[etni] Fw: ETAI Newsletter 4: November 2007
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Subject: ETAI Newsletter 4: November 2007
Newsletter 4: November 2007. "If you can't come to ETAI, ETAI will come to
you."
Dear Readers,
I'm not a gambler, but recent events at ETAI can only be described as "being
on a roll".
The ETAI-sponsored, "Tommy Sands Concert", initiated by Laurie Ornstein and
generously and graciously hosted by Kaye College, was enjoyed by all who
attended. Tommy took us on an emotional roller coaster from laughter to
tears with his beautiful music and stories. The "sing-alongs" brought back
memories for some in the audience, his humour made us laugh and some of his
songs, like "There were Roses", about two friends killed by conflict,
brought tears to our eyes. Tommy Sands was accompanied by his son and
multi-talented daughter, who plays several instruments, dances, entertains
and sings like a lark. Both the songs and the stories left the audience with
much food for thought, such as the comment about laments: "Sad songs are
meant to take the sadness out of you." If you missed this concert, you
missed something really special.
On November 1st, ETAI held a mini-conference in Azor. For a first-time event
in this area, it was well attended with 43 participants. Penny Ur's
enlightening opening talk was on the subject of "Use of L1 in the English
Classroom". As is usual with a session with Penny, she left the audience
with an important message for teachers: Whatever you do as a teacher, think
about it and don't just do what some people might say you should or should
not do.
The workshops in the second part of this mini-conference, one on the use of
games and
the other on the use of drama, were also very much appreciated by the
participants.
I hope that the information about the above events (which were free of
charge for ETAI members) has whetted your appetite, and that you are now
determined not to miss our up-coming regional winter conference at Kaye
College in Beer Sheva on Thursday , December 6th. Join ETAI and enjoy the
member registration fee. The train service to Beer Sheva is fantastic, so we
expect people to come from far and wide.
We are working on improving and up-dating the ETAI website on ETNI, and for
this purpose Ann Shlapobersky and Micki Zaritsky have agreed to form an IT
committee.
Some decisions already made by the committee are that the table of contents
of the current issue of the Forum and one featured article will shortly be
available on the site. If you have any helpful suggestions for the site,
please contact them at: ashlapo@xxxxxxxxx or mickiz@xxxxxxxxx
I would like to remind you that we have launched another new initiative,
"Institutional Membership". In the ETAI Forum which will be in the mail in a
couple of weeks, we have included a letter addressed to school principals
explaining the offer and a registration form for carrying out the procedure.
We hope that ETAI members will encourage their principals to take us up on
our offer, and those of you who are not ETAI members, we hope you will call
the ETAI office (02-500-1844) to have the letter and form sent to you or
your school.
Until the next issue of the newsletter, best wishes,
Nava Horovitz, ETAI Chair
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Marna Snyder
ETAI Office Director
Tel: 02-500-1844
mailto:etaioffice@xxxxxxxxx
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