8 Ball: www.melta.org.my

MELTA

Malaysian English Language Teachers Association.

A nice place to be. Really.

Its not exactly a resource site, but it shows potentials to be a great one at doing that. It has a nifty forum, which I also take participation (as a requirement of the course) in its discussion. It is somewhat nice to see that there is a site where English Teachers, irregardless of their statures and background can meet online and discuss things with one another over things that people would have taken ages to address to. This is indeed information technology put to excellent use for the benefit of the teaching community.

Lecturers, teachers, instructors were here and there. And the amount of posts available are surely something worth to look at. By the time my count ended in April, I was heading for more than 40 posts. I know this was supposed to be written in February, I'm just updating the details.

But let's not get sidetracked.

This may be just an initiation, and provide irritation for some students. But I would like to remember that I was once a participant of this site, and I will like to see in the years ahead, how much can I benefit from this site, and how my students can benefit from our sharing with one another (from teachers to teachers).

Dr. Malachi has reminded us the importance of responding to one another's post. This isn't some joke. Foruming is a part of an ethical discourse. The idea is that we may not have the answer to everything, but we make know every little thing that may be of concern to the English Language Teaching community.

As a TESL undergraduate, so far so good I've learnt alot of good things from this site and its efforts. I think I would like to be a permanent member too, so that I can learn and contribute more.