All Blog Posts (249)

Problem-based learning (PBL) in simulated environments such as massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORGs) offers a variety of language-based scenarios with nonplaying characters providing model language support for cultural, vocabulary, and literacy development.  Gaming provides situated learning of content in a PBL format (Brown, Collins, & Duguid, 1989).  For example, the U.S. Department of State designed Trace Effects, a video game (also a MMORG), for juvenile English…

Recording (40min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p33p7cgmqtv/

Moving pictures, sound and stories are the most powerful way of communicating learning content. For Generation Z, video is the favoured means of communication, expression as well as learning with youtube having become the second most…

Recording (40min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p6kh1ww7keo/

How effective are 3d Virtual environments for language learning at tertiary level? Come and listen to a project report the French, Spanish and Italian departments at Victoria University conducted on Second Life in 2012 and continue late 2013. The…

Recording (29min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p1b6pp29xbn/

This session will

1. share talkademy's experiences of using virtual worlds in secondary schools doing language quests with mixed teams of remote partner schools…

Recording (27min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p1r4yevtxl4/

The discussion on the pros and cons of online testing is an ongoing feature in the world of testing, evaluation and assessment. The supporters of online test systems make a number of claims to demonstrate the high level of quality,…

Recording (50min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p3afnttrsoh/

Youtube: http://youtu.be/RCtgFO0x1w4…

Recording (7h): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p6gl3uvvveb/

The ELTons, sponsored by Cambridge ESOL, are the only international awards that recognise and celebrate innovation in English language teaching (ELT). They reward educational resources…

Recording (40min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p8bkhzecj7o/

We want to take you on a  Learning Odyssey where you will acquire the skills to carefully navigate through the sea of available web 2.0 tools. You will learn how to resist the seemingly irresistible allure of web 2.0 tools and how to…

Recording (29min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p471o1gkhs2/

‘My students don’t read the books I assigned.’ Isn’t it a problem for many of us? If only they could realise how much they would improve themselves when they read. How about motivating them with fun activities? When they find something…

Recording (27min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p8ai7stknl9/

The Cambridge YLE examinations Starters, Mover and Flyers are now an established international benchmark for young learners of English around the world. With their increasing popularity comes increasing pressure for teachers to prepare their…

Recording (33min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p5x2txfyvvl/

Collaborative projects are an excellent way of providing real communication in English for our learners. Technology allows us to incorporate simultaneous learning with students all over the world. In this webinar I will look at ways of…

Recording (25min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p516chznuum/

Technology has become an inseparable part of modern life, and teenagers nowadays take a great interest in anything that has to do with computers. In general, they learn a lot while using computers and surfing the Internet without…

Recording (1h 3min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p986i73tokd/

Technology is embedded in our daily life-worlds and, as such, should play a part in the ecology of experiences of learning a language. However, that does not mean to say that the choices we make about which technologies to use and how…

Recording (54min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p1sjzzgqrg8/

Curating content may well be the latest online trend. Because most of the tools are also social networking tools, curating is a great first step to getting connected with other like-minded teachers from around the world.…

Recording (25min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p5en9ggztcg/

If students find ‘reading’ and ‘writing’ challenging, they can sometimes turn into reluctant learners and even lose their self-confidence. Then, they may need a ‘second chance’ to be encouraged. It is very much possible to help them to…

Recording (1h 11min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p2ej6e3xejy/

A demonstration of how songs and videos based on the repetitive input of collocations can promote accurate and fluent use of English and help build a foundation for critical thinking skills.…

Recording (7h): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p3t7zoohn12/

(first 2 hours = unconference, last hour = ELTONS, forgot to switch off)

An Unconference is a participant-driven…

Recording (34min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p58mbrjvso0/

Janet likes to use web 20 tools whenever she can, whether it’s for online teaching or face2face blended online situations.  She has discovered that most of the tools she uses can be easily exploited in both fields.…

Recording (33min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p8lht03m18x/

What do you do when you teach in a computerless classroom and you happen to be a technogeek? Moreover, you teach adult students who claim they have no time to work on their English between classes? And then, you notice that their writing…

Recording (35min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p4nco5930jt/

One does not simply understand the reference in this sentence without following the internet culture. Want to speak the English of your students like a boss? Do you want your students to stop trolling you, facepalming at you? Your…