Panelists (in alphabetical order): Burcu Akyol,
Turkey
Graham Stanley, British Council
Karenne Sylvester, Kalinago English
Shelly Terrell, Teacher Reboot Camp
Peter Travis, flo-joe.co.uk
Moderation: Holly Longstroth
About Burcu Akyol
Burcu Akyol has been teaching English for ten years. She is
currently the coordinator of the foreign languages department of
ISTEK Schools in Istanbul, Turkey, with responsibility for training
and development programmes. In the last three years, she has
focused on using web technologies in the language classroom. She
blogs at burcuakyol.com.
About Graham Stanley
Graham Stanley spends half of his working life as a teacher of
English at the British Council Young Learner Centre in Barcelona,
Spain and the other half as Project Manager of the British
Council's Learn English Second Life project. This involves managing
a 3D self-access centre for 13-17 year-olds for the British Council
and working with the other partners of the AVALON project, which
aims to develop best practice through language learning scenarios
for adults in Second Life.
About Karenne Sylvester
Karenne is a certified TESOL trainer of English and currently works
as a freelancer in Stuttgart, Germany. She is sole proprietor
of Kalinago
English. At the moment she is working with students in
the financial/banking, energy, engineering and IT sectors. She is
the author of
SimplyConversations™
and also presents teacher training workshops on using technology in
the classroom. Karenne recently completed a course to become
an intercultural trainer through LTS.
About Shelly Terrell
Shelly is an educational technology blogger (Teacher
Reboot Camp), technology trainer, and English language teacher
living in Germany who enjoys working on global educational
projects. She has worked with young language learners for 5 years
in the US and in Germany.
About Peter Travis Flo-Joe was
formed in 2000 by Fiona Joseph and Peter Travis, two former English
lecturers and textbook writers who, as teachers, had been
frustrated by the lack of flexible yet authoritative online
self-study resources for Cambridge exam candidates. We started from
the belief that learning outside the classroom is just as important
for exam success as learning in the classroom. Now in our seventh
year, our award-winning online resources are used by individuals,
and in schools, libraries, learning centres and training
departments all over the world.
*** Please CLICK
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Angelika Güttl-Strahlhofer
DaF Community (German presentation with English
translation)
Lernen Sie die, seit über 3 Jahren aktive DaF Community
kennen. Sie besteht aus DaF-Lehrenden aus ganz Europa und darüber
hinaus und trifft sich um:
Erfahrungen auszutauschen
selbst Erfahrungen für den (kreativen) Einsatz von Live-Online
im
Sprachunterricht zu machen
sich über Web 2.0-Anwendungen und den Einsatz im Unterricht
weiterzubilden
Deutsch mit Muttersprachlern zu sprechen
gemeinsam Spaß zu haben
Get to know the DaF-Community that has been offering weekly meetings
since 2006. The community consists of teachers from all over Europa
who meet regularly in order to
exchange experiences about teaching
become acquainted to the use of live online in language
teaching (in a creative way)
to learn more about web 2.0 tools and their usage during
lessons
to speak German with Native speakers
have fun together
More information for free participation of the live online meetings
(which are held in German)
Mag. Angelika Güttl-Strahlhofer arbeitet seit fast 10 Jahren im
Internet-Bereich. Begonnen hat sie damit, im ersten
„E-Commerce“-Hype Webseiten zu verkaufen, hat dann als
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin einer österreichischen
Fachhochschule die ersten E-Learning-Seminare durchgeführt und ist
seit 2003 selbständige Beraterin und (Online)-Seminarleiterin mit
dem Schwerpunkt Einsatz von Internettechnologien für das Arbeiten
und Lernen/Lehren. Gemeinsam mit Kollegen(www.webcampusprojects.net;
www.eduprojects.net/dafnord)
betreibt sie die „DaF-Community“, ist eine leidenschaftliche
Nutzerin von Web 2.0-Anwendungen und verbringt viel Zeit in den
Weiten des Internet ;-)
About
Angelika Güttl-Strahlhofer
Angelika Güttl-Strahlhofer has been working in the area of the
internet for nearly 10 years. She started to sell websites during
the first „e-commerce hype“, offered the first blended
learning-seminars while being in the academic staff of an Austria
University of Applied Science (FH) an has been working as a self
employed consultant and (online) trainer focussing on internet
applications for working and teaching/learning. Together with
colleagues (www.webcampusprojects.net;
www.eduprojects.net/dafnord)
she has initiated and moderates the „DaF-Community“, is an addicted
user of web 2.0 applications and spends a lot of time in the depth
of the internet ;-.)
