Visit
our website.
Site contents: event reports
and photos, articles, links, IL/C bibliography, materials ideas, teaching tips,
archives, ILC tips…
We are constantly adding to our site: http://ilearn.20m.com,
so why not bookmark the page and check regularly for new items? Diary
Dates:
Webheads
in Action Convergence 2005
Nov
18-19
HCT's 4th e-Merging e-Learning Conference - Nov 19 - 21
Tactile
Tasks and Technical Tips Roadshow, AUS, Sharjah, 23 February 2006
Tactile Tasks
and Technical Tips 4, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, 20 April 2006
For both
TTTT events, please pre-register via tailearn@yahoo.com.
(See reports and photos of previous TTTT events at http://ilearn.20m.com/tttt.html)
Discussion
List
If you are not already a member of our list,
please join it by sending a blank email to
ilearn-subscribe@topica.com.
Discussions cover CALL,
promoting independent learning, motivation,
learning strategies, teaching tips, distance learning, learning styles, issues
in education, e-learning, ILC problems & and much more. It is a place to share
tips,
seek solutions to everyday classroom problems, get support and input
for research, and find alternative
strategies. Participants are TESOL Arabia
members and IL/C practitioners from all over the world, which
helps us gain
a diverse range of opinions and perspectives. (Please
note that some institutional
servers will block discussion list messages,
so it is advisable to join the list from a personal rather than
work email
address.)
Useful
Utilities:
Download Audacity
to create professional sounding audio files
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Need
to add phomemic script to your documents try Phonmap by Jan Mulder another simple-to-use
utility. Get it from http://phonmap.com/ For
those who have not tried it yet, Half-Baked Software's Hot Potatoes Suite is a
must. You need to register to use it, but that's a simple task. http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
Useful
Links:
http://tesolarabia.org
The
TESOL Arabia site
http://www.bangkokpost.net/education:
news stories with comprehension activities
http://crayon.net:
create your own collection of articles from the US press. |
Welcome to the first edition of the Learner
Independence SIG's e-newsletter.
We're the second
SIG to do this, although the original CALL SIG and COLESLAW no longer exist.
The
purpose of this particular newsletter is to introduce LI-SIG to members of TESOL
Arabia who have opted to join our SIG, and provide an update about our events
and ideas for the 2005-2006 academic year.
What
is LI-SIG?
History
The
Learner Independence SIG was established in 2000 by 4 UAEU teachers (Heather Baba,
Paolo Rossetti, George and Geraldine Kershaw) who were seeking ways to develop
professionally and a motive to do so. Paolo experimented with website design and
also created a discussion list, George and Geraldine directed their previous writing
and editing experience into the creation of a newsletter and Heather, who had
been in the UAE and Arab World the longest, began networking madly - and thus,
a SIG was born!
Personnel have changed over the years with Raymond Sheehan
as Editor (2000 - 2004), Jessie Hayden as Webmaster 2001 - 2002, and Alison Curtis,
Adrianna Sutherland and Beth Wallace serving as previous Treasurers.
LI-SIG
Aims
*to promote and support the principles of learner
independence
*to provide a forum for the discussion of shared concerns and
issues
*to encourage the sharing and exchange of knowledge, skills and experiences
on independent learning-related issues
*to offer ideas and practical solutions
for implementing varied independent learning schemes
*to facilitate networking
amongst practitioners
*to support the establishment and upgrading of ILCs
" to encourage the development of innovative approaches and materials
for IL
*to support and promote developments in e-learning
*to provide support
for those involved in distance learning programmes
*to support and participate
in research projects in this field
Activities
Visits
to ILCs in the region, IL-related workshops, hands-on computer sessions/training,
conference presentations, news-sheet, TESOL Arabia Conference Newsletter, contributions
and updates in TAPs, website, email discussion, mailing-list, downloadable resources,
national and international inter-institution links, IL/C bibliography, ILC consultancy,
Tactile Tasks and Technical Tips events, ILC Coordinators' Forum, ILCs: From Plans
to Practice workshops, ILCs 4 Schools projects, and other activities, subject
to needs/demand - and now, an e-newsletter!
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