Simple English News May 5, 2009
Posted by lifelonglearning in ICT.Tags: news. voice, SEN, simple_english_news
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Now got my British Voice on Simple English News
here’s your May Day snippet
http://www.simpleenglishnews.com/25788mayday.shtml
Ok, so learn English fast, no more excuses 
pop along to
http://www.simpleenglishnews.com/
Highlights from Cardiff April 7, 2009
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For me it was definitely meeting people who I have followed and read online but never seen face to face before. So thank you very much Karen Richardson, Natasha Jovanovich, Dafne Gonzalez, Dennis Newson, Kristina Smith and Jamie Keddie, and of course meeting up again with the many colleagues scattered worldwide and getting to know some new ones too!
Thank you all for making the event meaningful!
Here on the OneStop English site you can see what others say their highlights are.
You Choose - Choice and Variety in the Web-based Classroom March 29, 2009
Posted by lifelonglearning in ICT.Tags: british:council, cardiff, iatefl, iatefl2009, online
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I’ll be presenting a paper on this and just thought I’d add the link to the IATEFL Conference being held this year in Cardiff so anyone who can’t make it to the actual even can stay in touch via the online website
Join us if you can!
Innovations in Teaching Children and Teenagers March 27, 2009
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Great to meet face to face so many online colleagues from a far (shame I missed Seth!) in Milan this week at the British Council- IATEFL YL conference nice to see Graham
Here are the links to my presentation on Personalized Podcasting for Exam Practice (doc or ppt ) - sponsored by City & Guilds
Thanks everyone for coming along to the lunchtime session and do let’s carry on the dialogue.
Nice point about cutting edge ideas in a low-tech environment rather than Cutting Edge technology used with low-end pedagogy!
Thanks Rosalind for coordinating. See some of you in Cardiff next week?
ELTONS - Congrats to Teflclips March 14, 2009
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It was great to hear that TEFL Clips won an ELTON award.
Well deserved and although the The Consultants-E EduNation, which was shortlisted, didn’t make it this year, we are happy that the award won in 2007 for the ICT in the Classroom online training course has lead to the launch of full Certicificate in ICT .
Having spent a year designing it with Director of Pedagogy, Nicky Hockly, and colleague Anne Fox, I’m currently working on the first iteration and Anne is tutoring a parallel course. Wonderful
And TEFL clips won our favourite website poll so a round of applause to Jamie and all our appreciation for the useful YouTube lesson plans. Truely wonderful,
Valentina
TESOL Rome November 18, 2008
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Thanks to everyone for coming to my presentations. It was great to see you all and a wonderful event, as usual. A round of applause to the organizers, in particular, Patrizia and Annarosa for their eternal patience!
Podcasting slides are available at www.24hours.it/doc/podcasting.ppt
Why Wiki? Which Wiki? available at
Are you Goggling or Googling? May 1, 2008
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I’m just back from the IATEFL conference in Exeter where, with Todd Cooper from Japan as co-presenter, we gave a paper with this title.
Before the conference Todd and I had never met in the flesh, only online, and the paper was entirely prepared within the Google platform. It was an amazing experience, made possible by Google tools. No wonder I want to share some of my ideas on googling.
Google is so much more than a simple search engine. Many EFL teachers are already dipping into its store of resources, to help bring learners together, connect schools, reduce software licensing costs, and manage user-generated content. From the outset, Google has been a successful yet accessible corner of the Web. I have always reveled in this important creation.
At the Google home page, click on the Sign up for new account link http://mail.google.com
User name, password etc. are asked for as usual. The customary questions are posed and you must sign the conditions. You use your current email address, where in the blink of an eye you will receive confirmation that you are accepted (all free!).
Now for starting to network documents and spreadsheets. You are ready to initiate a document or, alone or along with colleagues or learners, become a “collaborator” on it. The program works by lodging your files centrally - in fact on the Web, not on your computer. When you want to send something electronically, Google simply sticks an email address on it (like when your electronic newspaper asks you if you want it to copy something you’re reading to a friend.) Once your file has been uploaded to Google Docs, you can then recruit “collaborators” (by adding their email addresses – any one, not necessarily a Gmail account).
They will get that email and later see everything you modify. A huge benefit is at once obvious: multiple copies, changing frequently, are no longer generated. Drafting joint documents is easy and quick.
The process is safe; only you can decide who will “collaborate” i.e. be given access to your documents - which can be “read only”, if you choose. You can give sharers permission to go further, for example to call on other collaborators. You are now a powerful person, publishing documents on the web for all the world to see!
The program is easy to use, as the interface is similar to word-processing. It is flexible, spawning new ideas continually. Its chief advantage is that subsequent revisions come up at once on all the sharers’ sites.
Another specific feature of the Google Docs homepage is the Google Spreadsheets. These are a way of sharing XLS files in a closed or open group of learners. Once created, a spreadsheet can be inserted on a website, blog or wiki and used for a range of activities.
Join our group Exeter 2008 group:
http://groups.google.com/group/exeter-2008
We will be happy to discuss any issues and follow on any comments or ideas after the talk.
Glueing the pieces together January 26, 2008
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Well I’ve enrolled for another great EVO session called SMIELT and it’s been one of those fortnights where I’ve needed glue to piece parts of my personal life together so I’m way behind on “tasks” and “cooperation” but it’s good to get back into action with a fantastic slide show by Alexander Hayes
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I’ll be working my way through the links, reading and comments so far and reflecting soon I promise.
Embed YouTube video on blog September 3, 2007
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A nice video from Leigh Blackall on how to insert videos onto your blog. I found that my edublogs format bar has a simple and easy insert/mebed mp3/mov. or other media file button (so by simply clicking the the yellow circle with an A on the post toolbar I could paste in the YouTube video)
Check out his http://screencasting.blogspot.com blog for more “screen grabs and audio explanations - demonstrating ways of using
information and communication technologies for teaching and learning
online”
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Sychronous and voice experiences June 9, 2007
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Well how can I not blog about this???
This is a super summary of a hard week’s work of analysing. Week 8 of the ICT I tutor on is about chatware tools and chat projects. The group have spent a week viewing some webhead projects like and using some shared applications together first-hand. Here is a wonderful summary from one of the super ICT colleagues on the course.
Check out Seth’s Podomatic podcast to hear the group’s collective feedback.
