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Sunday sessions at Tapped
In. We will meet at Tapped In every Sunday at noon GMT. You
are all welcome to these meetings
Graduation Ceremony:
Webcast parts 1 and 2
chatlog
Web page
Informal sessions
/ Sessions with guest speakers
Informal sessions
(chatlogs)
Tapped
In (Sunday, Jan 22)
Tapped
In (Sunday, Jan 29)
Tapped
In (Sunday, Feb 5)
Alado (Saturday, Feb 11) - Whole
session - Only
audio - Integrated
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Sessions with our guest speakers:
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Speakers |
Information |
Location - Time GMT |
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BJ. Berquist
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BJ Berquist is an art teacher at the
Loysville Youth Development Center, a residential male juvenile correctional
facility in central Pennsylvania, USA. She was involved in the planning
of the Civil Rights Forum held in TAPPED IN in May, 1998, leads several
discussions at TAPPED IN, and is a Help Desk volunteer. BJ is an Associate
Educator at TAPPED IN and edits the Tapis Newsletter and the Events
Calendar. Look at http://www.tappedin.org/info/members/bj.html
to learn more about what she does at TAPPED IN and to see her smiling
face! |
Tapped
In (TI) on Saturday, Jan. 21, at 13:00 GMT
chatlog |
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Michael Coghlan
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Michael Coghlan has designed and
delivered online courses in ESL, eModeration, and Using Online Technologies,
and is an online instructor for the Graduate Certificate in eLearning
delivered by Adelaide Institute of TAFE. He has written widely on
issues to do with elearning, and presented at several international
conferences, both physically and as a remote presenter.
As a Flexible Learning Leader for the Australian Flexible Learning
Framework in 2003 Michael researched the use of online voice technologies.
Not surprisingly, he is a passionate believer in the power of online
voice communications to inspire and motivate students |
Yahoo Messenger
Wednesday,
Jan. 25, at 12:30 GMT
to be read: web
page
integrated
page
(recording, chatlog, screenshots,etc.)
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Jeff Lebow
Dave Cormier |
Jeff Lebow began his educational
career as an elementary sschool teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
After receiving a Master's Degree in Training and Learning Technologies,
he moved to Asia where he taught English as a Foreign Language for
10 years. Since 1997, he has managed a variety of websites, explored
the educational and cross cultural possibilities of webcasting,
and worked toward building Worldbridges.com as a global network
of homegrown webcasting
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Dave Cormier started his teaching career in 1998 in South Korea,
and started teaching online in 2000. He is currently the project
manager for the digital library at UPEI in Charlottetown. His ed-tech
interests include, podcasting, Elgg, Wordpress, Wiki's, the idea
of publishing work to the internet as performance, and theorizing
about the future of education.
For the last 7 months, Jeff & Dave have co-hosted
The EdTechTalk show and facilitated a variety of webcasts related
to edtech at http://edtechtalk.com/
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Barbara Dieu
Graham Stanley
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Barbara has been teaching English to secondary
school students at the Franco-Brazilian school in São Paulo
for 20 years. Since 1997, she has become more and more involved
in ICT(http://the_english_dept.tripod.com/index.html) and had her
students participate and contribute to many international projects
online. She coordinates the Foreign Language Department, belongs
to the ICT committee and represents This is Our Time project for
French and Portuguese speaking countries (http://www.timeproject.org).
She is responsible for organizing the Time Classroom Twinning Activity
for different schools around the world
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Graham Stanley is an EFL teacher based in Barcelona, Spain. He is
teacher and ICT co-ordinator for the British Council, Barcelona
and also works at the school of tourism of the University of Ramon
Llull in the same city |
Alado
Tuesday Jan. 31st., at 20:30 GMT
Bee's
PPT
Graham's
page
Integrated
page
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Jonathan Finkelstein
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Jonathan Finkelstein is the founder and President of
LearningTimes, LLC and Executive Producer of The LearningTimes Network.
As an educator, technologist, industry expert, and producer, he is
focused on creating and deploying engaging, web-based and web-enhanced
human environments, programs and curricula that foster learning, collaboration
and community.
Over the last several years, he has worked with numerous leading educational,
corporate, and publishing organizations to build learning programs
and communities online. For more information, see http://www.learningtimes.net/finkelstein.shtml
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Learning Times'
Meeting
Room
Monday Feb. 6, at 17:00GMT
recording
Integrated
page |
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Isabel Perez
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Isabel Pérez is an English Teacher at the Universidad
de Granada, in Spain. She is also the webmaster of the ESL site http://www.isabelperez.com.
She holds a PhD in English Philology from the University of Granada,
with a dissertation on the topic of Designing WebQuests for learning
and teaching English . She has published several articles and given
talks and courses on the topics of Internet and CALL. Over the last
years, she has worked in several e-learning projects at the University
of Granada related to vocabulary acquisition." |
Tapped
In (Webheads office)
Monday, Feb. 13, at 20:00 GMT
Web
page
Integrated
page
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Aiden Yeh
Buthaina Al-Othman
Rita Zeinstejer
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Aiden Yeh is a PhD candidate at the University
of Birmingham. Her research interests are Teacher Professional
Development [TPD], Educational Policies and Change, English Language
Teaching [ELT] Management, and blended learning. She¡¦s
a Webhead
and a member of TESOL¡¦s Electronic
Village Online 2004-2005 Sessions coordinating team. She teaches
at Wen
Zao Ursuline College of Foreign Languages in Taiwan.
Email: aidenyeh@yahoo.com
Website: http://dcyeh.com
Research Epad: http://buxiban.blogspot.com
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Buthaina Al-Othman is a full time instructor of EFL/ESP in the English
Language Unit of Science, at Kuwait University since 2001. She holds
an MS in Teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages, (TESOL)
from the University at Albany, NY, USA. She is on the Executive
Board Representatives of TESOL's ESP IS since 2004, and this year
she's in the Steering Committee of TESOL's CALL IS and a member
of the Electronic Village Online Coordination Team. She has been
a member of the community online, Webheads in Action, since 2002
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Rita Zeinstejer is an EFL teacher with 30 years' experience teaching
English at all levels, mainly preparing students to sit for Cambridge
FCE and CAE at the Asociacion Rosarina de Cultura Inglesa in Argentina,
only centre for Cambridge exams in the area, with 2,500 students
of English as a foreign language.
She is also a Cambridge Oral Examiner, Area Manager for Advanced
Courses, and Self Access, Laboratory and Multimedia Coordinator.
Rita has given several PPT Presentations on ICT (Information and
Communication Technology) and CMC (Computer Mediated Communication)
for Language Learning in my place, and in Brazil, after having travelled
to Cambridge in August, 1999, for a course on the use of computers
for Language Learning. She has been the CALL SIG Coordinator in
her area for 5 years now. |
Saturday Feb. 25, at LT, at 16:00 GMT
slides (pdf)
session recording |
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