tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233253662024-03-13T04:43:43.021-04:00Miguel Mendoza eFL"Knowing is better than wondering."Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-39496663128075863132014-09-20T19:11:00.000-04:302014-09-20T19:15:23.199-04:30Stop in the name of love: no more autoplay, Mark, please<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OK. Yeah, it has been ages since the last time I wrote a post here...But, you know, life, work or maybe my lazy fingers...OK. I have been reading these posts where people complain about videos playing automatically (autoplay) on and on every time they scroll up or down Facebook. You might be thinking Mark Zuckerberg is always trying to make your life miserable (unexpected changes - some of them a bit cumbersome) , but it is not like so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Good news! You can stop these irritating videos from playing automatically. How? Here are a couple of screenshots showing you how to do that on your computer, Ipad or smartphone (android).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is easy-peacy...No more Buzzfeed videos playing automatically showing you how North Americans Try Sushi For The First Time or Creepy Ways To Ask If She’s Single.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let me know, if this was helpful and you were able to stop those videos from playing automatically and unexpectedly on Facebook. </span>Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-57896630305277424032013-12-28T13:34:00.000-04:302013-12-28T14:41:19.909-04:30Knowing me, Knowing you: 11<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">OK. So I have been tagged and now I will share with you a bit of myself in 11 random facts and my 11 answers to questions from two amazing taggers. You might be wondering what this is all about. Well, it is this chain started - this I presume- by a fellow ELT-er and the idea is to invite an EFL-ESL colleague to "reveal" personal information few or no one from his/her professional (passionate) learning network know about them. To do that you are supposed to write 11 random facts about yourself, answer 11 questions the tagger asked you and invite 11 colleagues to do the same. You can sort of represent the whole process like this:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My taggers are two lovely, sweet ladies from my PLN: </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYt0d8OgB4Ad4bTcQbznDRmaSt1H-6chiFKSrlXfFL82F3kvfDRFE9YxIW3cBi3iBRxMG9h4MUXX2t-IUHlpXkW58MoCv62SVFPX6GJ-buqYL_1zOtTCX4CiyvKqoUDKS3DPsd/s1600/culprits.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYt0d8OgB4Ad4bTcQbznDRmaSt1H-6chiFKSrlXfFL82F3kvfDRFE9YxIW3cBi3iBRxMG9h4MUXX2t-IUHlpXkW58MoCv62SVFPX6GJ-buqYL_1zOtTCX4CiyvKqoUDKS3DPsd/s1600/culprits.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://malusciamarelli/" target="_blank">Malu Sciamarelli </a>(Brazil) and <a href="https://twitter.com/HanaTicha" target="_blank">Hana Ticha</a> (Czech Republic). Here you can read their very own posts: <a href="http://www.malusciamarelli.com/general/eleven/" target="_blank">Eleven!</a> and <a href="http://how-i-see-it-now.blogspot.cz/2013/12/11-random-facts.html" target="_blank">11 random facts</a>. How I met them? Well, just the way most of us have met amazing ELT colleagues on the web: Facebook, Twitter, a webinar, the Electonic Village Online, you name it. The truth is they are part of my PLN and how luckier can I get? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">1.</span></b> I have a twin brother. He is not as cute as me (smiley), but he is taller, fun, sociable and loves </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>2.</b></span> I draw or at least I used to do that well until my late 20s, early 30s. After that no more drawings, blame it to work, computers, life. As a child I was into the religious theme, you know (Hey! a family thing)…Growing up drawings became cartoonish and more personal ones. At the uni, I drew for Young Editors (a sort ELT language learning magazine funded by two amazing undergraduate teacher trainees: OK, my best friend and I)...Also, as a teacher I dare to draw these potatoes like characters for a children material- totally hand made. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>3.</b></span> I do trip the light fantastic ( a smiley)…A family thing. Everybody dances. It is also a cultural thing…If you are a teen and you know how to dance you don’t have to worry about anything else in Venezuela (as opposed to teens in the USA – if you know what I mean). I discoed, "salsaed", "meregued" even danced to <a href="https://soundcloud.com/djmoisesalberto/juana-polinaria-en-vivo-tambor" target="_blank">drum beats</a> and a bit of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVrWDPi12zE" target="_blank">breaking</a> - not anymore! But unlike singing, I can still boogie oogie boogie (smiley)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>4. </b></span>Call me a coffee addict. During the day I can drink more than 10 cups a days and I can still sleep like an angel. Love Venezuelan coffee, but I can enjoy drinking this "black brew" anywhere. Its smell and even listening to cups and saucers rattling in coffee shops takes me back home, reminiscences of a nice conversation, friends, grandma, my aunt Hilda, mom…family.<br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>5. </b></span>I used to sing a lot…I was part of this school choir and once I even tried to participate in a singing contest…Stopped singing in my early teens and you know what they say: "Use it, or lose it". Nowadays, my voice is literally pitchy...Not the same anymore…So forget <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idol" target="_blank">American Idol</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice_%28U.S._TV_series%29" target="_blank">the Voice</a>. <br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>6. </b></span>I had never been interested in politics at least in its narrow sense (political parties , politicians. "politiking" and all that), but over the last 15 years I have been participating in rallies, protests, signing here and there against one of the most corrupted governments in Venezuela. It is a totalitarian, militaristic regime disguise as democratic. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>7.</b></span> Love whatever is related to green, color in nature...Blame it on my "abuelita" (grandma). She encouraged me to take care of plants as a child...I did. But as I grew older I quit on this idea of having a small, welcoming garden for several reasons. Now I have shyly started an orchid collection at home. Cross my fingers hope they will spike and bloom one day. <br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>8.</b></span> Oh yeah, I used to write poems as a child. It was triggered by my first experience traveling to a distant place away from home (OK, in the same country). It was entitled: "Un Niño, un Viaje y su noche Mirandina" ( "A child, a trip, and his “Mirandina” night"). I was part of this school music band (estudiantina) and we were going to perform somewhere. I played the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuatro_%28instrument%29" target="_blank">cuatro</a>. It was a successful performance, but I just wanted to be back home really. I was about 8 or 9 years old. Strange enough I still have the same feeling every time I travel. The only difference is I can stay for more than two days away from home - OK a bit more. I have learned to manage my inner child.<br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>9.</b></span> I have got this thing for books. Apart from its traditional use related to pleasure and knowledge, I believe they can be amazing decorative objects. They do! Believe you me.<br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>10.</b></span> I am a proud introvert (not necessarily shy). I do enjoy being on my own a lot. Good listener.Give me some rain, good music, my caffeine fix and I'll be obliviously happy on my own.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>11.</b></span> My first online friend and the first one I met in person is not from my PLN, not an EFL teacher. </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That was mid 90s.</span> He is a nice, thoughtful Dutchman. I had the chance to visit him and his partner twice. We still keep in touch. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A framed poster of Slaapkamer te Arles (The Bedroom) by Vincent van Gogh</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I grab a cup of coffee (You do!) and check out email, Facebook and Twitter.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes, a shih tzu named Luna -totally spoiled.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #45818e;">A fish cake, my mother used to make it during the Holy Week.</span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Netherlands...Especially the Hague...I don't know I think it is its buildings...or its exhibiting sculptures in the Scheveningen district from the Beelden aan Zee museum. </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A text message.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Yes, once I wanted to be a graphic designer. </span> </b></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b>3.</b></span> What's your earliest memory as an educator? </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Teaching English to my classmates in high school - that was a start, right? </b></span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b>4. </b></span>Is education valued where you live? If not, what is the main reason? <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Not as much as it should. It has been neglected by most governments and over the last 15 it has been used to instill political values, nationalistic pride and now more than ever before to worship the late "Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias". </b></span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b>5.</b></span> How do you think we could help to make teaching a more prestigious job? </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Taking the time to develop ourselves professionally. Now there are more opportunities than before especially online to be updated in your field / interests (IATEFL / TESOL webinars, The Electronic Village Online, The reform Symposium, The Virtual round table, MOOCs). </b></span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b>6.</b></span> Apart from burning-out, what's the biggest danger for a teacher? </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Low salaries (juggling jobs to get by) , lack of support from authorities and colleagues, the school year's routine.</span></b></span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b>7.</b></span> Did anyone try to put you off teaching in the past? <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>No, no one. </b></span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b>8. </b></span>Why do you think teaching can bring so much satisfaction but also frustration? <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Well, we are dealing with people - unpredictable - in spite of all the research. The way students react to or show / manifest their "learning" varies from one person to another, from one group to another. So when we feel they have learned, we feel elated; when they don't, we feel we are not doing enough.</b></span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #f6b26b;">9. </span></b>What makes you happy? </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Designing material, thinking of new activities to help my students learn. </b></span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #f6b26b;">10.</span> </b>When did you last laugh out loud?<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Like about two weeks...with (Ok "at) my best friend. </b></span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b>11. </b></span>If your child/best friend wanted to become a teacher, what piece of advice would you give him or her? <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Well, try to do things to the best of their abilities...Just make sure you love what you do. </b></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>When the tagee becomes the tagger: fun!</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So here's my tagee list, time to meet some Venezuelans and other wonderful EFL teachers! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Miguel Pérez <a href="https://twitter.com/maperezramos" target="_blank">@maperezramos</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Elvina Castillo <a href="https://twitter.com/elvicaro" target="_blank">@elvicaro</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teadira Pérez <a href="https://twitter.com/teadira" target="_blank">@teadira</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evelyn Izquierdo <a href="https://twitter.com/EveWeb" target="_blank">@EveWeb</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Marina Majonica <a href="https://twitter.com/teachermarinam" target="_blank">@teachermarinam</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yuly Asención </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/yya2" target="_blank"><span class="st">@yya2</span></a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Beyza Yilmaz <a href="https://twitter.com/Beyza" target="_blank">@Beyzah</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Priscila Mateini <a href="https://twitter.com/Priscilamateini" target="_blank">@priscilamateini</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Elena Nikiforou <a href="https://twitter.com/neleni" target="_blank">@neleni</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Liliana Simón <a href="http://lilianasimon/" target="_blank">@lilianasimon</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fabrice Karenzi <a href="https://twitter.com/kafamem" target="_blank">@Kafamem</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Martha Mendoza</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So now it is your turn to let us know a bit about yourselves, tagees. There's no pressure. If you feel you have time to do this, great. Otherwise, you have been chosen because you are amazing! If you rise to the challenge, you can take your time. There is no rush. Please, if you write your post, let me know...If you have already been tagged, share your post with us in Comments as well as the tagees.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My 11 random questions to you, tagees:</span></b></span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">1. </span></b>Since there’s a been <a href="http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/the-december-debate-merry-christmas-vs-happy-holidays" target="_blank">a debate</a> on how you should greet someone in Christmas season, what would it be in your country? "Happy holidays" or "Merry Christmas"? In Venezuela, most people say "Feliz Navidad" (Merry Christmas), no matter what.<br />
<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">2. </span></b>Have you got a favorite sitcom? If yes, which one. Why do you like it?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>3.</b></span> Is there a favorite poem you like? Which one? Why?<br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>4.</b></span> Which music decade you like the most? 70s? 80s? 90s? any?<br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>5. </b></span>If you happen to have a deaf student in your class, you think you must learn sign language?<br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>6.</b></span> Is there a memorable international / local conference you remember? If so, which one?<br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>7. </b></span>Any favorite educational app or web 2.0?<br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>8. </b></span>Have you ever been taken an unflattering photo you’d like to get rid of especially from social networks? If so, How did you feel? What did you do?<br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>9. </b></span>What’s the most favorite hot drink in your country? Coffee? Tea? Chocolate?<br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>10.</b></span> Is there a popular folk singer in your country? What's his/her name? Can you share a video link?<br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>11. </b></span>Is there a national flower that represent your country? Which one is it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Images: Miguel Mendoza by Miguel Mendoza is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial No Derivs 3.0 Unported License </span></span>Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-62571301421687910922013-10-20T10:59:00.000-04:302013-10-20T11:23:27.861-04:30RSCON2013: Diversity and Disability<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:HyphenationZone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>ES-VE</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">- My thoughts and reflections are based upon my experience at a public university in Venezuela- Miguel Mendoza</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Without this <b><a href="http://www.futureofeducation.com/profile/MiguelMendoza" target="_blank">RCON session</a></b>, I think I wouldn’t have sat to reflect and even talked about this to ESL/EFL teachers. Something I believe I should have done a long time ago. I will finish this post by sharing a snippet from <a href="http://www.eltnews.com/columns/patontheback/2013/07/hey_teacher_what_are_you_for.html" target="_blank">Patrick’s article</a>: “...<i>education is not just about acquiring skills and knowledge but that it also embraces social improvement. Teachers are in a unique position to impact on the future through their teaching of well being, fairness, equality and trut</i>h.”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">This is the second time I participate in the Reform Symposium. The first time, in 2011, I participated with </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-VE;"><b><a href="http://miguelmendozaefl.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-ride-rscon3-2011.html" target="_blank">Flip cams see; smart phones and digital cameras do</a></b>. This time I will not be talking about learning technologies, but diversity and disability. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evelyn Izquierdo</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My posts have become more and more event related (Gotta do something about it and find the time and inspiration to write more frequently). I’d like to start this post by thanking <b><a href="https://twitter.com/EveWeb" target="_blank">Evelyn Izquierdo</a></b>, a colleague and friend, who encouraged me and pushed me to attend <b><a href="http://www.tesol.org/convention2013" target="_blank">TESOL 2013</a></b> in Dallas (April 21st-23rd). To be honest, I always found it quite dreadful to get a visa to travel to the States. But it's me; not them. I have got to say - and thanks to the support from wonderful people - it was sort of a breeze. It could have been otherwise. A series of unfortunate events unfold the very same day I was going to have my visa interview appointment. This was doomed to be a no no travel to Dallas. But Kindness does exist (Right? <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_DuBois" target="_blank">Blanche DuBois</a></b>). