IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG

Events

Future IATEFL Learning Technologies/Computer SIG events

 

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New Technologies in ELT,
Norwich, UK, February 17-18 2007

Have you wondered what podcasts, vodcasts, corpora and CMC are all about? What Web 2.0 is? Have you heard of these terms and tools but are not sure just how they might be used in the language classroom?

This two-day event is a great opportunity to get up-to-date with recent technological developments, how they impact on the language classroom in general, and how they can be incorporated into English language teaching in particular.

An event packed with hands-on workshops which will give you the opportunity to experience first-hand everything you learn during the weekend.

Topics which will be covered:

• Interactive Whiteboards
• Computer-Mediated Communication
• Corpora
• Podcasts and Vodcasts
• Reading and Writing Online

Places are limited so please book early.

Further details, programme, registration form, accommodation and travel information can be found here.

 

The event is kindly sponsored by INTO University of East Anglia

 

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Wireless Ready: Podcasting Education and Mobile Assisted Language Learning,
Nagoya, Japan, March 24 2007

An IATEFL Learning Technologies One-day Event hosted by the NUCB Graduate School at Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan.

Keynote speakers include:

• Professor Steve McCarty, 'Web 2.0 Technologies and iPods for Research and Mobility', Osaka Jogakuin
• Professor Michael Vallance, 'iPod therefore iWrite: the Challenge of 'informed use' of Learning Technologies', Future University Hokkaido
• Michael Coghlan, 'Education Goes Mobile: New Technology Means New Learning', Australian e-Learning Consultant

Panel Speakers Include:

• Robert Diem, The Bob and Rob Podcast
• Bill Pellowe, ELT Podcast / ELT Calendar

Website: http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp

 

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Recent IATEFL Learning Technologies/Computer SIG events

 

International Symposium of Computer Assisted Language Learning,
Beijing, China, June 2-4 2006

The LTSig organised an international conference in Beijing which was hosted by Beijing Foreign Studies University. Keynote speakers were: Mike Levy, School of Languages & Linguistics at Griffith University, Australia - "CALL research paradigms"; Phil Hunnard, Linguistics Department & Language Center at Stanford University, USA - "CALL teacher education"; Gary Motteram, IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG and Faculty of Education at the University of Manchester, UK - "Social contexts of E-learning: an international perspective".

Conference reports, etc. are being uploaded to the conference Moodle and further information can be found at the symposium website http://call2006.fltrp.com.

 

Learning Technologies in the Language Classroom: A step closer to the future,
Nicosia, Cyprus, May 26 - 28 2006

The LTSig organised a three-day conference in conjunction with the University of Cyprus and the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute. Plenary sessions were given by: Prof James Coleman, Open University, UK - "The past, present and future of research into technology-enhanced language learning"; Dr Stephen Bax, Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK - "How can we make CALL more effective"; Gavin Dudeney, the consultants-E, Spain - "The DoS, the Trainer, the Teacher & Technology: And Ne'er the Twain".

A page of pictures from the event can be found here. There are also links to some handouts and powerpoint presentations as well as the conference programme.

 

IATEFL Annual Conference,
Harrogate, England, 8-12 April 2006

• Photos and information from some of the LTSig track presentations at Harrogate are available here.

 

Online Discussion: Teacher Education in CALL - Trends and Issues,
April 2006

Special guests: Phil Hubbard (Stanford University, USA) and Mike Levy (Griffith University, Australia)
Moderator: Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou, Acting Discussion Forum Moderator

• Embarking on a discussion on "Teacher Education in CALL"
• Welcome to Phil Hubbard and Mike Levy
• Teacher Education in CALL: Summary of the online discussion

 

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Past IATEFL Learning Technologies/Computer SIG events

2005

 

The Uses of Learning Technologies in Teaching English as a Foreign Language,
Dalian, China, October 29

The Second Dalian TEFL Forum - A one day event organised by Neusoft and the IATEFL L/TECHS SIG. A report on the event can be found here.

