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CLIL: Using Technology
for Content and Language Integrated Learning
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Letizia Cinganotto
Daniela Cuccurullo
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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 teaching of a subject through a foreign language is becoming an integrated part of the secondary school curriculum in many countries. In light of this reform, the role of teacher training is essential.
This EVO session is aimed at spreading CLIL methodology, combining teaching strategies and technical tools and eliciting reflections and discussions among teachers from all over the world. It is important to share good practices from the different countries and learn from other colleagues through synchronous and asynchronous web meetings.
Weekly webinars with national and international CLIL experts will be a highlight of this session, with each speaker moderating a follow-up discussion in the session forum.
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Crafting the e-Perfect Textbook
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Shelly Terrell
Janet Bianchini
Özge Karaoglu
Lindsay Clandfield
Chuck Sandy
Terry Freedman
Dave Guymon
Jennifer Verschoor
Debora Tebovich
Sylvia Guinan
Jake Duncan
André J. Spang
Jackie Gerstein
Jason Levine
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Published textbooks are just the beginning of a teacher’s instructional tools. Often, teachers need additional support for their learners, but don’t have the time to collect, gather, organize, and produce supplemental materials in a cohesive beautiful document. In 5 weeks, teachers will aim to outline, design, and complete 1 chapter of an e-textbook that meets their learners’ needs and can be used yearly with a few edits and updates. Participants will be guided by 15 moderators from 12 different countries who are experienced and well-known in publishing and materials design. The moderators are teachers, award-winning coursebook authors, teacher trainers, app producers, edubloggers, keynote speakers, and authors of published books as well as e-books. Additionally, participants will participate in online collaborative peer feedback and learn how to use free digital tools to edit and improve writing so that they can use these tools effectively with their learners. |
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Designing and Managing Projects in the ESOL Organization
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Andy Hockley
Andy Curtis
Marina González
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Choosing a new coursebook, redesigning a curriculum, setting up a self-access center, and many other tasks that you need to complete in your school – can all be organised as projects. Conceptualizing, planning and realizing such projects is a great way to effect positive change in your organization. This session leads participants through the steps of designing and managing smaller and larger-scale projects and is useful for all language program administrators. |
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Developing Business English Teachers
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Claire Hart
Kristen Acquaviva
Roy Bicknell
Pete Rutherford
Mercedes Viola
Justine Arena
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Professional development is something we all know we should be making time for, but often the busy lives we lead as teachers make it difficult for us to find the time and the space to focus on it.
Our Developing Business English Teachers session will give you the time and the space to do just that. Together with top practitioners in the field of Business English from Europe and South America, you will be given the opportunity to develop your knowledge, broaden your horizons and share your experience. The course is aimed at practising business English teachers and those interested in working in this exciting area of ELT.
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Developing Mentoring Skills
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Maizie Avihayil
Valerie S. Jakar
Tamas Lorincz
Roseli Serra
Debora Tebovic
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We strongly believe that establishing meaningful mentoring relationships is a key to becoming a successful teacher. It is also a great way to maintain interest in teaching. This year's session will help teachers from any background and experience to identify how they can improve their experience of being a teacher by engaging in active mentoring relationships. We will talk about mentoring for professional development, discuss the different aspects of the mentoring relationship and how the ideal mentoring relationship can be established, nurtured and sustained. Our invited speakers will share their ideas and experiences and give guidance to the participants. Our goal is to help every participant plan, create and launch their mentoring journey.
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Dream Act:
What Teachers Can Do
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Lori Dodson
Anne Marie Foerster Luu
Maryam Saroughi
Shelley Wong
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If you are a US based PK-12, Adult Ed, or Higher Ed ELD 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?
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EVO Drama 2014: Structuring Drama Work
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Gary Carkin
Shin-Mei Kao
Susan Hillyard
Judy Trupin
Holly Dilatush
Leslie Sapp
Silvia Montimurro
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The use of educational drama in the language classroom has now achieved widened acceptance. However, many language educators must continue to follow school ordained, theme-based textbook chapters that have few if any drama-based classroom activities. This TESOL-Drama workshop will show teachers interested in drama-based learning how they can convert their textbook material to drama activity and integrate chapter objectives related to grammar, vocabulary, and theme with a more experiential, drama-based mode of learning. |
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ICT4ELT
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Ayat Tawel
Helen Davis
José Antônio da Silva
Larisa Olesova
Maria Bossa
Mbarek Akaddar
Svetlana Obenausova
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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. It can also help more experienced teachers who want to know more about new ICT tools.
