Follow-up of ETAS SIG day Reading into writing workshop

FIrst of all, a big thanks to Fiona Joseph, who gave us an excellent workshop.

It was the second of two to be given through Skype and with a pre-recorded presentation.

You can find the pre-recorded part below, but you will need Flash installed to ensure it works properly. There are also all the links mentioned during the workshop.

Flo-joe for ETAS

One of the links that we looked at is LibraryThing but there is another social network for books at Shelfari.

We discused how to include literature in the classroom and agreed to share any experiences, problems and ideas as comments to this post. I am looking forward to your input!

Follow-up of ETAS SIG day Skype workshop

ETAS’ very first on-line presenter gave an excellent workshop on skype. Technology went well with everything except the couple of computers that were down. Thank you, Peter Travis!

As ETAS is concerned about the environment and wants to save trees, there were no handouts. However, the presentation (not including live talks) and all the links which were mentioned are included in the website below.

Splendid speaking for ETAS

You will need Flash for the presentation to work, but all the other links should by fine.

We would love to hear from you about your experiences with teaching and learning with Skype, so please do leave a comment here if you have had any- good or bad.

Interview with Scott Thornbury

Here is another interview with Scott Thornbury, also carried out in Second Life.

Here too, feel free to comment on your own opinions

Interview with Jeremy Harmer

Here is a very interesting interview done with Jeremy Harmer on Second Life. You will hear his opinions on technology in teaching and int he classroom.

Feel free to leave a comment about what you thought of this interview.

Exeter online follow-up

You can now find several workshops and interviews from Exeter on-line, so grab your i-pod, mp3-player or take some time in front of the computer and give it a listen!

http://exeteronline.britishcouncil.org/

Podcasting – Audio report from a regional workshop

Another first for ETAS!! Listen to the first audio report of a regional workshop — a Podcast! Producing Podcasts 101, hosted by ETAS Bern-Neuchâtel Regional Coordinator Gabrielle Schiegg-Cleary was presented by JoAnn Salvisberg on Saturday, 26th January 2008.

Thank you, JoAnn, for sharing!

Webcastathon and other things to listen to

This weekend there will be a webcastathon. What is a webcastathon? First, what is a webcast. Here is wwhat Wikipedia has to say:

Webcast

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A webcast is a live media file distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology. Essentially, webcasting is broadcasting over the Internet.

Now this coming Friday there will be a weekend long webcasting session over at Worldbridges. There are different groups that regularly do webcasts, many related to education, and all copied in the form of a podcast for you to download and listen to at your leisure.

This coming Friday at 19gmt (9pm Swiss time) I’ll be moderating a show with a few others on the topic of food. We’re out to have a good time (something that is often neglected) and I garauntee that there will be a great variety of foods. Moderators are from Switzerland (me- well, actually from the US), Brasil, southern USA and Argentina, and possibly Portugal.  Most are, like myself, not living ‘at home’.

You can stop in at the following site:  http://www.webcastacademy.net/listen 

Click on the program that’s running, choosing the best application for listening on your computer.  Then you can click on the chatroom with the name you want seen there- I think we’ll be in webcast academy, and join in the chat!

I hope at least some of you can join us!

Oh, about those podcasts, take a look at edtechtalk.com (also in the links under podcasts)