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now the journey from Caracas to Dallas started with delays (bad weather in Atlanta airport) making our arrival there Wednesday dawn (April 20th). We got to the Fairmont Dallas hotel safe and sound, though. A few hours to sleep, and the day started with an interesting RELO (Regional English Language Office) meeting <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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with VENTESOL members and American embassy representatives (Merilu Johnson Pizarro and David Fay) in the Dallas Convention Center. In the afternoon, Evelyn Izquierdo and I checked out the room and equipment for our presentations on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd. Ballroom A1 and two computers available for us! The name of our presentation -longer than the Amazon river: “<b>Podcasts, web-based recordings & videocasts: Dynamic and interactive ways to provide feedback</b>”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Day to get ready for our presentation! More than biting my nails, a bit concerned about the presentation mechanics – you’ll see why. Our presentation was part of the Electronic Village and Technology showcase (CALL interest section), Ballroom A1, Dallas Convention Center. In this event several mini presentations or workshops took place. Each presentation (not workshops) were repeated twice. One after the other; 20 to 25 minutes each round. This gives participants the chance to listen to as many presentations as they could and maybe not missing any they wanted to attend. On each side of the room, there were about 8 presentations taking place at the same time. Another interesting thing about this is the closeness or this sort of intimate atmosphere between the speaker and participants. Presenters were surrounded by no more than 10 participants (and even much less). For a shy participant like me I naturally felt driven to ask, contribute, comment (and that is really something). Being a participant and a teacher are two totally different things for me. The first one, I'm generally a bit shy; the second one, well I should get an Oscar nomination! Some people say teaching is like acting. Ok rambling already. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here’s our presentation (Evelyn Izquierdo and mine). It is based upon our experience in the <b><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/podcasting2013/" target="_blank">Podcasting for the ESL-EFL classroom</a></b> sessions </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://podcastingevo2011.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">2011</a></b>-<b><a href="http://podcastingevo2012.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">2012</a></b>-<b><a href="http://podcasting2013evo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">2013</a> </b></span></span>for the <b><a href="http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/TESOL/EVOL/portal.htm" target="_blank">Electronic Village Online</a> </b>(EVO) and the feedback we gave to our participants using screencasting. The methodology we described was based upon <b><a href="http://www.russellstannard.com/index.html" target="_blank">Russell Stannard</a></b>’s <b><a href="http://www.hltmag.co.uk/dec08/mart04.htm" target="_blank">research</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.russellstannard.com/research.html" target="_blank">reflection</a></b> on the use of digital recording to give feedback to students’ writings.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rushing! Our presentation was scheduled for 3 p.m. Suddenly, it was changed to and earlier slot, 2 p.m. This time it was going to be streamed in Blackboard with a live audience in Ballroom A1. In spite of having to login to blackboard and upload presentation in a flash, it was an interesting and successful experience. All these years of online training, few webinars here and there, F2F workshops / presentations really paid off…Someone else we would have cracked up - I reckon…We did enjoy the challenge and pressure! You can check out the recording here.</span></span><br />
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<i>1) Corpus-based Tools in the ESL/EFL Classroom</i>. <b><a href="http://ittc-web.astate.edu/bio/public/detailed_bio_lite.php?bio_id=599" target="_blank">Magdi Kandil</a></b>. Arkansas State University. Sites he shared: <b><a href="http://www.wordle.net/" target="_blank">Wordle</a></b>. <b><a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/alzsh3/acvocab/awlhighlighter.htm" target="_blank">The AWL highlighter</a></b>, <a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/alzsh3/acvocab/awlgapmaker.htm" target="_blank"><b>The GAP make</b>r</a>, <b><a href="http://www.lextutor.ca/keywords/" target="_blank">Keyword extractor</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/" target="_blank">The Vocab Profiler</a></b>, <b><a href="http://nav.stringnet.org/" target="_blank">The stringent navigator</a>,</b> <b><a href="http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/" target="_blank">Corpus of contemporary American English</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.academicwords.info/compare.asp" target="_blank">The COCA academic Vocabulary list</a></b>. If you are teaching reading or writing these sites will be gems.</span></span><br />
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<i>2) Podcasting for pronunciation</i>. <b><a href="http://www.esl.gatech.edu/overview/faculty-and-staff" target="_blank">Jennie Brown and Roger Drury</a></b>. Georgia Institute of Technology. Interesting approach using a <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/how-to-record-your-mobile-landline-and_b380" target="_blank">splitter</a> to record an interview to talk about pop culture (Music).<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>3) Creating a rubric assignment in Moodle 2.2 and 2.3</i>. <a href="http://arc.academyart.edu/esl/faculty.html" target="_blank">Amy Shipley.</a> Academy of Art Uiversity. Easy way to create your own rubrics in Moodle. It might be nice idea if I decide to go LMS for my extensive reading program.<br />
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<i>4) Using embedded Audio feedback in asynchronous online courses</i>. Larisa Olesova (George Mason University), Luciana de Olivera and Alsu Gilmetdinova (Purdue University). It was really nice to listen to a student telling her experience on receving feedback using embedded recorded audio. It was perfect for us! We referred to this student's account in our own presentation.</span></span><br />
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<i>5) Video to flip the English language classroom</i>. <b><a href="http://www.missioncollege.org/depts/esl/faculty/chan/chan.html" target="_blank">Marsha Chan</a></b>, Mission College and Sunbusrt media. An awesome character and interesting approach on working pronunciation. You have gotta to check out her <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PronunciationDoctor?feature=watch" target="_blank">PronunciatonDoctor</a></b>: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As for the EV miniworkshops I attended: "<i>How to design PowerPoint presentations for a Student-centered approach</i>”, <b><a href="https://twitter.com/claudiofleury" target="_blank">Claudio Fleury</a></b> and Lilian Marchezoni, <b><a href="http://www.thomas.org.br/" target="_blank">Casa Thomas Jefferson</a></b>. Lilian showed how creative you can be when using PowerPoint to create games for practicing speaking, grammar and vocabulary. I also participated in the workshop "Achieving oral fluency with dynamic PechaKucha prezis”, Marsha Appling-Nuñez.</span></span><br />
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Happy to see how creative presentations were using desktop / laptop based activities apart from mobile technology (Ipads, tablets, smartphones). Unfortunately, missed presentations about games and ELT.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After our Thursday presentation, Nina Liakos, Webhead member, treat us to lunch at an Italian restaurant. Nina enrolled in our EVO session <b>Podcasting for the ESL-EFL classroom </b>session back in 2011 and she became our mentor in the same session this year (2013). What an honor! We had a delightful and fun conversation at Ravenna restaurant close to the Dallas Convention Center. I also met Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Webhead. She attended part of our webcast session in Ballroom A1, Friday 22nd. Nice lady! I also met Vance Stevens, founder and moderator of the Webheads community of practice and Nelly Deutsch (Webhead). It was also nice to meet Claudio Fleury, Snea Thinsan, Mary Hillis and Phil Hubbard.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was great to see VENTESOL board members in this conference: Luisa Cristina Alvarez (President), Evelin Ojeda 1st Vice President, Mary Allegra 2nd Vice President, 3rd Vice President Jesús Ernesto Lisboa and Grazibel Nani Treasurer. Also, it was a real pleasure to have met our flight mate, Chinger Zapata (UPEL-Barquisimeto)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To end this experience-event-summary, it goes without saying that meeting so many other EFL-ESL teachers was really valuable; strolling a bit around the hotel or the convention center was really nice- OK, Evelyn dragged me out of my comfort zone most of the time. My plan was heading to the convention center early morning, back to hotel in the evening – Boring- yeah, I know. Hadn’t done this, I wouldn’t have met a fun Vance and had a short ride by train. </span></span><br />
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BTW, we did see horses (carriage rides)…But no Hollywood giddyups were heard!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last October 2nd in the afternoon I participated in <b>the Dialogue: English and New Technologies: Teacher Development</b> in the <b><a href="http://www.britishcouncil.org/colombia-policy-dialogues-english-for-the-future.htm" target="_blank">Policy Dialogues: English for the Future</a></b> organized by the<a href="http://www.britishcouncil.org/es/colombia.htm" target="_blank"> <b>British Council</b> </a>in <b>Cartagena</b>, <b>Colombia</b>. This dialogue was moderated by <b>Michael Houton</b> (British Council, Brazil) and my dialogues partners were <b>Mariel Armez</b> (Argentina) and <b>José Luis Hereria</b> (SENA-Colombia).</span><br />
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In this post, I will share my presentation abstract and my PowerPoint. After this, I will summarize this presentation and share my reflections on the comments made by participants and speakers including those from the dialogues related to technology: <b>Issues and Questions</b> (October 1st, afternoon) and <b>Transforming Learning </b>(October 2nd, morning).<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Abstract: </b></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ICT teacher training in Venezuela</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A personal experience as a freelance ICT teacher trainer courses offered by the British Council and the Electronic Village online will be briefly described in this presentation. This will serve as the basis to reflect on aspects such as course delivery, content, course length, participants in Venezuela. Currently, promoting and offering F2F and online courses to help EFL teachers integrate Learning technologies in the language classroom does not respond to an arbitrary or capricious fad. It is a fact that: 1) our students learning outside the classroom in a different way; 2) technology is pervasively present in our daily activities; 3) a literate person does not only read and write well, but he/she must have digital literacies; 4) we are becoming a “connected” society allowing for possibilities for professional development not only locally but abroad. Taking into account this, teachers should be trained to integrate technology in a principled manner and learning to how keep updated online (PLNs). How will this be done? It should be carefully reviewed by policy makers, local school or university authorities taken into account teacher’s work load, resources and clear information on the duration of the course, teachers’ own commitment to ICT teacher training courses or workshops.</span></span></div>
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<b>PowerPoint presentation:</b><i> ICT teacher training in Venezuela</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I started working as an ICT teacher trainer for the <b><a href="http://www.britishcouncil.org/venezuela.htm" target="_blank">British Council</a></b> in 2006. First, I started training teachers F2F (2006-2008) Two F2F teacher training projects can be described from this experience. The first one was an <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mike07/integrating-ict-into-the-classsroom" target="_blank">eight-hour workshop</a></b> for EFL teachers from different public universities around Venezuela to learn how to integrate technology into the language classroom. The content ranged from distinguishing between ICT and CALL definitions to how to plan and design a web-based lesson. As the last part of the workshop, teachers showcased their own online lesson based upon a task-based approach. The second project was </span><b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mike07/chacao-20062007" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a pilot on</span></a></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mike07/chacao-20062007" target="_blank">e</a></b> addressed to EFL teachers working in municipal primary and secondary schools in Caracas. 10 teachers from three different schools participated in this pilot project. They first attended a workshop (the same given to public university teachers) in the British Council computer-based lab. After that, they planned and designed a web-based lesson to showcase it to teacher trainer and some appointed students from their school courses at British Council premises. Next teachers planned and designed two more lessons this time to be used with their students in the schools they worked having the support of the teacher trainer all along. As we can see there are 2 clear stages in this pilot teacher training project: </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Stage 1</b>: ICT Workshop and practical application</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Stage 2</b>: Practical application in teachers’ schools and teacher trainer's support</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now I believe <b>a third stage</b> is needed in this kind of ICT teacher training school projects: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Self-Teacher training. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This stage would be about showing teachers how they can continue their own professional development online. The teacher trainer can plan a session to show them how to, for example: 1) create a professional learning network (PLN); 2) participate in webinars; 3) attend free or paid courses and; 3) create a community of practice; 4) become familiar with *Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After this last session, there should be some sort of follow-up or regular monitoring by principals, local authorities or organizations in charge of this training. </span><br />
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In 2011, I started moderating the online course <a href="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/" target="_blank"><b>Learning Technologies for the Classroom</b></a> offered by the British Council in Venezuela. This course aims at providing basic notions and skills on the use/integration of technology - from information technology skills (eg. searching the web) to what’s ahead (mlearning). Any Venezuelan EFL teacher can enroll in this course having Moodle as the main access platform. It is paid. It lasts 2 months and have four topics with modules stemming from each one of them. The e-moderator can only create forums and send emails. To guarantee a better communication and prevent any immediacy issues several external tools were added to this course (Wiziq, Mailvu, video tutorials, blogs, and cell phone). I believe several key issues should be addressed when offering online ICT teacher development courses:</span><br />
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1. <b>Requirements: </b>teachers must have clear that a "decent" connectivity and at least an updated computer/laptop are needed (If connectivity or Internet service provider is OK, they may use an Ipad or smartphone); they should be familiar with content and duration of the course; number of hours needed to do tasks and forums. Asking teachers to do a mandatory course on ICT without them knowing about this or not having basic resources in schools or home will not be a successful one.<br />
2. <b>Tasks:</b> too many tasks per week will put off any overworked Venezuelan teacher. I would advice - based on my experience with <b><a href="http://www.theconsultants-e.com/" target="_blank">The Consultants-E</a></b> as a participant and shadowing some e-moderators- no more than seven activities/tasks and two forums per week.<br />
3. <b>Practical applications:</b> focusing just on the tool is not the way to go. Showing teachers how they can potentially use it in a principled way in the classroom will guarantee better (learning) results and will increase participants' motivation.<br />
4. <b>Duration: </b>a course should not last more than two months. If it has to be any longer, it should be divided into different levels. <br />
5. <b>Synchronous:</b> Forums are Ok. There's a lot of asynchronous interaction and input to summarize on the part of the e-moderator. However, whenever possible schedule a real time, live session. </span><br />
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The three stages described for F2F sessions can also apply/ be adapted to online courses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The last experience described in this dialogue in Cartagena was my work as a co-moderator in an <b><a href="http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/TESOL/EVOL/portal.htm" target="_blank">Electronic Village Online session</a></b>: <b>the <a href="http://podcastingevo2012.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Podcasting for the ESL-EFL Classroom</a></b> (2011-2012). This is one of many free sessions offered to ESL-EFL teachers from all over the world at the beginning of each year for 5 weeks. One of the things I like from this session is that I have co-authored the content along with another moderator: <b><a href="https://twitter.com/EveWeb" target="_blank">Evelyn Izquierdo</a></b>. This session can also be divided into three stages. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Stage one</b> is Week 1 and it aims at encouraging teachers to meet each other, getting familiar with web tools used all along the session, knowing participants' expectations and surveying their knowledge on podcasting. <b>Stage two</b> comprises weeks 2, 3 and 4. During these weeks participants: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. read three required readings most of them based on experiences of teachers using podcasts. This will help them get inspiration for planning and developing their own podcast projects. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. do tasks that they can potentially use in the classroom (eg. describing a picture) while learning how to use podcast tools (recording and publishing). Tutorials help them do these tasks as well. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. create a blog in Blogger with three pages (About me, Podcasts, and Podcast Project) to showcase during week 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. plan and describe a podcast project they may potentially use in their teaching contexts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During the <b>last stage</b> (week 5), participants start tweaking their blogs to showcase in a live session in Wiziq. Before they do this, they are given recorded feedback - inspired on <b><a href="http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/feedback.html" target="_blank">Russell Stunnard’s idea on screencasting</a></b>- which do help them talk confidently about their blogs and projects during this last session.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Final reflections based on audience participation and speakers</b></span><br />
