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Authoring Online Activities with Hot Potatoes Workshop

Hot Potatoes allows instructors, teachers and developers to create digital quizzes.  The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling educators to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Since Hot Potatoes is freeware, it can be used for any purpose or project. Our team is running a …

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Looking to start out on the LearnIT2teach system?

We are offering two face-to-face workshops at TESL Ontario this week. The LearnIT2teach Stage 1 Instructor Training (Tech lab) is offered Friday 9:00AM-10:40AM FAF and Saturday 11:00AM-12:40PM SCG (This session is repeated on Saturday morning)  This is the first of four stages for Ontario LINC instructors interested in the CIC-funded LearnIT2teach Project. This session explains …

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Admin Manual to be released at TESL Ontario

Friday,  November 9 LearnIT2teach for LINC Administrators (FSG)  3:00PM-4:40PM Based on the new manual for LINC administrators developed by the CIC-funded LearnIT2teach team, presenters will highlight and explain key sections in this publication, which provides guidelines and best practices for program managers interested in supporting computer assisted language learning. Participants will also be encouraged to …

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At TESL Canada? Look for our Brochure at the Tutela booth.

Project manager, Jim Edgar, is at TESL Canada this weekend.  In cooperation with Tutela.ca our brochures can be located at their exhibitor desk. You may just catch Jim or web manager Kevin O’Brien at the booth.   Tutela.ca is a national online repository and community for Canadian English as a Second Language (ESL) and French …

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Conference Scheduler for TESL Ontario

On page 19 of the TESL Ontario conference brochure there is  an organizer that you can use to sort out your sessions.  On October 2nd to the 30th, you can then send these off quickly online at the TESL Ontario  registration.   [important]sessions fill quickly so register early[/important]

ESL LINC digital news!

The latest issue has been sent out. If you are not on the mailing list, you can find a copy here.

Part 1 of a three part interview with Dr. Hubbard

Dr. Phil Hubbard is the third computer assisted language learning expert we met with at TESOL Philadelphia in March 2012. He is a senior lecturer in Linguistics at Stanford University and a widely published and admired expert in the role technology plays in language teaching. As well, Phil was one of the principal authors of …

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A conversation with Greg Kessler at TESOL

This seven minute conversation with LearnIT2teach Project Manager Rob McBride took place at TESOL Philadelphia 2012. Greg describes how CALL resources are constantly expanding. Also the CALL world has evolved and today there is no necessity for teachers to know computer code. New media and social networking are powerful new tools for language learning and …

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Stage One at TESL Toronto

The TESL Toronto team has used a great resource, Prezi, to create this presentation summarizing their conference.  You might use this for your class as a presentation mechanism or as a tool for your students to create a visual presentation.   Find our presentation at 34 seconds!