*** Please CLICK HERE for the 30 min recording ***
Hajnalka Beck
Sprachenunterricht im Second Life (German Second Life
presentation with English translation)
Die dreidimensionale virtuelle Welt, das Second Life (SL), oder
auf Deutsch das „Zweite Leben”, ist auf den ersten Blick nur ein
gewöhnliches Computerspiel, das einen gefangen hält, von der realen
Welt entfremdet und abhängig macht. Schaut man aber genauer hin,
merkt man, dass SL viel mehr ist, als ein Spielfeld. SL ist eine
komplexe Kommunikations- und Interaktionsplattform, die zahlreiche
Unterrichtsszenarien verwirklichen lässt, die beim traditionellen
Sprachunterricht gar nicht, und im "herkömmlichen" live-online
Unterricht wie z.B. in einem virtuellen Klassenzimmer nur bedingt
realisierbar sind. Der Vortrag gibt einen Überblick darüber, welche
Lernszenarien im Second Life zu verwirklichen sind.
Über Hajnalka Beck
Hajnalka Beck ist seit 2008 als Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft und
Lehrbeauftragte an der Universität Göttingen in der Abteilung
Interkulturelle Germanistik und im Lektorat Deutsch als
Fremdsprache sowie als Wissenschaftlich Beirätin des Projekts IDIAL
tätig. Sie hat Germanistik an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Karoly
Eszterhazy in Eger (Ungarn) sowie Germanistik und Slawistik an der
Universität Göttingen studiert. 2007 hat sie die
Zusatzqualifikation Deutsch als Fremdsprache erworben und 2008 eine
Ausbildung zum zertifizierten „Live-Online Trainer“ abgeschlossen.
Mit live-online Fremdsprachenunterricht beschäftigt sie sich seit
2005, sie hat in der Zeit 2006 - 2007 zusammen mit einer
ungarischen Firma zu diesem Zweck eine Lernplattform entwickelt. Im
Second Life unterrichtet sie seit 2007.
*** Please CLICK
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klicken für die Aufzeichnungen) ***
English360
Valentina Dodge
Emma Watson
Using English360 to Create Personalized Web-enhanced
Learning
Using English360 to create Personalized web-enhanced learning -
free authoring tools for learner-centred Business English
teaching.
About Valentina Dodge
Valentina Dodge is Teacher Community Coordinator for English360
www.english360.com – a free
web-based platform for teachers. She helps educators provide
personalised Business English learning programmes to meet their
student and customer needs. She collaborates with and supports
Business English language teachers all over the world to help them
publish and share lesson and courses for blended or online
delivery. She organizes training sessions and support forums on
instructional design and blended course organization to allow
educators to combine their own materials and lesson plans with high
quality course material from Cambridge University Press.
About Emma
Watson
Emma has been teaching general and business English, and ESP, since
1993, and holds a Trinity Diploma in ESOL. She is also a qualified
teacher of French, Spanish and Italian. Additionally, she has
worked in publishing, editing and proof-reading magazines and
reports on the computer industry in Europe, French and Spanish
AS-Level text books and related interactive activities. She is
thrilled to be working with the English360 team; having personally
scoured the Net and adapted myriad resources to meet her own
teaching requirements, she sees the advent of English360 as very
timely, enabling teachers to personalise courses to cater for
specific students’ needs, whilst embracing the benefits offered by
technology. Her role at English360 involves proof-reading, editing
copy, and re-purposing activities for blended learning.
