Conference different from other conferences […]
Published on October 31, 2016
By kierandonaghy
Tyson Seburn whose talk at the Image Conference in Valetta, Malta was titled Learner-sourced visuals: a higher level text’s best friend answers the post-conference questionnaire. What did you enjoy about The Image Conference? It was getting together with old and new friends that was the most awesome, but also in Malta—what a location. […]
Published on September 18, 2016
By kierandonaghy
Andréia Zakime is a teacher, teacher trainer and course designer. She works at the Academic Department of Cultura Inglesa São Paulo and holds an MA in Publishing and Editorial Design. Andréia has a keen interest in the use of student-generated content to enable learners to act as protagonists in the learning process. […]
Published on September 18, 2016
By kierandonaghy
Magdalena is a graduate of Warsaw University in Poland – Teacher Training College and Amercian Studies Center. She is a teacher with over 20 years of experience, DOS in a private school of English “Green Hills Academy”, a graduate of Teacher Trainer Academy – DOS- ELTea, Cambridge oral examiner, conference speaker, licenced tour guide. […]
Published on September 18, 2016
By kierandonaghy
Emma is the developer of the 2016 ELTons nominated “TEFL Preparation Course” from ELTcampus, an online platform she also co-founded and developed. She is an online learning developer, writer and has been an English teacher since 1999 and is currently involved with CLIL. She is a practicing artist with a degree in Fine Arts, a […]
Published on August 21, 2015
By kierandonaghy
We are delighted to announce that the keynote speakers at The Image Conference organised in conjunction with MELTA in Munich, Germany on 5th December will be Ceri Jones, Hugh Dellar, Jane Arnold, Paul Driver, Anna Whitcher, Fiona Mauchline, and Kieran Donaghy. All of the speakers are leading experts and practitioners in the use of images in language […]
Published on October 30, 2014
By kierandonaghy
Writer, editor and film producer Anna Whitcher answers The Image Conference Questionnaire. Your favourite film/work of art/video game: My favorite movie of all time is Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. I saw it for the first time when I was about 15 years old in a classic movie theater here in my native San Francisco, and […]