http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/onlinecpd19

1. Online CPD
(the mostly voiceless!) Sandy Millin
Director of Studies, IH Bydgoszcz
16th March 2019
For all slides and links, go to:
sandymillin.wordpress.com/onlineCPD19

2. < This is my Twitter profile.
Say hi to your partner and
tell them what you’d put on
yours.
Stop when I put my hand up.

3. The photos on the next slide are all a result
of my online professional development,
directly or indirectly.
What can you see?

5. Online CPD changed my life! 
Ideas and reflection
Conferences
Webinars
Journal articles
Self-published books
Materials writing for publishers
Job offers
Lots of supportive, inspiring, friendly people!

6. webinars podcasts
But where do you start?

7.  One hour focussed chat
per week on a single
topic, then 24-hour
slowburn
 Starts Wednesday
19:00 UK / 20:00 Poland
 Hashtag is active all
week on loads of topics!
https://twitter.com/hash
tag/eltchat

8. After each chat, somebody
summarises it as a blogpost.
They all live on this page
http://eltchat.org/wordpress/elt
chat-summaries-index/ and
cover a huge wealth of
information.
^^^ The single most useful link in this presentation! 

9.  Huge communities – I’ll show you some in a minute
 Some people want to separate personal and
professional so have two pages – mine is all combined
as I’ve been doing it for so long!
 Easy to add to what you’re doing already
 Do you use facebook for CPD?
Would you? Tell your partner.

10. Nearly 4 million likes as of 16th March 2019!

11.  ELTchat
 IATEFL
 IATEFL Poland
 For more:
http://elawassell.wordpress.com/2013/09/27/iatefl-pl-
presentation/
 and…? What would you add?

13. Where can you find webinars to watch?

14. https://www.diigo.com/user/sandymillin/webinar
https://adirajan.wordpress.com - upcoming webinars

15. You can also
listen to
podcasts
15 minutes
3 questions answered
on a given topic
Two formats:
• 45 minutes with three
areas: TEFL news, TEFL
pioneers, TEFL cultures
• 30-45-minute interviews
with people from across
the TEFL profession
35-45 minutes, magazine style
“The podcast that’s not about teaching, but
the subject always seems to come up.”

16. Written by the TEFLology guys…

17. What about in Poland?
What Polish sources of online CPD
do you know?

19.  All of my Professional
Development links:
https://www.diigo.com/u
ser/sandymillin/%22Prof
essional%20Developmen
t%22
 All of my links:
https://www.diigo.com/u
ser/sandymillin
Photo taken from ELTpics
by Ana Maria Menezes, used under a CC
Attribution Non-Commercial license

20. I’ve written two books to help you reflect
on your development as a teacher.
#ELTplaybook
Each has 30 short tasks in 6 categories.
Tasks are followed by 6-10 reflection
questions and ideas for blogposts, videos,
Instagram posts or a private journal.

21. For teachers:
Buy them here: eltplaybook.wordpress.com

22. For trainers:
Coming soon!
Buy them here: eltplaybook.wordpress.com

23. What forms of online CPD
will you try out?

24. Thank you for your patience with
my voicelessness! 
Find the slides and links here:
sandymillin.wordpress.com/onlineC
PD19
Please take a business card or
postcard and look at the books.