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Comment by Janet Bianchini on April 21, 2012 at 6:22pm

Thank you to everyone who attended my presentation last night, and also a huge thanks to the wonderful Virtual Round Table organizers for arranging this fab Web Conference.

Comment by Janet Bianchini on April 19, 2012 at 10:37pm

Hi Heike

I am looking forward to joining and participating in this exciting event very soon!  Thanks for all your kind help.

All the best

Janet

Comment by Heike Philp on April 19, 2012 at 11:37am

Bio Janet Bianchini

Janet Bianchini has been teaching EFL for many years to students and teachers from around the globe. She retains the same passion and enthusiasm for her work as when she first started on her chosen career path in 1979. She has a special interest in learning about integrating new technologies. She likes the challenge of presenting online whenever the opportunity arises.
When she is not tending to her olive trees or menagerie, Janet occupies herself with various online projects involved with teaching and blogging. View Janet’s Abruzzo Edublog for more tips on technology, or follow her on Twitter @janetbianchini

Comment by Heike Philp on April 19, 2012 at 11:36am

I was inspired to take up the challenge of posting an image a day for the whole 366 days of 2012 via the examples set by members of my PLN on Twitter.
This presentation will outline some practical ideas that can be exploited for lessons simply by using your own personal everyday images. 
Images indeed promote a powerful effect and can be exploited in a multitude of areas. I will focus on 10 ideas that I have come up with from the images I have posted in the first 4 months of 2012. These ideas range from amongst others, the following:
• eliciting idioms via the use of carefully selected images
• promoting communication possibilities
• creating stories to successfully unleash the power of one’s creative abilities
• visual prompts for podcasts relating to real life events and projects
The current use of Posterous as a blogging platform (recently acquired by Twitter) has made Project 366 a very pleasant and creative experience so far. I would like to share some of my thoughts in this presentation.

Comment by Heike Philp on April 19, 2012 at 11:33am

Bio Beyza Nur Yilmaz

Beyza Nur Yılmaz is an EFL instructor at Özyeğin University School of English Language Instruction. She worked at Bahçeşehir University English Preparatory Programme for six years. She received her BA in English Language Teaching from İstanbul University in 2005 and her Master’s Degree in English Language Teaching from Middle East Technical University in 2012. Her thesis is on Online Communities of Practice and Teacher Development. She did her CELTA in 2007. She has presented both in national and international conferences and co-moderated two sessions in Electronic Village Online, a project of CALL interest section of TESOL. Her interest areas cover Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), teacher education, Media Assisted Language Learning (MALL) discourse analysis, online Communities of Practice and instructional design. She is going to work as a teacher trainer in Pilgrims Teacher Training to deliver courses on using technology in language teaching.