IATEFL Computer SIG

Reports of past events

Recent IATEFL Computer SIG events

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 UK, 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
• 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]

Other recent past events of interest

Sorry, nothing very recent. Have a look at the archived reports for less recent events.

Archived reports

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

Here's a list of reports currently available on some of the events organised by the Computer SIG over recent months:

• 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
• "Talking Computers" June 2002
• "Using Word for language practice and PowerPoint for language analysis" 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
• "CALL for the 21st Century" (Barcelona) June 2000
• "IATEFL's First Virtual Conference" 2000
• "World Wide Web II" (Canterbury) 1999
• "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

"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

"Using Word for language practice and PowerPoint for language analysis"

• Report by Geoff Taylor, on a workshop by Clive Newton, University of Liverpool, entitled Using Word for language practice and PowerPoint for language analysis at the "Teacher Training for Information Technology (TT for IT)" joint IATEFL Computer & Teacher Trainers and Educators SIGs with Bell Teacher Training conference hosted at Bell Saffron Walden, UK, on 16-18 November 2001.
• 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
  http://www.nll.co.uk/cyprus/
  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)

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Computer SIG Coordinator: Gavin Dudeney Webmaster: Geoff Taylor