The organisers of the scintillating looking LTSIG-UAB Idiomes Image Conference coming up in Barcelona on Saturday 8 June have asked the speakers to do a short video piece to introduce their talks. We are happy to republish those here over the next few weeks in the lead up to the conference. First up, closing plenary speaker Ben Goldstein.
Call for nominations
Nominations are invited for the following positions on IATEFL LTSIG’s Committee.
- Online Events Organiser
- Community Manager
Click here for details of the individual posts.
Anyone who wishes to stand must be nominated (proposed and seconded) by two members of the SIG.
The nominee must have been a member of IATEFL LTSIG for a minimum of six months.
Proposers, Seconders and Nominees must be fully paid-up individual members of IATEFL.
The person nominated should attach a 150-word statement about themselves and the contribution they would hope to make to IATEFL LTSIG if elected to the post, and supply a passport-sized photograph of themselves. This information and picture will be sent electronically to all IATEFL LTSIG members.
Nominations that are incomplete or inaccurate will not be considered. Please check membership status with the IATEFL Office if necessary.
Click here to download a nomination form.
The closing date for receipt of forms (by email, fax or post) is UK 12pm, Monday 27 May 2013
In the event of there being more than one candidate for a position, an election will be held electronically from Friday 31 May to UK 12pm, Monday 10 June 2013.
19/5/13 - Webinar: Embodiment, Technology and Locative Play
with Paul Driver (Portugal)
When: Sunday 19 May 2013, GMT 14:00
Find the time in your time zone by clicking this link.
This event is taking place as part of the 6th Virtual Round Table Conference with LTSIG as the host. Visit http://tinyurl.com/programVRTWEBCON to see the conference programme.
Where: Visit http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/arthur to join the webinar (this link will be live from 13:30 GMT).
Technology is embedded in our daily life-worlds and, as such, should play a part in the ecology of experiences of learning a language. However, that does not mean to say that the choices we make about which technologies to use and how they are applied to the learning experience are not meaningful or do not have consequences. During this webinar, I will draw attention to and provide examples of the often overlooked potential of mobile technologies and services to exploit the ecology of interconnected affordances of social and physical spaces as a rich source for situated language learning.
Biodata
Paul is a language teacher, researcher, teacher trainer, game designer and illustrator lecturing at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro in northern Portugal. His main research interests focus on the combined roles of play, space, the body, media, architecture, technology and game dynamics in how we learn. He is currently leading several ongoing projects exploring the educational application of pervasive games, mobile technologies and locative storytelling for second language acquisition.
8/6/13 - Event: The Image Conference
When: Saturday, 8th June - 9.00 AM -19.45 PM
Where: UAB Idiomes, Barcelona, Spain
We are delighted to announce that The Image Conference is taking place at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB Casa Convelescencia, Barcelona on Saturday 8th June. The conference has been organised by the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG and UAB Idiomes Barcelona, and it is the first conference exclusively on the use of film video, image and gaming in language teaching. Speakers include renowned experts in the field such as Jamie Keddie, Ben Goldstein, Graham Stanley, Ceri Jones, Kyle Mawer and Lindsay Clandfield.
There will be 2 plenary sessions, 5 keynote sessions and 10 workshops all designed around the theme of film, video, images and gaming in language teaching.
Register now and don’t miss the opportunity to attend the first conference of its kind, meet our fantastic speakers and like-minded language teaching professionals.
For more information, visit http://theimageconference.org/
To book, please go to:
https://secure.iatefl.org/events/step1.php?event_id=63
8-12/4/13 - IATEFL Conference
47th IATEFL ANNUAL CONFERENCE
The IATEFL annual conference will be taking place at the Arena & Convention Centre in Liverpool from 8th - 12th April, 2013.
As part of this, the LTSig is organising a pre-conference event on the 8th April and a themed SIG day on the 10th April.
For more information and booking, please go to:
http://www.iatefl.org/liverpool-2013/liverpool-2013
10/4/13 - Liverpool 2013 - LTSIG Day
IATEFL Liverpool: Wednesday 10th April 2013
Learning Technologies SIG Day
If you are a member of the LTSIG you can view recordings of the sessions. Log in and then select 'Events Archive' from the members menu.
Presentations take place in Hall 11b
Timetable
| 10:35 | Carla Arena - Filtering relevant information for the EFL classroom through digital curation |
| 11:05 | Coffee break |
| 11:40 | Suzanne Mordue & Sirin Soyoz - Just hit pause |
| 12:25 | Lunch break |
| 13:45 | Steven Bukin - The flipped classroom - from theory to practice in ELT |
| 14:20 | Lindsay Warwick - Flipping the classroom and student attitudes |
| 15:05 | Chryssantthe Sotiriou & Dimitrios Primalis (Winners of the IATEFL LTSIG Diana Eastment scholarship / LTSIG Travel grant) - Literature strikes back! Teaching literature with technology |
| 15:50 | Coffee break |
| 16:25 | Paul Driver - History, folklore and gossip: geospatial narratives and mobile language learning |
| 17:10 | Luke Meddings & Burcu Akyol - Unplugged and connected: where ideas meet |
| 17:55 | Open Forum - IATEFL Learning Technologies Special Interest Group Open Forum |
