tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34508110475167845302011-12-07T23:20:12.225+02:00This blog is about my adventure into live online language teaching! The pitfalls and the triumphs, the successes and the failures...the creations and the not so creative...HollySueLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718178041710037851noreply@blogger.comBlogger411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450811047516784530.post-43046824848409251172010-04-05T20:14:00.020+03:002011-04-18T02:09:51.735+03:00

A couple of months ago, I posted a survey questioning several groups of people about their favorite virtual classroom (VC) for language teaching. The following VCs were on the survey: Web Ex Adobe Connect Pro Elluminate Live Spreed Web Train Instant Presenter Dim Dim Digital Samba Saba Centra Windows live Vyew Fuze Electa Second Life Other (please specify) I posted a few weeks ago that I would

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A couple of weeks ago, I was seeing some lively discussions on a forum that I frequent about virtual classrooms (VCs) and the use of them by language teachers. Some had specific features they wanted to have and others just said they only use Skype. So, I thought it would be interesting to survey different people who teach languages on the internet and see what the preferred virtual classroom

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A few years ago, shortly after I started on facebook, a friend sent me an invitation to try out twitter. I signed up and immediately did not understand it. I set the privacy so high that only my friend could see my tweets and I faithfully tweeted what I was doing 'teaching an engineer today', 'going to the hospital, high school and paper company today to teach', etc. It wasn't until I saw a

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A couple months ago I had a discussion with a Director of Studies of a new live online language school and he mentioned that it didn´t matter to him if the trainers he hires has any sort of certification in teaching English let alone live online--what mattered to him was whether the teacher could teach and whether he/she had experience in the industry that the student was working. In fact, work

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Visit Virtual Round Table

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About the Virtual Round TableThe Virtual Round Table conference is a 2-day live online conference which takes place on Thu/ Fri 12-13 November 2009. It is all about "language learning with technology" and is a completely 'green' conference since no-one has to travel to attend.We are looking forward to more than 20 sessions, 5 panel discussions, more than 35 guest speakers and especially look

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About the Virtual Round TableThe Virtual Round Table conference is a live online conference dedicated to language learning with technology. It is aimed at educators and language teaching professionals in language schools, institutes or other language related organisations.It purposes to introduce to its participants a number of tools and best practises on how to use these tools in class for the

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Today on twitter someone asked me which virtual classroom (VC) I used and I had a list for him/her as I use several. I even confessed that I truly haven't decided on a favorite as they all have their pros and cons based on the students and platform that I am using. At LANCELOT School, we try to familiarize the trainees with at least five virtual classroom solutions so that when faced with a

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Today, LANCELOT School had another really good Virtual Round Table on Demand. The idea for these virtual round tables is to invite famous authors, teachers or professors into a virtual classroom and to have a learning conversation with him/her. We started with Noam Chomsky back in February and then Scott Thornbury later in the spring. When I was asked who my favorite textbook author was it was

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After 11 years in Finland, I have decided to return to the USA! This actually came as a shock to many people and several have asked if I have a job there or what will I do when I get there. This has kind of surprised me as I have been teaching live online and working with LANCELOT School for quite some time... Anyway, the advantages of teaching live online is that I will be taking my students

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Check out this SlideShare Presentation--if you like it--go here to vote: http://tinyurl.com/llpx2tSir LANCELOT and the mists of AVALONView more OpenOffice presentations from Heike Philp.

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I admit it! I'm an addict! I'm addicted to Social Networking sites... My question to whoever in the blogosphere reads this--how many social networking sites are too many?I actually started blogging in 2004 as a way to communicate with my family since I live in Finland and they live in the USA. My father had recently passed on and he was the telephone king who kept us all up on each others'

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A few months ago I was asked what famous author, teacher or professor I would want to have a learning conversation with in a virtual classroom. Without skipping a beat I said--Vicki Hollett, the author of Business Objectives, Business Opportunities and In at the Deep End as well as the Tech Talk series. The main reason and motivation for me to invite her is that I love her books, but would love

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Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Brain Rules for PresentersView more Microsoft Word documents from garr.

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This is a channel of LANCELOT trained teachers doing lessons in various virtual classrooms and various situations. The highlights so far are the lessons in China and Burkina Faso. Check back for more highlights!

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I remember almost four years ago when I was last in the USA--my twin sister had just gotten married and when I was at the airport her new husband gave me a web camera. Although I enjoy internet technology and had had a personal blog for a while, I had said that I would NEVER use a web camera. Well, you know what they say--NEVER say NEVER... Anyway, we used the web camera for communicating

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I've been thinking a lot lately about Social Networking and/or Social Media. Is it really effective? Does it change the way we teach languages online? Is twitter effective for language training or is it better to network with other teachers? How many ning sites are too many? I found this video and thought it was a great way to explain social media and the change that has taken place in the

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I've come across a lot of live online language portals! (This does not include the hundreds of private language teachers who have set up their own websites.) Several people have asked me which one I would suggest and frankly I'm not sure as it varies for each individual teacher. I have tried out a few of them and have had success and many of my colleagues have also and some have not...

