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Thursday, November 12 at 6:00am - Aviation English with Henry Emery
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Friday, June 26 at 2:00pm - Virtual Round Table: Vicki Ho...
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Monday, June 8 at 9:00pm - LANCELOT Course Informational ...
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Wednesday, May 27 at 2:00pm - Gavin Dudeney: Net Advantage M...
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Friday, March 13 at 2:00pm - Exploiting dynamic content in...
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Friday, March 6 at 2:00pm - Virtual Round Table on Demand:...
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Tuesday, February 17 at 3:00pm - The European Language Porfolio...
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Friday, January 30 at 1:00pm - Das Europäische Sprachenportfo...
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Thursday, January 29 at 6:00pm
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LANCELOT School
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
First Virtual Round Table Conference
A virtual conference on “Language Learning with Technology”
12-13 November 2009
About the Virtual Round Table conference
The Virtual Round Table conference is a live online conference dedicated to language learning with technology. It is aimed at educators and lan...guage teaching professionals in language schools, institutes or other language related organisations.
It purposes to introduce to its participants a number of tools and best practise on how to use these tools in class for the benefit of our language learners.
With so many tools around, often the very decision on ‘how to use which tool’ for creating blended learning experiences or for selecting digital teaching and learning material and also for building a web-presence and using tools for online marketing are difficult and time consuming and pales the efforts of learning those tools into insignificance.
During this conference these issues will openly be discussed by small groups of experts in certain fields of technology so that the participants will be equipped with solid information so as to be able to make informed decisions.
Additionally we purpose to hold a number of workshops as we hope that this conference will hold a practical value for everyone attending it and for this watching the recordings long after it.
Presenters are encouraged to keep their presentations concise (pecha kucha style) so as to allow two or three different presentations during each session allowing all to engage in a virtual round table discussion.
We welcome product presentations if these products and services are web-based, electronic, software, digital or other technology driven. May we ask you to tag your presentation clearly as a product presentation?
The conference is free of charge for all participants. If you wish to support this conference as a sponsor, we ask you kindly to contact the conference organisers.
Who is the conference for?
The conference is for all those interested in language specific ….
* web-based or software based applications
* digital teaching and learning material
* electronic or digital tools
* mobile learning applications
* digital classroom management
* live online environments, virtual classrooms and virtual worlds
* and all other aspects of language learning with technology
This includes language trainers, educators and management of language schools or institutes, freelancers and any other language teaching professionals.
Venues
This conference will take place through the internet and will be completely online using web-based tools such as virtual classrooms and Second Life.
Additionally there will be a virtual exhibition ground on EduNation in Second Life.
Those not familiar with virtual classroom or virtual worlds will be able to experience this new environment and we invite you to do so and join us. You will need a fast internet connection to join.
We will record and stream all of these events.
Conference themes
The conference themes are as follows.
Theme 1: Bestpractise
This may include but is not limited to discourses on online assessment and testing, learing activities using webquests, online mind maps, digital storytelling, methodology such as blended learning or how to use the computer room, how to use authoring tools, blogs/ wikis, IWB (Interactive Whiteboards), Moodle or mobile technology, etc.
This may also include but is not limited to multi-media language learning software, online vocabulary trainers, online dictionaries, web-based tools for language assessment, podcasts, videos etc.
Theme 2: Trendspotting
This may include but is not limited to virtual campuses, virtual classrooms, virtual worlds, mobile learning, tandem learning sites etc.
Theme 3: Online Marketing and Networking
This may include but is not limited to social Media, viral Marketing, blogs, video production etc.
This may include but is not limited to networks like eTwinning, NIFLAR and AVALON, LANCELOT, EuroCALL and CALICO, webheads etc.
Theme 4: Classroom management, administration and training
This may include but is not limited to class management software, learning management systems, schedulers, customer relationship management solutions etc.
Training may include but is not limited to ICT Training, online team meetings, collaborative tools for teachers and learners.
BONUS theme 5: On demand guest speaker
No traveling is involved in joining a virtual conference and therefor it is much easier to invite guest speakers. Send us an email and freely ask for your favorite speaker and we will approach him or her and invite them for this virtual conference. Tell us why you think this guest speaker is appropriate for this conference and what you like about him/ her and we will do our utmost to invite him/ her to join.
Event Schedule
October 31, 2009 deadline for submissions
November 5-6, 2009 presenter rehearsals
November 12-13, 2009 conference (Thu, Fri)
Conference Structure
The conference will be held on Thursday or Friday, 12-13 November with 5 main paneldiscussions (virtual round table discussions) of 90min each scheduled at different times to meet the main time zones: Europea, America, Asia.
The sessions in between those virtual round tables will be workshops or product presentations or individual presentations and there will also be plenty of breaks between the sessions.
