News & Events
Celebrating 20 years!
Congratulations, Helbling on 20 years! I'm so glad we were able to celebrate together in person in Edinburgh last month.
Springtime in Edinburgh for IATEFL 2025
Heading into Day 3 at IATEFL in Edinburgh and amazed at the beautiful weather and the inspiring conversations, including Sylvia Karastathi’s thought-provoking talk on the monetisation of our attention and the importance of media literacy.
On set with the Digeo crew
Final day of filming for a large project with Digeo Productions.
Remote shoots with ODM and Digeo
‘Tis the season of remote shoots. It’s been great working alongside Oxford Digital Media and Digeo Productions as they bring their creative spark to the green screen while we give editorial feedback from the sidelines (or side panel, in this case!).
Our new website has launched!
ELT ImageMakers has a new website! Come take a look https://www.eltimagemakers.com/
First video shoot of 2025
First video shoot of 2025 with Digeo Productions and Ross Anderson directing.
ELTons 2024 in London
Congratulations to all of the winners at this year’s ELTons this past week in London.
On set with Silversun
On set again with Silversun Media Group - A Visual Communications Business to continue our collaboration developing English speaking videos.
What inspires you?
With the end of school, graduations, and the world opening up again, now seems like a good time to think about what inspires us.
The year the world stopped
At this time last year, the world was bracing for what had suddenly been deemed a pandemic, and we all thought we would only have to push through and hold our breath (literally) for a few weeks, maybe a couple of months … tops.
What’s a mini-documentary?
In the world of ELT, a mini-documentary is a short three to five minute video which features a topic and visually describes its main elements with an accompanying narrative appropriate for that particular language level.
Situational videos with useful phrases for your online English classes
Feeling like your online classes need a mid-week boost?
NEW Teacher Resources page!
ELT ImageMakers is getting ready to launch their new Teacher Resources page.
Videos to spark discussion in your ELT classes
Looking for some videos to engage your online classes?
Nomination for an ELTon in Course Innovation
ELT ImageMakers' owner, Anna Whitcher, and fellow script writers, Nora Hennick and Lynne Robertson, are excited to hear the results of tomorrow's ELTons' ceremony.
What's your mood today?
The current state of the world has made all of our moods more fragile than before.
Calling all English language teachers!
"Can you roll your tongue?" "Can you wiggle your ears?" These are just some of the quirky questions you can ask your students as they watch this ESL classroom in California act out some of these genetic abilities.
Slowing down and being more deliberate
When Kieran Donaghy and I first showed this short film at the Image Conference in 2014 in Cordoba, Spain, we had a lot of people scratching their heads, wondering what we were talking about.