6 Websites to Find FREE Webinars for English Teachers

One way to update your knowledge and skills as EFL teachers is to attend or watch webinars. This allows you to identify new topics, strategies, tips, tools and successful practices by other colleagues from different corners of the world.

Here are some websites that provide free webinars with e-certificates:

1. edWeb: https://home.edweb.net/webinars/
2. British Council Webinars: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-events/webinars
3. Cambridge English  Webinars: https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/teaching-english/resources-for-teachers/webinars/
4. Oxford University Press Webinars: https://elt.oup.com/events
5. National Geographic Learning Webinars: https://webinars.eltngl.com/
6. American English Webinars: https://americanenglish.state.gov/ae-webinars

Kindly create your own account on these websites and register for upcoming webinars.
Enjoy learning and sharing!

Missed the "Creativity in Teaching and Learning" Online Event ... Don't worry!

Are you interested in bringing life into your classrooms and motivate your students to learn and develop their skills in a different way? It is not an easy job I know, but you can do it. In case you missed the online event held by the British Council Seminar Series on Wednesday 24 June, 2015, don't worry you can watch it now and enjoy all the stuff shared by really creative people like Alan Maley, Marisa Constantinides, Malu Sciamarelli, Nik Peachey and more.  

Advanced Canva Tips Webinar: Recording + e-Book and more

In case you missed this webinar about some advanced tips of Canva; an amazingly simple tool for graphic design, here is all the stuff you need. In this webinar, Canva senior designer Poppie Pack presented some great techniques that can help you to get started your journey of creativity in the world of design. She played with colors, font, text spacing, some photo editing tools like brightness, contrast, saturation, tint, blur, x-process and vignette, and adding transparency.
 

2 Events on Creativity for FREE: June 17 & 24, 2015

How it would go if I were a creative teacher? Is it an easy job to start learning creativity? What tools should I have to bring creativity into my classrooms? A lot of questions like that come out when opening discussions around this term. Today, I have found 2 free online opportunities that can help teachers to discover some new ways to improve and foster creativity in them or their students ...  

Canva Webinar: Free Graphic-Design Tool on June 16, 17, 18, 23, and 25, 2015

Canva is an amazingly simple graphic-design tool for free. It gives you everything you need to easily turn ideas into stunning designs. You can create designs for Web or print. 

You have many options to choose from:

Albums covers, banners, book covers, Facebook covers, brochures, blog graphics, presentations, flyers, posters, infographics, cards, invitations and so much more.

FREE Webinar on January 13, 2015: Create Interactive Online Content with Office Mix!

http://community.simplek12.com/tlc/officemix/

Would you like to be able to create and curate distance learning or flipped classroom content for your students, but can't quite afford or figure out those tools?  Join David Lopez as he shows how easy it is for PowerPoint 2013 users to learn how to use Office Mix that brings rapid e-learning development and hosting right to you. 

FREE Google Online Event on January 10, 2015!

http://community.simplek12.com/tlc/google/

If you want to learn more about how to use Google in your teaching, please join the FREE Google Event on January 10, 2015. Connect with teachers all around the world, and learn from subject matter experts the best Google tips and tools for classroom use. 

15+ FREE Webinars Stations to Update Your ESL/EFL Practices

Do you want to update your ESL/EFL practices for free? If yes, webinars (i.e., web seminars) can be a great way to promote your professional development. They not only provide you with opportunities to know the most recent trends in teaching English, but also connect you with a variety of professional educators from all the corners of the world. You can share and discuss ideas, collaborate with other teachers via a variety of social networking websites, and create new personal learning networks. You just need a computer with an internet connection to get started.  

Below is a list of the most wonderful stations to drop by and attend a webinar. 

Humanizing Your Online Class

This title completely captured my attention when I first saw the announcement of the webinar by Michelle Pacansky-Brock. I always stress the importance of the socio-affective touch between students and their instructors. In this digital era, it is considered the key behind any successful learning. Knowing more about students, what, how, and why they learn inevitably lead to an enjoyable and memorable experience. Students also want to know more about their instructors and connect with them for extended interaction. The question is "How to use digital tools to humanize this relationship?

Prezi Webinars for FREE

Prezi is a virtual whiteboard that transforms presentations from monologues into conversations enabling people to see, understand, and remember ideas. To understand complexity, one must zoom out to see the big picture and in to see the details. Prezi’s 3-dimensional canvas is a virtual space where users can delve deeper and pan wider to broaden the conversation. To know more about this tool potential, please visit this link. Prezi team members always do their best to share their idea among a large audience of users. In this month, they will offer some live online training designed to help users gain a better understanding of getting started with Prezi. Register now and learn the basics on how to create beautiful Prezis from old PowerPoint presentations.

Find out the American English Treasures

Retrieved Aug. 9, 2013

American English is a resource center for teaching and learning about American English language and culture. This website provides a variety of engaging materials and resources for teachers' professional development and for students in the classrooms. Both teachers and students will find new ways to practice English. They can find classroom activities, audiobooks, MP3s, videos and pedagogical materials to assist in learning and teaching English as a second/foreign language. One can create his/her resource list to add favorite links and email or share it with others. Users can also add their suggestions and stay up-to-date by following the website calendar.

Here are some sections you can find in American English website:

Become a Digital Storyteller!

Retrieved June 12, 2013 from here

Glogster EDU is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters, or Glogs. A "Glog", short for "graphics blog", is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content. Glogster EDU provides an online environment to design interactive posters. The user inserts text, images, photos, audio files, videos, special effects and other elements into their glogs to generate a multimedia online creation. Posters can be shared with other users on the site, embedded in external wikis or blogs, and shared via many social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Glogs can also be exported and saved to computer-compatible formats (see more here). 

Prezi: Bring your Presentation to Life

Retrieved May 10, 2013 from here

Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software with a zoomable canvas that allows you to create visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery. It is a virtual whiteboard that transforms presentations from monologues into conversations: enabling people to see, understand, and remember ideas. With a few clicks, you can bring life to your presentations adding text, images, videos, background music, files (pdf, ppt, pptx), diagrams, symbols, links, and choosing a lively template. You can zoom in and out to attract attention and inspire your audience. You can share your Prezis with your friends to edit as a collaborative work or let the conversations go using the comment box. You can present online or download a portable version to use it offline. I think that Prezi can add a different taste to your presentations. Students will like because it addresses most of their learning styles and helps to extend their attention span.