16 days left!

Our dear participants and inspiring speakers,

It is hard to believe that we have only 16 days left!

Every day we say "We are about to finish the preparation process." then we come up with different ideas, a new preparation process gives the start signal and we get down to work again. Even though it is not easy, we take pleasure while taking every single step..

In a few days, we will announce the program so that you can see when the conference starts, when and who speaks, and when it ends. The details related to service buses will be announced soon as well.

One final thing, especially the ones living away from Istanbul, we have a surprise for you! It will be declared in a few days, so stay tuned.

Looking forward to meeting you soon on a sunny day!
Büşra :)

Looking for a roving reporter!

Until the conference days, be ready for the surprises! Here is one.

The next blog post comes from Sevim and it is about our new competition. The aim of this competition is to select a roving reporter for our conference.

Who is roving reporter? What does she/he do? What are the subjects and requirements of this competition?
The answers of these questions come from Sevim; here they are!

Enjoy reading and call your creativity for this competition!
Best,
Büşra

We are very happy to announce roving reporter competition which is a great addition to our conference !

We will sponsor flight and accommodation if you are from outside of Istanbul.

If you are in Istanbul and apply for the competition ,there is a big prize waiting for you.

If you have not chance to attend the conference, it is a great opportunity to come and meet a lot of great elt professionals !

It is not matter whether you are a teacher or a student. Both students and teacher can apply for the roving reporter competition !

You must also live  in Turkey. Please apply for this competition  if you are in Turkey.

All you need is to dream and submit a video to YouTube. After submitting your video to YouTube, please send us the link :http://www.thirdelt.org/the-third-international-elt-students-conference-contact.aspx

Submitting a 3-4 minute video about your perfect ELT conference in your mind is enough. It means we ask how an ELT conference may be a great one ? What must it include and so on ?

We ask you to dream,think and be creative as much as possible  !

The deadline is 15 March 2012.

What is your job as a roving reporter?

Do not worry ! It is a very enjoyable job ! You will take pictures, make interviews with elt professionals and update our facebook,twitter and blog pages during the conference. You will keep updated other people who have not chance to attend the conference.

Please add your creativity, as well :) You can also share your own ideas with others.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us.

Good luck ! We are looking forward to receiving your great videos !!

Recent news: proposals, evaluation and more!

Dear participants and dear presenter candidates,

We sincerely thank you for your strong interest! We received quite more proposals than we had expected. Now your proposals are being evaluated by Boğaziçi University instructors and results will be announced soon.

  

Apart from proposals, we are experiencing many significant improvements nowadays; which will make our conference a lot better and we are getting more and more excited as April the 14^th and 15^th come closer. We are doing our best and preparing some surprises for you in addition to our splendid speakers’ talks and presentations. You will be spending two full-of-improvement days and having fun as well.. :)

Do not forget that you have an appointment with is on April and add it to your New Year calendar!

Please do not deprive us of your precious comments and stay tuned…

Best!

Büşra J

How have you been?

Dear bloggers,

It has been a looong time since I published a new post, so it is high time I did it!

Have you visited our website? If not, let's do it => www.thirdelt.org

You can make your registration and form submission through our website. You can see our splendid speakers! They will be waiting for you on April 14 & 15, 2012 at Boğaziçi University.

The submission forms sending process is about to end. If you are a student or a teacher and if you want to make a presentation, the only thing you need to do is sending your abstract. You will be informed about the results later on.

As an organizing committee we met at one of the conferences that Yasemin Bayyurt, the head of our department, organized. We discussed about the latest news related to our conference, made a field exploration and tried to come up with different and appealing ideas which will make our conference better; therefore, do not forget to make the registration and join us on the conference days, we are working hard...

Looking forward to seeing you soon!
Büşra :)

                      a photo from our meeting at another conference, here we are! :)

Keep up with the latest news!

Dear readers -or should I say dear participants;

We, Sevim, Buse, Başak, Ayşegül and I (Büşra) met on last saturday! We did a two-hour, very productive meeting.

We checked nearly all the things we have done so far.

Our 22 speakers are ready! They confirmed that they would be happy to take part in our conference. We are grateful to them! There will be keynote speeches, concurrent sessions, workshops and students presentations.

We have magnificent sponsors, thanks to them we can organize this conference. They will be announced later on.

In addition to precious speeches and workshops, we are preparing some surprises for you! Be ready ;)

Please do not forget that WE as students can make presentations! Just prepare your abstract and send it to us. The abstracts will be evaluated by instructors. There will be nearly 500 participants; not only students but also teachers! We can introduce ourselves, our ideas, and teaching styles to them.

Lastly, our new and fresh website will be published very soon.

We cannot spend even one day away from the conference! It is exciting..

Keep in touch!

Büşra :)

Where are we now?

Since our beginning day, we have covered a huge amount of distance!

We scheduled our conference program! There will be not only teachers and instructors who give speech and make workshops but also students! So dear ELT students, we all have a chance to make a presentation in our conference to many people in our area. The only thing you should do is send your presentation plan and abstract to us before the date that we will announce you later! So, follow us :)

We chose our conference venue! We are going to be at "Saatli Bina" at Boğaziçi University. The pleanery speeches will be there. Concurrent sessions and workshops will be around the classes which are close to Saatli Bina. All the participants have a chance to enjoy the great scene of our university in break times and during lunch!..

We started to get in touch with many precious speakers! I think it is good time to send our endless thanks to them. They didn't refuse us, even all of them are very helpful. Well, who are they? If you want to learn the answer, wait for the next post please! :)

How did we start?

How did the story start? Why did we decide to make an ELT Conference?

Let me introduce you the owner of this idea: Sevim Açıkgöz! She, who thinks about our conference every single moment in her daily life -even while sunbathing-, attended many ELT Conferences and one day heard about the one that is organized by students and that was the moment she decided! Then Buse Aral joined her and they decided to organize this conference with us, I mean with Boğaziçi University - Foreign Language Education Department.

At the same time, I was wondering why we don't do one... Therefore, when I heard about Sevim's idea of organizing the conference in collaboration with Bilgi and Boğaziçi University, I thought that somebody heard my voice...

So, Sevim and Buse visited us and we -Ayşegül Bayram and me- joined them and all together we started our adventure. Later Başak Temel from Bilgi University and Sinem Türkyılmaz from Boğaziçi University joined our group. Now we are working together and trying to do our best!