Category Archives: Workshops, Conferences & Presentations
These are a few of my favourite things
I’ve been running (facilitating) a course for Languages teachers based on the 23 Things programme here at Murdoch University (which was in turn adapted from the http://macetg.wordpress.com/about-learning-20-mac/ project at McMaster University Library) for a year and a half now. In it we explore 23 ICT Things that are useful for learning/teaching Languages both in terms [...]
Good Looking with Technology
There must be something more interesting for social scientists to do with their computers than coding data. Mason & Dicks, 2001, p. 441. And I certainly agree! I gave a “Friday Morning Seminar” presentation to the faculty of Education a couple of weeks ago in which I described how I am using technologies to research [...]
EuroCALL Day 3
EuroCALL Day 3
EuroCALL Day 2
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EuroCALL Thursday 10 Sep
Preparing for EuroCALL
I’ve been flat-out the past couple of weeks preparing for the EuroCALL conference. As postgraduate students, we can apply for funding to attend one overseas conference during our degree if we are accepted to present there. My proposals for a paper and a poster were accepted by EuroCALL, and so I’m off to Spain on [...]
AFMLTA 2009 Conference
I’m going to be live-blogging from the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Association Conference which begins Thursday this week. The conference proper is for three days, and you can follow along and join in here! We’ll also be tweeting using the tag #AFMLTA09 :)
Following a Conference
Reading my public blog posts it may seem that all I do is report on conferences after the fact. I generally do take the time to sit, process, reflect, and write after these intensive events and this is the result. I am doing the same for my own research, but it is on a private [...]
What makes a “Good Conference”?
Last year, during the “coursework year” of my programme, I attended a lot of conferences on ICTs and education in order to get a good understanding of current trends, research and practice whilst putting together my own research proposal. 2007 was a steep learning curve for me in terms of educational technologies, but as I [...]