Virtual Round Table Conference Program

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

2nd VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE Conferenceon Language Learning with Technology

A two-day Online Conference22-23 April 2010 (Thu/Fri)

http://virtual-round-table.ning.com

conducted by LANCELOT SchoolTM GmbH

www.lancelotschool.comand

co-organized by Shelly Terrellhttp://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/

p 1 of 16 Program Virtual Round Table conference Author: Heike PhilpApril, 22-23, 2010
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The VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE conference isa live online conference dedicated tolanguage learning with technology. I t isaimed at educators and language teachingprofessionals in language schools, institutesor other language related organisations.

It is held entirely online and during the 2nd

VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE Conference, a 2D /

3D simulcast is being conducted withsessions taking place in Adobe ConnectProand at the same time being streamed inSecond Life.

The VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE conferencepurposes to inform of a number of toolsand best practise on how to use these toolsin class for the benefit of our languagelearners.

Last years first conference demonstrated ourefforts to provide innovative, inspiring andsociable teacher training for language

teaching professionals around the globe.The recordings are being published on theconference site on the summary pages (see2009 tab) and they will additionally bepublished in form of a series of weblogs.

The VIRTUAL ROUND TABLEConference on Nov 12-13, 2009 saw335 unique visitors attending live

sessions and more than 450 signedup on the conference website.These were from the followingfields..

Language teachingprofessionals

Director of Studies

Teacher training organisations

Programme Managers andEducation Administrators

Technology and Service

Providers Training Consultants and

Company Representatives

Deans, Directors andResearchers from Universitiesand Higher Education Sector

NOTE: The chart on the right has been producedwith figures taken from the more than 500participants who have signed up at theconference website prior to the event. At the endof the conference we will issue a post-conf report.



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Teacher Training Grant

As many of you know, the EU funded Grundtvig program generously sponsorsteacher training. They pay towards travel costs and hotel accomodation and somesmall part of the course fee. But what about those teacher training courses which takeplace online? No hotel costs, no travel costs and so far, no funding.

Therefore we would like to initiate a teacher training grant fund which will sponsortowards 50-80% of the course fee, depending on where the teacher lives who appliesfor funding.

The following list of four teacher training courses have been selected because they alltrain language learning with technology and they can be taken at a distance.

1. IH COLT - IH Certificate for Online Tutoring, International House (Infos:http://www.ihonlinetraining.net/ihcolt.html)

2. Cert ICT - Certificate in Teaching Language with Technology, The Consultants-E

(Infos: http://www.theconsultants-e.com/courses/trinityict/index.asp )3. LANCELOT Training - LANguage learning with CErtified Live Online Teachers,

LANCELOT School (Infos: http://www.lancelotschool.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=115&Itemid=117 )

4. EUROVOLT via VLE, Die Wiener Volkshochschulen GmbH, KompetenzzentrumLernen und eLearning + Kompetenzzentrum Sprachen und Kulturen (Infos:http://www.eurovolt.net/)

If you wish to donate or become a sponsor of this educational program, please got to

the Sponsor tab of the website and click on the "Donate" button. This will initiate a

Paypal payment.

All contributions are added to a fund and language teachers may apply to be acceptedfor a grant, clearly stating the course they wish to take.

Raffle

May we thank our vendors for generously donating memberships, products andservices for our raffle.

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Thursday, April 22, 2010 9:00 11:00 GMT / 10am 12pm London time

Presentations 9:00 10:00

9:00 Welcome addressDr. Waldemar Martyniuk, ECML-European Center of Modern Languages,AustriaThe work of the ECML in support of multilingualism

and plurilingual education language education and technology9:30-10:00

Ylva Lindberg, University of Jnkping, FinlandImage and Text in Second Life: The Becoming of Literacy/ Image et textedans Second Life: une littratie en devenir (Bilingual presentation)