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1. <b>E-Moderator / F2F teacher trainer : </b>He/she should be well-trained, have basic e-moderation skills, should regularly use technology and - something not mentioned - obvious for some- but just in case- should preferably be an EFL or ESL teacher to provide support on one of the most important issues on integrating ICT in ELT: practical applications / pedagogical approaches/ modeling. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. <b>Free and paid courses: </b>it seems to be that there’s a –maybe- valid concern about </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">free online courses </span>quality and certification. Concerns about quality can also apply to paid courses, though. Getting a certificate will depend on the teacher and what he/she is looking for in a online course: knowledge? being promoted? both? Another concern is the number of participants starting and finishing the course. It is true that regular attendance/participation is higher when the participant pays (or the institution pays for him/her for that matter). Free online courses focuses are maybe addressed to those who are really interested in learning, are disciplined and know how to work on their own. We should not underestimates lurkers. They also learn one way or another from free online courses. We should keep in mind not all teachers can afford to pay for a course and the schools or institutions they work for are not really willing to pay for them sometimes. In my opinion, there are options. It is the teacher the one who has to decide what's more convenient for him or her.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Currently, there are many opportunities for online professional development we didn't have before (free or paid). Have you ever heard about the <b><a href="http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/TESOL/EVOL/portal.htm" target="_blank">Electronic Village Online</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.seeta.eu/" target="_blank">SEETA</a></b>? I would highly recommend paid courses from <b><a href="http://www.theconsultants-e.com/" target="_blank">The Consultants-E</a></b> (They offer scholarships). Apart from courses there are some other ways to develop professionally: webinars (<b><a href="http://teachmeet.pbworks.com/w/page/19975349/FrontPage" target="_blank">TeachMeet</a></b>, <b><a href="http://shellyterrell.com/2011/07/20/9-reasons-to-attend-the-reform-symposium-free-worldwide-online-conference/" target="_blank">Reform Symposium</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.virtual-round-table.com/" target="_blank">Virtual Round Table Conference</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/107380" target="_blank">Free Friday webinars</a>.</b> IATEFL and Consultants-E have been offering some free webinars as well. There are some other great ELT communities, non-ICT-oriented, which offer great opportunities for professional development as well like<b> <a href="http://itdi.pro/itdihome/index.php" target="_blank">iTDi</a></b>. Other PD alternatives are: professional learning networks; communities of practice; social bookmarking.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. <b>Mlearning: </b>Yes, mlearning might be a rising trend in some countries. In those countries where,say, Ipads, Iphones, tablets and smartphones are unaffordable or not safe to carry, computers and laptops are still a valid and wonderful solution to integrate technology in the language classroom. As far as I know the difference between “Mlearning” and computers and laptops is mobility and comfort, but what we do on the net is somewhat the same. So I have been wondering what’s wrong with being bound with computers and laptops?. Should I have a <b><a href="http://linhas.nobolso.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/43.jpg" target="_blank">“Mafalda” moment</a> </b> and run the risk of being considered a "martian" for still using my computer to moderate, design material and follow my PLN? Is learning better because it is done on the go, or learning opportunities are different since we can log on anywhere? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. <b>Connectivity and resources:</b> it is still an issue in countries like Venezuela when thinking about ICT teacher training. Unfortunately local authorities, government or institutions ask teachers to participate in mandatory ICT training courses (for them to look OK most of the time) without knowing which the teacher’s context is especially those living in rural areas. How come a teacher can learn about the integration of technology if there is not a computer lab at school? If there is one computer/laptop, it sure may have connectivity problems or the teacher have to find a gap in the lab schedule to use it. How come teachers are expected to do the course at home if: 1) they don't have a computer/laptop (or at least an updated one). If they are from rural areas they might be 3-hours away from an Internet cafe. So my advice: check out first how teachers can integrate technology (there are different levels) and adapt a course to what he/she can actually do at school.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. <b>Articulating Learning technologies within the curriculum:</b> universities training teachers to become EFL teachers -as it happens in Venezuela- should contemplate in their curriculum courses aimed at EFL student trainees (pre-service) to learn how to integrate learning technologies in English Language Teaching.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. <b>Digital Literacies:</b> <b><a href="http://www.theconsultants-e.com/about/team/GavinDudeney.aspx" target="_blank">Gavin Dudeney</a></b> mentioned four focus point: language, information, connections and remix. I wonder how these literacies can be developed/taught in an ICT teacher training course. As a separate course or while participants are being trained? As a by-product of teachers' participation in their PLNs? / webinars? Here's a good example on how as a moderator<b> <a href="https://twitter.com/harrisonmike" target="_blank">Mike Harrison</a></b> learn how to <b><a href="http://www.mikejharrison.com/2012/10/searching-in-facebook-groups-2/" target="_blank">find posts</a> </b>(experiential learning) in Facebook groups.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type">Links of interest:</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type"> </span></span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type">David Graddol: <a href="http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-research-englishnext.htm" target="_blank"><b>English Next </b></a></span></span></span> <a href="http://consultancy.cambridgeesol.org/sites/consultancy.cambridgeesol.org/files/case-study/european-survey-language-competences.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type">Survey of Language Competences</span></span></span></b></a> <b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type"><a href="http://e-language.wikispaces.com/mr3" target="_blank">Digital Literacies </a></span></span></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type">Some other links related to this post:</span></span></span></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://nikpeachey.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/online-teacher-development-works-best.html" target="_blank">Online Teacher Development Works Best - 15 Reasons Why</a> </b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type">(Nik Peachey) </span></span></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type"><a href="http://nikpeachey.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/how-i-use-social-media-for-my.html" target="_blank">How I use social media for my professional development</a> (Nik Peachey) </span></span></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type"><a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/09/the-4-best-ways-to-personalize-your-professional-development/" target="_blank">The 4 Best Ways To Personalize Your Professional Development</a> (Edudemic)</span></span></span></b> <a href="http://smartblogs.com/education/2012/08/30/3-keys-successful-professional-development/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type">3 keys to successful professional development </span></span></span></b></a> <b><a href="http://smartblogs.com/education/2012/08/30/3-keys-successful-professional-development/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Learning what I want to learning! Creating meaningful professional development </span></span></a></b> <a href="http://lynhilt.com/out-with-professional-development-in-with-professional-learning/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Out with professional development, in with professional learning </span></span></b></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type"> </span></span></span> <b><a href="http://teachertrainingunplugged.com/eltchat-summary-what-makes-a-good-teacher-trainer-26-september-2012-9pm-gmt/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type">ELTChat Summary: what makes a good teacher trainer? </span></span></span></a></b> <b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type"><a href="http://www.josepicardo.com/2012/10/rethinking-professional-development/" target="_blank">Rethinking professional development </a> </span></span></span></b> <a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/10/biggest-problems-and-solutions-technology-integration-classrooms/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type">The Teacher’s Guide To Successful Technology Integration</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type"> </span></span></span></b></a> <b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Edudemic) </span></span></b>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Post originally written by <a href="http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2012/08/10/eltchat-the-loss-of-eltchat-com-plan-b/" target="_blank">Marisa Constantinides</a>. Just helping spread the word on the new </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#ELTchat website </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the last – well, almost two years now, since September 15 2010, #ELTchat has kept us on our toes and forged hundreds of professional and personal relationships amongst its followers who turn up on Twitter every Wednesday to talk about topics they have suggested and voted on – a community of peers which was created by a small group of colleagues – which grew and grew some more and became something that counts as an important part of our continuous professional development.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like many great ideas, it didn’t hit just one person but several.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that is how #ELTchat was created. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The website to keep up the communication of its members, a base and repository of our ideas was one of the first things we all thought of creating – the wiki came later.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andy Chaplin was keen to join the moderation team and help with podcasts and technical stuff; he was quick to buy eltchat.com and announced the good news to us after the fact.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few months later, right after TESOL France 2011, he suddenly disappeared – some say for reasons of health.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We never found out for sure.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We never received a single word of response to our emails.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eltchat.com was and still is registered in his name.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And yesterday we lost it.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On August 8 the domain expired and we have no way of taking over unless it goes up for sale again; it was very sad that Andy Chaplin did not find it appropriate to renew.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The news is really upsetting.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The work we have put in on this website cannot be told in a few simple words – but it has been a labour of love and we have got so much out of it that we have never regretted one single moment</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are pretty upset at the behaviour of this individual – disappointment is one big understatement.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But we trust that our community of #ELTchatters, our PLN for short, will again gather round the new domain which we have purchased – eltchat.org</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It will take us a few days to put the website back on its feet</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And all will be as it was before – all the posts in place all your thoughts and comments, all the polls and great summaries which got us on the shortlist of the ELTon Awards nominations.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will be back with a vengeance.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are not just a website – we did not get on the ELTon awards shortlist as just another website!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P.S.<i> We would greatly appreciate it if any of you belonging to this great community of teachers, teacher educators, bloggers, #ELTchat followers, reposted this on your blog.</i></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you decide to do this, please add your name to the post under ours.</span>Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-85249081826123344592012-04-09T07:03:00.003-04:302012-08-07T11:38:53.665-04:30Never late: My IATEFL reflections<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, after more than a week, and since it’s never late, I’d like to summarize my<b> <a href="http://www.iatefl.org/" target="_blank">IATEFL</a></b> experience in <b><a href="http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2012/" target="_blank">Glasgow</a></b> as <b style="color: #3d85c6;">a participant</b> and <b style="color: #3d85c6;">speaker</b>. I hope it will encapsulate not only what I <b style="color: #3d85c6;">got</b> in terms of <b style="color: #3d85c6;">knowledge</b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span>but what it <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">meant</span> </b>to have met a warmth and friendly <a href="http://www.teachingvillage.org/2012/01/03/what-is-a-pln-anyway/" target="_blank"><b>PLN</b></a>.</div><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">First day (March 19th)</span> </b><br />
<b><i><a href="http://ltsig.org.uk/events/13-future-events/236-032012-glagow.html" target="_blank">LTSIG Pre-conference Event</a>:</i></b><i> Challenges and limitations in MALL </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Even though I am not using <b style="color: #3d85c6;">mobile technology</b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span>as much as I would like to in the classroom (I have used it for some other academic activities: announcing meetings, recording events, contacting speakers). Also, it’s true I have used it in an online course I moderate for the British Council (<i><b><a href="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/" target="_blank">Learning Technologies (LTs) for the Classroom course</a></b></i>) to send task or WizIQ session reminders, but once again not as part of the tools participants should use to become familiar with <b><a href="http://sponsored%20place/" target="_blank">mlearning</a></b>. My first impression on this pre-conference: its organization and far as I understand <b><a href="http://blog-efl.blogspot.com/1970/01/about-me.html" target="_blank">Graham Stanley</a></b> was behind all this. Kudos! One of the things I found interesting while I was listening to speakers about <b style="color: #3d85c6;">MALL</b> (<i>Mobile Assisted Language Learning</i>) is that my<b> </b>PLN does keep me well informed on what’s going on about <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">mlearning</span> </b>(just read the <b><a href="http://www.emoderationskills.com/" target="_blank">e-Moderation Station</a> </b>and you will see what I am talking about). By the way, <a href="http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/about/" target="_blank"><b>Shelly Terrell</b> </a>referred to <b style="color: #3d85c6;">this </b>in her eloquent presentation called <i>Evolution of the conference: the internet's impact on professional development</i>. However, there's no denial that there's always something <u>new</u> to learn and reflect upon from F2F conferences. The short but rich participation of the speakers in this LTSIG pre-conference kept us all glue to our seats them -figuratively speaking- throwing at us valuable key phrases, notions, insights that complemented or added new information about <b style="color: #3d85c6;">mlearning</b>. Just from <b><a href="http://www.theconsultants-e.com/about/team/GavinDudeney.aspx" target="_blank">Gavin Dudeney</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/gary.motteram" target="_blank">Gary Motteram</a></b> I got some that are still swirling in my head sort of accommodating, complementing, and expanding what I have heard/read about <b style="color: #3d85c6;">tablets </b>and <b style="color: #3d85c6;">smartphones</b> before. Here they are in the shape of a word cloud:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another thing mentioned in this pre-conference that called my attention was the use of <b style="color: #3d85c6;">ESL-EFL apps</b> in contrast with the use of <b style="color: #3d85c6;">rich media content</b> (Youtube, Skype). It seems to be the latter may have a more positive effect on language learning than the first one. This might be true. However, I still believe, and might be wrong about it, this is not a decision to be made by the teacher <u>only</u>. I am almost certain some <u>EFL</u> students would appreciate a dose of apps to practice grammar and vocabulary on their <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">smartphones</span></b> or <b style="color: #3d85c6;">tablets</b>. I do remember showing this <b><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubl.wordshake&hl=en" target="_blank">Wordshake app</a></b> to a group of students and they were fascinated by it. As an EFL learner myself, I’d never discard apps or "discreet" exercises that may help in one way or another to practice something about the target language.</span><br />
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My reflections/questions at the end of this valuable pre-conference revolved around how willing an EFL teacher from my country (Venezuela) could be in integrating <b style="color: #3d85c6;">mobile devices </b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">(smartphones and tablets)</span></span> in his/her classroom. I reckon this will depend on certain <u>issues</u> like <b style="color: #3d85c6;">safety</b> (Is it safe for students / teacher to carry their own devices to the classroom?); <b style="color: #3d85c6;">affordability</b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span>(Can all students/teachers afford having a mobile device? What the <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_your_own_device" target="_blank">BYOD</a></b>?); <b style="color: #3d85c6;">connectivity</b> (Is there wireless or decent broadband connection at school/university?); <b style="color: #3d85c6;">compatibility</b> (Can you use same apps or any other content rich media in all mobile devices?); <b style="color: #3d85c6;">training</b> (Are all teachers willing to use and/or be trained to learn how to use mobile devices in the classroom?); <b style="color: #3d85c6;">pedagogy</b> (Are there clear examples on the use of mobile devices in language learning?). For my part, I finally managed to get a smartphone last year. I am exploring apps and how to use them first (before taking the plunge into integrating mobile devices in my EAP class), although I am really tempted to try one of the activities suggested by <b><a href="http://www.theconsultants-e.com/about/team/NickyHockly.aspx" target="_blank">Nicky Hockly</a></b> in her blog <b><a href="http://www.emoderationskills.com/?p=736" target="_blank">e-moderation station</a></b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here you can have a peek at </span><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dudeney.com/PCE.pdf" target="_blank">Gavin Dudeney</a></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">'s and </span><b><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12A38kYsMlrWBw4kMW8JV-hq3qjtyGKlAm7zbiKGnd8w/edit#slide=id.p13" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" target="_blank">Gary Moterram</a></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">'s presentations. You can also check out: </span><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://ltsig-mall.pen.io/" target="_blank">Challenges and limitations of MALL</a></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, </span><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2012/forum/lt-sig-pce-twitter-summary" target="_blank">Twitter Summary</a></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #cc0000;">Next days: Tuesday 20th, Wednesday 21st, Thursday 22nd, Friday 23rd </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Presentations</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
