Tag: LINC

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, …

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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.

New LINC 5, 6 & 7 Learning objects released!

Additional interactive learning objects are ready for download to support the LINC 5-7 Classroom Activities (Vol. 1 and 2). These resources complement Chapter 3, Interacting with Others, of the Classroom Activities. Instructors with edlinc courses can easily add these to their existing courses.

Read the March issue of the ESL LINC Digital News

Items in this edition are listed below. Click on the news icon to read this edition. Project News LearnIT2teach Podcast #17 Learner Questionnaires Web News Recognising the power of voice recording Applying the Seven Principles for Good Practice to the Online Classroom Winning the Masters (degree) Blogs 5 Useful iPad Apps For ESL Students 50 …

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The Unexpected Next – emerging language learning technologies

Jim Edgar continues his conversation with Ken Beatty, a CALL professor at Anaheim University. Jim asks Professor Beatty to summarize an inspiring conference presentation he had given at TESL Canada. The topic was ‘The Unexpected Next’. In his summary, Professor Beatty lists six emerging language technologies. and their application to language teaching and learning. These …

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Survey your students with a Questionnaire

Consider adding a pre-made student questionnaire, so that your learners provide feedback on their edlinc course.  This will help the LearnIT2teach team to possibly enhance the LINC courseware to make the blended learning experience more effective and user friendly.  There are two questionnaires available for you to install on your course. The students can take …

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Webinar: Integrating & Managing Blended Learning: An Introduction for Language Training Administrators

Integrating & Managing Blended Learning: An Introduction for Language Training Administrators Date/Time: 13:00 EST to 14:00 EST Location: Tutela.ca Live Conferencing Room Join Here (must be a Tutela.ca member)   This is an interactive webinar. If you haven’t already received a manual, please download the manual from tutela at this link: http://tutela.ca/ViewContentItem?itemId=5237 Listen to the …

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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

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!

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