Designed by a team of long standing "Becoming a Webhead" (BaW) moderators and co-moderators (BaW was an Electronic Village Online (EVO) session that ran successfully for ten consecutive years), ICT4ELT is an entry level session that does not require prior knowledge of ICT tools to complete the course.
The course's main objective is to enable language teachers to integrate technology into their teaching using tech tools to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information. Participants will have an opportunity to create their own instructional materials using a variety of tools, collaborate, exchange and share across the globe.
If you want to liven up your classroom with technology, come and join us!
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MachinEVO
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Marisa Constantinides [Marisolde Orellana]
Shelwyn Corrigan
[Wynshel Heir/English Easily]
Jens Kjaer Olsen
[Jens Nerido]
Barbara McQueen
[Barbara Novelli]
Dr. Doris Molero
[Pionia Destiny]
Helen Myers [Karelia Kondor]
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Moving pictures, sound and stories are the most powerful way of communicating learning content. MachinEVO takes up the challenge of using video as integral part of modern language learning. The purpose of MachinEVO is to train and equip language teachers with the knowledge and skills to produce visually appealing videos in virtual worlds. These videos are commonly called machinima and they can be used for language teaching and learning in Virtual Worlds and in the physical classroom.
Moderators (continued):
Dennis Newson [Osnacantab Nesterov], Edith Paillat [Cyber Placebo], Heike Philp [Gwen Gwasi],
Carol Rainbow [Carol Rbroux], Dr. Randall Sadler [Randall Renoir], Christel Schneider [Letty Pienaar]
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Moodle for Teachers
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Dr. Nellie Deutsch
Dr. Ludmila Smirnova
Tom Hodgers
Dr. Nancy Zingrone
Halina Ostankowicz-Bazan
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Moodle for Teachers EVO 2014 (M4TEVO14) online workshop will take place on a Moodle website called Moodle for Teachers (M4T) and on WizIQ for content sharing, live online classes and recordings, and access to the course material after the Moodle course is over. The aim of the M4T workshop is to provide participants, who have never used Moodle or who would like to enrich their previous Moodle experiences, with the knowledge and skills to navigate a Moodle course, access resources, activities, and blocks from a student perspective and practice the same Moodle features in a practice course area as teachers. The participants will develop a lesson or course on Moodle.
The workshop will include both asynchronous (not dependent on time) and synchronous (time dependent) learning environments. The asynchronous will be conducted on a Moodle 2.5 website and the synchronous learning environment will be conducted on WizIQ (free premium accounts for educators) on WizIQ. Participants will watch tutorials, post to the discussion forums, and practice Moodle tools with the roles of a student at first and then with the role of a teacher with editing rights.
The goal of the M4T EVO 2014 course is to help educators ensure the quality of online learning through systematic instructional design of online and blended online courses (BOL) and instructor training on online pedagogies.
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MultiMOOC 2014
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Vance Stevens
Jim Buckingham
Ali Bostancioglu
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This session applies connectivist and multiliteracies approaches to exploring recent developments and issues in open learning, and how these might apply to more conventional settings. The session is paced on Cormier’s 5 stages of MOOC participation: orient, declare, network, cluster, focus. Participants declare their personal goals for the course and trace their progress through eportfolios, either simple or elaborate, and accumulation of badges. Any reasonable level of participation earns a badge in the course.
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NNESTEVO
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Aiden Yeh
Ali Fuad Selvi
Liz England
Katya Nemtchinova
Bedrettin Yazan
Geeta Aneja
Kyung-Hee Bae
Nathanael Rudolph
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In this discussion-based session, participants will have the opportunity to explore the issues facing schools and universities where non-native and native speakers of English work together to create instructional excellence. What roles do non-native and native speakers play in these schools and universities? How can we work together effectively to teach well and to learn from each other? Participants will engage in asynchronous and synchronous discussions. Each week we will have experts and renowned researchers in the field to share with us new insights, knowledge, and practical professional development strategies that we can use to help us achieve professional growth. By the end of the session, participants will be encouraged to reflect on key issues that have been discussed and will look at future directions for TESOL NNEST-IS.