The formats of the sessions will be
- 90min virtual round table discussions with 2 or 3 experts, each presenting a brief pecha kucha* or PRESTO** presentation followed by a learning conversation
- 60min hands-on workshops or showcases delivered by individuals
- virtual exhibition in Second Life with poster sessions (throughout) with exhibition tours planned
- ‘external links’ collection wiki for research and development in the field of language learning with technnology
**Pecha Kucha = 20 slides auto-advancing every 20 sec, total presentation time is 6min40sec
*PRESTO (which stands for PRESent your TOpic) = 10 slides auto-advancing every 20 sec, total presentation time is 3min20sec
Registration
To register for the conference please sign-up on our ning site and as soon as the schedule is announced we may ask you to sign up at each individual session you wish to attend. http://virtual-round-table.ning.com website.
Sponsorship
If you wish to be a sponsor for this conference please send an email to heike.philp [at] lancelotschool.com.
Contact Information
Please contact Holly Longstroth or Heike Philp at LANCELOT SchoolTM GmbH, holly.longstroth [at] lancelotschool.com and heike.philp [at] lancelotschool.com.
Are you blogging or tweeting?
Please us the tag vrt09 or the hashtag #vrt09 for the conference.
About the conference organisers
LANCELOT SchoolTM GmbH is the conference sponsor and organiser for this event. Heike Philp, who is founder and Managing Director of LANCELOT SchoolTM GmbH is also co-initiator of EU funded LANCELOT and EU funded AVALON project. Holly Longstroth is Director of Studies and LANCELOT teacher trainer.
Time:6:00AM Thursday, November 12th
Location:www
Elisabetta Francini I'm glad to be here!
Karen Tinsley-Kim Getting to know Heike and Holly at Lancelot has been wonderful. They are professional and conscientious teachers who want to keep us all up-to-date with technology.
LANCELOT School LANCELOT IV finishing this weekend and LANCELOT V & VI starting soon. If you haven't taken the course yet, there is still room in LANCELOT VI... Contact Heike or Holly!
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We are looking forward to meeting Henry Emery, co-author of "Aviation English (Macmillan)" for a learning conversation on Friday, the 12th of June 2009.
This learning conversation will take place in a virtual classroom with a maximum of 15 participants and is reserved for language teaching professionals exclusively who ...use the "Aviation English" book in class.
DISCUSSION FORUM
http://virtual-round-table.ning.com/foru
HENRY EMERY
Henry Emery is one of the most outstanding contemporary Aviation English experienced professionals and highly-skilled trainers. He works closely with the International Civil Aviation English Association and he is co-director of EmeryRoberts language consultancy (www.emery-roberts.co.uk).
AVIATION ENGLISH
Their excellent book “AVIATION ENGLISH” equipped with one of the most comprehensive teacher’s books is a winner of the ELTon Awards 2009 (British Council Innovation Awards) and meets the language proficiency requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization for use of plain English alongside with RT phraseology by pilots and air traffic controllers.
The Aviation English package provides the all-inclusive solution that is necessary to achieve ICAO Level 4. It is technically accurate on phraseology but the plain-English skills training demanded by today's ICAO legislation is what makes it the first one of its kind and totally distinguishes it from the materials published so far.
What impresses mostly the learner and the teacher is the brilliant choice of aviation topics, the quality of the materials, the easy-to-use plain English in aviation context in combination with the right phraseology.
World Time http://tinyurl.com/krweye
This is in German time: 2 PM-3PM
Go to http://virtual-round-table.ning.com/even
Virtual Round Table on Demand: Henry Emery
Time:2:00PM Friday, June 26th
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You are invited into a virtual classroom for a learning converstion with Vicki Hollet. All you need is internet connection and a headset/microphone. The Learning conversation is set for Monday, June 8, 2009.
Vicki Hollett is the author of a number of Business English coursebooks including Business Objectives and Busines...s Opportunities, both First Prize winners in the English Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition. She is also the author of the Tech Talk series, two levels of the Quick Work series, In at the Deep End, along with two video courses: Meeting Objectives and The Jericho Conspiracy, all published by Oxford University Press.
She has trained teachers on for the LCCI’s Diploma in Teaching English for Business and run workshops for teachers at many institutions in Europe, Asia and South America.
British by birth, she currently lives in Philadelphia where she is teaching at the University of Pennsylvania and learning to speak ‘merican
Vicki's Blog at http://www.vickihollett.com
Register and get more details at http://virtual-round-table.ning.com/even
live online, event, teacher training, elt, network, marketing, business english, technical english
Time:9:00PM Monday, June 8th
LANCELOT School
Have you heard about LANCELOT School and wondered what it is all about? Have you considered teaching live online and want to know how to start?
