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Intervento tenuto dal Prof. Carlo M. Bajetta
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Welcome to…
Things changed in the 2000s…
Think of your experience…
How did you (or your teachers)
• get information,
• find new ideas,
• get useful updates
for your profession until (quite) recently?
(Well, not so recently… happy New Year, by the way…!!!
PLN Personal Learning Network
Up to the 1980s Teachers at our / other schools, workshop presenters; information from articles or books , conferences … and lots of photocopies
PLN Personal Learning Network
The “online era” (Warschauer 1998: 4) The (late, at least, in Italy) 1990s All of the above + e-mail messages, and some Internet websites
The 2000-2010s: the Web 2.0 Web Portals, Blogs and Social networks will CALL became GALL??? (Chinnery, 2008; Conroy, 2010)
Readytoteach.it - the difference?
small community virtual but also real network (“Multimedia tools for teachers of English”, a course held at Università della Valle d’Aosta between 2004 and 2006 )
collaborative ‘upload’ / ‘download’ environment on a free ‘creative commons’ licence basis
Specifically meant for Italian teachers
(and for “digital immigrants”)
Collaboration with academics
(cf. Bajetta & Grandi, ‘ReadyToTeach.it: bridging the gap between
academia and school’ European English Messanger, 2012, forth.)