Tag: web 2.0

LearnIT2teach Podcasts

We have seventeen and counting original podcasts at our PodOmatic site.   These podcasts are focused on improving blended learning in language learning situations.   Some of the experts interviewed are:  Vance Stevens, Ken Beatty, Pascal St. Jean, Phil Hubbard, Greg Kessler, John Sivell, Deborah Healey, Carolyn Cohen, and Sharon Rajabi.

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 …

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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 …

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Editing a course? Download and use our Stage 3 manual.

If you are editing a course in the edlinc.ca system or even a Moodle course on another server, our Stage 3 manual can be very useful as a quick how to resource for over sixty practical tasks with courseware.  Examples are how to manipulate groups of students, hiding and showing activities on a course, adding …

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PodCast: Why Use Technology in the Language Classroom?

In this episode, Dr. Ken Beatty provides insights into the benefits of using technology from both the teachers’ and learners’ perspectives. Dr. Beatty makes practical suggestions, and he offers advice to the many teachers who would like to do more with educational technologies, but say they don’t have time to learn them. Dr. Beatty is …

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Moving forward with Stage 2? Video and tip assistance!

If you are currently working through Stage 2, there are four ways you can get assistance. Orientation video Tip Sheet Instructional support resources Mentor support, call your mentor  

Join.me Conferencing help

At times, some of our mentors will use the Join.me conferencing resource to interact with participants.  We have create a support file that you can use to ensure that your first session starts smoothly.   Click here to see or on the menu bar above, Select Support> Instructor Trainee > Join.me Conferencing

There are still openings for our workshops at TESL Ontario

TESL Ontario is in November, but registration opened recently.  We hope that you have the time to register so that you can participate in one of our eleven sessions in Toronto. Use the provided scheduler in the conference brochure.  See details at this post. As well our whole team will be at our table in …

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LINC 2 Activities for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October.  This week would be a great opportunity to use the four activities available to get your students into the festival spirit.  These can be accessed within the LINC 2 courseware, the Guest Access LINC 2 course or downloaded from the Tutela.ca learning object repository. …

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Make LearnIT2teach a part of your P.L.N.

A P.L.N. or a personal learning network is an informal network of resources and people that a learner interacts with in a sharing fashion where knowledge is transferred. In a PLN, a person makes a connection with another person or resource with the specific intent that some type of learning will occur because of that …

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