 

IATEFL Annual Conference,
Cardiff, Wales, 5-9 April 2005

• Geoff Taylor's Photograph Album: 36 photos, including:
  • Photos from the Computer SIG Committee meeting, Thursday 7 April
  • One or more photos from each talk on the Computer SIG "track", Friday 8 April

 

Online Discussion: "The Future of CALL",
February 2005

Special guest: Stephen Bax
Moderator: Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou, Acting Discussion Forum Moderator

• Embarking on a discussion on 'The future of CALL"
• Welcome to Stephen Bax
• The Future of CALL: Summary of the online discussion

 

2004

Visit our archive of reports on Computer SIG events, and other events, organised in previous years:

• Report on the Computer SIG Coordinator Election, May 2004
• IATEFL Annual Conference, Liverpool, England, 13-17 April 2004
• Link to BBC Teaching English web-logs of IATEFL 2004
  As reported in the IATEFL Computer SIG forum by Nik Peachey, Manager Teaching Websites, British Council ELT Group, the BBC's Teaching English website has front-line web-logs of every day of the conference, by 2 'roving reporters', Christina Sargsyan, Armenia and Višnja Pavičić, Croatia. [All material © BBC World Service, Bush House, Strand, London WC2B 4PH, UK and © British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London SW1A 2BN, UK]

2003

• Feedback report on the IATEFL Computer SIG / TEA SIG Joint Pre-Conference Event (PCE), April 22nd 2003
• Reports on talks and workshops attended at the Annual Conference 2003 in Brighton, UK

2002

• "Talking Computers" June 2002

2001

• "Training Teachers for IT" - Joint Event Computer and Teacher Trainers & Educators SIGs November 2001
• "Eastern European IATEFL PL Computer SIG Conference 2001"
• "Using Writing Software with Children and Teenagers" 2001
• "Implementing CALL in EFL: Living Up To Expectations" 2001

2000

• "CALL for the 21st Century" (Barcelona) June 2000
• "IATEFL's First Virtual Conference" 2000

1999

• "World Wide Web II" (Canterbury) 1999

1997

• "Distance Education, Language Teaching and the World Wide Web" (Canterbury) 1997
• "IT for All in ELT" (Walthamstow) October 1997
• "IATEFL Computer SIG Conference" (Manchester) March 1997

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Report on the Computer SIG Coordinator Election, May 2004

by Tilly Harrison, SIG Coordinator

• Election Results
• Votes for Gavin Dudeney (by country)
• Votes for Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou (by country)
• Combined votes for both Gavin Dudeney and Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou (by country)
• Analysis of results

IATEFL Annual Conference, Liverpool, England, 13-17 April 2004

• Tilly's Photos
  Photographs from the Computer SIG track on Friday, 16 April, 2004, by Tilly Harrison, Computer SIG Coordinator
• Computer-related talks at the Annual Conference, 16-17 April 2004
  Reports on 7 talks by Geoff Taylor, Computer SIG committee member:
  • Resources on the cheap: finding them, using them
    Lucy Baldwin (Embassy CES Brighton & Hove School, England)
  • Developing people and attending to form: an innovative CALL programme
    Kevin Mark (Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Students make the news: exploiting the media
    Claire Millar (Bell Saffron Walden, England)
  • Online Tasks in ELT: Using E-tivities
    Adam Edmett (British Council, Slovenia)
  • The Internet and Business English: an up-date
    Barney Barrett (Summertown Publishing, England)
  • The Pros and Cons of E-mail
    May Mikati (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
  • Accommodating learner needs: the guiding principle behind designing e-learning materials
    Ruth Trinder (Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration, Austria)
• Photograph album of IATEFL Conference, Liverpool UK, April 2004
  27 photos from the last two days of the conference, by Geoff Taylor

"The Use of Computers in Assessing and Testing Language Learning"

• Feedback report on the IATEFL Computer SIG / TEA SIG Joint Pre-Conference Event (PCE), April 22nd 2003, IATEFL Annual Conference 2003 in Brighton, UK, compiled by Tilly Harrison, IATEFL Computer SIG Coordinator
• Photograph album of the PCE by Tilly Harrison
• Download .pdf file (156KB)