Some of the presentations I attended and enjoyed/learned a lot during these days were:<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">1.How to Reflect on Research Talks at the Conference. <b>Simon Borg</b><br />
2.It’s all very well in theory, but... <b>Penny Ur</b><br />
3.Technology speaks volumes: enhancing integration, participation and speaking abilities. <b>Bruno Andrade </b><br />
4.52: a year of subversive activity for the ELT classroom. <b>Lindsay Clandfield & Luke Meddings</b><br />
5.Tools for digital storytelling. <b>Russell Stannard </b><br />
6.Who needs a teacher’s book? <b>Olwyn Alexander</b><br />
7.Dialogue in teacher training: a sociocultural perspective. <b>Willy Cardoso </b><br />
8.How to create a Personal Learning Network (PLN). <b>Nik Peachey</b><br />
9.What’s in your blended teaching toolkit? <b>Valentina Dodge </b><br />
10.Teaching English in technologically-challenged environments. <b>Dafne Gonzalez & Rubena St. Louis</b><br />
11.Teaching Business English with technology in Latin America. <b>Jennifer Verschoor </b><br />
12.Evolution of the conference: the internet's impact on professional development. <b>Shelly Terrell</b><br />
13.What has #hashtagging ever done for us?<b>Shaun Wilden </b><br />
14.ELTCHAT and reflective teaching. <b>Sharon Hartle</b><br />
15.Continuous professional development through social networking. <b>Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto </b><br />
16.Creating your own interest-driven professional development path using social media. <b>Bernadette Wall</b><br />
17.TeCH-achers: get your one-way ticket to tech islands!.<b> Isil Boy & Beyza Nur Yilmaz</b><br />
18.No words: ideas for using sound and images in class. <b>Michael Harrison</b><br />
19.Supporting the teacher as innovative learning design. <b>Diana Laurillard</b> (Plenary)</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span> </i></div><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As for <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">my</span></span><b style="color: #3d85c6;"> presentation</b>, well, it was a really interesting, bit nerve-racking experience. I may not knock it out of the park, but all in all I think it was an important lesson as part of my professional development. Talking for the first time in an International event like IATEFL F2F to ESL-EFL teachers was really something. And I am still thankful to the <b><a href="http://www.britishcouncil.org/venezuela.htm" target="_blank">British Council</a> </b>for having given the chance to participate in this event. A small, but nice crowd attended my <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">presentation</span></b> among them <b><a href="http://www.russellstannard.com/" target="_blank">Russell Stunnard</a></b> (really supportive and a super great person - speaks Spanish amazingly fluently!), <b><a href="http://www.esolcourses.com/" target="_blank">Sue-Lyon Jones</a></b> (what a nice and lovely Lady!), <b><a href="http://educationaltechnologyinelt.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Vicky Samuell</a></b> (kind and sweet), <b>María Muller</b> (<b><a href="http://about.me/technogogy" target="_blank">Nik Peachey</a></b>’s wife – so great to have a Venezuelan listening to my presentation) . I do, do really <u>thank</u> them for having attended my session (the sound for videos didn't work, but was able to finish it just in time!). Last but not least, it was great to have had <b>Luz Ortuñoz</b> (<b>British Council</b> Project Officer in Venezuela) helping during this presentation and <b>Carlos Mayora</b>’s participation from Universidad Simón Bolívar. My presentation was called <b style="color: #3d85c6;"><i>Technologies for ELT learning in Venezuela: Benefits of Screencasting</i></b> and was presented on a Wednesday afternoon in the SECC-Clyde Auditorium, Gala 2.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's my presentation:</span><br />
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<center><iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/13793910" width="512" height="421" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"><strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mike07/glasgow-iatefl2012-13793910" title="Glasgow iatefl2012" target="_blank">Glasgow iatefl2012</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mike07" target="_blank">UCV / British Council</a></strong> </div></center><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's <b><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/85691705/Screencasting-IATEFL-2012" target="_blank">a summary</a></b> of my presentation. <b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">My PLN: Surreal!</span></span></b> <i><br />
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<i>From day one till the last one</i> Surreal! Having met part of the people I follow/follow me in <b style="color: #3d85c6;">Twitter/Facebook</b> in Glasgow was really something…You know pictures, tweets, words, audio, video turned into <u>flesh and bones</u> to put it some way…This impression of meeting them and seeing how friendly, warm, supportive they are was really amazing…This tells quite a lot about the <b style="color: #3d85c6;">connections</b> we make online and how powerful and permanent they can be in spite of what some people may perceive as an impersonal, cold, detached way of connecting, keeping updated, being informed or even making friends… In my humble opinion, online <b style="color: #3d85c6;">networks</b> simply replicates in an amplified and different way what we do F2F (and what we have been doing for centuries: <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">networking</span></b>) reaching further than the local networks we (naturally) create in the place we live in (family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances). Here are the people I met in person and had the chance to greet or listened to their presentations: <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/shellterrell" target="_blank">Shelly Terrell</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/vickysaumell" target="_blank">Vicky Saumell</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/esolcourses" target="_blank">Sue Lyon-Jones</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/cecielt" target="_blank">Cecilia Lemos</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/jenverschoor" target="_blank"><span class="gD">Jennifer Verschoor</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/ISILBOY" target="_blank">Işıl Boy</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/rliberni" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Bernadette Wall</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/russell1955" target="_blank">Russell Stunnard</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/carldowse" target="_blank">Carl Dowse</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/ronaldojunior" target="_blank">Ronaldo Lima Jr</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/BrunoELT" target="_blank">Bruno Andrade</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/harrisonmike" target="_blank">Mike Harrison</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/lclandfield" target="_blank">Lindsay Clandfield</a></td></tr>
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</tbody></table></center><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some other people I met before F2F and was a real pleasure to see them again:</div><center><table border="1"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/grahamstanley" target="_blank">Graham Stanley</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gavin Dudeney</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/nikpeachey" target="_blank">Nik Peachey</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_181734036" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJHHCzxuwGgxkM3aXPmTlQWOAHd9B46jd6KcJWQUIXK_7_JsWWx4FEiVCDf2MG93NudKHukN0OFGlQA1KMrFanOrKWxALUFAxuHUBPnS5NDHYxlYowOXOGHMAttL_BMmlfqxb0/s1600/eric.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/ericbaber" target="_blank">Eric Barber</a></td></tr>
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</tbody></table></center><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click on their pictures and start following this amazing <b style="color: #3d85c6;">PLN</b>! You won't regret it.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some pictures of myself with part of this fantastic <b style="color: #3d85c6;">PLN</b>:</span> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left to right: Barbara Hoskins, Sue-Lyon Jones and myself</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left to right: Jennifer <span class="gD">Verschoor, myself, Shelly Terrel and Cecilia Lemos</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now one of the things that was really <u>unexpected</u>, but super <u>pleasant</u> at the same time was attending <b style="color: #3d85c6;">Valentina Dodge</b>'s presentation, <i>What’s in your blended teaching toolkit?</i> , and meeting a participant from a course I was a support tutor and Valentina the main one 5 years ago! This is a <b><a href="http://www.theconsultants-e.com/default.aspx" target="_blank">Consultants-e</a></b> course and the name of the participant is <b style="color: #3d85c6;">Margret Udo</b>. Valentina Dodge assertively and clearly summed up the experience like this:</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"><i>Love the way this conference and this photo blend the online and face to face experience into a unique experienc</i>e :-)"</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left to right: Valentina Dodge, Margret Udo and Myself</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"></span> <div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An to top it all off, I met two participants from an <b>EVO</b> (<b><a href="http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/10708567/FrontPage" target="_blank">Electronic Village Online</a></b>) session I co-moderated in 2011 and this year,<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_181734095"> </a><i><b><a href="http://podcastingevo2012.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Podcasting for the ESL-EFL classroom</a></b>:</i> <b style="color: #3d85c6;">Anne Breckenridge</b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span>(2011 participant) and <b style="color: #3d85c6;">Kerry Shoeshep</b> (2012 participant).</div><center><table border="1"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anne Breckenridge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kerry Shoeshep</td></tr>
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</tbody></table></center><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They kindly gave me more feedback from this session (this time F2F). It does really encourage me to keep on moderating online. Something I did not learn <u>out of the blue</u>. I had one of the best tutors in<i> the E-moderation: A Training Course for Online Tutors (2007)</i> offered by <a href="e-moderation:%20A%20Training%20Course%20for%20Online%20Tutors" target="_blank">the Consultants-e</a>: <b><a href="http://www.theconsultants-e.com/about/team/carl-dowse.aspx" target="_blank">Carl Dowse</a></b> and also had the chance to work as support tutor with experienced e-moderators like <b><a href="http://www.theconsultants-e.com/about/team/valentina-dodge.aspx" target="_blank">Valentina Dodge</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.theconsultants-e.com/about/team/ana-dalmeida.aspx" target="_blank">Anna Falcao</a></b>. I did learn a lot from them and it all started from a sponsored place <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Gavin Dudeney</span> </b>gave me as a token on one of the courses offered by the Consultants-e after <u>his</u> one-week seminar delivered in Mérida, Venezuela, back in 2006. </div><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Fun in iATEFL!</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Ferry party and Pecha Kucha night!</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And not everything has to be that serious in IATEFL. Among the evening events, people danced to Scottish music and had a good laugh listening to funny, but serious brief talks facilitated by Jeremy Harmer in PK night. An here's a taste of it.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ferry Party (Wednesday 21st)</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><center><object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mDtRn2aGeAI?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mDtRn2aGeAI?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></center></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pecha Kucha (Thursday 22nd): <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right to left: Jeremy Harmer, Herbert Puchta, Willy Cardoso, Vicki Hollett, Shelly Terrell, Barbara Hoskins, Geoff Tranter Vicky Saumell and Helena Gomm</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Barbara Hoskins and Shelly Terrell </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><center><object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JXsk_RXtmNs?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JXsk_RXtmNs?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></center><center><object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5wspM-E7614?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5wspM-E7614?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></center><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Venezuelans on board!</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last but not least, it was fun to have shared these days in Glasgow with these wonderful Venezuelans!</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right to left: Rubena St. Louis, Elvina Castillo, Dafne González and myself. (Carlos Mayora's picture)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right to left: Luz Ortuño (British Council), Miguel Mendoza (UCV) and Carlos Mayora (USB) </td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PS. Glad to have seen and talked to María Muller and Evelin Ojeda.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><hr /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pictures and videos by Miguel Mendoza. Videos using FlipCamera. Pictures Sony 35. Images from PLN taken from their Twitter pages, About me webpage and<i> Podcasting for the ESL-EFL classroom</i> Photo album.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyzg3DeS_u7bRlVlOCpabgzcb8ACMhx_qrqW424N0gpjYMn0pAAvzxwq1kivWADsmh0YwmH3XXDYa7olxnKLY1a4Q8GmajV_Edte3mCUcDAdV5vaD1h0lB_MEy8ThGr62LM7_I/s1600/1000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="86" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyzg3DeS_u7bRlVlOCpabgzcb8ACMhx_qrqW424N0gpjYMn0pAAvzxwq1kivWADsmh0YwmH3XXDYa7olxnKLY1a4Q8GmajV_Edte3mCUcDAdV5vaD1h0lB_MEy8ThGr62LM7_I/s400/1000.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img alt="" src="data:image/png;base64,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" /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" rel="dct:type">Miguel Mendoza eFL</span> by <a href="http://miguelmendozaefl.blogspot.com/" rel="cc:attributionURL">Miguel Mendoza</a> is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>. </span></div>Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-55369923472490531752012-02-16T17:27:00.003-04:302013-03-29T21:13:22.318-04:30Reflections/Overview: Podcasting for the ESL-EFL Classroom. 2011-2012<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinX2wvUD8y27uZJ89ukYulITQcBQE1cOojZt3K6DIIvQgs2nrnzJ0yM7nqRvHMkOyLHU0RFE2hmtuefxU1s53uKozcjkDmM0sJSFGvzKzlb7SbLjyBJJ4B0zhpbiXX9F4U_RQ_/s1600/blogpods700gris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinX2wvUD8y27uZJ89ukYulITQcBQE1cOojZt3K6DIIvQgs2nrnzJ0yM7nqRvHMkOyLHU0RFE2hmtuefxU1s53uKozcjkDmM0sJSFGvzKzlb7SbLjyBJJ4B0zhpbiXX9F4U_RQ_/s320/blogpods700gris.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the second year in a row that I co-moderate the <a href="http://podcastingevo2012.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Podcasting for the ESL-EFL Classroom session</b></a>. This is one of <b><a href="http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/48510148/Call_for_Participation2012" target="_blank">13 free teacher training sessions</a></b> offered by the English Village Online (EVO) this year. This year I had the pleasure to share the co-moderation with Evelyn Izquierdo and Teadira Pérez. In 2011, I <b><a href="http://podcastingevo2011.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">co-moderated</a></b> it along with Evelyn Izquierdo and José Rodríguez. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This session aims at providing basic notions and tools to:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. understand what podcasting is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. create podcasts the easy and difficult way (<b><a href="http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume9/ej36/ej36int/" target="_blank">Stanley, 2006</a></b>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. become familiar on ways to use podcasts in the ESL-EFL classroom</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. create a podcast project</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The session is addressed to beginners or - as we have noticed- to teachers who are familiar with tools like <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity" target="_blank">Audacity</a></b> but have never succeeded in using it since, it seems to be, they are daunted by its sometimes unfriendly interface, apparent threatening look or complicated layout. At the end of the session, they realize how easy it is to use and they can get hooked to this free software to create simple but very creative and almost professional podcasts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">EVO sessions run for five weeks from January to February. The <b><a href="http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/48521330/Podcasting2012" target="_blank">Podcasting for the ESL-EFL Classroom</a></b> uses as a major platform the old, but really helpful and reliable Yahoo Groups. We use it to communicate, announce the start of each week session, answer participants’ queries and welcome newcomers. We also use it, as part of tasks, to share recordings and blogs as well as to keep a record of participants’ information and photos. The other platform we use is Blogger for the Session blog, the Activity blog and the reading blog. Participants use Blogger to create their own e-portfolios.