LANCELOT School is a teacher training center which trains language teachers how to effectively use virtual classroom technology. We offer several types of courses and one of the...m can actually fit your needs!
Come to our special event and see what it is all about. See a virtual classroom and discuss with other language learning professionals about this new, exciting type of language training!
To enroll, fill out the form at http://www.lancelotters.net
All times are Central European Time--GMT +2
We also have the same event repeated at 9 PM GMT +2
LANCELOT School This English lesson is about AIDS, cause, presention and treatment. The learners are students in a missionary home.
Length:1:18
LANCELOT School This is an English lesson with some students in Shenzhen China on story telling.
Length:2:16
LANCELOT School These pictures are of LANCELOTTERS who have met live offline as well as online...
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Date February 17, 2009
Time 3pm local time New York, 9pm Middle European Time, 7am Sydney,
Duration 1h
World Time www_timeanddate_com
Place
Overspill room http://www.learningtimes.com/lancelot
Tags Virtual Round Table on Demand Program, Noam Chomsky
Max. no of participants Limited seating for the learning conversation but... we do have an overspill room for those who would like to listen in.
Registration http://www.lancelotschool.com/index.php/
Recording This event is live but will be recorded for those who miss it
Noam Chomsky is the very first author who has been requested by a group of language teachers in the framework of the newly launched Virtual Round Table on Demand program.
And what a better start this could be!
Yet, we are somewhat nervous and the few seats which we would like to fill is a small number compared to the many registrations we received in a mere few days of announcing that he agreed to meeting us for a learning conversation. This is the reason why we did not even put this event up earlier thinking that it was 'sold-out'.
However, we have decided to add an overspill room.
What is an overspill room?
It is almost like sitting in the second row as it were. You will be able to watch the event which is being screen-shared and will be able to hear it and you will be able to chat with your peers. One of our moderators will be in both rooms and will pose some of your questions or comments to Noam. It will be a lot more interactive than just watching talkshow on TV and we will communicate your ideas to Noam Chomsky, however, the only thing you will not be able to do is to directly talk to him.
What about those in the main room?
Those in the main room will actively be able to engage in a learning conversation with Noam Chomsky, discussing the five questions which are being formulated right now on the wiki we set up to collaboratively work on them. http://chomsky.pbwiki.com
If you wish to attend this event sitting 'in the second row', please feel free to sign up.
Some may ask, why do you not simply enlargen the first room?
Well, it is Noam Chomsky's first virtual classroom experience ever and he is already 80 (!) years old. He still lectures at MIT suprisingly but we are not wanting to confront him with too much going on. Therefore the maximum amount of participants for the virtual round table has been set to be 15, which we think is a nice number so that the author himself will get lots out of the conversation (we hope).
If he enjoys this conversation he might agree on meeting us again in the near future.
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NOTE: ALL TIMES ARE IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME-- GMT +1
With language courses increasingly being sold via the Net, traditional notions of how organisations are perceived have gone out of the window. Printed matter and webpage banners are no longer the most effective means of reaching and convincing your audience. Origina...lly it was sufficient to build and optimise a website and wait for clients to come to you. Times have changed. The passive consumer has morphed into a social and sharing beast, relying less on advertising and more on the opinions of others. Via a myraiad of technologies the savvy modern prosumer gleans a deeper and more balanced understanding of any product than publicity can achieve. And from these the ultimate decision is usually made. Find out good and bad points of various technolgies and hot to make them work for you as well as successful examples of implementation in the ELT world and recommendations on how to get started.
Gavin Dudeney is author of 'The Internet & The Language Classroom' (CUP 2000/2007) and co-author of 'How to Teach English with Technology' (Longman 2007). He is Project Director for an online training and development consultancy, the consutlants-e, and in his spare time is Honorary Secretary of IATEFL and an amateur drummer. His current interest is in the use of virtual worlds for teacher training.
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NOTE: ALL TIMES ARE IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME-- GMT +1
This presentation will explore the varying types of materials that are now available to professional English teachers through the Internet. These include blogs, podcasts, infoquests and hot-off-the-press lesson plans that probe the latest issues wiht the immediacy t...hat onyl the Internet can facilitate. Referencing the free resources on Professional English Online, we will consider the advantages and the disadvantages of the Web's dynamic pedagogical content and how it compares to, differs from, and 'ultimately' can be integrated with traditional teaching materials.
Brendan Whightman taught General and Business English in Poland and Italy for seven years before moving into technology-enhanced learning. He is an expert on blended learning and instructional technologies and his experience with e-Learning includes course design and software development for ELT, project managing interactive whiteboard CD-ROMs and teacher training. He now works for Cambridge ELT as Commissioning Editor for e-learning.
live online, event, teacher training, esl textbooks, efl textbooks, Cambridge ELT
Time:2:00PM Friday, March 6th
