All Blog Posts (249)

Recording (25min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p9u5ol0r3t8/

The British Council English Language Team (ELT) in Turkey, ran their first ever web conference on 9 and 10 February 2013, called, “Story Sharing Web Conference”. 642 teachers from all over the world participated in the programme of real-time webinars over the two days. Not everyone can afford to attend a…

Recording (54min):  http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p4iqs05lyi3/

Digital literacies

Digital literacies, the technical skills and social practices needed to effectively interact with digital technologies, are key 21st century skills, and are increasingly important in educational curricula. What exactly are these literacies, and where might they…

Recording (46min) http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p2w981to4p2/

A warm welcome by the organizers of the Virtual Round Table with a preview of the program and announcing the novelties this year. Amongst others is the…

Barbara Sakamoto

@barbsaka

From Speaking to Writing: Teaching Literacy with Young Learners

Recording (33min) http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p82pagdprn0/

Mike Harrison

Sound activities for the ELT classroom

Youtube trailer

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Recording (43min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p7ujsefk0zd/

YouTube trailer: http://youtu.be/7IVy7zHzdJY

Paul Preibisch

@fire

The Avatar Classroom - A turnkey SLOODLE…

Recording (35min) : http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p9133n17ip8/

Shiv Rajindran

@shiv53

Languagelab

The Opportunities and Challenges of Virtual World Language Learning

Based on 6 years practical experience of teaching English in virtual worlds, this talk discusses the development of language learning using the medium over the years. The speaker…

Recording (33min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p6e3650u2r8/

Tyson Seburn

@seburnt

Blogs for interactive intensive and extensive reading

Paper-based texts face inherent limitations (physical and interactive to name a couple) that can be overcome by using blogs instead. Although we often use blogs as tools to share with other teachers, create a classroom community…

Recording (32min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p17a5ojhzk5/

Arkady Zilberman

Language Bridge

How to heal linguistically wounded

In childhood our brain has an ability to hear the speech sounds (phonemes) of all languages in our environment that is why children can easily learn one or a few languages and speak them without an accent. 



Adults lose this…

Recording (43min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p4rlm6oevzy/

Shelly Terrell

Magic Moments in Mobile Learning:10+ Simple Ideas

Bio

A teacher trainer, author, international speaker, host of American TESOL’s Free Friday Webinars & the Social Media Community Manager for …

Recording (34min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p5rr8c6tcwt/

Mike Hogan

@irishmike

Mobile Learning in Business English

There has been much talk of mobile learning in recent years and how to implement it in teaching both in and outside the classroom, although focus is often placed on school or university settings. In this presentation I’ll outline how mobile…

Recording (20min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p11lzdu6rpd/

Halima Ozimova 

@halmbaprof

Demo lesson screensharing WizIQ

Olympic London participants enjoying treasures of the National Gallery

2 UzTEA members as active Uzbek NNESs share their ideas and findings of…

Recording (29min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p4iqlcfyir7/

Marina Petrovic

@educo11

Demo lesson screensharing Vyew

The aim of this demo session is to present virtual classroom management and varied activities when teaching a group of students both…

Recording (54min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p4jsviwvicm/

Youtube trailer

Dale Coulter

@dalecoulter

Using technology eclectically…

Recording (57min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p5stiiprnf6/

Chia Suan Chong

@chiasuan

Plugging into an Unplugged Classroom

After many years of focus on techniques, the teaching of English language in the last 20 years has come to a juncture where we realise that…

Recording (31min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p2mbqd8v01h/

Berni Wall

RLI-Gapfillers

Mentoring

Mentoring is a practice that has long been recognised in the teaching profession as very valuable. With today’s overloaded teaching schedules, fast pace and getting to grips…

Recording (41min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p29kc72b15i/

Marisa Constantinides 

CELT Athens

Defrag Language Learning

Standard practices in the Foreign Language classroom is to present language in fragments or smaller chunks which may one day be…