Reports on talks and workshops attended at the Annual Conference 2003 in Brighton, UK:

Friday, 25 April:

• Network-Based Communication and ELT: Online chatting with classes
• Use of WebCT in content-based freshman course
• Integrating culture into the EFL classroom using the web
• Globalisation made easy by using authentic materials
• Communities of practice: easing the burden of online teaching
• Download .pdf file (116KB)

"Talking Computers"

• A one-day conference/workshop held at The University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, Saturday 22 June 2002, and jointly organised by Tilly Harrison, of the Computer SIG, and Michael Vaughan-Rees, of the Pronunciation SIG.
• The day was devoted to the presentation, demonstration and discussion of ways of using computers for learning and teaching pronunciation, with opportunities to hear the thoughts of experts currently working in the field, including Peter Roach (University of Reading), Richard Cauldwell (University of Birmingham), Gunther Kaltenboeck (University of Vienna) and Gail Stankler (CELE, University of Nottingham).
• Photo report by Tilly Harrison, Computer SIG Coordinator

"Training Teachers for IT" - Joint Event Computer and; Teacher Trainers & Educators SIGs

• Bell School, Saffron Walden , 16 - 18 November 2001
• Report written by Clive Newton, on the "Training Teachers for IT" event.
• Download .pdf file (5KB)
• Report by Geoff Taylor, on a workshop by Clive Newton, University of Liverpool, entitled Using Word for language practice and PowerPoint for language analysis.
• Download .pdf file (100KB)

"Eastern European IATEFL PL Computer SIG Conference 2001"

• Wydzial Gornictwa Politechniki Slaskiej, Gliwice, Poland, 23 - 24 June, 2001
• Report written by Clive Newton (clive@cvnewton.freeserve.co.uk), IATEFL Computer SIG Events Coordinator, based on a report by Jarek Krajka, East European IATEFL PL Computer SIG. [N.B. This event was NOT organised by the IATEFL Computer SIG, but by its brother/sister SIG, IATEFL Poland Computer SIG]
• Download .pdf file (92KB)

"Using Writing Software with Children and Teenagers"

• Abstract of talk by Emma Arthur (download .pdf file, 72KB)
• Web slide show by Emma Arthur, taken from the Powerpoint slide show used in her face-to-face presentation, given at the IATEFL Annual Conference 2001, Brighton, UK

"Implementing CALL in EFL: Living Up To Expectations"

• A Cyprus Teachers of English Association, IATEFL Computer SIG and University of Cyprus joint event, hosted at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, Cyprus, on May 5th - 6th, 2001
• Photo report by Tilly Warren, SIG Coordinator
• Archives of online presentations
  
  hosted by NetLearn Languages (with thanks to Eric Baber)

"CALL for the 21st Century", an ESADE and IATEFL Computer SIG joint event

• ESADE, Barcelona, Spain, June 30th - July 2nd, 2000
• Download .pdf file (92KB)

IATEFL's First Virtual Conference, 28 March - 1 April 2000

• This "virtual" conference was run in parallel with the 33rd International IATEFL Annual Conference, in Edinburgh, Scotland, 28th March - 1 April. Its aim was to enable IATEFL members who could not meet physically in Edinburgh to get up-to-date information about what was going on at the Conference day-by-day (via reports posted on the BBC's web pages) and to exchange ideas about some of the topics being presented as the event happened (via an email discussion list hosted by Manchester University). You can hear a recording of a BBC panel discussion, "Language and nation", which was "webcast" live on Monday evening, 29th March

"World Wide Web II"

• Canterbury, UK, Saturday 27 February, 1999
• Download .pdf file (100KB)

"Distance Education, Language Teaching and the World Wide Web"

• Canterbury, UK, 3 March, 1998
• Download .pdf file (124KB)

"IT for All in ELT"

• Walthamstow, UK, 18 October, 1997
• Download .pdf file (116KB)

IATEFL Computer SIG Conference

• Manchester, UK, 15 March, 1997
• Download .pdf file (104KB)

IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG: http://www.iateflcompsig.org.uk