#FlashmobELT

#FlashmobELT is an online project for teachers. The Lino boards with activities are here:

FlashmobELT Lino board #1 (full with 20 activities to choose from)

FlashmobELT Lino board #2 (open for posting)

KOTESOL2014 FlashmobELT (activities from workshop participants in Seoul, South Korea)

E-merging Forum FlashmobELT (activities from workshop participants in Moscow, Russia)

 

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If you don’t know what #flashmobELT is, click here to read how it came about. Also here for the confessions of an activity snob which, together with the comments to the confessions themselves, you might find interesting (and relevant).

Basic rules of this hopefully a little useful and enjoyable project are as folows:

1. Explore the activities already posted by teachers on the Lino board here. Pick the one you like, go into your class and do it with your students.
2. Once your class is over, make yourself a cup of tea/ coffee, sit back in your chair and reflect on how the activity went.
3. Write a blog post about your experience, include your impressions, comments, reflections, suggestions around the activity in question. Share your blog post on social networks with the hashtag #flashmobELT, or leave a link in the comments here, or use any other way to reach me, so that I can add the link to your post to the list below.
4. If you think there’s an activity that fits the rules (read below) which you’d like to share with other teachers, please feel free to do so and leave it on the lino 2.0 (since the first one is already packed full with 20 activities). Once you’ve done it, please let us know about it (#flashmobELT).

Thank you.

 

Points to bear in mind when sharing an activity (please read as they are important for the original idea of the project – thanks Michael Griffin for these):

* Activities are ideally generalized enough to various contexts and teaching situations.

* Activities ideally don’t involve much in the way of prep and tech.

* Activities are ideally easily modeled/explained/used with students.

* Activities ideally can be completed in a short amount of time.

* Activities are ideally not focused around a certain text.

* Activities ideally can be easily changed/adapted.

 

The following list is to keep track of how teachers have been using #flashmobELT activities in their classrooms across a range of contexts. Thanks everybody for keeping this precious balance of Give&Take, so essential to the project.

Joining My First Movement (#flashmobELT, go go go) by Kevin Stein

I would love to hate by me

Love/hate – my experience using a #flashmobELT activity by Bryan Hale

#flashmobELT – my life in 20 lines by Aidan @leedsacademy

2013 ELT Resolutions Met PLN by Laura Soracco

Social media gifts by Mura Nava

Getting involved in #flashmobelt by Jo Sayers

Headliners, the activity by Anne Hendler

My first #flashmobELT experience by Anna Zernova

#FlashmobELT – So you said by Marc Jones

 

Once again, the lino boards with activities are here:

FlashmobELT Lino board #1 (full with 20 activities to choose from)

FlashmobELT Lino board #2 (open for posting)

KOTESOL2014 FlashmobELT (activities from workshop participants in Seoul, South Korea)

E-merging Forum FlashmobELT (activities from workshop participants in Moscow, Russia)

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IMPORTANT UPDATE! There’s now a very special and unique KOTESOL2014 FlashmobELT Lino board. All activities posted on it were written by the participants of a #FlashmobELT related workshop (“Stealing your way to creativity”) at KOTESOL International Conference in Seoul, October 4th 2014.

Enjoy the creativity stolen and shared. 

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IMPORTANT UPDATE #2! There’s now another very special and unique E-merging Forum 5 #FlashmobELT Lino board. All activities posted on it were written by the participants of a #FlashmobELT related workshop (“FlashmobELT: activities and more”) at E-merging Forum 5 in Moscow, March 13th 2015.

Hope you may find something of this useful and fun. =)