self publishing 2018

My name is Rhett Burton. I like to make things. I like storytelling. I want to write a course... or a bunch of mini course.. take my learnes from a1 to a2. I will incorporate: words, activities, target language, readers, songs, story plays, and S.T.E.A.M projects. I started 4 years ago. I do a little bit everyday. I just did a design with Katherine's Course. Here is a link https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ADSnl84dRhJ9JiWQcYU7Eg5pxlbdsgDx My goal is... to know enough to be dangerous! Let's see what another month of momentum will do. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ADSnl84dRhJ9JiWQcYU7Eg5pxlbdsgDx

Hi everyone, I'm Gemma Archer, I'm based in Scotland, and I'm taking this course for the second time - i was enrolled last year but due to last minute work complications I wasn't able to actually take part. So I'm very happy Dorothy et al are running it for the second time and I can try again! I'm an EAP Teacher and department co-ordinator in a university in Scotland, I spend a huge amount of the academic year writing in-house exams and support material for pre-sessional students, and also pronunciation materials, which is my particular field of research. I'm also a SIG journal editor in the field of pronunciation, which keeps me busy too. Ultimately I would like to be doing more writing and materials creation, hence joining the course. Looking forward to getting started!

Hello Dorothy, hello to all people on this course! I'm Elena Metaxa Kalofonou and I live and work in Halkida, Greece. I've been an English Teacher and a Language school owner for 35 years and I'm so excited to be attending a second course by iTDi! The first one was this July, concerning "Creating ELT Materials" and was a fantastic source of knowledge and inspiration! Katherine Bilsborough has been a fantastic Tutor and always helpful and supportive . Barbara Sakamoto ,the Director, and the staff of iTDi have always been there any time , to help and deal with anything occurred! Psychology studies and Coaching are among other studies I've done. As I mostly work with young children and teenagers aged 5 - 16, years when they develop as personalities, I love creating materials and activities that give them the opportunity to express their feelings, their fears or their doubts, materials that motivate them and also give them cultural and social skills and knowled...

Hello all, Michael Free here — again! I say 'again' as I've taken a couple of courses with iTDI before, and I was a student in this course last time around. The short version of the story is that the project I was working on was scrapped (because the course was cancelled), and I ended up spending the time I would have spent finishing that off looking for another job. That new job has seen me move to a new university here in South Korea, though still in the same rural province of Gangwon. I teach a variety of students, but the main work is "Communication English", a presentation skills-based course for 1st and 2nd year students. I also teach a non-credit course or two (can't say as they've not told me yet...even though the semester starts next week), and will be teaching a Speaking and Debate course for the English Dept. (which I'm very excited about!). I have a couple of ideas for projects, which may actually work this time around! Looking forward to ...

Hello Everyone, My name is Debbie Kellermann. I live and work in Florida in the USA. I have recently semi-retired from most of my responsibilities at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. I taught and designed curriculum at UF for our international students who were all adults enrolled in an Intensive English Program as part of our Linguistic Department there. I have had a passion for teaching my entire life, but the politics there became just too negative. Now, I am teaching online courses for a smaller college in the St. Augustine area of North Florida, continuing some research projects, working on materials to possibly publish, and enjoying lots more free time. This is my 6th course with iTDi and I have enjoyed and learned a great deal from each one. I am very excited to learn more about publishing my work and I am very enthusiastic about taking this course. I want to explore moving into publishing and editing as a second, new career choice. However, I will be a lit...

Hi :) I'm a freelance (mainly) one-to-one tutor in Hungary, teaching all sorts of students with different purposes: very young learners, children who need extra help with their school work, exam prep, adults, business Engish, etc. Why am I into publishing? My experience is that young and teen learners today are not too engaged with traditional ELT materials. Some of them do not want to learn English at all. On the other hand, they love to make slime, paper planes, cook, make stop-motion videos, they are also willing to make an effort to get what they want in terms of experience. The idea in mind is a collection of lesson sequences and probably worksheets built of activities like these. I can't wait :)

Hello, When I'm not tutoring on CELTA courses, I work on large scale teacher development projects with the British Council in India. Increasingly, I find myself working on projects which involve informal, digital modes of learning as opposed to traditional face-to-face training. I also teach on short ESP and Business English courses when I find the time. This is my second course with ITDI - I hope to be on top of deadlines unlike the last time. I also found Dorothy's IATEFL talk fascinating and I've always wanted to self-publish but couldn't shake off the inertia and do something about it. I have a couple of ideas incubating somewhere in my head. One's about Business English tasks that address a specific need I've experienced in my context, and the other one is on ELT activities that draw on indigenous art forms from India. I hope to be able to do something with them over the next month. And I look forward to learning from all of you!

Hi everyone! I'm currently teaching on a pre-sessional EAP course in London, where I'm based. The last few years I've done a lot of freelance work – teaching, training, web-based development and materials writing. Some of the projects I've worked on: the British Council ESOL Nexus website (lesson plans and cpd resources), Learning Circles for BBC Learning English (a video-based course designed for people who can't make it to traditional ESOL classes), and the National Geographic Learning Keynote series (I did spreads on presentation skills for the workbooks for the B2-C2 levels). I've done bits and pieces apart from that. I've trained teachers at York Associates in the UK. I don't actually have anything 100% ready to go in terms of publishing, so I'll probably just use this as a practice run and rework some of my blog posts into a collection. In the long run, I'd like to put something together on tools for development for teachers and students (t...

Hello everyone. I'm Taghrid, I have been teaching English for more than 17 years. I hold a master degree in applied linguistics /education college. I teach English as a foreign language in a language center in Sanaa, Yemen. My students are adults who want to study English to get better chances in their work or to continue their high studies. I very happy and honored to join this course.

I'll mostly be in the background during this course, along with Phil Brown, Steven Herder and Gareth Knight. You'll get email messages from me after each live session with a link to the recording, a transcript of the chat, Dorothy's slides, and any resources shared. Those will also be added to this community for your convenience. If you run into problems figuring out how things work, you can always send me a message by email, or here. Just post your problem in the "Help" category. You can make sure I see your message by putting a "+" in front of my name. I'm excited to have a chance to learn along with you!

Hello everybody! Let's make some books! This is the place to write a short intro to who you are, where/who you teach, and what sort of materials you're going to be working on during this course. I've got two (or three?) books I'm going to be working on as well, so I'll go first. I don't actually teach full-time anymore, though I do periodic teacher training and sometimes short courses. I mostly write and edit ELT materials, both for traditional publishers and for my own little publishing company--so I both publish other people and stuff that I've written. The projects I hope to finish during our month together are an ELT book on using Facebook for networking, and then--if time, if time--a grammar book for self-published fiction writers. That book has gotten bogged down though because I realized it really wants to be two books, one on grammar and one on vocabulary, and that sounds like a lot more work. But as they say, the answer to "How do you eat an el...