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From https://www.compellingconversations.com

Eric H. Roth writes, "How do you continue to improve as an English teacher? How do you find new teaching resources and new EFL materials? Where do you go to exchange ideas, find research, and reflect on your English classroom experiences?

"The traditional answers include earning a graduate degree in education, attending a professional organization like TESOL, or going to an employer’s professional development workshop. They all work. However, these traditional answers also require some money or access to credit. Yet the internet and social media also open up new options. They provide us with other, more affordable choices. Free, quality ELT, EFL, and ESL resources surround us.

"We can form our own bespoken Personal Learning Network (PLN) today. In other words, we can choose to follow fellow educators and researchers on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. For a growing number of English language teachers and trainers around the world, these posts, threads, and chats provide an astonishing range of perspectives and experiences. As a result, we can follow our own intellectual interests and design our own professional development program. As my friend Brent Warner noted in a 2015 CATESOL presentation on Twitter, you can often learn more – for free – from your PLN than by earning a very expensive graduate degree in TESOL. What’s not to like?"

Read the full blog post to find out Mr. Roth's favorite teacher blogs: https://www.compellingconversations.com/elt-personal-learning-network