Beitrag gepostet von Sandra Annette Rogers This semester, I participated in the CreAting Machinima Empowers Live Online language Teaching and learning (CAMELOT) project funded by the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme. The purpose of the CAMELOT project is to provide
Getting Started on My Dissertation: MMORGs for Language Learning
Beitrag gepostet von Sandra Annette Rogers Problem-based learning (PBL) in simulated environments such as massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORGs) offers a variety of language-based scenarios with nonplaying characters providing model language support for cultural, vocabulary, and literacy development. Gaming
Heike Philp: CAMELOT- CreAting Machinima Empowers Live Online language Teaching and Learning
Recording (40min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p33p7cgmqtv/ Moving pictures, sound and stories are the most powerful way of communicating learning content. For Generation Z, video is the favoured means of communication, expression as well as learning with youtube having become the second most popular
Edith Paillat and Betsy Quero: Higher Ed Language Immersion in 3D
Recording (40min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p6kh1ww7keo/ How effective are 3d Virtual environments for language learning at tertiary level? Come and listen to a project report the French, Spanish and Italian departments at Victoria University conducted on Second Life in 2012 and continue late 2013.
Gerhilde Meissl-Egghart Language quests and data analystics in secondary school
Recording (29min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p1b6pp29xbn/ This session will 1. share talkademy’s experiences of using virtual worlds in secondary schools doing language quests with mixed teams of remote partner schools 2. discuss talkademy’s approach of monitoring ongoing activities and retrospective data analysis for evaluating
Geoff Tranter: e-Quality? – e-Quality!!
Recording (27min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p1r4yevtxl4/ The discussion on the pros and cons of online testing is an ongoing feature in the world of testing, evaluation and assessment. The supporters of online test systems make a number of claims to demonstrate the high level
KEYNOTE Shelly Sanchez Terrell: When we were very young
Recording (50min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p3afnttrsoh/ Youtube: http://youtu.be/RCtgFO0x1w4 Social media and ICTs are being used by language learners for personal pursuing of goals and interests outside the realms of school. Our language learners have daily access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) that push
PLENARY ELTons Sneak Preview
Recording (7h): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p6gl3uvvveb/ The ELTons, sponsored by Cambridge ESOL, are the only international awards that recognise and celebrate innovation in English language teaching (ELT). They reward educational resources that help English language learners and teachers to achieve their goals. Johanna Stirling
Arjana Blazic, and Bart Verswijvel: The Pedagogical Value of eTwinning Projects
Recording (40min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p8bkhzecj7o/ We want to take you on a Learning Odyssey where you will acquire the skills to carefully navigate through the sea of available web 2.0 tools. You will learn how to resist the seemingly irresistible allure of web
Eva Buyuksimkesyan: Reading Activities Spiced Up with Web 2.0
Recording (29min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p471o1gkhs2/ ‘My students don’t read the books I assigned.’ Isn’t it a problem for many of us? If only they could realise how much they would improve themselves when they read. How about motivating them with fun activities? When