LOTE: Getting Started with Elluminate Online Workshops

Lisa Dowse, SMR Program Planning & Development Officer-LOTE

MLTAV Conference, Hemisphere, Moorabbin,

May 15, 09

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Finding out about Elluminate

visit the Knowledge Bank Online Events website here:http://knowledgebank.globalteacher.org.au

The site talks about the program, upcoming events, how to get training and book a room, and what Elluminate is.

The conference website is another great resource, that’s here:http://knowledgebankconference2008.globalteacher.org.au/It has links to all of conference session recordings and the other resources we created.

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Using Elluminate & many of its tools

texting in the LOTE

typing on the whiteboard

audio in the LOTE

creating multimedia presentations in the LOTE to share with others

creating surveys in the LOTE and using the graph tool to show the results

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Possibilities

Teacher

Target language speaker

in the target country

Student

Student Cross Age tutoring

Teacher

Sister-school

Target language speaker in the

local community

Elluminate

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Students love it…

The Year 8 and 9 boys were particularly enthusiastic and have been begging their teacher for it to happen again, perhaps with a secondary school. (Increasing engagement of Middle Years students, and boys in particular, is a goal of many schools.)

What students think…

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Students’ Comments

Selamat siang Mrs. Dowse, the elluminate session was quite fun…The other students and I are looking forward to the next session.

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Springing into active learningEducational Leadership Volume 66 Number 3, November 2008; Pages 38–42Allison Zmuda

The collective mindset of students is often one of the biggest barriers to their achievement. Far too many students simply comply with teacher requests and ‘function like low-level bureaucrats’. Compliant learners tend only to answer teacher questions, while engaged learners raise extra questions and points of view. Compliant learners tend to limit their revision of written work to identified errors, while engaged learners consider overall feedback comments before deciding what to revise.

Research about engaged learners…

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Great for…

•transition programs between primary and secondary students

•individualised learning, as students respond or create their own interactions at their own level

Lesson ideas…

•use the graphing tool to do surveys and generate a graph

•use the happy / sad face tool to have students answer questions in the target language and to consolidate comprehension

•the motivation to use the hands-up tool will encourage reluctant speakers to identify themselves and participate

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How often do we create scenarios / role-plays that are only for learning not for real-life purposes?

Elluminate gives us a forum to have communication in the target language for authentic purposes.

Even better, when we can communicate with target language speakers…

Communicating with target language speakers is a VELS standard.

For some LOTEs it is very difficult to set up communication with target language speakers. Elluminate makes this more possible.

Authentic purpose

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Feedback from you about whether you think Elluminate could enhance your LOTE program…

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Feedback from you about how you think Elluminate could enhance your LOTE program…

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