Vance Stevens presents at this live face-to-face conference 12 January 2013 at 11:30 a.m. in Abu Dhabi. The presentation will be streamed live as explained here. TAEDTECH Sig w/ TA Abu Dhabi Chapter “Addressing language Learning Objectives with the Help of IT”Relevant parts of the schedule11:15 - 11:30 break (from 7:15 GMT, Vance can use this time to set up)11:30 - 12:15 (from 7:30 to 8:15 GMT)1/ Vance Stevens (HCT - Abu Dhabi)  presents Teacher-centered PD via TESOL Electronic Village Online:…See More

Organized by TAEDTECH Sig & TESOL Arabia's Abu Dhabi Chapter, this face to face event features 6 presentations. Bring your own device (smartphone, iPad, laptop). 8:30 registration begins 9:00 - 9:15 short intro / plenary Fathi bin Mohamed James BuckinghamVance Stevens 9:15 - 10:00 session 1 1/ Anthony Hill (ECAE - Abu Dhabi) ahill@ecae.ac.aeThings you didn't know you could do!…See More

Sunday, April 17 -BigMarker is free software running online that lets participants display voice and video, share screens, and of course text chat with one another. It has two modes, meeting space and presenter.Today we try out a meeting space created for anyone to hang out in. No password is required to join in, but please wear a headset (your mic will activate automatically). I don't think it has a recording mode; we may have to make a screencast. The room is available for common use by…See More

A discussion thread leading up to the presentation on the subject in Dubai October 30th, 2010.See More

Between noon and 14:00 GMT (4 and 6 pm in the UAE) Vance Stevens once again hosts http://learning2gether.pbworks.com. This week's discussion is on transformative learning. The original title was What is transformative learning? But this could develop into something along the lines of ... "Are educators ready for transformative learning?"These are questions Vance has been pondering in a recent blog post:…See More

Title: The ESL-WOW ProjectDescription: Claire Bradin Siskin will describe the ESL Writing Online Workshop (ESL-WOW) Project, which she directs. ESL-WOW, currently under development, will be a website designed to guide non-native speakers of English through each stage of the pre-writing, while-writing, and post-writing processes. Once the materials have been created, ESL-WOW will be available to all individuals and educational institutions across the country. Siskin will outline the development…See More

Mark Pegrum's book From Blogs to Bombs (http://e-language.wikispaces.com/mr2) was used recently as core reading in the multiliteracies course whose portal is here: http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com.More recently, Mark has been touring Australia with Gavin Dudeney giving workshops on Digital Literacies. Mark and Gavin have agreed to reunite to discuss this topic…See More