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11pm SL Time
Islands of jokaydia (SLurl)
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Jo Kay and Islands of jokaydia Residents
12:00 (midnight SL)
Cristina Palomeque /
Cristina Papp in SL
Moira Hunter
Invited Keynote
Angi Malderez
On Mentor Roles
10:00
Unconference Session in SL 2:00 am SLT Muvenation Sandbox
Antonella Berriolo / Anna Begonia in SL ABERRIOLO@terra.es
Playing with sounds and prims.
Workshop: What will we do? With 3 simple ingredients: a sound file, a prim and a script, we will cook some easy tools to use in class or for self access exercises.
11:00 Barbara Dieu
Invited Keynote
Alex Hayes
Valuing Connected Community : Balance In Uncertain Times
12:00 p.m.
Unconference Session
Graham Stanley
Digital Play
Online digital games and other 'digital toys' are a great way of motivating pre-teen and teenage language learners but how can they best be exploited pedagogically? I'll be giving some ideas - come and share yours too.
13:00
Unconference Session
MC
An open mic session facilitated by Michael Coghlan (michaelc@chariot.net.au)
Open Mic Session
Bring your own agenda and a willingness to share and contribute to topics that will be decided on the fly by those who attend.
14:00
Elluminate Session
Graham Attwell, Steven Warburton and Margarita Perez Garcia
Digital identities
This session will look at the meaning of digital identities of teaching and learning
15:00
Elluminate Session
Mike Marzio mike@real-english.com
Real English Lessons and Videos
Real English is known in the community for its collection of EFL/ESL Videos, but the new Lessons based on the videos are rich resources for students & teachers, and deserve a short pedagogical analysis.
16:00 Vance
Elluminate Session Timezone
Minhaaj ur Rehman
Open Learning Model using Wikis.
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Universal access, affordability, reusability and accreditation have been some of issues we face today in Education. Wonders of technology has taken us to a new level of understanding and literacy. Using technology has not only increased the learning curve and amount of knowledge assimilation, it opens up horizones for further innovation. This sessionw will explore: Definition of Open Learning
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How Wikis can be used to make learning more open and accessible
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Convergence of Hierarchy and Anarchy in literacy
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Benefits of using Wikis for Open Learning and self-paced education.
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Overview of contemporary moves in this direction.
After session participants can expect to know more about affordances we can have through wikifying our knowledge resources. Participants should be able to define open learning, relate it to universal education and understanding its potential.
17:00
Invited Keynote
Dave Cormier
You can't collaborate alone: Community as curriculum for lifelonglearning
18:00
Unconference session
Anne Fox af@cv2.dk
Fun & Games in PD?
VITAE encourages ICT integration in vocational education through mentors. We will examine the potential of games for professional development especially in mentoring colleagues, embedding innovation and integrating ICT. Participants can try three games beforehand and discuss their experience during the session as well as asynchronously before and after the session.
19:00
Unconference Session:Quest Atlantis
Bron Stuckey bestucke@indiana.edu
Orientation to Quest Atlantis
This is a chance to visit the curriculum-based virtual world Quest Atlantis designed for students aged 8-14. We will meet inworld and over skype to explore and hold conversations.
20:00 Tapped In
Unconference Session: Other Elluminate
Nina Liakos nina.liakos@gmail.com
Striking a Balance
How do you balance online life with real life--family, job, personal interests? When confronted with a choice between an online activity and a real life activity, how do you choose? Do you ever feel that you are a slave to your computer? Come share your ideas on how to find a comfortable balance.
21:00
Unconference Session in SL
Location: MUVEnation
Carmela Dell'Aria/ Misy Ferraris in SL email:carmendellaria@libero.it
Teaching and learning with MUVEs. Educational tools for language classes: games and quizzes
During this session I'll show you some educational tools that a teacher can manage for a creative and funny language activities in SL. I'll give you the opportunity to be involved in a demonstration session for learning simple and basic Italian words. Participants can try games and quizzes during the session.
22:00
Unconference Session
Bertha Leiva bleiva2003@yahoo.com
Digital natives perceptions of EFL online and f2f writing revisions.
In an action research study
several methods were used to revise student’s texts in a
wiki:Teacher's comments, peer review, self-corrections and face to
face student-teacher conferences.
Students
completed a survey on their perceived revision preferences at the
end. Online tools, sample corrections,
results and
pedagogical implications will be presented.
23:00
EdTechTalk Webcast ETT Live
Jeff Lebow
EdtechWeekly Convergence Edition
Fast paced roundup of new and resources from the past week(end)