The ELTDP Symposium 2015!!

Sunset on the river cruise

ELTDP Symposium 2015: https://youtu.be/pJimjjmQBOw via @YouTube
Enjoy the film that I have been involved in making.

It is all over and all of us on the very busy symposium committee are suffering from the adrenalin withdrawal symptoms now! It was a great success and I feel that all the teachers left feeling inspired, enthused and full of ideas to try in their classes. Our keynote speakers, Anji Maldarez, Jamie Keddie and Jim Scrivner, all from the UK , were really excellent and pitched their talks exactly right for their audience. The other workshops, presentations and creative displays were amazing and the teachers although really nervous at the beginning, soon gained their confidence and were really great.

  The exciting event for Anna and I, who have been working on the storybooks, was to actually hold the printed books in our hands and we both felt like crying! It has been such a last minute effort to get the books finished for the publisher and then they have been working flat out too to have them for the Symposium. Anyway they managed to sell lots and there was a lot of media and public interest in the illustrators who were flown from Sabah to be there. Jainal is already a published illustrator but Didi, a young man from the village of where the first parent workshop happened, had never left his area before, let alone fly and stay in a very fancy suite in the Hilton. It was rather overwhelming for him but he managed to do two sessions of book signing, talk to the VVIPs and press and cope with all the attention although I think he was longing to get back to his village and his water buffalo.

Didi and Jainal

One of the books!

There is talk of a book launch in Kuala Lumpur and an invite to present the storybook project at a conference in June and put forward a proposal to win some award..... so who knows what lies ahead!

Anji and Tricia

Happy education officers on the cruise

Keeping it going!