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Check out this SlideShare Presentation: SLanguages 2009 Conference - 8&9 May 2009View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: tesol tefl)

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WordsThe least important word: IThe most important word: WEThe two most important words: THANK YOUThe three most important words: ALL IS FORGIVEN.The four most important words: WHAT IS YOUR OPINION?The five most important words: YOU DID A GOOD JOB.The six most important words: I WANT TO UNDERSTAND YOU BETTER.From the Book Becoming a Person of Influence by John Maxwell & Jim Dornan

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Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Language Learning in Second LifeView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: e-learning elearning)

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Since the end of the LANCELOT project, the newly developed LANCELOT course has been undertaken 5 times and to date has seen participants from Sweden, Finland, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, the USA, Mexico, Czech Republic, Lettland, Austria, Spain, Ukraine, Argentina, Romania, Egypt, Bulgaria, and Turkey.This great global community of 'Lancelotters' is a very active community of

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I've made a decision to post on this blog a bit more often. The question is: can I do it? I'm out and about on the net quite often and realize that I'm not sharing the nuggets of information about live online and/or language teaching/learning that I could. So, let us see in the days and months ahead whether I'll be successful...

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The second year of the ICC certified LANCELOT course will start in January 2009 and we warmly invite you to consider getting certified. Four months, a total of 120 hours, of which we spend together 26h in groups sessions, 26 hours in peer-to-peer work, 72 hours creating teaching and learning material, slides, podcasts, surveys and reflective writing for the portfolio, then the 20min live online

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Find more videos like this on LANCELOT School Find more videos like this on LANCELOT School

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CWC Now is co-branded as a school in Myngle and I'm blown away by the demo that they just made and have started sharing. This shows exactly why I love live online language training! Check out the following link

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The following are free vocabulary games and activities that I just set up to share with the world! Share these sites with your friends and colleagues and especially your students. The topics include the following:Business English VocabularyBilingual ActivitiesIFRS Vocabulary Activities Human Resources Management Vocabulary Activities English & French Vocabulary Activities English & Spanish

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The world, especially related to technology, is changing so fast. Most of us are painfully aware that when we buy a new computer, mobile phone or mp3 player that it will be outdated very quickly. With that in mind, I've started thinking a lot about change and our attitude to this change. Years ago, when writing the final paper for my MA in Organizational Leadership, I looked at the language

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Lately, I've been wondering what people are actually expecting when they sign up for a live online language course. There are a lot of really good schools out on the web and I wonder if the students really get what they are expecting. As a LANCELOT trained teacher, I am trained to teach online using all four skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing. There are many really good virtual

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I've had one of those weeks and today I was talking to someone who has also faced disappointment this week and I was reminded of an old poem that was read at my high school graduation. Later, when I was ready to drop out of university my first year, my twin sister sent me the poem as a poster. This poster and the wisdom of this poem has traveled with me to three continents and four US states.

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I've been thinking a lot this week as to why I really enjoy live online language training and I think I've figured out one reason. I'm happiest when I'm at home and when I'm with people, which is exactly what live online language training brings. Sometimes I feel like this type of training is an open house as people from many nations are coming into my home where I am the most comfortable. This

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I'm really excited. I've been looking for a solution for the students to come to my website and just choose times and or for me to add a form to an email and I found one. Google Docs! All I have to do is use the spreadsheet function and then I can send the form to the prospective student or can link it to my website. It is really great! I have received five appointments today because of this

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The following was sent to me as an e-mail forward. It is about teaching and gives a great insight to what teachers need to remember, especially for live online language teaching!A teacher teaching Maths to seven-year-old Arnav asked him, "If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?"Within a few seconds Arnav replied confidently, "Four!"The dismayed teacher

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I've been thinking a lot about my own personal language learning lately and wondering if I really have the stuff to learn languages. I have been tinkering with the Finnish language now for about seven years and have barely made a dent. Most native Finnish speakers change to English if they can--that is how bad I am at the language. What makes a person learn five languages when I can barely

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Someone told me about this lecture and it is very inspiring. I won't say more--everything is in the video--it is quite long, but very entertaining and worth it!

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I wrote this on a forum a few months back:I just wanted to share with you all some things that I have learned in the last year in regards to putting language activities onto the internet for our students. I started learning about this when a colleague told me about moodle and helped me install it. Once I installed the e-learning site I set out to find as many different easy-to-use software or

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I remember a theme that they had one summer volunteering at my local church camp : The adventure begins where the road ends...That about sums up this adventure!This adventure actually began about two years ago when I decided to start my own company. Little did I know what I was going to get into and what a wonderful ride I have been on since I started. The first thing I did was to create a

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