ELT Calendar Content Distribution
This page gives you an overview of the various ways that ELT Calendar distributes event information. Some of these are ways that you can subscribe to information, so that you can stay up to date without having to visit the site daily. Others are ways that you can distribute ELT Calendar information from your newsletter, blog, or website.
Add A Single Event to Your Calendar
This page is about subscribing to a steady stream of event information, but if you want to add only one event to your calendar, you can.
- Go to the full description page for the event.
- Scroll down a bit. Just above the "Contact" section, you'll see a row of buttons like these:
- Click the most relevant button, and you're done! (If your calendar isn't listed, try the iCal link first.)
Subscribe
Email Newsletter
Sign up for our weekly email newsletter for a convenient weekly update on what's happening.
RSS Feeds
See our information page on RSS feeds to find out more.
iCalendar
Visit the iCalendar page if you want to put our events into your iCal software, Google calendar, or various other online or desktop calendars.
Google Calendar
See the Google Calendar page for an easy way to put our events into your Google calendar.
Yahoo! Calendar
See the Yahoo! Calendar page for instructions to add our events to your Yahoo! calendar.
You can see us ("eltcal") on Twitter; follow us to get reminders of upcoming events and deadlines. You can follow from here by clicking this button:
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Social
ELT Calendar has a Facebook page: facebook.com/ELTCalendar. You can like us here:
The facebook page is set up to show some of our RSS feeds on its wall. If you "like" the page, you'll get status updates this way about upcoming conferences and calls for papers.
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Distribute
Newsletters
We have a text-only list of upcoming events that you can copy/paste into your newsletters.
JavaScript
If you want to add event information to your website, but the RSS feeds are too complicated or intense, we do have a simpler option: customized JavaScript for your website. If you can copy/paste into your HTML, you'll have a calendar on your web page in minutes.
RSS Feeds
I mentioned above that we have various RSS feeds that you can subcribe to. RSS is also a powerfull way to put event information on your website or blog. See the examples of websites using ELT Calendar feeds below to see some examples of this. Our RSS page has a section on help adding RSS feeds to blogs.
Google Calendar
You can add a Google Calendar of ELT events to your website.
- First, create a Google Calendar of ELT Calendar events.
- Second, follow these instructions on Google's site.
Facebook and Twitter
To quickly tell your friends or colleagues about an event, you can share that information through Facebook and/or Twitter. In the top right of each event detail page, you'll find a row of buttons:
Click "Tweet" to start a post on Twitter. "Like" will post the basic event details on your Facebook page.
Posting to Twitter or Facebook is also a great way for you to help the event organization to publicise the event. This kind of grass-roots support can really help make an event successful.
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Examples of Other Websites
Other websites carry ELT Calendar information by using one or more of the options that are described above. The list below does not include all of them, but it's a representative sample.
Websites Using Our iCalendar feed
- Okinawa JALT uses our iCalendar data for conferences and conference calls for papers deadlines with Google Calendar, and integrates it with their own Google Calendar event information (photo) It's well done. (Scroll up a bit to the "Google Calendar" section for how to do this.)
- JALT's Okayama chapter uses the iCalendar data to put a Google Calendar on their web site (photo).
Websites Using Our RSS Feeds
- LET Chubu (Japan Association for Language Education and Technology, Chubu Chapter) uses our RSS feed of upcoming events (photo).
- JALT's conferences page uses ELT Calendar's Upcoming Conferences feed and our Calls for Papers feed (photo). JALT also uses the feeds on this page, too.
Websites Using Our JavaScript Code
- Fukuoka JALT's website uses our JavaScript code to show only the events in Fukuoka Prefecture (photo).
- ETJ's events page uses our JavaScript code to show only ETJ events on their calendar page. (photo) This page serves as ETJ's official calendar. You can create your own calendar here.
- ELT News uses a customized JavaScript code to put event notices in the right-hand column of their top page (photo and detail photo).
- Language Teaching Professionals also uses a customized JavaScript code, but theirs was created by request. If you have a similar request for your organization, please contact us (email at the foot of this page).
Newsletter Content
- Several groups use ELT Calendar content in their email newsletters, including Kitakyushu JALT (see photo), Fukuoka JALT, and David Paul's Language Teaching Professionals.
- You can copy content here to paste into your newsletters.