Friday 16 May 2014
Room G03
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Instagramize Your Language Classroom
Sebah Al Ali In this workshop, attendees will learn how to use Instagram, a very common social media tool among current learners, as an mlearning tool in their blended language classes. After assisting them in creating their own accounts, teachers will be guided through the platform and important features that make Instagram a unique mlearning tool. The workshop will demonstrate (and ask participants to take part in) examples of successful activities that helped the presenter target different language skills with different proficiency levels
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Room G04
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Beyond Angry Birds and Candy Crush
Rana Tamim Children with mobile devices are becoming a regular sight in our daily and academic lives. If properly utilised, these devices can empower teachers to enhance and support the teaching and learning process in the elementary classroom. This session will provide an overview of pedagogical approaches for the use of mobile devices in student-centred classrooms. In addition, sample projects will be showcased and practical examples will be discussed.
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Room G13
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Using iPads to Promote Creativity
Amanda Radwan & Shama Khan ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ (Arthur C. Clarke)
The advances in technology in the last few years have diversified all ways of learning. It is our role as educators to home in on the uses of the technology we have and guide our learners to use it even more. The iPad as a personal learning device has transformed learning/teaching in the classroom. Several apps help sustain student motivation both intrinsic and extrinsic. Our aim is to include 4 such apps that are user friendly and interactive; stimulate student interest in reading and writing; allow for both group work and individual assignments and create a positive learning environment in the classroom while meeting the instructional needs of the course. |
Room G12
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Open Learning Resources & Learning Management Systems
James O'Hearn This presentation will show attendees how to harness freely available content management platforms, and adapt them in order to create specialized, targeted learning management systems that your students can access on any device, from any place.
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Auditorium - Block A
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Using Mobile Technology to Enhance Students' Engagement in Learning
Prof. Carmel McNaught Learning any language (including the languages of Science and Mathematics) requires dedication and practice, and that means that motivating students to seriously and frequently engage in a range of learning activities and tasks. This talk will look at the possibilities that mobile technology offers teachers for enhancing students' engagement in learning languages, Science and Mathematics. However, it is not a case of "offer mobile learning and they will come!". We need to understand clearly the difference between being digitally literate for social interactions - which many of our students are - and being ready to benefit from learning in a digital environment. Data from a number of studies in Hong Kong will be used to explore how best to support students to appreciate the opportunities that technology offers to them for learning.
Clearly mobile technology is an exciting and rapidly changing field. The essence of good learning design in a mobile learning landscape is to adapt the principles of good teaching one uses in traditional educational environments to designing learning that utilizes this new smorgasbord of learning options. I will focus on the three principles of: 1) building relationships; 2) sustaining awareness of and practice in learning in a discipline; and 3) stimulating students' creativity; and will present a number of examples where the use of mobile devices has enhanced students' engagement and also their understanding of the discipline domain. Examples will include the use of ePortfolios for language learning, the collection of data in field work, and the use of mobile devices for quizzes in classrooms. In all cases, once the design was sorted out (and that is a non-trivial caveat!), teachers have reported higher quality learning outcomes, reduced teacher workload, and increased enjoyment for both teachers and students; definitely a win-win scenario. |
Room G03
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Authoring Guided Language Lessons using iBooks Author
Elizabeth Birch Learning languages through projects is motivating and engaging. Not only are students learning a language in a fun and motivating way but they’re also building essential 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, innovation, and information and ICT literacy. iPad is an excellent Project Based Learning tool, as it creates a student-centered, collaborative environment and functions as a powerful multimedia consumption and creation device. In this presentation I will outline how I use iBooks Author to set up projects and scaffold language learning through the six main skill areas of listening, reading, vocabulary, grammar, writing, and speaking.
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Room G04
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App Building for Non-Programmers (Part 1)
Enas Al-Tarawneh To address the issue of ease of mobilization and the need for a convenient communication or collaboration method, teacher tend to use attractive technological tools. Many of our students spend long hours on there I pads socializing and browsing. Having an App close by and in vision can allow for an easier more effective way of communication. Many tools can be use in combination to provide an efficient communication tool. Announcements, calendar events, video tutorials, feeds, contact info….etc. can be placed in a one click away App using TheAppBuilder.com in addition to other technology tools here and there. This workshop is a hands-on workshop that focuses on the creation of an App with the above characteristics.
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Room G13
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Fun Activities, Free Tools for Language Learning
Pamela Johnson Explore a variety of dynamic language-learning activities and the technology that makes them work. Check out collaborative documents, recordable whiteboards, animation creators, infographic makers, speech-to-text apps, speech recorders, video projects and more. We will also discuss student responsibility for their important educational accounts. Educators who recently adopted the iPad and those who plan to adopt it will benefit the most from this session.
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Room G12
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How The Flipped Classroom Really Works (Part 1)
Phoebe Hindi & Mireille Farah Teaching the "Digital Natives" in the rapidly changing era of the 21st century has proven to be a great challenge to educators in general who need to adapt their teaching styles. The presenters will describe the Flipped Method of Instruction in a Language Classroom, shifting from passive to active learning to focus on the higher order thinking skills and improve on learner autonomy. They will share the effectiveness of this method and what they have learned through their experience in an English Language setting.
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Room G03
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iPad for The Primary Classroom
Omaima Nasser The session will introduce the participants to 4 free ipad Apps that can be used in the primary classroom. Those Apps were specifically chosen for their user-friendly features, their ability to increase the motivation and engagement in students as well as their fun and interactive element. Moreover, those Apps can be applied in a variety of contexts like Science, Maths, English etc. They can help the learners take their first steps towards learner autonomy and they can boost the students' confidence because they will be able to produce an end product that they can share with their classmates, teacher or friends. The Apps are: Pic Collage, Educreations, Puppet Pals & Quizlet.
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Room G04
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App Building for Non-Programmers (Part 2)
Enas Al-Tarawneh To address the issue of ease of mobilization and the need for a convenient communication or collaboration method, teacher tend to use attractive technological tools. Many of our students spend long hours on there I pads socializing and browsing. Having an App close by and in vision can allow for an easier more effective way of communication. Many tools can be use in combination to provide an efficient communication tool. Announcements, calendar events, video tutorials, feeds, contact info….etc. can be placed in a one click away App using TheAppBuilder.com in addition to other technology tools here and there. This workshop is a hands-on workshop that focuses on the creation of an App with the above characteristics.
Workshop material here. |
Room G13
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Classroom Management with the iPads – What We Have Learnt
Rachel Scott With the introduction of any new technology into the learning process, teachers are naturally concerned about how classroom management will be effected. At the Sharjah Higher Colleges of Technology we reviewed our experiences with the iPads during their first 18 months of use in Foundations. In this presentation Rachel shares our ideas, strategies and tips on how teachers can manage classrooms in which learners have mobile technology.
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Room G12
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How The Flipped Classroom Really Works (Part 2)
Phoebe Hindi & Mireille Farah Teaching the "Digital Natives" in the rapidly changing era of the 21st century has proven to be a great challenge to educators in general who need to adapt their teaching styles. The presenters will describe the Flipped Method of Instruction in a Language Classroom, shifting from passive to active learning to focus on the higher order thinking skills and improve on learner autonomy. They will share the effectiveness of this method and what they have learned through their experience in an English Language setting.
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Room G12
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Un-Conference - App Slam
A group of the conference presenters and delegates will have a competition to share Apps tips and tricks in 2 minutes each! This is a great opportunity to walk away with lots of new ideas to integrate mobile Apps for learning. Want to share an App, get ready!
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