Tag: support

Learner Readiness

We have four new Learner Readiness courses available for instructors to use with their students.  Each course is LINC level appropriate and will help students and teachers become more familiar with all relevant aspects of the LINC courseware for blended instruction. Each course has five sections: Getting Ready to Learn Online Edlinc, The Basics Reading, …

Continue reading

Teachers want to reset or add LINC glossaries to your courses?

The LINC glossaries bank can be used by LINC courseware instructors to reset course glossaries, to add glossaries  or to merge glossaries on their courses.   To locate glossaries and add them to your course, go to the support document Glossary files.

Getting Started with the LINC Courseware released today @ Ottawa LINC PD day

Please stop by and bring your questions or pick up a “Getting Started with the LINC Courseware” today at our exhibitor table at the Ottawa LINC PD Day in the Confederation Education Centre on Woodroffe Ave.   This document will be available in our Support>Teacher Help  Section in PDF format on Monday.

Starting a course with LINC courseware?

With so many LINC instructors embarking on using LINC courseware recently, it seems like a good time to remind everyone that there are support features throughout this portal. In our  support links there are: getting started pages a listing of FAQs teacher Help pages an editing teacher manual a starting your course video

Teachers as models of innovation – original PodCast

In this podcast, Vance describes the importance of teachers modelling technological innovation to other teachers. Vance also gives some technology tips. Vance also underlines the need for teachers to be playful and exploratory with new technology.  

Creating a community of practice – original PodCast.

Vance speaks to the importance of community of practice when teachers want to innovate and apply new learning technologies. As the father of Webheads and Webheads in Action, Vance has demonstrated that his approach to online community building works. Click here to listen

The February ESL LINC digital news is here!

January Digital News is out! Click on the tablet to read.

Pascal St-Jean introduces Tutela, the national learning objects repository

This podcast was recorded at the TESL Canada 2012 Conference shortly after the official launch of Tutela.ca, Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s national repository for settlement language training. The podcast features Pascal St-Jean, one of the site administrators and core developers. Pascal provides a brief history of Tutela, an overview of what the site offers, strategies …

Continue reading

Portal Support Pages

Our portal Support page is available to anyone requiring assistance with their blended courses.  Many of the resources are based on our mentoring experience with LearnIT2teach participants. An example of this is the WebQuest page. It helps instructors decide on the best possible ways to construct these project based learning activities for their blended teaching …

Continue reading