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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.
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!
From grocery lists to to-do lists, top ten lists to worst ever lists, lists are everywhere. What is it about lists that draws our attention? In this webinar I will look at the power of lists. We will explore some popular lists in the language teaching profession and I will share with you six ideas on using lists with your students.
Further topics and days are:
10th June – 7 things beginning with M with Scott Thornbury
8th July – A dictionary at your fingertips with Gwyneth Fox
If you are interested, you can sign up here or on the left.
There are many seminars and conferences across the world, and it used to be that you just didn’t hear about them or care if they were more than a few miles/km away from your part of the world.
Well, that world has become small and distance is no longer a major factor. As the last post announced, even IATEFL is going online and has become a reachable conference even for those parents and working people who can’t get away, or for those wiht a tight budget, who can’t pay for the trip and a hotel to stay at. It’s even something for those who are jsut too late or lazy to leave the comfort of their own environment.
Even seminars have gone on-line and unite the web to become webinars.
For those of you who teach in public schools, you might be interested in the following webinar coming up shortly:
I’d like to invite you, dear reader, to an excellent opportunity to expand your technology skills and get new ideas for teaching using technology and blended teaching.
Every year a group of educators called the Webheads offer a number of courses free of charge online between mid-January and mid-February. These experienced people are devoted to passing on their knowledge and helping others come to grips with new technology. It is here that I too have learned so much and made so many contacts around the world.
Have a look around, and I hope to see you there in the new year!
Don’t worry, there is something for everyone and even true beginners in this area. AND you get a chance to meet some of the most wonderful people (next to the ETAS gang, of course )
And here is the official invitation:
The CALL Interest Section of the international TESOL
professional association is pleased to offer the
opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village
Online (EVO) 2009 sessions. This is a professional
development project and virtual extension of the TESOL
2009 Convention in Denver, CO . The intended audience
for this project includes both TESOL 2009 participants
and those who can participate only virtually.
You do not need to be a TESOL member to participate in
a free, six-week, wholly online session of the EVO,
Jan 12 -Feb 22, 2009. Please visit our Announcement
Web page to select one among the various offerings.
http://evosessions.pbwiki.com/Call_for_Participation09
Graham Stanley came to give a talk full of exclamation points – Connect! Communicate! Collaborate! – on social networking. There he presented many ways to connect, including using Facebook to collaborate with other teachers and give additional on-line support to learners, Second Life, where he has an island for young EFL learners, and lots of other fun ideas to enhance our on-line and off-line presence.
Graham was so kind as to open Social Learning Spaces for all to see. Please have a look around and maybe try out something new. I can only recommend connecting!
Here’s a peek into social networking.
At the Sig day in Baden Eric Baber introduced how to use HotPotatoes and Quia to make online tasks for your learners. These are both on-line products that you need to pay for, but you can try them out free of cost. The possibilitites they allow are well worth the money. Eric has produced a worksheet informing you of how to sign up for Quia and a further online tool called English360 (see below).
Whereas quia and Hotpotatoes are for activities for online use, English360 is very interesting for those teachers who work independantly and would like to offer on-line courses. It gives you a platform for doing this and instead of you paying the fee, it is your students who must pay the fee to access the site.
Another interesting feature of English360 is that, in order to promote sharing, for any materials that you open up for others, you get a small return for each time another teacher does use them.
I’m just back after an excellent SIG day in Baden.
First, I’d like to give a big round of applause to the organizers of the SIG day. Thank you so much for all you did! I’d also like to thank JoAnn for the great work at organizing, and then everyone else who was involved.
Here is the link to the feedback for the SIG day. Please fill it out, and if you haven’t , or couldn’t fill out the other survey about the SIG day venue, the issue is fixed and we would also appreciate your opinions. YOU make a difference!
Now stay tuned for more fun stuff from the SIG day and Learning technologies.
The summer hopefully will last a bit longer, but the school holidays have definitely some to an end.
September brings its joys and pleasures – you can still sit out in the evenings and enjoy the sunset. You have probably by now remembered the names of all the students in your class, the SIG day is coming up soon, and there is a new addition to the ETAS goodies, namely a squeeky new newsletter waiting in your inbox!
In case you missed it, there is a questionnaire waiting for you in the newsletter, and we’d love your opinion.
For the learning- technology interested, a great set of workshops is lined up for you, ranging from whiteboards, to social media, to the newest ideas in blended learning.
IF you haven’t signed up yet for this great day in Baden, you can do so at the ETAS website.
If you are reading this around the time it’s been posted, then you are probaly home for at least part of the summer holiday with a bit of time on your hands next to cleaning up the office (which is what I’m busy doing)
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