Tag: technology

Introduction to Moodle Hand Out Now on our Portal

Our successful workshop at TESL Ontario, Intro to Moodle for Editing Teachers, hand out is now available for your consideration in our portal Support area.  You may download this by clicking on the logo or by navigating to Support>Instructor Trainee>Stage 3>Intro to Moodle

Today at 3 p.m., Introduction to Moodle – great for editing teachers

Today we are offering a to give instructors a head start to editing using the Moodle learning Management System or LMS. 3:00PM-4:40PM TSH An Introduction to Course Editing in Moodle (Tech lab) John Allan, Jim Edgar, and Nancy Van Dorp – LearnIT2teach This session introduces course authoring in Moodle, a popular learning management system. Participants …

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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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A great way to start learning “blended instruction” Back2Back Stages 1 & 2 sessions

On Friday, November the 10th at TESL Ontario, our team is offering the Stage One hands on and Stage Two introduction sessions consecutively at 9:00 a.m and 1:00 p.m. respectively. This is an efficient way for Ontario LINC instructors to get a jump start on their understanding and practical skills using technology in a blended …

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Make Speaking Activities with NanoGong at TESL Ontario

At TESL Ontario, Jim Edgar and Susan Susan Middlesworth will be leading a session dedicated to generating computer blended speaking activities for LINC classes.  As synchronous and asynchronous speaking practice has now been integrated into the CIC-funded LINC 2-4 courseware. This hands-on training is for instructors who would like to start using these activities. All of …

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What’s New In LearnIT2teach: Project Update

At TESL Ontario, our team will update the settlement community about the progress that we have made over the past year.   Jim Edgar, Rob McBride and Matthias Sturm discuss additions to the CIC-funded LearnIT2teach Project, which commenced in January 2010. New additions include a reference manual for LINC administrators, online speaking activities, LINC 2 e-resources, …

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Free open EDU LiNC courseware

We offer an open site, edulinc.ca,  that you can inspect and even use with your students. This site has been created to provide more open access to the LearnIT2teach LINC courseware using Moodle 2.2, the latest version of our learning management system. The LearnIT2teach.ca team invites you to create your own user account, enroll yourself …

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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.

A message for LINC service providers

Dear Ontario settlement language training service provider, In response to the federal (CIC) call for proposals for the coming years, the team at LearnIT2teach strongly encourages every Ontario service provider organization to request resources to support information technology integration in LINC, OSLT or ELT programs. Please seriously consider requesting funding for: paid release time for …

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