*** Please CLICK HERE for the 34 min recording ***
OURlesson is a straightforward system for capturing
lessons, meetings and presentations, as well as their content,
using a local screen and video recording application, and then
automatically publishing those sessions to a secure website for
anytime, anywhere access to authorised users. It has been designed
to provide any teacher with the means to capture their lessons and
upload them to the internet effortlessly and without having to
worry about the technology, so that their students can use the
recordings as a resource to learn and revise from.
OURlesson’s key features are its incredible ease and
speed of use, its flexibility, scalability and the fact that we
host and manage the content, thus minimising the burden on a
school’s IT and support systems. The recordings are captured in
dual-screen and can be accessed through any standard internet
browser.
About Ben Palmer
Ben Palmer is the Business Development Manager for OURlesson. His
role is to engage with potential customers and partners, as well as
educators, students, developers and learning enthusiasts to promote
OURlesson and to find out how we can best develop OURlesson to have
the greatest benefit for the schools, educators and learners that
will use it.
Half a million people in the world now understand English better
thanks to VOICEbooks, one of the best-selling multimedia
language-learning applications of all time.
The VOICEbook Player is a media player designed for
foreign language learners. Working preferably in pairs, learners
listen and write in what they heard, as in the age-old task of
dictation. The Player then provides instant feedback using fuzzy
logic, indicating what is right or partially right. Instead of a
clearly-enunciated audio source used for assessing spelling
(classic dictation), the VOICEbook source audio is purely
authentic, since at all levels from beginner to C2 authentic audio
presents a huge number of issues for language learners, and is the
skill over which they have the least control. Come and be a
language learner with listening problems, and see how the VOICEbook
Player can resolve them for you!
About Anthony
Green
Anthony Green has been teaching Scientific English at Bari
University in Italy for the last 20 years and is the editor of the
VOICEbook series of interactive listening materials, which he will
be presenting on Friday, giving participants the chance to use the
VOICEbook Player software during the session.
With more than 150 freelance networks online, English Profi is
the only site tailored to the unique needs of all the major English
language services providers. We are committed to ensuring
professional English language service providers don't get washed
out in vast freelance networks. We recognize that English language
services are a critical niche market for global competitiveness and
business success. As our language services community grows, so does
our ability to leverage advertising and marketing to your benefit.
This short presentation will outline how we strive to imporve your
freelance business.
About Kenny Christian
Kenny Christian founded English Profi last year. He is a medical
device engineer from southern California who moved to Germany and
started teaching English as a freelancer. The struggles for
freelancers were quickly apparent and became the fertile ground for
English Profi. For a more detailed history see his linked in
profile
The "start-up" panel on how to build an online teaching
business
Panelists (in alphabetical order)
Stephen Jones, www.jones-english.com
Lukas Palecek, CEO of web-school.eu
Monica Thomas, Ad_Lib Language School in the UK
Moderation: Kirsten Winkler
About Stephen Jones
About Lukáš
Paleček
Lukas, 27, is the head of the Czech based online school. Having finished
the Anglo American University in Prague he went through the first
LANCELOT course in 2007 and started teaching online. In 2008 he set
up WebSchool s.r.o. and started work on the projects of the
WebSchol Group. A series of the web-based school's projects are
about to be launched in the coming months. Through WebSchool s.r.o.
Lukas now represents Spreed virtual clasroom and the Fronter learning
platform in CZ and SK. He is also heading to his Msc in E-learning
in 2010.
About Monica
Thomas
Monica Thomas is the director of online English language schools
Ad_Lib
English and Ad_Lib Business. The company came to existence in
September 2008. Initially, its services were directed at the Polish
community in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. In July 2009,
Ad_Lib English opened up to the world accepting students from
countries as diverse as Saudi Arabia and the Russian Federation.
With over 1,200 registered users, we believe that Ad_Lib English is
at the beginning of a difficult but exciting journey.
With changing media consumption and the increasing need for an
efficiant work environment, today's vocational training needs to
integrate new technologies and flexible models of teaching and
learning. In order to keep up with these changes and to improve
qualification in language teaching, Lingua TV has
combined proven teaching methods with new technology and
professional audio-visual learning content such as authentic
scenses and modular video lectures.