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activities or tasks have been planned in a graded manner, step by step sort of approach, to help participants become familiar with Audacity (the difficult way – <b><a href="http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume9/ej36/ej36int/" target="_blank">Stanley, 2006</a></b>) along with web-based podcast services (the easy way- <b><a href="http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume9/ej36/ej36int/" target="_blank">Stanley, 2006</a></b>). Creating blogs start from Week 2 all the way up to Week 5 when participants showcase them in the Podcasting Fair in Wiziq. Readings also start from understanding basic notions related to podcasting, how it is used in ESL-EFL (Weeks 2-4) and reviewing a pool of websites about podcasting collected by <b><a href="http://teachdigital.pbworks.com/w/page/19791094/podcasting" target="_blank">Wesley Fryer</a></b> (Week 5). Furthermore, tasks are planned to try to encourage participants to work on their own without depending that much on the moderators especially after Week 2. Tutorials come in handy to explore and learn all the tools introduced all along the session. They are also used to clarify certain technical problems participants report in the Yahoo groups. Here’s a quick overview on how the content is organized for this session. (Click on image to enlarge). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can also <b><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/81839642/Description-of-Tasks-Done-During-the-Five" target="_blank">here</a> </b>to read a description of each activities done during each week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the things we have learned while moderating this session is that we should take into account:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Operating systems (e.g. Linux, Windows, Leopard)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Browsers (Internet explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. PC and Mac users </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Participants’ IT skills or expertise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Best time to plan synchronous sessions in international teaching training development sessions like EVO</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. Moderator’s support (e.g. immediacy , close support)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As for the evaluation, participants from the <b><a href="https://voicethread.com/share/1712742/" target="_blank">2011 session</a></b> talked about:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Variety of podcast tools </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. The support of tutors and colleagues</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Moderators’ Immediate response</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Challenging course design, but achievable activities</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Well-planned and selected activities per week</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. Progression of activities (from easy to demanding ones)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7. The potential of some other tools used in the session like Glogster, Blogger, Google docs, Voicethread among others</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. The use of tutorials to provide support and feedback</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9. Confidence to show other students and colleagues how to use podcasts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10. Having access to their own blogs (e-portfolio), session blogs and Yahoo groups even when the session is over.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11. Valuable synchronous sessions focused on review and not on empty chatting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">12. Broadening participants’ knowledge on podcast tools some participants thought they knew well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Participants from the<a href="https://voicethread.com/share/2695567/" target="_blank"> <b>2012 session</b></a> talked about:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Their favorite tool being to our surprise Audacity. One of the participants, however, reported it is not advisable to use by young learners since it might be a bit hard to master. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Some other favorite podcasting tools like Audioboo, Podmatic and Podbean.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Challenging course design, but achievable activities. Some participants suggested advertising it as a class.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Offering a session on videos as the natural next step after podcasting. They especially liked the video tutorials and how they showed a step by step way to create podcasts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. The potential of some other tools used in the session like Glogster, Blogger, Google docs, Voicethread among others</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. Well-planned and selected activities per week</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7. The support of tutors and colleagues </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. The follow up made by tutors on participants’ work each week</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9. Progression of activities (from easy to demanding ones)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As for the moderators’ feedback, it was done using screencasting. This feedback is generally given during Week 5 before participants showcase their work. It is advisable to do this to provide this boost of confidence participants need before showcasing their work in a live session. This feedback consisted in reviewing each page from the blog’s participants providing advice on adding missing information and podcasts and the project itself. </span><br />
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Watch this feedback for one of the participants from the 2011 session:</div>
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Watch this feedback for one of the participants from the 2012 session:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For a future session we should include some other tools like Sound Cloud and refer to the use of mobile technology to record podcasts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are some participants' podcast samples made during 2011 and 20</span>12:<br />
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<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Podbean</span> (First recording using Audacity)</b></div>
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About me: Chris Jeffries (2011)</div>
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<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">About me:</span></b> Kerry (2012)</div>
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Out my Window: Barbara Sakamoto (2011)</div>
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Out my Window: Janet Bianchini (2012)</div>
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Interview: Nina Liakos (2011)</div>
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Interview: Steve K (2012)</div>
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My mystery person: Maryanne Burgos (2011)</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My Mystery person: Natasa Bozic Grojic (2012)</span></div>
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Questions to e-moderators: Sophia Danesino (2012)</div>
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Tongue twister: Jhon Conway (2012)</div>
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Tongue twister: Marie Helene (2011)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yuly Asención(2011)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is a participant' podcast blog (e-portfolio) from 2011 session</span>:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To check out more great participants' blogs and podcast I invite you to visit the blogs for <a href="http://podcastingevo2011.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">2011</a> and <a href="http://podcastingevo2012.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">2012</a> sessions.</span><br />
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Learning Technologies for the Classroom Course. Venezuela</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In February 2011, I started moderating the <b>Learning Technologies</b> (LTs) <b>for the Classroom</b> online course. It is offered by the <b><a href="http://www.britishcouncil.org/venezuela-ingles-entrenamiento-para-profesores-learning-technologies.htm" target="_blank">British Council</a></b> as part of its teacher training development programs for EFL teachers in Venezuela. This course was one of two more offered during this year. The first one, the one delivered from February to March, became a pilot course offered mostly to public university teachers. The next two were offered to any EFL teacher interested in learning about integrating technology in the language classroom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This course aims at:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. introducing participants to basic notions related to Learning Technologies (LTs).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. becoming familiar with LTs lessons and basic digital skills</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. becoming aware of LTs issues like cyber-bullying </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. reflecting about LTs and their potential application in the language classroom</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The LTs course is delivered in Moodle and it is divided into 5 topics (Preparation, Using the Web, Using Office Software, Projects, The Interactive Web). Each topic has got several subtopics called modules (17 in total) having a variable number of sections (from 7 to 12). In each section participants must do certain tasks or activities. The content was selected and added to the course by British Council people in London. It includes understanding what LTs are, basic web skills (searching, evaluating and selecting websites), becoming familiar with web-based lessons, Internet issues (copyright and cyber safety), Office software (Word and PowerPoint) the web 2.0 (blogs, wikis, podcasts, videos social networks) the future (broad mention on mobile learning and virtual worlds). This online course lasts 8 weeks including a break to catch up between weeks 4 and 5.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The e-moderator is responsible for:</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2N47ixiEuTt0HA3qCb8D61mXCu0dObEZKbzYUmnzxupzWY5ytFm6IcTpWB_AefAwdpZNu_K6NatmJ1rMNN-J8PVMhgmhgocqJWA54NQR1_EqqxIopGIJ0FruAiNh4MFS3QPZ/s1600/moderator.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2N47ixiEuTt0HA3qCb8D61mXCu0dObEZKbzYUmnzxupzWY5ytFm6IcTpWB_AefAwdpZNu_K6NatmJ1rMNN-J8PVMhgmhgocqJWA54NQR1_EqqxIopGIJ0FruAiNh4MFS3QPZ/s1600/moderator.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">A. </span></b> providing close support to participants especially during the first three weeks (helping them to have access to the platform, becoming familiar with topic sections, sorting out technical problems, making them feel “at home”)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>B. </b></span> Sending weekly announcements/reminders about: 1. The start of a new week and content to work with; 2. synchronous sessions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>C. </b></span> keeping track of “lost souls”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>D. </b></span> encouraging people to participate in forums.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>E.</b></span> choosing external web tools that can be accessed even after the course have finished (e.g. blogs, tutorials in BliptTV , Slideshare)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">F.</span></b> sending cell reminders to participants on activities to be done during the week.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">G.</span> </b> planning synchronous sessions every two weeks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>H. </b></span> recording tutorials (e.g. show how to use web tools or resize images)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>I. </b></span> planning a last live session for participants to talk about a topic they liked form the course and how they would use it in their teaching context.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>J.</b></span> sending reports/results to British Council people in Venezuela.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Even though participants are from Venezuela there are no F2F sessions at all. In previous online courses I moderated for the British Council at least the induction session was F2F. This time it was not the case. The induction session is online. During this session, participants are welcome and receive a Moodle walkthrough in <a href="http://www.wiziq.com/" target="_blank"><b>Wiziq</b></a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I will briefly write about three things I care about during the delivery of this course: teacher immediacy, number of activities per week, external web tools. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">A.</span></b> <b><i>T</i></b><i><b>eacher immediacy</b></i>: I was concerned participants would feel they were only going to able to interact with me in forums, or instant messaging from Moodle. Chatting would be one way to communicate, but there’s no chat available in the module sections and the e-moderator is not allowed to add Moodle resources or activities at all. So I planned a one-hour <b><a href="http://www.wiziq.com/" target="_blank">Wiziq session</a></b> every two weeks on Sunday mornings. This allows participants to ask questions or clarify doubts while the moderator reviews content in the virtual classroom. Also I started to use the mobile phone to text weekly messages (e.g. reminders) and <a href="http://mailvu.com/" target="_blank"><b>Mailvu</b></a> to <b><a href="http://mailvu.com/msg/i0c611df0966148dfada59f66a188f096" target="_blank">send video emails</a></b> during the first weeks of the course.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">B.</span></b> <b><i>Quantity of activities:</i></b> Participants are busy teachers. I believe too many activities in an online teaching development course could overwhelm participants or put them off a bit leading them to drop out; some of them may end up lurking or have an on and off participation. Also, this may encourage participants to request for (frequent) extensions to finish their tasks. In the LTs course, participants were supposed to do about 12 to 16 activities per week (two modules). Fortunately, after getting the go ahead from a British council representative in Venezuela, I created a PDF document showing participants activities they MUST do, Optional activities and the ones they could skip. In some cases, some activities checked as MUST were edited a bit. So, for example, in some MUST activities participants were asked to skip forums or wikis especially when there were too many in a module. (See sample <b><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/79212471/Week-8" target="_blank">content distribution</a></b>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now I will describe how this was considered for each of the three courses delivered during 2011. It varied somewhat especially for the first two courses.</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pilot group (cohort February-April 2011)</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this first course:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Reducing the number of activities depended on topic and type of task. This allowed participants to see tasks attainable and enjoyable, not a race against time to accomplish them before the deadline. A PDF document was created and also uploaded to the Plenary Forum showing participants MUST , OPTIONAL and SKIP activities. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Mobile phone was introduced as an instant way to keep in touch with participants during the week.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Blogs created in Blogger were used to reflect on learning process. The e-moderator created <b><a href="http://reflectingonlt.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">a blog</a></b> himself to collect and showcase participants’ blogs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Tutorials were recorded to: a) show participants how to have access to Moodle; b. use certain webtools, c. show how to solve technical problems.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Three Wiziq sessions were delivered during this course: the first one to welcome participants; another one during week 4; the last one during week 8.</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Second group (Cohort June-August 2011)</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Content distribution (PDF document with modules and activities per week) was updated.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. <b><a href="http://mailvu.com/" target="_blank">Mailvu</a></b> was introduced as a tool to show them who<b> <a href="http://mailvu.com/msg/i0c611df0966148dfada59f66a188f096" target="_blank">their tutor was</a></b>, to make announcements or clarify doubts during the first two weeks of the course. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Synchronous sessions in Wiziq were offered every two weeks. 4 sessions in total not including the welcome session delivered in Wiziq as well. This time, for the last Wiziq session, participants were asked to choose a topic from the modules and tell why it was important / interesting for him/her and how it was related to his/her teaching context. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. The cell phone was used to send reminders and announcements along the course.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Participants wrote heir reflections in Blogger (Here's a sample: <b><a href="http://mgalea8882.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-first-impressions-on-netiquette.html" target="_blank">Miguel Galea</a></b>). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. More tutorials were recorded to: 1. show how a web tool was used; 2, how to deal with certain technical issues. A <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bcJwcVOVqZ4" target="_blank">compilation of tutorials</a></b> were made available at the end of the course.</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Their group (Cohort October –December 2011)</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Remains the same as cohort June-August 2011. Mailvu was not used due to technical problems with audio. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are sample presentations made by Ronny Piñero and Marisela Ferrer during the last wiziq session in December 2011. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's the </span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/79207340/Lesson-Plan-Podcasting" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><b>lesson plan</b></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> for this presentation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's the </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/79207037/Taking-the-Plunge" target="_blank">lesson plan</a> </b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">for this presentation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Note: The reference about "external tools" is based on a webinar given by <a href="http://www.visualcv.com/hcherov" target="_blank">Henry Chero</a> in <a href="http://www.redcled.net/" target="_blank"><b>CLED2011</b></a>.</span>Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-18386164158934855202011-08-15T20:03:00.018-04:302011-08-16T19:07:33.569-04:30Screencasting & interactive videos for teacher development<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using
screencasting software or services to record what you do on your computer has become, in my
humble opinion, one of the most useful tools for teacher development and
potentially useful for teaching and learning in the EFL-ESL classroom.
