April 2010 Blog Posts (6)

Welcome address: The work of the ECML in support of multilingualism and plurilingual education - language education and technology

Online Presentation

Thu 22 April 2010, 9am GMT

In this welcome address, Dr. Waldemar Martyniuk, Executive Director of ECML introduces the work of ECML in networking expertice throughout Europe to foster plurilingualism of citizens and intercultural education and to empower language teaching professionals through the strengthening of professional networks and the wider community of language…

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Added by Heike Philp on April 24, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

LanguageLab Tour

Recording: http://proj.emea.acrobat.com/p40628030/ (25min)

Fri 23 April 2010, 3pm GMT (World Time)

LanguageLab is Second Life's…

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Added by Heike Philp on April 23, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Elluminate Fire and Ice ESL! An all-inclusive blended learning experience to learn English at a distance

Online Presentation

Thu 22 April 2010, 4pm GMT

Elluminate, Inc., the world’s leading provider of virtual classroom technology, has created an engaging and fun opportunity to learn English as Second Language. The Fire and Ice ESL! program targets primary and secondary school teachers and connects them to certified and native English instructors using the power of the…

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Added by Heike Philp on April 22, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

European Union language projects - resources for you; how to get involved

Thu 22 April 2010 10am GMT

The European Union Lifelong Learning Programme funds a huge programme of education projects every year, but what projects are being funded and how can you get involved?…

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Added by Heike Philp on April 22, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Exploiting rich media web based content for receptive skills work

Online Workshop

Thu 22 April 2010 10am GMT

Exploiting a variety of rich media web based content raises a number of issues and challenges for teachers. However it is essential that we face these challenges in order to develop our students' digital literacies and their ability cope with and assimilate information from a number of web based sources.

This session will look at how teachers can quickly create web based receptive skills tasks…

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Added by Heike Philp on April 22, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Image and Text in Second Life: Une littératie en devenir/ The Becoming of Literacy

Thu 22 April 2010, 9:30am GMT

In this book review prior to publishing, Ylva takes the participants through a fascinating journey of using images in Second Life. She presents the results of her indepth phd studies.

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Added by Heike Philp on April 22, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments