October 2010 Blog Posts (32)
SLanguages 2010 SUMMARY
On Friday and Saturday, 15-16 October 2010, the SLanguages 2010 conference took place over a period of 24h.
A newly founded committee took over the work from Gavin Dudeney and with the help of Carol Rainbow [Carolrb Roux] set out to conquer the most technically challenging quest ever: to run a
conference in Second Life.
And what a team effort this turned out to be.
The 24h conference…
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Add a dimension to your teaching: an introduction to language learning in Virtual Worlds
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p35393441/ (
9 October 2010, 5pm GMT
YouTube Trailer…
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MS Word, blogs and wikis for peer-editing in language EFL classes
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p12685903
Saturday, 9 October 2010 - 5pm GMT
I'd like to address such questions as the affordances and limitations of these tools, students feedback about using them and recommendations for teachers… Continue
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UNCONFERENCE
An unconference is a part without set program when conference participants get together, vote for a topic that they wish to discuss with others and then split into interest groups. At the end of the 30min discussion everyone meets again and a spokesman of each group relates their findings. Conferences which are entirely based on this concept are called barcamps… Continue
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Udemy - Academy of You
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p69198292/ (43min)
Friday, 8 October 2010 - 5pm GMT
Udemy
wants to democratize online learning. We provide tools so that experts can create their own online course and… Continue
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LeWiNoW - One Step Closer to Teaching Paperless
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p26242526/ (25min, 56 views since Oct 2010)
YouTube trailer
Saturday, 9 October 2010 -…
Added by Shelly Terrell on October 12, 2010 at 4:00am — No Comments
Language-bridge.com
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p26632099/ (59min)
Saturday, 9 October 2010 - 5pm GMT, Arkady Zilberman, Language-bridge.com
The traditional one-to-one teaching cannot meet the scale of “English mania” brought to life by… Continue
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Bring the World in – Blogging with Your Students
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p58351004/ (51min)
Saturday, 9 October 2010 - 5pm GMT, Greta Sandler
Blogging with our students can be an amazing tool for language teaching. It will make us experience the wonders of expanding our… Continue
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Getting some Facebook time with your colleagues
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p18562224/ (49min)
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Using startpages to organize your personal and school online resources
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p45309165/
Vicky Saumell
This session aims at showing the potential of using startpages as very easy tools to make websites to organize your personal and school online resources. We will explore… Continue
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Pecha Kucha, Auction, and Second Life Party (Saturday)
Saturday, 9 October 2010 - 7pm GMT
Don't know what a Pecha Kucha is?
Please listen to this video on 'A Pecha Kucha on Pecha Kucha'
A Pecha Kucha is a speedy presentation technique which… Continue
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Flip Cameras in the ELT Classroom
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p10269462/
In this presentation, Miguel described how he ended up using flip cameras for a language course. He talked about why to use videos in the language classroom and finished by giving the audience a glimpse of the final product. He… Continue
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Blogs for professional development, learning and teaching
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p87857755/
Blogs can be used both for professional development as a learning tool for teachers, as well as a teaching tool. In this workshop, I'll talk briefly about both possibilities, relating to some personal experiences whenever possible… Continue
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Digital Play: Escape the Room games
RECORDING http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p43788081/
Graham Stanley (@grahamstanley, @eltdigitalplay) Digital Play: Escape the Room
There is a growing interest in using computer games for language
teaching… Continue
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Introduction to Moodle
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p68102445/ (31min)
Introduction to Moodle, Kevin Westbrook
A demonstration of the basic features of Moodle and how easy it is to set up a course yourself! This workshop will give a brief overview of… Continue
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Mikogo Screensharing Software
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p87857755/ (51min)
VRT4, Mikogo Screensharing Software, Andrew Connolly,… Continue
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English Attack Website
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p45835956/ (1min intro by Berni)
http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p33594732/ (48min)
Friday, 8 October 2010 - 10am GMT, English Attack Website, Paul… Continue
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Pecha Kucha & PRESTO Night (Friday)
Friday, 8 October 2010 - 7pm GMT, PECHA KUCHA, 6 dynamite speakers
Don't know what a Pecha Kucha is?
Please listen to this video on 'A Pecha Kucha on Pecha Kucha'
A Pecha Kucha is a speedy presentation technique which originated 2003 in Japan and has since taken on a world-tour and todate Pecha Kucha nights are taking place regularily in 250+ cities…
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ELTChat Panel: A Ready-Made PLN for ELT Professionals
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p85908492/ (1h 20min, 389 views since Oct 2010)
Saturday, 9 October 2010 - 6am GMT
ELTChat Panelists: Andy Chaplin, Marisa Constantinides, Berni Wall, Jason Renshaw, and Shelly Terrell…
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Twitter: Turn 140 Characters into a Virtual Staffroom
RECORDING: http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p20141916/
The short messaging system Twitter can be turned into a huge virtual staffroom where teachers from around the world meet, communicate, support each other and share teaching tips, resources, weblinks and opinions. Discover some tools… Continue
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