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free services like <b><a href="http://www.screenr.com/" target="_blank">Screenr</a></b>, <b><a href="http://camstudio.org/" target="_blank">CamStudio</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.techsmith.com/jing/" target="_blank">Jing</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/" target="_blank">Screen-O-matic</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.tildee.com/activate.php?key=HbmCwkFvIqfiWeOC2ksoUF7h" target="_blank">Tildee</a></b> and paid software like <b><a href="http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/" target="_blank">Camtasia</a></b> to make these recordings. Screencasting
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(<b><a href="http://blip.tv/miguel-show/podomatic-4657536" target="_blank">How-to videos</a></b>)</span></li>
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(eg. writing or <b><a href="http://podcastingevo2011activities.blogspot.com/p/graduation-party.html" target="_blank">online projects</a></b>) </span></li>
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<b><a href="http://blip.tv/miguel-show/ejercicio-a-unidad-12-4845819" target="_blank">certain skill works</a></b>; giving short explanations on language aspects)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><b><a href="http://k12online.ning.com/forum/topics/planificacion-y-diseno-de" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">make presentations</span></a></b></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Screencasting
is not only a great web tool for teachers, but students can also use it to
showcase a project; to describe their online portfolios; for making
presentations; to describe a picture among other things.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I have been
using screencasting for some teacher development courses I have participated as moderator or comoderator
this year. One of them is the English Village Online. I used it as co-moderator in a podcasting course to show participants how to record and publish podcasts and to provide
feedback to them on their final projects (inspired on <b><a href="http://www.russellstannard.com/research.html" target="_blank">Russell Stunnard’s work</a></b> about screencasting & feedback). Also I have used screencasting to record tutorials for <a href="http://www.britishcouncil.org/venezuela-ingles-entrenamiento-para-profesores-learning-technologies.htm" target="_blank"><b>The Learning Technologies for the Classroom </b></a>course offered by the <b><a href="http://www.britishcouncil.org/venezuela.htm" target="_blank">BritishCouncil</a> </b>(Venezuela) to show participants how to:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">1, have
access to the course in Moodle and give them a walkthrough on the course content.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">2. use
Wiziq as our virtual classroom</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">3. create a blog for participants’ reflections </span></div>
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certain web tools introduced in the course modules.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">For this course, I
recorded 11 tutorials in total using Camtasia. If you are going to use a free screencasting service you have to make sure you can download or save the video to your computer and that it is in one of the format accepted by Youtube </span><span lang="EN-GB">(.AVI, .3GP,
.WMV, .MOV, .MP4,</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span>.MPEG, .FLV, .MKV). <span lang="EN-GB">Making this interactive video compilation would make it easier for participants to have access to tutorials from one single place. This would keep participants from having to bookmark and watch the tutorials from separated links. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Now how did I come up with this idea? I
remembered having bookmarked this article in Diigo called <b><a href="http://www.knewton.com/blog/edtech/education-edtech/2010/12/15/how-to-make-an-interactive-lesson-using-youtube" target="_blank">How to make an interactive lesson in Youtube</a></b>. And it suddenly hit me I could sort of do more or less the same thing making a video compilation instead of a lesson. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I carefully read the article and watch the videos from Knewton about preparing for the GMAT. Next I had to "migrate" (so to speak) the tutorials I had uploaded from BlipTV to Youtube.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> Once I had done that I started <a href="http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc382/neruda1997/planvideofinal.jpg" target="_blank"><b>planning out the video compilation</b></a>. From this plan, I realized I had to record some screencasts to take participants to the tutorials in an orderly fashion. To record this videos I used my webcam, Powerpoint and Camtasia. I recorded 5 screencasts:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">1. The first one called "Home" was recorded to greet and invite participants to start watching the videos by clicking on "Tutorials". </span><br />
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3. The second one called the "Main Menu" grouped tutorials into "Access", "Blogger" and "Modules".<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"> 4. The last three are "submenus" for Access, Blogger and Modules. These menus provide access to the tutorials. </span></div>
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Just to close this post, I recently learned from the fantastic Richard Byrne that there's a service called <b><a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/08/viewbix-make-youtube-videos-interactive.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freetech4teachers%2FcGEY+%28Free+Technology+for+Teachers%29" target="_blank">Viewbix</a></b> for making interactive videos. Check it out and let me know what you think about it.
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<br />Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-22061443563831480372011-08-09T21:01:00.003-04:302011-08-09T21:25:02.709-04:30Mantweet, Womantweet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yesterday I came accross this study on <span class="bold"><i><b>daily patterns of life in Twitte</b><b>r messages </b></i></span>when reading <b>Michael Rundell</b>'s post (<b><a href="http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/you-say-lovely-i-say-great" target="_blank">You say "lovely", I say "great"</a> </b>- How "Beatlish" can that be). It shows according to gender how frequent a word is used. This study was carried out by the <b>Language, Interaction an Computation Laboratory</b> at the University of Trento, Italy.<br />
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The website <b><a href="http://www.tweetolife.com/gender/" target="_blank">Tweetolife</a></b> has got a "lovely", "cute" webpage to experiment a bit with word or phrase queries and learn, for example, how frequently men say "fabulous" and when they use it or how frequently women say "dude" and when they use it as well.<br />
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If you hover the cursor over the blue bar for <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">men</span></b>, you will read 24%. Now if you do the same over the pink bar for <b><span style="color: #e06666;">women</span></b>, you will get 76% (mmm...blue and pink; how stereotypical that is). If you click on "Detailed Query" you will find when men and women use this word. Apparently men use it when talking about sports while women when talking about food!!!.<br />
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Queries are based on thousands of tweets from Twitter collected by the university of Edinburgh. This gives an interesting use to Twitter to research about vocabulary or grammar use for example. Would this king of web tools would be useful for teachers? learners? Would this be useful when writing dialogues? or any other type of writing task? Do you think it has got any application in the language classroom or it is just an interesting tool to explore about, say, gender stereotypes in class? </div>
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Lately I have been writing more entries for my blog and posts in the forums for courses I delivered for the British Council. As a non-native English speaker, sometimes I'm in doubt about the right word or phrase to use. Also, when I am rehearsing for my presentations or recording tutorials and doubt strikes me again, I turn to one of the best online dictionaries I have come accross: The MacMillan Online Dictionary.</div>
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What Do I like about it? First, its slick and sort of "minimalist" <b><a href="http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc382/neruda1997/Mcmillan.png" target="_blank">presentation</a></b> caught my fancy. Secondly, the easy way to search words/phrases and all the info I can get including pronunciation.</div>
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Have a peek at this image, isn't that a page you feel like you are going to get what you want? The lay-out, in my humble opinion, is clean and simple. Information is not cluttered. It goes from top to bottom. From Search engine to dictionary features/content. You can clearly identify three sections;</div>
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3. MacMillan dictionaries and mobile apps.</div>
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The design is as clean and simple as the lay-out. Red, black and white as the main colour for fonts, headers and drawings. Fonts are easy-to-read. Few pictures or drawings. All this makes navigation easy and pleasurable. </div>
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1. look up word's meaning, its pronunciation, collocations and maybe prasal verbs.</div>
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2. make sure I am using the word appropriatley. You can get info about cultural notes, word stories, offensive words an metaphors.</div>
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3. check how frequent a word is. It is useful for my ESP courses at the university.</div>
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4. find synonyms in the Thesaurus.</div>
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This is really helpful when I write a blog entry or a post in forums. Also, it's really handy when I
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Searching is easy. You can either search in the <b><a href="http://www.macmillandictionary.com/" target="_blank">MacMillan webpage</a></b> or add it to your list in the Firefox serach bar and get definitions in a flash from its tool bar.<br />
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Another nice feature is that words like "snap" has got sound effect. I think it is easier to click on a sound effect icon and make our students listen to it than us trying to ackwardly impersonate the sound.<br />
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It has got an interesting video like <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2cCZX106AE" target="_blank">What's Your English</a></b>.</div>
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3. For speaking to check pronunciation (althought chekcing pronounciation for reaidng can be useful as well).</div>Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-43492797496326764702011-08-04T20:31:00.004-04:302011-08-10T18:57:47.221-04:30What a ride! The RSCON3 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For the second time, I participated as a presenter in an online conference thanks to the unstoppable & tireless <b><a href="http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/" target="_blank">Shelly Sánchez Terrell</a>.</b> As usual, Shelly DMed in Twitter and asked me if I was interested in participating in <b><a href="http://reformsymposium.com/" target="_blank">RSCON3</a></b>. She suggested I could talk about the Flip videos (as I did last October in the <a href="http://the-ve-blog.blogspot.com/2010/10/flip-cameras-in-language-classroom.html" target="_blank"><b>3rd</b> <b>Virtual Round Table Conference</b></a>). I was a bit hesitant since, as we all know, Flip videos won't be sold anymore by <b><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20053337-266.html#ixzz2ziSELQrU" target="_blank">Cisco</a></b>. However, the always clear-sighted Shelly went something like: "<i>Come on, Miguel, Flip videos sales will still be available for some time and besides you can always translate what you can do with them into </i><i>smartphones or digital cameras)</i>". With such powerful argument, how could I have said "No". So I started to look into the reasons why Cisco had made such dreadful and, in my opinion, unintelligent move; finding out about some other "Flip" alternatives; updating images and content from previous presentation; and trying to keep in mind the <b><a href="http://blog-efl.blogspot.com/2011/05/better-five-ws-than-because-its-there.html" target="_blank">Five W´s</a></b> (Graham Stanley). So a revisited version was born: <b>"<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mike07/flip-videos" target="_blank">Flip cams see; smartphones and digital cameras do</a>" </b>(<b><a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2011-07-30.0738.M.8089E1DA5033324B8AE283B4D4926D.vcr&sid=2008350" target="_blank">View recording here</a></b>).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the other hand, someone I met during this event and who definitely deserves all my respect is Clive Elsmore. What a way to organize the event from welcoming presenters to scheduling presentations and offering training sessions in Elluminate. My admiration also goes to the rest of the organizers: Shelly Terrell, Ina Chia, Mark Barnes, Christopher Rogers, Lisa Dabbs, Melissa Tran, Cecilia Lemos, Jerry Blumerganten and Kelly Tenkely. Amazing <b><a href="http://reformsymposium.com/conferences/rscon3/rscon3-organizers/" target="_blank">A-team</a></b>! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An icing to the cake in this event was asking presenters to<b> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ReformSymposium" target="_blank">record themselves</a></b> giving self-intro and briefly talking about their presentations. I had fun and started to come to terms to seeing myself talking in a video and that's quite an achievement!!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Having a moderator in our sessions is also as important as the presenter himself/herself in online environments. He/she formally starts the session; maybe provides a few rules to follow (Netiquette); keeps reminding people about how the session goes; encourages people to participate; announces the end of the session; or just simply (which is enough) provides support by letting the presenter know he/she is not alone. I was lucky Cecilia Lemos moderated my session and to top it all off Shelly Terrell filled in for Cecilia towards the end of the session. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now what about the presenters? I'd like to reflect a bit on the responsabilities the presenter has got in online events like the RSCOn3 and how fulfilling these resposabilities can help organizers bring the event to successul completion. That is, I have always heard a lot about the responsabiltities of the organizers and moderators, but what about ours to help things get done smoothly, properly and on time. Here's what I think our responsabilities are:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>1. reply</b> emails from organizers in a timely manner. It is so awful when a presenter accepts to participate in an event and replies messages from organizers days (or even weeks) later. This I believe affects having on time schedules and conference website.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>6.</b> <b>rehearse</b> your presentation even if you are an "experienced" presenter.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>7. try</b> not to clutter your slides with too much text! People login to listen to you not to "listen" to the slides. A good example of Powerpoint presentations, from the sessions I attended in RSCON3, are <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/new-technologies-and-the-future-of-learning" target="_blank">Steve Wheeler</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/DavidDodgson/no-code-written-feedback-error-correction-in-the-language-classroom" target="_blank">Dave Hodgson</a></b>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, one of the things I like from online events like this one, is how comfortably you can choose what you want to see either from home or your office; from your PC/laptop or smartphone. No one notices if you have get absent for a while (grabbing a cuppa of coffee or answering the phone). And even if you miss a piece of an interesting presentation you can always watch the recording. How great is that! Can you do that with F2F presentations? very few, I think. This RSCON3 made me think a bit about the differences/similarities between online and F2F conferences. <b><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1KX57dXLH-oBiHD_fiZuO4s8aJUFnM_Z6q8KjuVbfNQM" target="_blank">Here they are</a></b>. Feel free to add more.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have got to end this short entry by thanking Shelly for "pushing" me to participate in this kind of online events. I'd rather go unnoticed, but these opportunities may happen once in a lifetime. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hope next time I have more time to help maybe as moderator! Kudos RSCON3 organizers! What a ride in three fantastic days!</span>Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-1733004475706886192011-07-24T16:00:00.001-04:302011-08-04T20:33:51.822-04:30Reform Symposium 2011 (July 29th, 30th & 31st)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In a few days, nearly 8000 educators from over 40 different countries are expected to attend a free 3 day virtual conference, <a href="http://reformsymposium.com/" target="_blank">The Reform Symposium</a>,
#RSCON3. This free award-nominated e-conference is going to take place
on July 29-31st, 2011. Participants can attend this online conference
from the comfort of their homes or anywhere that has Internet access.
