tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71583432008-03-09T19:07:19.690+01:00Elek MatheBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-39121910883715359092008-03-09T19:01:00.002+01:002008-03-09T19:07:19.717+01:00

Wireless Ready: Interactivity, Collaboration and Feedback in Language Learning Technologies, Nagoya, Japan, 29th March 2008 This one-day international symposium on language learning technologies will be simultaneously live in Second Life. Registration is now open in Second Life at the following URL. Click on 'sign-up' to register. Participants in SL will be able hear and see the presenters in

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-55545315377356026442008-03-07T15:35:00.001+01:002008-03-07T15:37:24.844+01:00

Globalization and Localization in CALL 2008 Hotel Ciputra Jakarta, Jakarta, 7-9 November 2008 & Quality Hotel Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, 10-12 November 2008 GLoCALL 2008 invites proposals for presentations that are related to computer-assisted language learning. Proposals for Papers (35 minutes), Symposia (120 minutes) and Poster sessions should be submitted via the GLoCALL Website (http://

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-79336258202489741532008-02-15T20:53:00.004+01:002008-02-15T21:11:17.706+01:00

The banner on the left here pretty much says it all: if you play this simple but brilliant vocabulary game, you'll be supporting the United Nations World Food Program. Plus, you'll have a great time. You just have to choose the meaning of a word out of four options. If you get it right, you'll get a somewhat more difficult word next (and donate 20 grains of rice - paid for by the site's

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-17411802621548922582008-02-10T10:35:00.000+01:002008-02-10T10:39:55.335+01:00

An excellent presentation on using Facebook for teaching. Here's the direct link to the pdf file: http://www.edumorphology.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/fb_classroom1.pdf It has a couple of very useful and practical tips and ideas. Highly recommended!

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The Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology (NEALLT) will hold its annual conference February 29 - March 2, 2008 at the Rutgers University New Brunswick campus. This year's theme will be "Global Connections: Language Learning in the Digital Age". For more information, go to http://www.neallt.org .

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-78652554905427811702008-01-10T10:31:00.000+01:002008-01-10T10:33:19.493+01:00

Eurocall 2008 Conference 3-6 September, 2008 Székesfehérvár, Hungary EUROCALL is a professional organisation for the promotion of innovative research, development and practice in the area of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) in education and training. EUROCALL conferences bring together educators, researchers, administrators, materials

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-14708618680153191892008-01-07T11:14:00.000+01:002008-01-07T11:19:57.848+01:00

Recording voice online doesn't come easier than this service. It's free - you don't even have to register. You just record your message (up to 2.5 hours!), upload the file (just click upload, that's it) and get a link that you can embed in your blog or send to your students. Try it and you'll see that it's really as simple as it sounds.

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-19627800998929799352008-01-03T11:39:00.000+01:002008-01-03T11:40:54.999+01:00

The CALL Interest Section of the international TESOL professional association is pleased to offer the opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2008 season. This is a professional development project and virtual extension of the TESOL 2008 Convention in New York. The intended audience for this project includes both TESOL 2008 participants and those who can participate

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-27488035584788998652007-10-25T15:33:00.000+02:002007-10-26T13:51:25.192+02:00

An interview with Gavin Dudeney, the director of EduNation in Second Life, and a virtual video tour of the EduNation islands. You can get a brief overview of what English teachers can do there. Amazing, to say the least.

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The title of this post is a quote from an interview with a 14-year-old on educational technology. "Arthus" (his web nick) is from Vermont and the interview was made by Steve Hargadon of http://www.infinitethinking.org/ - here is the direct link to the .mp3 file: http://audio.edtechlive.com/arthus.mp3 Interesting and valid insights into the use (and misuse) of technology in education - for

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Posted on behalf of Thomas Robb & John Mugane, Co-Chairs, WorldCALL Scholarship Committee: WorldCALL 2008, to be held in Fukuoka, Japan from August 5-8, 2008 announces the availability of full scholarships to the congress, including transportation, fees, lodging and a stipend for miscellaneous expenses. In keeping with our policy of “Equity and Access” these scholarships are only available to

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-8788020971416259162007-07-09T23:18:00.000+02:002007-07-26T10:42:07.211+02:00

Pownce is going to be the next big thing on the Net, so let's be prepared and see how it can be used for teaching English. But first of all, what is it? Pownce lets you share links, news, images, events, even files (up to 10 MBs in the free version) with your fellow Powncers (or the whole world). They will also be able to respond. The great thing is that you can create groups of your friends/

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-86724255872391373282007-05-22T00:22:00.000+02:002007-05-22T00:32:47.565+02:00

Wink is an excellent freeware tool for creating presentations and tutorials. It will capture what you do on your screen and you can add explanation boxes and even sound later - ideal for creating tutorials on how to use various software applications. It is extremely easy to use: just set your preferences such as screen size and capture area and you're ready to go. Get it here: http://

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-83369224252676270652007-05-20T09:22:00.000+02:002007-05-20T09:23:36.361+02:00

Various interesting e-learning authoring tools, created by the University of British Columbia: Learning Tools - UBC Arts Among others: Multimedia Learning Object Authoring Tool, Vocabulary Memorization Platform, Image Annotation and Language Pronunciation Tool.

