Category: Links

Links to other components of the project.

“An Adult Settlement Blended Language Training: Selected Annotated Bibliography.”

Tutela Online Resource: An Adult Settlement Blended Language Training: Selected Annotated Bibliography.” What are the pros and cons of blended learning? Are there practical ways to introduce technology to the classroom? What impact can Web 2.0 have on the language classroom? TESL professionals looking for research on blended language instruction in settlement programs have a …

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Did you know that there are 6 Types of Blended Learning?

Blended Learning is not so much an innovation as it is a natural by-product of the digital domain creeping into physical boundaries. As digital and social media become more and more prevalent in the life of learners, it was only a matter of time before learning became “blended” by necessity…. The following infographic takes a …

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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.

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

The February ESL LINC digital news is here!

WebHeads encourage collaboration and sharing -Original PodCast.

Vance Stevens,a pioneer in computer-assisted language learning since the 70’s, and Rob McBride, LearnIT2teach Project, in conversation in March 2012 at TESOL Philadelphia. Vance has taught TESL extensively at the university level in the USA and the Middle East. Thousands of TESL professionals know him as the originator and the animator of Webheads, a community …

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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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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