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our main website.
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website, http://ilearn.20m.com, includes articles
on independent learning, an extensive IL bibliography, profiles of ILCs around
the world, and links and tips for ILC set-up. It also has news, reports and photos
of LI-SIG events, so if you have been to one of our events, do check and see if
you are in one of the photos! Diary
Dates:
UAE's
first MoodleHoot, AUS,Sharjah,
15 December 2005 2pm-4pm
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)
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Discussions cover CALL,
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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
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Useful
Links:
What do those acronyms or initials stand for?
Find
out here:
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
Need
materials for young learners?
Here's a vast range of
activities and fun.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
Picture
Dictionaries:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
Dictionary.html
Another dictionary with spelling activities:
http://www.pdictionary.com/
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Learner
Independence SIG e-newsletter
2005/2
News
Event:
ILC Coordinator's Forum
British Council, Dubai, 7 December, 2 - 4pm
This
is a specialist meeting for ILC coordinators, ILC personnel and those with a specific
background in independent learning.
Larger institutions may have several ILC
staff, but often ILCs are the efforts of just one person, so this event offers
the opportunity for ILC personnel from a range of tertiary and secondary educational
institutions to come together and discuss problems, find solutions and exchange
tips, knowledge and advice. It provides a network for current ILC personnel as
well as a chance for new ILC planners to meet people, get insights and information
for their ILC projects. We believe that both novice and veteran ILC personnel
can learn from each others' experiences and possibly support each other in future
ventures. This sharing of expertise and experience might also reduce the possibility
of constant, costly and time-consuming 'reinvention of the wheel'.
The focus
of the forthcoming meeting will be research, including presentations by Victor
Lawrence (HCT-ADMC) and Hazel Owen (HCT-DBM).
If you are on the staff of an
ILC or involved in an ILC planning project and would like to attend, please contact
hmbaba@yahoo.co.uk for more information.
Also, please feel free to pass on information about this event to ILC or library
personnel in your institution.
View
reports of previous ILCCF meetings.
Handbook Update:
For the past
year, LI-SIG members and associates from as far away as New Zealand, UK and Japan
have been collaborating on an ILC Handbook for publication early next year via
the TESOL Arabia SIGs Publications initiative. Most of the articles, practical
ILC set-up case-studies and short items on some 200 features of ILCs have now
been received, and we are now entering the editing and formatting phase. We are
on schedule for a launch at TACON 2005.
TESOL
Arabia Conference 2005
Don't forget to pre-register soon to take advantage
of the 'Early Bird' rates.
See http://tesolarabia.org
for information.
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