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Week 1

 

Speaker 
Speaker's Bio 
Venue and Time in GMT 

Elizabeth Anne

José Antônio 

 

 

 

 and JA

 

 

 

 

 

Your co-moderators Elizabeth Anne and José Antônio will give participants a tour on 

the many ways pbworks and other wikis can be used in class with students and with peer 

teachers to share and collaborate. They will showcase practical examples of projects 

carried out using this tool. 

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Webheads Elluminate vRoom

 

Tuesday, Jan. 10, 16:00 - 17:00 GMT

 

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Session page  

"Using wikis in education

 

 

Week 2

 

 

 

Speaker 
Speaker's Bio 
Venue and Time in GMT  

Nicky Hockly 

 

 

Nicky Hockly is Director of Pedagogy of The Consultants-E, an award-winning online training and development organisation. She has worked in the field of English Language Teaching since 1987, is an international plenary speaker, and gives workshops and training courses for teachers all over the world. Nicky writes regular columns on technology for teachers in ETP (English Teaching Professional) magazine, and in the ELTJ (English Language Teaching Journal). She has also written several prize-winning methodology books about new technologies in language teaching, many of them with co-author Gavin Dudeney. The latest of these books are Focus on Learning Technologies (2016), and ETpedia Technology (forthcoming 2017). She is a member of the Oxford University Press ELT Expert Advisory Panel, a Consultant for the Cambridge English Teacher platform (Cambridge University Press), and is a member of the NILE Advisory Panel, as well as being a member of the TESOL Journal Advisory Board. Nicky lives in Barcelona, and is a technophobe turned technophile.

 

You can find out more about Nicky on The Consultants-E website here, including a complete list of her publications.

 

When logging in the webinar, you should all choose "Prijava kao gost" - it is Croatian for "Guest" and write your name.

 

Adobe Connect

 

Tuesday,  

January 17 

 

 

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Session page

  "Going Mobile" 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 3

 

Speaker 
Speaker's Bio 
Venue and Time in GMT 

Nik Peachey

 

 

Nik Peachey is a blogger, teacher trainer and experienced materials writer and editor. He has been working in ELT

since 1992 and has worked all over the world with companies like British Council, International House and Bell Educational Service as well as ELT publishers including Macmillan, CUP, OUP and a range of tech companies including Google.

 He was the commissioning editor for the BBC - British Council’s Teaching English website from 2003 - 2007. In 2010 his Daily English Activities blog was shortlisted for a British Council Innovations award and in 2012 he won an Innovations award for the blended learning course he developed for Bell. His first major ebook 'Digital Video - A manual for language teachers' was written and produced as a multimedia iBook for iTunes after crowd funding through Indiegogo and has now been shortlisted for an Innovations award in 2016.

Author - Digital video - A manual for language teachers: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/digital-video/id1025275485  Author - 10 Lessons in Digital Literacy: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/10-lessons-in-digital-literacy-11231525  Author - Web 2.0 tools for teachers: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/web-2-0-tools-for-teachers-11168048  Co-editor - Creativity in the English language classroom: http://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/books-resource-packs/creativity-english-language-classroom  Founder - PeacheyPublications http://peacheypublications.com/  

 

 

In this session Nik will look at a range of tools and resources to encourage students to look at web based information in a more critical way.

 

 

Adobe Connect

 

Monday, January 23,

 

20.00 - 21.00 GMT

 

 

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"Thinking Critically Through Digital Media"

 

 

 

Week 4

 

 

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Speaker's Bio 
Venue and Time in GMT 

Arjana Blazic

 

Arjana Blazic is a Language Arts Teacher at IX. gimnazija in Zagreb, Croatia and 2014-2015 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow

at the Pennsylvania State University. She is education technology advisor and course designer, international speaker

and workshop leader.

 

 In this webinar we will present various online testing tools that teachers can use to create their own

interactive quizzes, surveys, puzzles and games for testing student knowledge and measuring student

progress.  The talk will focus on free user-friendly tools that can be used for testing different language

aspects.

 

Adobe Connect

 

Monday, January 30,

19.00 - 20.00 GMT

 

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"Tools for online assessment"