Classroom-Based Research

for Professional Development  

#classresearchevo16 

Kenan Dikilitaş,

Asli Lidice Gokturk Saglam,

Nicholas Velde,

CeAnn Myers,

Koray Akyazı,

Judith Hanks,

Mark Wyatt 

DREAM Act: What Teachers Can Do  

#DREAMersSRIS

Lori Dodson, 

Anne Marie Foerster Luu, 

Maryam Saroughi 

If you are a US based PK-12, Adult Ed, or Higher Ed English Language Development professional, join our interactive learning space to explore the DREAM Act alongside colleagues and undocumented students known as DREAMers.  Many young people note that their English teacher was their first confidant in the US.  What does this mean?  What can teachers do to support DREAMers and move others to action? 

Educators & Copyright: Do the Right Thing 

#EducatorsandCopyright

#CopyrightEVO2016 

Andrew Pharis,

Kent Hatashita,

Melissa Pavy,

Paul Keyworth,

Tara Arntsen 

This five-week session introduces participants to the principles of copyright and fair use with regard to creating lesson materials and gives them an opportunity to speak with a legal expert on the topic. Participants will reflect on their current practices when developing lesson materials, learn about copyright, fair use, how to use the Framework Analysis, as well as learn how to use public domain and creative commons resources, and how to manage such resources responsibly. Finally, participants will share their copyright compliant lesson plans with one another, and provide and reflect on constructive feedback. The session will be facilitated primarily through Google+ Communities. 

EVO Minecraft MOOC 

 #evomc16

Aaron Schwartz,

Barbi Bujtás,

Bron Stuckey,

Filip Smolcec,

Jeff Kuhn,

Marijana Smolcec,

Rose Bard,

Tamas Lorincz,

Vance Stevens

This session will invite interested teachers to join us in playing Minecraft, learning all we can about playing alone and together, and how Minecraft is being used effectively in language learning. We'll learn about gamification in learning by experiencing it in constructive play with one another. We'll continue by welcoming others to the community we formed last year. 

EVO VILLAGE 2016 

#evovillage

Randall Sadler,

Heike Philp,

Carol Rainbow,

Christel Schneider,

Dennis Newson,

Barbara McQueen,

Edith Paillat,

Shelwyn Corrigan,

Ann Nowak,

Helena Galani,

Jens Kjaer Olsen,

Doris Molero,

Helen Myers,

Hazel Workman,

Nuno Lanca

This EVO session will focus on applying games in virtual environments such as Second Life or OpenSim, using ideas from f2f and transferring them to this 3D environment.

We will learn to build, script, texture, and pack our games into holodecks ready to take to our students, and to create machinima to demonstrate how the games work. Previous experience in virtual worlds is preferred but not required.

Flipped Learning 

#evoflippedlearning 

John Graney,

Kevin Coleman,

Khalid Fethi,

Jeff Magoto,

Carolina R. Buitrago

How can adding the flipped learning approach to your in-class and online activities raise student interest? How can you help learners develop 21st century skills through active learning enhanced by online videos? This five-week collaborative online workshop is designed for both those new to flipped learning and those who are already flipping their classes. 

ICT4ELT  

 #ICT4ELT 

José Antônio da Silva,

Ayat Tawel,

Helen Davis,

Marijana Smolcec,

Svetlana Obenausova,

Sanja Bozinovic,

Elizabeth Anne,

Marcia Lima,

Behice Ceyda Cengiz

Sneza Filipovic 

Designed by a seasoned team of long standing EVOmoderators and participants, ICT4ELT (Information and Communication Technology for English Language Teachers) is a session for teachers who want to explore how computers could be useful in their teaching but do not know where to start. If you want to liven up your classroom with technology, come and join us! 

Media Resources and Emotions in Teaching and Learning

#EmotionsEVO2016

Joseph Slick,

Tara Arntsen, 

Alec Lapidus  

This five-week session involves participants looking at and understanding emotion with regard to teaching and learning. Emotions are the centerpiece for reflection on human interaction with media resources. Different media provide diverse opportunities on how emotions filter teaching and learning. Sharing reflections collaboratively creates insight, connection and engagement to the variety of emotions.

Moodle for Teachers (M4T) 

#m4tevo16

Nellie Deutsch,

Tom Hodgers,

Nives Torresi,

Halina Ostankowicz, 

Brian Boneham

Teachers as Designers 

#EVOTaD2016

Ania Rolińska,

Emma Cresswell,

Jeanne Waldburger, Karin Heuert Galvão, Karina Thorne

Teachers as Designers is a 5-week project-based session which follows on a successful Hands on ICT (Information and Communications Technology) MOOC for educators interested in developing creativity techniques and approaches to integration of educational technologies inspired by learning design. It is an adapted version to suit the needs of language teachers and teacher trainers from all ELT sectors.

During the session the participants are going to acquaint themselves with the Learning Design framework in order to design, evaluate and refine a  learning technology-based activity (or a sequence of activities) which, by meeting the exact needs of their learners, aims to solve an educational challenge in the participant's context. 

Teachers Creating Digital Textbooks 

#EbookEVO

Collaborate with over 500 teachers worldwide to design the 1st chapter of a digital textbook that meets your students' needs. Receive support from 16 moderators with experience in publishing, editing, and materials design. Join our Google Community and check out our Listly bookmarks. 

Teaching EFL to Young Learners 

#iateflyltsigevo16

Nellie Deutsch,

Charles Goodger,

Kalyan Chattopadhyay

The IATEFL YLTSIG EVO 2016 session will examine teaching English to Young Learners and Teens from around the world using storytelling and drama, games, and action songs.

Teaching Pronunciation Differently 

 #TPDevo2016

Piers Messum,

Arizio Sweeting,

Roslyn Young

At some point, all teachers have tried to teach pronunciation by getting students to listen to a model and to imitate it. It seems like common sense to teach this way, but most of us have found the results unsatisfactory. There is a different way, and it works very well. The 'articulatory approach' teaches students what to do with their mouths to sound right.

Techno-CLIL for EVO 2016

#TechnoCLIL

Letizia Cinganotto,

Daniela Cuccurullo

CLIL – Content and Language Integrated Learning -- has a huge impact on teaching/learning, with great advantages both for the foreign language and for subjects which are taught in that language.

The aim of this session is to:

• discuss the theory, methodology and practice behind a CLIL approach
• consider how to plan CLIL class activities using the Internet and 2.0 web tools
• consider and discuss teaching and assessing learners studying through a CLIL approach
• reflect upon their awareness of what CLIL is and on how to teach through it.