Tara's Hopes and Dreams for MyEC in 2011

2010 has been an amazing year for MyEC! We have welcomed so many new friends and are close to 30, 000 members. Remember when we welcomed Punima? She was the 20 000th member. People from around the world flooded her wall with welcome messages the moment she joined. That was so fun! There have been other fun moments in 2010, including photo challenges, Wordless Wednesdays, games, contests, and business chats. We were very sad to see some members go, and very happy to see a few return! I'm so proud of all of our active members.

Here are my hopes and dreams for MyEC in 2011. Together we can make them all come true:

1. I hope all active members will write at least one blog post per month. If you can't think of anything to write, you can always take the monthly writing challenge. Let's beat our October 2010 record of 473 posts!

2. I hope no blog posts are left behind. If you ever see a blog post with no comments, please leave a comment. Commenting is just as important as blogging. It's all about communication.

3. I hope all members make at least one long lasting friendship that extends beyond the MyEC community. If you get the chance to meet up with a MyEC friend in real life, or if you Skype or talk on the phone with this friend, please share your experience by blogging, photographing, or videotaping the event.

4. I hope more members will upload their own home videos. We all share interesting videos that we find online, but the best videos are those that you created yourself. These can be cartoons or how to videos or teaching lessons. If you have a webcam, or a digital or video camera, please make some English videos and share them on MyEC. Here is one of my personal favourites from this year: My Eyes Adored You by Ohnie.

5. I hope more members will upload their voices to their MyPage music players. A handful of you have taken my audio challenges in 2010, but my goal for 2010 is that many more of you will become comfortable using your English voice. If you need help, ask those who have already taken the plunge, such as Deuce or Expector or Anne or Nafis.

6. I hope members will continue to respect the rules of copyright and only upload photos and other content that they have permission to share. I hope no members copy and paste text into their blog posts and forums and pretend it is their own.

7. I hope English learners on MyEC will continue to use all of the FREE resources on EnglishClub.com and assist each other by sharing links to lessons, articles, and forums on EC. If you see a page that is helpful, share it with your friends.

8. I hope you will all continue to inspire me to come up with interesting writing and audio challenges. Thank you so much to all who have participated. Don't be shy! The challenges and contests are open to learners and teachers of all levels. The only rule is English only!

9. I hope more amazing teachers like Bob, Joyce, Melanie, Karenne, Marisa, Robert, Jason, Shelly and Frank will join MyEC and invite their students to start using this community. I'll be talking to teachers about blogging as teaching at IATEFL in April. I hope new teachers who are training will think about volunteering a few hours of their time here in our community.

10. I hope all members will invite at least one new friend, fellow student, teacher, or family member to MyEC in 2011. There's nothing more exciting to me than reading a blog post from a new member who expresses gratitude for being welcomed warmly into our little tribe.

Thank you to Josef for giving us this opportunity to connect with English learners and teachers from all over the world. And thank you also to all of our volunteer moderators and teachers. This club couldn't function without you.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

What was your favourite MyEC moment or post in 2010? Share a link if you can!

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Comments

Joyce Fettermann January 14, 2011 18:07

I hope so many things for this year that I could write here during all the day and wouldn't finish my list..hahaha

But something very special I hope is that we can have other special members in our MyEC family. I cannot mention names because I've known so many great people here and liked all of them. Also, I hope we can have more opportunities to learn and teach English with different people so we can get even better.

May God bless we all!!!

Love,

Joyce.
Tara Benwell January 7, 2011 14:38

Vega,

Thanks for everything you do at the MyEC forums. I hope all of you will join in the NEW weekly discussion about the weekly news. See here for the new style of the EC news (weekly not monthly) and click on the discussion question link. This forum is sure to see some heated discussion.

Cheers,

Tara
dark_side January 5, 2011 16:56

I visit MyEC from time to time. Most of my free time goes for ESL-forums duties. I promise to write a blog post once in a month. )

Thank you.
Tara Benwell January 5, 2011 14:36

Hey Dreamer Man,

Thanks for sharing that great memory! Could you (or one of the friends you mentioned) write a blog post telling us more about this in detail? Your story might inspire other small groups to form.

Tara
Dreamer Ḿǻ₦ January 5, 2011 11:49

my best that i always rememer is when we start doing conference with all sweet friends on skype at first time i was shy cos my english was so bad but Nadira gave me courage to talk than we start doing conference for maybe 2 month with : Michelle yang , syed saif Ali , Vicky , ohnie , ohnie was a great friends always patient with us , Nadira ,Anita, ismail hindoro, ainy, light , halima, becham, and many many other good friends i really miss those nice moment wich i learnt lot how to speak and DEAL WITH FRIENDS thnk you all my great friends will never forget you :)
Tara Benwell January 4, 2011 22:17

Maybe someone would be interested in starting a group for beginners?
Mr. Bob January 4, 2011 5:15

Thank you, Tara. I think we can make 2011 our best year yet. The more members that can stay active, the better our community will become. I am very happy to see that some of my students have also joined. I know that they can make good friends here and help their English skills.
I would like to discuss with anyone, things we can do to make this site better for the beginning English levels too. Tara and I have discussed this, and we both would like to hear your ideas. It is hard to have social media content that is helpful to the earliest levels of beginners.
This is the wonderful site it is because of everyone who is involved. If you must leave us for a while, please do come back when you can.
Gerardo Gordillo Muñoz January 2, 2011 15:53

Hi Tara, I just want to say Thank you so much, for allowing me to be a member of this fantastic club, for supporting me, for showing me a new way to improve my English… and I hope you and all members have a fantastic new year…

And my favorite MyEC moment, I think when Karenina went back to the club (I consider her a very good friend), I will see you later!
Rabab January 2, 2011 9:09

I hope the same for this place which literally became my home.

Thanks Tara for making it a wonderful arena for learning and making friends. We are grateful for your continues encouragement no words can tell.

My gratitude for all the teachers and my sweet friends :).

Happy New Year all of you.
Expector Smith January 2, 2011 1:27

You bet Tara will talk about MyEC, you the MyEC members, and the blogs you've written at IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a foreign language) in April. She'll just 'say you say me':)) Let's all wish Tara a nice trip to the meeting in the coming pleasant spring!

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