Workshops 10:00 11:00

Nik Peachey,independentconsultant,writer and

teachertrainer,Marocco

Exploiting richmedia webbased contentfor receptiveskills work

JoelJosephson,Kindersite, UK

EuropeanUnion languageprojects resources foryou; how to getinvolved

MargaritaPerez Garciamenon.org,Brussels

MUVEnationDiscursivestrategies tomanage groupsdiscussions andtext basedinteraction in amulticulturalenvironment

Henry Hon,Vyew.com,US

Vyews virtualclassroom forlanguagelearning

MartinBeck,MONDIALETesting,

Germany

MondialeLanguageTest - CEF

Venue: Adobe

ConnectProBreak-outroom 1

Venue: Adobe

ConnectProBreak-out room2

Venue: Adobe

ConnectProBreak-out room3

Vyew

(link is on theschedule)

Venue:

AdobeConnectProBreak-outroom 4

Break



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Thursday, April 22, 2010 11:30 12:30 GMT / 12:30pm 1:30pm London time

Unconference 11:30 12:30 GMT

Unconference

An unconference is a time when participants get together to speak about what theywant to talk about, not what is on the program. This concept is still fairly new and yetvery simple. Open-minded people are welcome.

Break

Thursday, April 22, 2010 13:00 14:30 GMT / 2pm 3:30pm London time

Panel Discussion 13:00 14:30 GMT

EVOs global training camp

Every year for 6 weeks starting mid January, the Internet buzzes with activities. In2010 alone some 2000 language teachers engaged and worked and learnt at the free-of-charge online training camp called EVO - Electronic Village Online.

What is absolutely amazing and truly mindblowing is that this workshop is organizedand conducted by more than 60 volunteers, is superbly organized and the training is ofsuch high quality that it could easily rival university supported online training programsin media literacy and above all it is completely focused on language learning withtechnology.

ModeratorsMarisa Constantinides, CELT Athens, Greece

PanelistsBarbara Dieu, Lyce Pasteur, BrazilElizabeth Hanson-Smith, Prof. emeritus at CSU, SacramentoEvelyn Izquierdo, Universidad Central de Venezuela, VenezuelaVance Stevens, Petroleum Institute, UAE

Break



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Thursday, April 22, 2010 15:00 16:30 GMT / 4pm 5:30pm London time

Presentations 15:00 16:00 GMT

15:00-15:20GMT

Stefan Booy, Myngle BV, Netherlands10 things you should know about Myngle

15:20-15:40GMT

Russell Stannard, University of Westminster, UKWeb 2.0 tools that make a difference

15:40-16:00GMT

Alexandra Francisco, Goncalves Zarco School, PortugalTechnology Whats in it for my Students?

Workshops 16:00 17:00 GMT

Vicky Saumell,Instituto San

Francisco deAss, Argentina

Making the mostof Free WebApplications

Stace Wills,Elluminate

Inc., Canada

MayteEsponda,MaryPrentice,HollyLongstroth

Fire and IceESL! An all-inclusive blend

HalaElkhawanky,

Myngle.com,Egypt

Arabic lesson in avirtual classroom

DorisMolero,

UniversityUruguay

Medievalrole play inlanguageacquisition

Venue: AdobeConnectProBreakout room 1

Venue:Elluminate(see schedulefor more detail)

Venue:Elluminate (seeschedule for moredetail)

Venue:Second Life

Break

Thursday, April 22, 2010 18:00 19:00 GMT / 7pm - 8pm London time

Pecha Kucha 18:00 19:00 GMT

Pecha KuchaPecha Kucha is a speedy presentation technique allowing for 20 slides which areauto-advancing every 20 seconds.

ModeratorShelly Terrell, VP of Educator Outreach for Parentella.com, Germany



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Friday, April 23, 2010 7:00 8:30 GMT / 8am 9:30am London time


AVALON Teacher Training

After more than a year of development the AVALON teacher training course waspiloted over a period of 5 weeks from mid February to mid March 2010.

We are very much looking forward to hear first-hand about this experience fromdevelopers, trainers and trainees.

It was not an easy task to select 20 language teachers of the eager 70 applicantsreceived and in the end 16 teachers in 11 countries enjoyed a challenging course.Sadly four of them did not join due to hardware problems or failing internet.