This amazing conference provides educators new or currently active on
social networks the opportunity to connect with educators and
professionals in the field of education worldwide. With over 12
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<li>View <a href="https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmiH3CkSSpYxdGVZbXJvc3ZBcW43OUJUcVpRb0d2WEE&hl=en_GB#gid=18" target="_blank">the schedule</a> to plan which presentations you will attend!</li>
<li><a href="http://reformsymposium.com/conferences/rscon3/rscon3-flyer/" target="_blank">Download the flyer</a> to share with your school!</li>
<li>Watch this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31DX3RYG5I0&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">Youtube video of January 2011's conference</a>!</li>
<li>See if your school will count this as <a href="http://reformsymposium.com/professional-development/" target="_blank">continuing education credit</a>!</li>
<li>Consider hosting a <a href="http://reformsymposium.com/plan-a-viewing-party-for-rscon3/" target="_blank">viewing party</a>!</li>
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We would like to thank the <a href="http://reformsymposium.com/conferences/rscon3/rscon3-organizers/" target="_blank">incredible organizers</a>- Shelly Terrell, Kelly Tenkely, Chris Rogers, Lisa Dabbs, Melissa Tran, <span class="il">Clive</span> Elsmore, Mark Barnes, Ian Chia, Cecilia Lemos, Jerry Blumengarten, and Kyle Pace- and <a href="http://www.stevehargadon.com/" target="_blank">Steve Hargadon</a> of Classroom 2.0 and The Future of Education online communities for making this incredible conference possible.</div>Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-92132067909335223772011-06-19T15:30:00.003-04:302011-06-19T17:12:13.865-04:30Interviewing Juandon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have gotta say this has been the perfect excuse to find some time to write in my blog. It also coincides with the close start of holidays at the uni – to be honest. This post will be about someone I recently interviewed. How did I decide to interview him and learn a bit about him? Well, I have got to literally point to Mr. <a href="http://blog.edulang.com/category/about-moi/"><b>Brad Patterson</b></a>. Yes, the very same who started this wonderful idea in his <b><a href="http://blog.edulang.com/pln-interviews-whos-next/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed">Journée in Language</a></b>. It is about interviewing someone from our vey own PLN. So a few weeks ago, he DMed me in Twitter and smartly encouraged me to interview this person. So let’s see what this Twitter friend and part of my PLN answered to the 5 standard questions Mr. Patterson came about to get know them. Without further ado: <b>Juan Domingo Farnós Miró</b>. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First: Who is Juan Domingo Farnós Miró?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Juan Domingo Farnós Miró works as teacher for special needs students using ICT at a school in Santa Barbara, Spain. He also works as an online tutor for “<b><a href="http://www.gencat.cat/">Generalitat de Cataluña</a></b>” using e-learning and Web 2.0 for training teachers from primary, high school and higher education. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He has got a fantastic blog called “<b><a href="http://juandomingofarnos.wordpress.com/">juandon.Innovación y conocimiento</a></b>” (juandon.Innovation and knowledge). It'd be great if you have a peek at it!</span><br />
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</td> <td style="color: white; text-align: left;"><b>1) If your students were to label you with 3 adjectives, what might they be? </b></td> </tr>
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<b></b></td> <td style="color: white; text-align: left;"><b>Guru, innovator and creative...That's the way my students actually call me online and offline.</b></td> </tr>
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<b></b></td> <td style="color: white; text-align: left;"><b>Seasonal fruits and fresh non-alcoholic beverages </b></td> </tr>
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<b></b></td> <td style="color: white; text-align: left;"><b>I reckon I'd have been a writer. My family always wanted me to be an architect, though.</b></td> </tr>
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<br /></td> <td style="color: white; text-align: left;"><b>One of the most difficult things to do for any teacher and myself is to put oneself in the students' shoes. You should be able to understand what they want. A teacher should know what a student really needs. Knowing how to provide help and make their learning an easy ride is a must. <br />I have been working as a teacher and principal for a long time in educational institutions and organizations of all sorts. However, working as a principal has taken up most of my time at the expense of doing what I passionately love the most: being part of my students' learning process. You might be wondering why I didn't say "teaching". Because I do believe I have never taught anything to anybody. I have always encouraged my students to learn by doing. This doesn't mean I haven't worked as much as any other teacher, you know, providing materials, scenarios, orientation to make their learning easy.</b></td> </tr>
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<b><br /></b></td> <td style="color: white; text-align: left;"><b>I have read so many books. I reckon I have read entire libraries since I have worked helping in several of them. I have even offered support in the digitalization of libraries in some cities in Spain.<br /><br />The last book I read...Well, I never read a book a bit at a time; I read several...I am currently reading the Koran for the fifth time. This time I am reading this book in French...</b><br />
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I was invited by <b><a href="http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/">Shelly Terrel </a></b>some weeks ago to participate in the<b> <a href="http://www.virtual-round-table.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network">3rd Virtual Round Table Conference</a></b>. I thought it was a great opportunity for me to have my first online presentation and a real honour to present along with people like <span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Lindsey Clandfield </span></span>, Russell Stunnard, Alexandra Francisco, Vicky Saummel, Doris Molero, Marisa
Constantinides, Berni Wall, Mike Harrison,<span style="font-size: small;">Guido Europaantje, Graham Stanley, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB"> Paul Maglione, </span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Teresa Almeida d'Eca, Carla Arena, Erika Cruvinel, Daf Gonzalez, Vance Stevens and Jennifer Verschoo among others. So I decided to talk about, and also following Shelly's suggestion, using flips cameras in the language classroom inspired on the experience I have had recording videos for a sign language course in Venezuela.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">I have got to describe this experience as </span></span><span id="search" style="visibility: visible;">amazingly wonderful.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB"> Shelly helped me become familiar with the platform two days before the event (Thanks Shelly!). During my presentation, <b>Heike Philp</b>, the moderator, was really nice even though she was really busy multitasking with different presentations taking place all along. Even though, I had a small crowd, they were really great and supportive. Helen, Shumbles, Teadira (colleague & friend) and Valeria made several questions and comments and helped a lot to make this a nice, fun presentation. Shumbles went the extra mile and recorded a video using a flip camera during my presentation: </span></span><i><b>Virtual Round Table online Conf #vrt10 best seat at conf</b></i>. Here's the video and have fun!<br />
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And here's the presentation in Adobe connect. Click on the image to have access to the room.<br />
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If you would like to visit the website created for hosting the videos for the Venezuelan Sing Language course, write to my e-mail mmendoza97@gmail.com and I'll send an invite to join this site.</div>
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</div>Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-770697116482654532010-09-19T18:00:00.001-04:302010-09-19T18:01:36.976-04:30Zach's FundraiserThis is for Zachariah, an intelligent and resourceful Deaf student from
Kenya, who deserves a helping hand in attending the English Lanuage
Institute of Gallaudet University. He has been accepted but his tuition
of $27,000, which will be paid directly from us to the English Lanuage
Institute must be raised, and he needs money for expenses, such as air
fare from Nairobi to Washington D.C. <br />
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The first 3 days of this campaign were good. Now a week later, and no
more contributions are coming in. Please join us in this effort!<br />
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Here is the normal version of the 4 Zach Videos. First, my talking head
provides context for this effort during the first 3 minutes, before
you meet Zachariah, and Alice who interviews and interprets for us.<br />
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Ok. I didn't use my Flip video camcorder for teaching or practising english. I use it for providing practise of a language we sometimes not consider it as such : Sign language. In our country, it is not still considered officially a language. It has been recognized by law its use among the deaf community, though (Art. 80. Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela). <br />
In my previous post I wrote how I ended up using the Flip Video to recorder the signs we had already learned all along the course so far. Here I will tell you how I used it, the editing process and publishing the videos.</div>
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Just as brief reminder (in case you haven'r read my previous post) I'm currently coordinating and taking a <b><a href="http://caedeba.wetpaint.com/page/Curso+de+Lengua+de+Se%C3%B1as+Venezolana">Venezuelan Sign Language course</a></b> offered by "Comisón de Apoyo al Estudiante con Discapacidad de la Escuela de Bibliotecología y Archivología" (<b><a href="http://caedeba.wetpaint.com/">CAEDEBA</a></b>). In english, it'd be something like "Committe to Support Students with Discapacities in the School of Librairanship". This course has wonderful printed material designed by Aymara Hernández, our teacher. However, another more dynamic visual element was much needed: videos to practice during the week to remember how to make each sign. So I suggested this to Aymara and classmastes. They just loved the idea. Next step, I purchased a Flip Video and started planning how to record these videos.</div>
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I recorded some of the langauge signs holding the camcorder horizontally. Not such a good idea. How was I going to flip the videos vertically? I didn't think about this during the recording sessions. But no panick. I decided to venture myself and search the net to see If I managed to find a software to flip the videos vertically. The first one I used was called: <a href="http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Video-Flip-and-Rotate.htm">Free Video Clip and Rotate</a>. It was really andy until it started to send an error message everytime I tried to flip the video. I almost fainted! I was halfway the editing process!! However, I give it another tried and kept on searching on the net and found this:<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.x2xsoft.com/productlist/fliprotate.html">X2X Free Video Flip and Rotate</a>. Easy to use, was able to flip videos and no error messages! The only problem when rotating the videos was its quality; not as good as the ones I recorded vertically.</span></span></div>
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<b><a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/07/flip-your-instruction-with-flip-video.html">Flip your instruction with Flip Video cameras </a></b><br />
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<a href="http://edudemic.com/2010/06/43-surprising-ways-to-use-video-cameras-in-the-classroom/"><span style="font-size: small;">43 Surprising Ways To Use Video Cameras In The Classroom</span></a></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.livesofteachers.com/2010/09/29/watch-yourself-digital-video-recording-in-language-education/">Watch yourself - digital video recording in language education </a></span></h2>
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</div>Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-46896111476249770362010-08-23T10:54:00.008-04:302010-08-24T15:13:10.208-04:30Flip it; Flipt it Good (the story first)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqKRKCl6TZw1VhtsSkjxsP9BWFH7Kj4GExzaI3Ranmh0W5Na688t9GjlkOFMmgDyoJEoqWgH17dCjko1aCAIWtr5frxSTBnkb88rhhF6NYkrT4VZx94FpyZEjAiE9Abzzpatqa/s1600/videocamcorders.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqKRKCl6TZw1VhtsSkjxsP9BWFH7Kj4GExzaI3Ranmh0W5Na688t9GjlkOFMmgDyoJEoqWgH17dCjko1aCAIWtr5frxSTBnkb88rhhF6NYkrT4VZx94FpyZEjAiE9Abzzpatqa/s200/videocamcorders.png" width="183" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had read about this tiny camcorders before... But I didn't think they were available for sale in my country so I let the thought of getting one fade in its own time. This was last year.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Necessity is the mother of all things, though. A few months ago I started coordinating and taking a course on <b><a href="http://caedeba.wetpaint.com/page/Curso+de+Lengua+de+Se%C3%B1as+Venezolana" style="color: #073763;" target="_blank">sign language</a> </b>in the school I teach at the university. At some point along the course, I realized something was missing. The teacher was great. The material she designed herself was amazing, but we needed something else to practice. A visual reference, to put it some way, to practice each sign we learned in class. We started to notice as the vocabulary grow we could easily forget the signs from one week to another since it was a one-week-class session. We only had the handouts with pictures to review the signs. It was easy when you were learning things like "mother", "father", "cat" , but when it came to learning the "numbers" (ordinals and cardinals) things got pretty tough!</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So all of a sudden, I remembered my readings on this tiny camcorders and thought they would be really helpful to add this much needed visual element to our sign language course. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next thing I told my teacher, Aymara Hernández, and classmates about it . They loved the idea! </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I didn't give it much thought on brands since I had already read about the Flip video camcorder so I went for it. I visited their site; read reviews; checked if it was available in my country (luckily it was); watched video quality in some Youtube samples. By chance, Ian James had started tweeting his<b> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ij64#p/u/1/S2WbLbYY7sA" style="color: #073763;" target="_blank">recordings</a></b> with a Flip video camcorder making my decision final to purchase it.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To make this first part of my post short, after purchasing my Flip video I instantly noticed how easy and comfy it is to carry it everywhere as opposed to carrying a, say, handycam. Easy to plug into my PC or laptop to download videos. It has got this "USB arm" similar to a flash drive. For educational purposes, the quality of the videos is really good. The software is very easy to use. You can get snap shots from the videos (if your hand hadn't been that shaky). You can also easily upload videos to Youtube, Facebook, My Space and some other sites. Downsize? You need a decent light so the video won't come out dark (<b style="color: #0c343d;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ij64#p/u/2/ZiA5TSgvUJQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: #073763;">This</span> <span style="color: #073763;">one</span></a></b><span style="color: #073763;"> </span>recorded by Ian doesn't look that bad, though) and never, ever record horizontally (If you have and don't know what to do some solutions in my next post). The screen might be bit small, but you can always zoom in. Btw, Ian James suggests using <b style="color: #073763;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfj_yabT_Gk"><span style="color: #073763;">a</span> <span style="color: #073763;">tripod</span></a></b><span style="color: #073763;"> </span>with telescopic legs. Great idea! This will help you avoid recording shaky images and ,of course, the result will be way much better. Next post: Flip it; Flipt it Good (recording and editing).<br />
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</div>Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-6023229098355628682010-06-25T22:23:00.012-04:302010-08-24T15:12:07.691-04:30Going digital<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cusuario%5CCONFIG%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-VE"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_K2RhNtcTTjh5qQF0uQqsHR21HFqa_EprZNpH4USXkf-TT6KBkGiBUiOFY-FKRsjYElZ1wd4UfbXIMkt1pVPHdNjYqcVDMEwvEdxhnE1YopCq0S74UVHu9HS8ZecMFqqjyobp/s1600/LindsayWebProfile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_K2RhNtcTTjh5qQF0uQqsHR21HFqa_EprZNpH4USXkf-TT6KBkGiBUiOFY-FKRsjYElZ1wd4UfbXIMkt1pVPHdNjYqcVDMEwvEdxhnE1YopCq0S74UVHu9HS8ZecMFqqjyobp/s320/LindsayWebProfile.jpg" width="204" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">The Consultants e-community has been offering interesting live events for those who have attended their online courses. The last one, streamed in Elluminate last June 25th, was about digital coursebooks. It was moderated by <b><a href="http://www.theconsultants-e.com/courses/tutors/dalmeida/index.asp">Ana Falcao</a></b> and having as guest speaker<b> <a href="http://www.macmillanenglish.com/AuthorProfile.aspx?id=29144">Lindsay Clandfield</a></b> talking about <b><i>Flexible learning in a digital age</i></b>. </span><br />
