Seven Wonders of İSTEK ELT yazısına yapılan yorumlar

Yazar: Adam

Adam — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:19:24 +0000

You definitely will. Good luck with your great blog.

Yazar: Nsrin Eren

Nsrin Eren — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:01:43 +0000

Hi Tinkerbell,
This couln’t have been expressed better! You have such a lovely style and tone
Thanks!

Yazar: Merve Oflaz

Merve Oflaz — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:11:37 +0000

Dear Adam,
Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts as a foreign educator who lives in Turkey. I do respect your ideas and feelings. People can have different opinions and sharing these in a respectful way is the proper thing we should do.
Hope to see you and your comments again:)

Yazar: Merve Oflaz

Merve Oflaz — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:56:46 +0000

Dear Alex,
I’m sorry for my late reply but as you can understand I didn’t know what to do at first as a new blogger. I didn’t delete the comment of the fake ‘Alex’ because that would affect all the other comments and replies. I thought your replies would be enough to explain everything.
It’s so sad for bloggers to be used by people who have bad intentions like this one. Gosh! That really freaks me out now! I wish there was something to prevent this.
Thank you very much for revealing this thing out. Hope to see ‘the real’ you and your comments in the Blogosphere.

Yazar: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:38:26 +0000

I’m now thinking that they probably just used my name to get more attention for the link rather than to stitch me up. Still quite annoying though…

Yazar: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:35:14 +0000

On second thoughts, a bit silly to delete comments when there are so many replies below. Really wasn’t me though!

Yazar: Name (Required)

Name (Required) — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:51:15 +0000

Comment on my blog also now deleted.

Yazar: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:30:40 +0000

The comment wasn’t by me! Whoever it was obviously has something against me as well as against ISTEK, an organisation I know nothing about!

Yazar: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:27:42 +0000

That comment was not by me. Someone has been going around blogs posting that comment as me, for some odd reason. Could you possibly delete the comment and your reply, and then email with details about who really left that comment, e.g. what country they were using a computer in?

Thanks

Alex (in Japan)

Yazar: Adam

Adam — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 04:55:37 +0000

Lots of comments here and nearly all, it would seem, from people who attended the event. Many of my colleagues were there and apart from a few small gripes said that it was a worthwhile weekend.

Ken, I seem to remember you leading the praise for Dave Sperling when he showed up on Twitter a while back (although we suspect it wasn’t him in the end). What happened? Where did all the love go?

I’m commenting here as I also received a similar comment from Alex about these negative aspects of ISTEK’s work. I tend to actually agree with you about Dave’s ESL cafe and the info on the site being highly dubious to say the least. It did, however, make me wonder where all the money came from to host this event. Many – a huge number – plenary speakers were flown in, all expenses paid, from around the world for this and it made for a great conference. But that money had to come from somewhere. Perhaps it was concluded that allocating a weighty budget for this event would lead to noteworthy figures in our profession praising ISTEK to the high hilt without looking too far beyond their magical weekend away in Istanbul. Pretty smart business decision, I’d say. Anyway, I went into this issue in more detail on my blog recently and don’t want you to dwell much more on this: it might upset you. You all had a lovely time and my colleagues reiterated the fact that it was a good event

I’d like to make it clear that I don’t work for ISTEK, I never have and never will*. I’ve heard good things about the school and I’ve heard bad things. I certainly don’t anything on Dave’s ESL Cafe as sacrosanct.

Thanks to Merve for initiating this discussion with her great summary of the event.

*I’d be happy to discuss any of these issues further on my blog.