After 4 weeks with 2 times 2h a week group sessions in Second Life the trainees

presented their final tasks, a language course designed to be held in Second Life.

ModeratorBrian Richardson, University of Kalmar, Sweden

PanelistsNergiz Kern, TurkeyHolly Longstroth, LANCELOT SchoolTM GmbH, USZeynep Onat-Stelma, University of Manchester, UKJoe Pereira, British Council, PortugalGraham Stanley, British Council, Spain

Break



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Friday, April 23, 2010 9:00 11:00 GMT / 10am 12pm London time

Presentations 9:00 10:00

9:00-9:20GMT

Deborah Capras, Business Spotlight, GreeceBusiness Spotlight

9:20-9:40GMT

Robert ODowd, University of Len, SpainSupporting student mobility programmes (Erasmus) through e-portfolios andonline networks

9:40-10:00GMT

Sean Banville, Breaking News English.com, UKWheres the ON button? Listen a minute

Workshops 10:00 11:00

Valentina

Dodge,English360,Italy

EmmaWatson andBrianAndersen

On-going,personalisedand flexible

course design

Carl Dowse

Fachhochschulefr konomie &Management,and teachertrainer for CertIBET, Germany

Exploiting wikisto enhance andadd value tolanguage

training

Kalyan

ChattopadhyayLecturer andVice Presidentof IndiaCALL,UK

Using eXeeditor fordeveloping

content for ESLlearners

Andy

Chaplin,ELTConsultant,Germany

Using Web2.0 tools forELT throughmoodle

Angelika

Guettl-Strahlhofer,DaF-Community,Germany

Parties, feiern- live online!

Venue: AdobeConnectProBreak-outroom 1

Venue: AdobeConnectProBreak-out room2


Venue:AdobeConnectProBreak-outroom 4

Venue: AdobeConnectProBreak-outroom 5

Break



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Friday, April 23, 2010 12:00 13:30 GMT / 1pm 2:30pm London time


Connected and organised in their quest for researchIALLT, CALICO, EUROCALL, WorldCALL, APACALL all have one thing in common:their passion for research in the field of language learning with technology.Spanning more than four decades, no other professional associations have shownsuch persistence and patience, as well as endurance, in their quest for the recognitionof research in the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). It is thisemphasis on research that has proved to be one of their most consistent features and,unknown to many of us, the hard work of these associations has resulted in importantcontributions to language policy throughout the world.

Moderator?

PanelistsStephen Bax, University of Canterbury, UKGraham Davies, Prof. Eremitus, retired, UKJohn Gillespie, University of Ulster, IrelandInge-Anna Kolhoff, VHS Vienna, AustriaAndrew Lian, Western Illionois University, US,Vance Stevens, Petroleum Institute, UAEInge-Anna Kolhoff, VHS Vienna, Austria

Break


Presentations 15:00 16:00 GMT

15:00-15:20GMT

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15:20-15:40GMT

Shiv Rajendran, languagelab, GermanyEFLUnleashed

15:40-

16:00GMT

Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, USAround the World with Skype

Workshops 16:00 17:00 GMT

Ozge Karaoglu,TerrakkiFoundationSchool, Turkey

Shelly Terrell,Parentella.com,Germany

Engaging lowerprimary students

DennisNewson,Germany

Dogme inSecond Life

PhilipGienandt,linguatv,Germany

LinguaTVInvitation toBetaTest

JanuszHamerski,Germany

Carina

How to createvideos forlanguage

HajnalkaBeck,Germany

Virtuelle TourdurchDeutschland



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through Web 2.0tools

learning in SecondLife


Venue:Second Life



Venue:Second Life

Break

Friday, April 23, 2010 18:00 19:30 GMT / 7pm - 8:30pm London time


Creative Teaching Material for Online Teaching

Creative teaching material for online teaching is a real challenge. Most e-learning

material for language learning is clearly designed for self-study. What other thanbooks can you use in class? This is what will be discussed by the panelists.