<span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">This presentation was about how the digital components of a coursebook should flexible to the needs and expectations students may have when learning a foreing language. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">Lindsay said, at the beginning of his talk, that coursebooks and (their) workbooks are becoming digital each day around the world. This is in response to the access language learners have got not only to loads of materials online ranging from (free) websites offering students the possibility to practice a foreing languge as well as sofware and hardware (hand-held devices) to listen to audios or videos either offline or online. This hasn’t escaped the publishers’ eyes. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">During this presentation Lindsay talked about:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">1) the traditional components of a paper-based book (Teacher’s book, student’s book and workbook)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">2) digitized components: digital book for projection, teachers’ resource discs and website, e-workbook. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="ES-VE">The digital coursebooks and interactive whiteboards. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">It has to do with the possibilty of projecting digital material using an IWB. Shamelesly, in Venezuela we are lagging behind (and will be for a long time) when it comes to using IWBs and needles to say digital coursebooks to project in the classrooom using this kind of interactive display. As far as I know, the British Council here has got a IWB and some few private schools located in afluent areas in Caracas.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="ES-VE">The teachers’ resource site/disc.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzFafiIl2hCcHVKkdLigYIoLfDyQzORoXl2lP2-_JKc_NsMXjISek1soAlvTfdYK-eWsdReLzdw9eq7gESvJY1tBo5uMoQRu1QzM4LnbkHE6gi9WhPLQZqxclSkTOYf_OY8KhO/s1600/book.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzFafiIl2hCcHVKkdLigYIoLfDyQzORoXl2lP2-_JKc_NsMXjISek1soAlvTfdYK-eWsdReLzdw9eq7gESvJY1tBo5uMoQRu1QzM4LnbkHE6gi9WhPLQZqxclSkTOYf_OY8KhO/s200/book.png" width="200" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">I find it quite appealing to have a teacher’s resource website. However, some colleagues might still hang on to the teacher’s paper based format. Why do I find it appealing? You can have access to the website anywhere. It can be improved and updated easily and if this done following teacher's feedback much better. Also you’ll never lose your material. Lessons or extra-material will always be available on the site. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="ES-VE">The e-workbook <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">It is a CD-ROM and students can carry it anywhere (this might be not such a good idea, though). Students can practice and repeat activities as many times as they want.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">Before Lindsay showed us an example of a digital material, he said that it will be accesed from handheld devices in a very close future.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">To illustrate all this, Lindsay Clandfield showed us, as lead writer, a good example of a digital material: <b><i>Global</i></b> and its e-workboook (the first of its kind I understand). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">During the walkthrough, he showed us the different contents of the workbook. From its location and format to how the student’s work was saved and shown in the markbook.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="ES-VE">What did I like the most about this e-workbook?: </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">1) It is attached to the student’s book as a sort of User's Guide booklet having the CD-ROM inside. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">2) It can be installed in the student’s PC or laptop.<br />
3) Some exercises can be printed (PDF) and videos downloaded (MP3).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">4) Captions can be removed from videos.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">5) There are videos for practicing language and authentic videos (like BBC programs)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">6) There’s a literary section for reading.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">7) You can click on a word , phrase or sentence and listen to it several times (It reminds me of Speaker text).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">8) There’s the markbook. It keeps track of what students have been doing so far and results can be exported as a PDF file.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">9) Material is scormed compliant so it can be delivered to Moodle. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">10) The layout is nice with sober colours. The desing is quite minimalistic to put it some way. That is, it's simple in design but elegantly and professionally executed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">What I’d like to see: interactive activities for videos. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB267UT_ZZyow4DtfLAn67agyba2p5ufbq11DitxXCW7HfVoNnFmZ8GCDzskVozFDYpD1DFT2ITNJIKIxPOTPw9w4z2VBz0Y0PZ40mTjtLkeW-LoAdnMW80tckrJiZa6v7jgDr/s1600/global.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB267UT_ZZyow4DtfLAn67agyba2p5ufbq11DitxXCW7HfVoNnFmZ8GCDzskVozFDYpD1DFT2ITNJIKIxPOTPw9w4z2VBz0Y0PZ40mTjtLkeW-LoAdnMW80tckrJiZa6v7jgDr/s320/global.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">The <b><a href="http://www.macmillanglobal.com/">teacher’s site</a> </b>is also great. Teachers can download lessons, read about some other people’s experiences using Global and there's even a sort of trial session. The blog is an excellent idea and texts are easy to read especially for a busy teacher. You can also keep updated about changes in this site following Global Twiter or Facebook. Apart from this, there's a teacher's book with a CD-ROM as well.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">1) There are still some teachers and students who do not have access to computers or even have access to Internet in some parts of the world. It is a pity wonderful materials like Global cannot be used for teaching and learning yet. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">2) It is a bit expensive for an EFL teacher in Venezuela. Student’s book / CDROM + Teacher’s book / CDROM + Audio CD is about BF 537 (USD 125). Not to mention the Global Digital Beginner which can be used with IWBs (not an option here) and projectors (most schools & universities have got at least one here). It is USD 102 which is about BF 441. Because of the economic and political situation we are living in Venezuela, this might be affordable for some private schools and/ or universities. If I'd like to buy Global I won’t be able to buy any since we are only allowed USD 400 annually (unless I buy separate units per year - sad, isn't it?). And this is the raw price. I can’t image how much we would be charged if it is finally imported and sold in our country. Price doubles. That is if you want to have the whole package, it’d be about BF 2.000 (UDS 466). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-VE" style="font-size: small;">It is always good to know wonderful people are doing wonderful stuff out there anyways. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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It was held in the Avalon sim on April 7th and was organized by Graham Stanley (Baldric Commons). This pre-conference aimed at reflecting on where technology use is in the language classroom and where we are heading to. Three well-known and excellent speakers were invited: Mark Pegrum (Kane Illios), Scott Thornbury and Stephen Bax. Mark Pegrum started his talk on multiliteracies. Next up Scott Thornbury talked about teachers feeling threatened by technology since this bring about fundamental changes in teachers' roles. Last but not least, Stephen Bax and his presentation on the normalisation of technology.<br />
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<center><embed allownetworking="internal" allowscriptaccess="never" bgcolor="000000" enablejavascript="false" flashvars="accountName=mmendoza97%40gmail%2Ecom&movieName=Movie%201" height="300" name="trackingshot" quality="high" salign="lt" scale="noscale" src="http://www.trackingshot.com/videoplayer8.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" wmode="opaque"></embed></center>Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-28909785958668753632009-08-04T12:28:00.007-04:302010-08-24T15:10:56.065-04:30Second Life Resources for Teachers (Karen Schweitzer-Guest post)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgReE8W3fCFHnEP8xkmuoPZ_wB13SzAtdo0SG8pO70eCQrN1osrG_MdL5twSzogfpsGn_bALt1ITBrKVfBGzHgrI_RxNHUPCUa4fUjIf5_MWJs0Mo7jcY6JN1ySvAg7Pa4niPEC/s1600-h/secondlife_1.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366158500843497330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgReE8W3fCFHnEP8xkmuoPZ_wB13SzAtdo0SG8pO70eCQrN1osrG_MdL5twSzogfpsGn_bALt1ITBrKVfBGzHgrI_RxNHUPCUa4fUjIf5_MWJs0Mo7jcY6JN1ySvAg7Pa4niPEC/s200/secondlife_1.png" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 192px;" /></a> <span style="font-family: arial;">Many different universities and school systems around the globe have begun using Second Life as part of their education programs. If you are a beginner</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> or an advanced Second Life (SL) educator who wants to learn more about incorporating this visual 3D world in the classroom, there are plenty of resources online that can help. Here are 15 good sources of information for SL educators to explore: </span> <a href="http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/educationaluses" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Second Life in Education</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - This informational site discusses some of the educational uses of SL. SLeducation also provides links to Second Life and other virtual world resources. </span> <a href="https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/learninginworld" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">EDUSCA</a><a href="https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/learninginworld" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">PE</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - This Second Life blog features tips and information for teachers who are in</span><span style="font-family: arial;">corporating and using SL in education.</span> <a href="http://www.teachertube.com/googleSearch.php?cx=012339422634307447803%3Ah-vlw-wg9yy&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&safe=high&q=second%20life" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">TeacherTube</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - TeacherTube offers several video resources for teachers who are interested in Second Life. One video worth checking out is English Village ESL in Second Life. </span> <a href="http://www.esl-secondlife.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Second Life English Blog</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - This unique blog features a collage of random reflections on the use of Second Life for language learning and teaching.</span> <a href="http://www.sl-educationblog.org/" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">SLED Blog </a><span style="font-family: arial;">- This blog is written by educators who discuss the ins and outs of using SL in K-12 education. The SLED Blog offers scholarly resources, tutorials, and event information. </span><a href="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/%7Empepper/slbib" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Ann</a><a href="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/%7Empepper/slbib" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">otated Bibliography of Second Life Educational Online Resources</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - This constantly evolving bi</span><span style="font-family: arial;">bliography features a wide range of short articles discussing the educational benefits of using SL. The site also links to useful educational SL tutorials. </span> <a href="http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Membership/Member_Networking/ISTE_Second_Life.htm" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">ISTE Second Life</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - ISTE Second Life is an online virtual environment for educators to c</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMAKCOww8VBMhxDnqLdIj8xx8_ZTO0Zw23JgJQE8jahEY_qWBW5NNxoliEGju3gpUPKb3tZYfi6lq2Fqb933Fo5rhxIaqcfPMkAAxJpjOWhcqBaD5Qgi0hkoF17T4hfZNNzUSA/s1600-h/bryant-second-life+copy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366158718509380578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMAKCOww8VBMhxDnqLdIj8xx8_ZTO0Zw23JgJQE8jahEY_qWBW5NNxoliEGju3gpUPKb3tZYfi6lq2Fqb933Fo5rhxIaqcfPMkAAxJpjOWhcqBaD5Qgi0hkoF17T4hfZNNzUSA/s200/bryant-second-life+copy.png" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 132px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">ollaborate, network, and discuss online learning. This site is a great place to discuss the practices and real-life educational opportunities in Second Life.</span> <a href="http://ilene.pbworks.com/" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Ilene.pbworks.org</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - This informational site discusses a list of things educators should consider when using Second Life in education. The article discusses the use of SL, what it is, how to start, and offers several resources within SL to use.</span> <a href="http://edumuve.com/tour/" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Edumuve.com</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - Edumuve.com is a beginner's guide to SL but also offers links for more advanced le</span><span style="font-family: arial;">arning. </span> <a href="http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Second Life Education Wiki</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - This educational wiki provides programs, institutes, competitions, presentations, and mailing lists. The site also offers teaching resources, lesson plans, and classroom management opportunities for SL.</span> <a href="http://sledpicayune.blogspot.com/2007/06/top-10-reasons-to-use-sl.html" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">SLED Picayune</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - The SLED Picayune is a blog designed for SL educators. One of the best articles this site features is the top 10 reasons educators should use SL.</span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPa24DBaxOOlD6kA-yigTZvGdFjQrLPA9Jks3Z5M-OqarQg_tvbrft0PHeenVNVt3pXaSWNZVVTz89gJRol_6IzrBu1kJysKzQEmIe3Otj73AmdbpDR_sW-SxDrP4t_0_4rG7Y/s1600-h/Class.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366159269395245698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPa24DBaxOOlD6kA-yigTZvGdFjQrLPA9Jks3Z5M-OqarQg_tvbrft0PHeenVNVt3pXaSWNZVVTz89gJRol_6IzrBu1kJysKzQEmIe3Otj73AmdbpDR_sW-SxDrP4t_0_4rG7Y/s200/Class.png" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a> <a href="http://secondlifegrid.net/slfe/education-use-virtual-world" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Second Life Grid</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - Second Life Grid provides educational case studies, educator's pilot program information, and resources to connect with other educators who use SL. This is a good place for first time Second Lifers to meet and connect with more experienced educators.</span> <a href="http://ordinalmalaprop.com/twitter/" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Twitterbox</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - Twitterbox is a free Twitter app that allows you to receive Twitter messages while you're inside Second Life. This is a great way for students or teachers to connect and chat.</span> <a href="http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Gwyn%27s_Beginners_Guide_To_Second_Life" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Gwyn's Beginners Guide to Second Life</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - Teachers new to Second Life will enjoy this beginner's guide which provides a step-by-step guide to slang, money, land, and more. </span> <a href="http://www.holymeatballs.org/2006/10/sl_best_practices_for_educatio.html" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Best Practices for Education in Second Life</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - This article, provided by Global Kids Digital Media Initiative, offers ways to develop youth through SL. The article discusses ways to use SL for social networking, interactive workshops, quizzes, contests, and more.</span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTI8fBgP29ocnp96flbY6Z1vQoSoNfhNuLk144ovkf-S-q7QAxZ8Fyrv0KgZIL6KNobh36PLd4xmXzP4FADPr7vOnZnXfNG2Eqzeu_NjDMxK7kV9DSPkfa3dFlAD3azpG_eva1/s1600-h/17045.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366156683832389010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTI8fBgP29ocnp96flbY6Z1vQoSoNfhNuLk144ovkf-S-q7QAxZ8Fyrv0KgZIL6KNobh36PLd4xmXzP4FADPr7vOnZnXfNG2Eqzeu_NjDMxK7kV9DSPkfa3dFlAD3azpG_eva1/s200/17045.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 61px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 61px;" /></a> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Guest post from education writer <span style="font-weight: bold;">Karen Schweitzer</span>. Karen is the About.com Guide to </span><a href="http://businessmajors.about.com/" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">Business School</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. She also writes about </span><a href="http://www.onlinecolleges.net/" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;">online colleges</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> for OnlineColleges.net. </span></span>Miguel Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901260488667528089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325366.post-51778907071882362222009-07-24T12:13:00.017-04:302010-08-24T17:03:48.436-04:30Nick Peachy interviews Graham Stanley on Second Life<a href="http://wetoku.com/video/3w15lsjd"></a><br />
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