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Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-37225162392812379802007-03-13T10:28:00.000+01:002007-03-13T10:29:21.662+01:00

Call for Participation for WiaOC 2007 CONNECT: a free synchronous and asynchronous online conference for teachers and education professionals May 18-20, 2007 Webheads in Action (http://webheads.info), a world-wide cross-cultural online community of several hundred ESL/EFL educators and other professionals, invites your participation in CONNECT: Conversations on Networking, Education, Communities,

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-60920833528124849422007-01-04T19:43:00.000+01:002007-01-04T19:48:31.730+01:00

TESOL 2007: "Spanning the Globe: Tides of Change" March 21-24, 2007 Seattle, Washington, USA EV FAIRS, EV MINI-WORKSHOPS, and DEVELOPERS' SHOWCASE ***DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 31, 2007*** You are invited to submit a proposal for participation in one or more of these TESOL 2007 CALL Interest Section Special Events. You are welcome to submit proposals to more than one event,

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-1161118903527737942006-10-17T22:32:00.000+02:002006-12-27T12:09:04.272+01:00

FlexLists.com is a Web 2.0 application brought to you by Moving Labs. It does what its tagline promises: "Create online lists, flexible, easy and fast!" I'm not sure if they had learners of English in mind when building this application, but the end result is nicely suitable for our purposes. Here are a few suggestions - I'm sure you'll be able to add your own to suit your needs: The obvious:

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-1161023469653678402006-10-16T20:19:00.000+02:002006-12-27T12:10:32.880+01:00

Proposals Submission Deadline: 1/31/2007 Full Articles Due: 4/30/2007 Handbook of Research on E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition A book edited by Patricia Lupion Torres PhD. & Rita de Cassia Veiga Marriott MEd. Pontifical Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR), Brazil patitorres@terra.com.br rita.marriott@yahoo.com Introduction Throughout the decades, the teaching of languages has

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-1157705027601512612006-09-08T10:04:00.000+02:002006-12-27T12:11:57.101+01:00

This is a sort of a follow-up to yesterday's post. The connection might not be that obvious at first because I'll be starting from Adam and Eve as usual and might even digress on the way but bear with me. So, here we go... When I give my students handouts, I almost always customize the header and the footer. That is, my students' names are added, usually in the format "for Andy, Mary, Sue, Dave

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-1157635779418052222006-09-07T15:12:00.000+02:002006-12-27T12:13:02.667+01:00

Of course I'm a huge fan and old-time user of Moodle so it shouldn't come as a surprise that I got excited by this new title: http://www.packtpub.com/moodle/book Moodle E-Learning Course Development by William Rice The book does look interesting, though I always wonder when I see print publications about online applications: why did the author chooose that medium? An online version would be so

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-1150841033262238062006-06-20T23:57:00.000+02:002007-01-01T14:11:00.460+01:00

"Digital teaching and learning environments require new teaching competences and increasing academic achievement" The Eszterházy Károly College, The HUNDIDAC Association, The ICEM Congress and Media Days, The Open University of Malaysia and The Delta Academy of Science of Egypt cordially invite you to participate at the Agria Média 2006 and ICI-5 Information Technology and Education Technology

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-1150840516495334092006-06-20T23:52:00.000+02:002007-01-01T14:10:05.185+01:00

Report on the conference "Learning Technologies in the Language Classroom: A step closer to the future" (University of Cyprus, 26-28th May, 2006) Read the conference report here: http://www.iateflcompsig.org.uk/cyprusreport2006.htm PowerPoint presentations, images, etc.

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-1144938912455756032006-04-13T16:31:00.000+02:002007-01-01T14:12:05.099+01:00

A message from Eric Baber: ExtremeTechnoELT (http://www.ExtremeTechnoELT.com ) is a community for advanced users of IT and programmers who are involved in English Language Teaching in some way. You will feel most comfortable in this community if you consider Office programs (Word, PowerPoint etc), e-mail and websurfing to be really very basicHTML is old stuff and you know your XML from your

Elek Mathetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158343.post-1141933959627575972006-03-09T20:50:00.000+01:002006-03-09T20:52:39.643+01:00

Webcasts from TESOL Electronic Village: Internet Fair Classic 2006 March 16/17 (Thursday/Friday) http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/TESOL/2006/IF_Classics/webcast_schedule.htm

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