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Online Tools for EFL-ESL Civic Engagement Projects
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Daniela Munca-Aftenev
Olga Morozan
Marina Chirnitcaia
Pomazanovschi Irina
Larisa Guzun
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American Councils Moldova has become an expert in implementing online collaborative projects involving young adults from Eurasia and developing their civic responsibility: FLEX (Future Leaders Exchange) and Access are two examples of our most notorious projects. The session aims to share from our international experience in integrating technology in EFL and combining it successfully with community development projects involving youth. It will assist participants in learning a series of online tools which can bring a civic engagement or community development element in the EFL/ESL classroom. If you would like your students to learn English using fun online tools and become responsible citizens, then this is a session to join! Each practical session will be built around one or several case studies - we believe learning by example is the best way.
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Peacebuilding for Language Learners
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Alison Milofsky
Julia Schlam Salman
Valerie S. Jakar
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In this session, participants will explore how they can engage their students in productive conversations about peace and conflict. Critical to this experience is participating in the constructive conversations and skills-based exercises one hopes to bring into the classroom. The session will be based on the Peacebuilding Toolkit for Educators (middle school and high school editions) created by the United States Institute of Peace. Participants will explore the principles on which the toolkit is based, develop an understanding of peacebuilding concepts, consider their own interpretations--as well as those of others--around peace and conflict, and discuss how to incorporate these concepts and skills in their classrooms.
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Podcasting for the ESL-EFL Classroom
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Evelyn Izquierdo
Miguel Mendoza
Maricarmen Gamero
Mauricio Arango
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In recent years, podcasting has become one of the most powerful asynchronous Web 2.0 tools in our classrooms. Its enormous educational potential allows teachers to use it as a simple resource to support activities within the classroom and to create audio recordings of happenings in their schools. This workshop aims at providing basic proficiency related to the production and publishing of digital media files (podcasts) and the implementation of podcasting in the language classroom to enhance communication in speaking and listening skills.
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Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers
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Dennis Newson
ffinlo Kilner
Helen Davies
Graham Stanley
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The IATEFL Young Learners and Teenagers Special Interest group (YLTSIG) is tremendously pleased and excited to invite you to join its EVO session for 2014.. Over the five week session we invite you to join us in one of the best virtual staffrooms online.
Dynamic presenters from the English Language Learning Community, well-known to the committee and members of YLTSIG,, most of whom are themselves members of the SIG will be joining us to share their particular expertise on a wide variety of subjects. Participants will be able to discuss and share experiences, ideas, thoughts through the regular online meetings. Our guests include: Charles Goodger, Susan Hillyard, Luke Prodromou, Russell Stannard, Alexander Sokol, Stephen Krashen, Barbara Sakamoto, Nik Peachey, Vance Stevens, Shelly Sanchez Terrell
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Use of Mobile Applications in Language Classes
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Behice Ceyda Cengiz
Sedat Akayoğlu
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As language teachers or experts in the fileld, we are always confronted with the task of keeping up with what comes last and is new for us and our learners. Mobile tools are definitely one of these and have invaluable offerings for pedagogical purposes. 'Anywhere and anytime learning' is certainly a need of the learners of this era and will be seeked for in many educational environments in the near future. In this session, the importance of mobile assisted language learning (MALL) will be introduced. Various ways to use mobile applications in language classes will be illustrated by the moderators who are experienced in implementing mobile apps in their teaching. Mobile apps that teachers can use for their professional development will also be handled in detail. Live sessions and ascynhronous discussions which we will have during this 5 week period will allow us to have ample chances to learn from each other and share all together. We ensure this will be a fun and fruitful session. Hope to see you in the session! |
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Wonderful Words: Vocabulary Matters
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Brenda Binkley
Anne Hernandez
Jennie Farnell
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By introducing vocabulary through games and hands on materials, teachers can provide a venue for their learners to use new words in a variety of contexts. Engaging learners through play helps them establish personal meaning, no matter what their age. The moderators will share their favorite tools that most actively engage everyone in the learning process. and participants will contribute their ideas. |
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