cc-sa-nc Karenne Sylvester 2010 Workshop given at MELTA Feb 27, 2010 on using Ning with English Language Learners.

1. I´m Ningin´ it English Language Teaching 2.0 Karenne Sylvester Kalinago English Feb 27, 2010

4. I´m Ningin´ it… My background

8. Today´s World + The Radical Paradigm Shift

9. Thornbury on Dogme 2.0 “ Let me suggest some ends for which technology might be facilitative. To me, there are at least four. For convenience I'll label them DDCC. In ascending order of importance, they are: * Delivery: technology should be capable of delivering content in ways that are more efficient, more immediate, more impactful, more customised than many traditional means such as print materials; * Dialogue: technology should be capable of providing means for learners to interact with one another and with their teachers, and to do so in a collaborative, communicative way, that might radically increase learning opportunities. * Creativity: technology should offer the means for learners to be creative either individually or collaboratively, using a variety of media and modalities, in ways that enrich their language learning experience; * Community: technology should offer the possibility of building extended but close-knit communities of practice among learners and teachers, distributed over time and space and in ways that motivate language learning and use. To me, then, a technological tool - such as Skype, Moodle, YouTube, Powerpoint, Second Life etc - needs to be evaluated in accordance with its potential to meet at least one, if not all, of the above criteria. At the same time, the feasibility of the technology must be assessed in relation to its costs - in terms of hardware, training, maintenance, built-in obsolesence and so on.” Scott Thornbury, 2009, SEETA discussion forum

11. Wikipedia Wikimedia commons

12. ELT 2.0 = Communicative Language Teaching + Task Based Learning using Bloom´s Taxonomy (CLT + TBL) x BT web 2.0

13. Teachers Teaching Teachers Activity

14. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Break ~

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19. B.E. Students Ningin' it Demo of my classes' (Private Space)

20. In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~ Abram L. Urban ~ Lunchtime