Although designed as an online self-study course, LinguaTV offers
learning content which is an ideal supplement to traditional
classrooms and helps to shap ethe future presence training,
ccreating a blended learning environment with many beenfits to
teachers and learners. The presentation will show the practical
usage of selected proven teaching methods such as the "Audio Visual
Method", "Immersive Learning", "Social Learning" and "Game Based
Learning" and its application to teaching languages online with a
reflection of its strengths and limitations.
Philip Gienandt is managing director of LinguaTV in Berlin, a
producer of online video lecutres and other interactive elearning
content for modern language learning and intercultural training.
Prior to co-founding LinguTV, Philip successfullyl built up
businesses in online entertainment and worked in several managerial
positions in the international business nad intercultural affairs
in Germany, France and USA. He holds a diplome in International
Management Science from University of Mannheim/Germany and received
his MBA from City University of New York/ USA. LinguaTV received
the World Summit Award 2009 for the world's best eContent in the
category "elearning and education".
What makes Web-based technology effective in blended learning
models used in ESL classrooms? Workshop participants will
experience a Web tool often used in corporate settings featuring
audio upload of student recordings and discuss teaching strategies
for providing meaningful feedback.
The presenter will share examples of students’ speaking activities
in conference call training activities that are coordinated with
classroom learning activities facilitated by an onsite teacher.
About David Kertzner
David Kertzner, founder of ProActive
English, designs and delivers customized on-site English
language and communication training in corporate settings.
ProActive English training includes a blended learning model
featuring the Business English Web, a scalable, asynchronous,
multi-media e-learning tool developed by Mr. Kertzner.
LiVE is
an acronym for Learning in a Virtual Environment. It is a
role-playing game designed to teach English as the player
progresses through - and learns about – Sydney, Australia. It works
as a tool for ESL facilitators worldwide, by promoting independent
learning through the use of a storyline, supported by wikis and
websites. The presentation will deal with how to use and download
this free, innovative tool.
About Mauricio
Buchler
Mauricio Buchler has been teaching all levels of EAP and general
English, for 18 years, both in Australia and Brazil. Mauricio has
been integrating English teaching with technology for the past 6
years, done 4 presentations for English Australia on
“tech-teaching”, and has developed the prototype of an online English
teaching game. He is co-founder of nifty, a social
network for tech-oriented English teachers, and is currently
responsible for a pathway course at Think Education Group.
Closing panel with 4 panelists who combine a total of more than
a century of experience in language learning with technology.
Panelists (in alphabetical order): Graham Davies
Ton Koenraad
Duane Sider
Vance Stevens
About
Duane Sider
Duane Sider, Director of Learning for Rosetta Stone
Inc., is passionate about changing the way the world views
language learning. In his role, Duane has introduced Rosetta Stone®
solutions and the joy of the language-learning journey to a variety
of audiences through numerous speaking engagements worldwide.
Additionally, Duane has authored a number of articles and papers on
immersion methodology in second-language acquisition. Duane joined
the company's international operations in 1997, became director of
learning in 2003, directing domestic and international training
programs, and assumed his current responsibilities in 2008. Prior
to joining Rosetta Stone, he taught literature, philosophy and
aesthetics at the university level for 14 years. Throughout his
career, Duane has traveled, performed and taught extensively
throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, promoting international
communication and advocating new technologies in education. Duane
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from Messiah College and
a Master of Arts degree in the English literature from the
Univesity of Virginia. He has written two plays, a collection of
poetry and manages a theater company in Virginia.
About
Vance Stevens
Vance Stevens teaches computing at Petroleum Institute in Abu
Dhabi. After 20 years as lecturer in English language, doubling as
CALL specialist and coordinator, he worked 2 years in ESL software
development in California, then returned to the Middle East as
educational technology consultant and CALL coordinator for a
language institute in Abu Dhabi. There he founded the online
community Webheads, http://webheads.info, resulting in involvement in many
community-based online professional development endeavors which
have formed the basis of his professional development life this
past decade. There's more about Vance at http://www.vancestevens.com/vance.htm, and he blogs at
http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com.