ModeratorValentina Dodge, English360, Italy

PanelistsMarisa Constantinides, CELT, AthensBerni Wall, Gapfiller, UKSean Banville, Breaking News English, UAEHolly Longstroth, LANCELOT School, USAShelly Terrell, VP of Educator Outreach for Parentella.com, Germany

Break


Pecha Kucha 20:00 21:30 GMT

Pecha KuchaPecha Kucha is a speedy presentation technique allowing for 20 slides which are

auto-advancing every 20 seconds.

ModeratorShelly Terrell, VP of Educator Outreach for Parentella.com, Germany



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MARKETS ARE CONVERSATIONS

Virtual conferences are new and LANCELOTSchoolTM GmbH is pioniering this field by role-modeling the potential of a green conference.

We are happy to announce that there will be anexhibition and a poster session taking place on theAVALON Learning island adjacent to the mainconference area in Second Life, where the mainmeeting will be streamed.

If you wish to post a poster-wall or rent someexhibtion space, feel free to contact the organisers.



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A current favourite at conferences worldwide and certainly to be one is the PechaKucha Night at the VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE conference. This popular event of anumber of speedy presentations Pecha Kucha style (20 slides auto-advancing every20sec) will be given during the evening.

Pecha Kucha (patented in Japan, 2003 by architects Klein/ Dytham) 20 slides auto-advancing every 20 seconds

a total presentation time of 6min 40sec

Ignite (created by OReilly publisher)

20 slides auto-advancing every 15 seconds

a total presentation time of 5min

PRESTO (PRESent your Topic, created by Heike Philp for language practise and recording)

10 slides auto-advancing every 20 seconds

a total presentation time of 3min 20sec



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Conference venues are as follows

1) Networking and Registration

We are looking forward to your signing up at this conference site so as to be able toreceive email invitation and event reminders. To participate at the raffle and prize draw atthe end of the conference, you also need to be signed up to receive your ticket.

2) Adobe ConnectPro

Most of the sessions will take place in Adobe ConnectPro an installation free flash-basedweb conferencing solution (latest Flash player is required).

The link to the main room is:http://proj.emea.acrobat.com/virtual-round-table

Upon entering, check the radio button: "Enter as guest", type your name and click on Jointhe meeting. No password is required.

3)Virtual classroom: Elluminate Live!

Some of the events will take place in Elluminate Live! a fully featured virtual classroomtechnology. No password is required.www.elluminaterooms.com/Stace

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3) Virtual Simulcast

Ground-breaking new is that all sessions in Adobe ConnectPro will be streamed live inSecond Life, Viewer 2 is a pre-requisite. To see what this might look like, click here:

http://www.youtube.com/lancelotschool#p/a/u/1/ryyPcuDJvYg

4) Second Life

Second Life is a 3D environment and does not only require a software installation but alsoa registration for a so-called avatar (3D cartoon). The registration on the Second Lifehomepage is not really difficult and download as well as installation is also quitestraightforward, however all of this plus some time spent on learning how to walk, talk, fly

and teleport takes time. Approximately 1-2 hours has to be alloted for this. And best also isnot to do this alone.

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If you like to join this event at the conference but do not have time to 'get into it', perhapsyou might enjoy joining the Adobe ConnectPro room where we will be screensharing theevent in Second Life.



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During the conference you will find all of the links for downloadables under theDOWNLOADs tab.http://virtual-round-table.ning.com/page/downloads-1

After the conference, you will find the recordings of all of the sessions near the respectiveschedule on some special summary pages.

Please tag all proceeding with this conference tag #vrt10

LANCELOT SchoolTM GmbHIm Schwenkenland 1879224 UmkirchGermanyTel +49(0)76 65 939 09 09

Fax +49(0)76 65 947 29 74E-mail: [email protected]://virtual-round-table.ning.comwww.lancelotschool.com

Co-organiser

Shelly Terrell, VP of Educator Outreach forParentella.com, Germany

[email protected]

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