CELTA vs Online TESOL and TEFL courses We have had many people asking in our forum whether online teaching courses are worth the same as courses like the CELTA or the Trinity CertTESOL. I decided to do a simple test and went through a lot of job adverts on some of the major sites and looked at the qualifications being asked for and the answer is crystal clear- they are clearly not worth as much as the CELTA and Trinity College qualifications.
BECTA RIP Few will be shedding any tears for BECTA (the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency), who have been axed as part of the cull of quangos announced by the British government.
ESL Links I have just cleaned out our links database and if it is anything like a representative sample of the ESL industry on the web, things are looking grim. We had just under 3,000 links when I started and have just under 2,500 now. It's a particularly dull and time-consuming job and I do it about once a year, though I skipped last year as I was on a slowish connection. Even so, it's a lot of dead links and right across the board.
Twilocity I submitted a couple of pieces of writing to Twilocity, a site that reviews and checks MS Word documents by running the writing through some macros. They were returned in a short time and the results were good. The blurb on the site says that their review should take you up to the next grade level and is aimed at American college students, but there's a lot in the report that comes back that could benefit ESL learners.
