TESOL -SPAIN 2012

March 9th-11th was the TESOL-SPAIN conference here in Deusto, in the beautiful setting of the University. Friday evening the conference was opened by Claudia Ferradas, followed by workshops, one of which was given by our very own Steve Bilsbourgh. Saturday dawned bright and sunny and more Bilbao B.C staff were in the arena!! Ann F and Kath were first up and then I followed mid morning with a practical talk entitled, what shall we do in phonics today, I had asked for a small room because I only wanted 20 people but somehow over 30 squashed into the room!! it was very cosy and warm!. The shaving foam and cold cooked spaghetti flowed freely and everybody got stuck into blending and segmenting with said things, we then moved on to using mini interactive whiteboards( laminated card) and different activities they could be used for and the final segment was some games to re enforce tricky words and some TPR games, which was very interesting due to lack of space. Karen followed later on Saturday afternoon/evening giving her talk also on phonics and the message on the street was ,it was very good. All in all a great Conference for BC Bilbao.