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 around the world.
What is still relatively new though is to hold Pecha Kuchas live
online in a virtual classroom. Kudos to all presenters who had the
courage to do so and you will agree, that the recordings of these
presentations were worth all the effort.
Pecha Kucha presenters (in alphabetical order)
About Burcu
Akyol
Burcu Akyol has been teaching English for ten years. She is
currently the coordinator of the foreign languages department of
ISTEK Schools in Istanbul, Turkey, with responsibility for training
and development programmes. In the last three years, she has
focused on using web technologies in the language classroom. She
blogs at burcuakyol.com.
About Sean
Banville
Sean is webmaster of sites including BreakingNewsEnglish.com and ListenAminute.com. He has
a Master's degree in TEFL/TESL from Birmingham University. He spent
13 years teaching in Japan and relocated to the UAE in 2006. He
recently became an enthusiastic Tweeter and is gearing up to enter
the world of blogging.
About Neal
Chambers
Neal Chambers writes a grammar series on EnglishSpark.com.
Recently, he has become a strong advocate for the use of Twitter
for professional networking and resource sharing. He has earned his
CELTA and has spent over 5 years teaching English in Japan.
About
Marisa Constantinides
Marisa Constantinides is a teacher, teacher educator, ELT author
and blogger. She is Director of Studies of CELT, a teacher
education centre in Athens Greece offering Cambridge CELTA and
DELTA courses to teachers from Greece and many other countries. Her
topic today is inspired by her work with free classes of adult
refugee beginners from countries such as Iran, Afghanistan who are
trying to learn English as a passport to some day finding work in
the English speaking world.
About V. Anitha
Devi (pre-recorded Presto 10x20 presentation)
Dr. V.Anitha Devi is an Assistant Professor Sr. of English at VIT
University, India. She has been involved in the development of the
Language Laboratory at the University and in training teachers to
use technology. Her research interests include teaching using Web
2.0 and preparing CALL materials. The presentation is recorded
because it would have been at 1am her time in India and if it
wasn't for her baby, she would have delivered this live.
About Joel
Josephson (pre-recorded 13x20 presentation)
Joel Johnson is involved in 14 EU funded education projects, mainly
in the area of technology and languages. Apart from initiating some
of the ideas for the projects he is the expert in carrying out
Internet dissemination and communications. Joel is a retained
expert by the EU for dissemination and has done work for a number
of other educational institutions in this area.
About Shelly
Terrell
Shelly is an educational technology blogger, technology trainer,
and English language teacher living in Germany who enjoys working
on global educational projects. She has worked with young language
learners for 5 years in the US and in Germany.
*** CLICK HERE for the 6min 40sec recording ***
Please note that this Pecha Kucha will be recorded again due to
technical problems, coming soon.
About Berni
Wall
Berni heads up RLI specializing in total immersion English courses
and 1:1 language training. She is also behind Gapfillers a website
for advanced learners of English. 30+ years experience as an
English language teacher at all levels with 11 years in Indonesia.
Degree in English and Music, DELTA and an MBA from Bradford
University Management Centre.
About Maeshelle West-Davies
Maeshelle West-Davies (US, UK, DE) gleans her varied life
experiences to expose a personal perspective through a multitude of
mediums. A year ago she founded the so social club and started the
so social e mini mag thus adding layers to the multi-cultural
nature of the city she lives in and helping to give the world more
of a sense of community.
Heike Philp is founder and managing director of LANCELOT School
GmbH, an accredited training center for language trainers in the
use of virtual classroom technology. Her background has been in
education for more than 20 years and several years of teaching
German in Japan and the UK. Her passion for real-time internet
communication technology led her to co-initiate two EU funded
projects, LANCELOT about language learning in virtual classrooms
(LANguage Learning with CErtified Live Online Teachers) and AVALON
which is ongoing and explores the use of virtual worlds for
practising the lagnuage (Access to Virtual and Action Learning Live
ONline).LANCELOT School is the host of this Virtual Round Table
Conference.
