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Rounding up and Finishing off

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Page 1: Task 4.3 27 july

Rounding up and Finishing off

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Ideas for Finishing Activities

Farewell Message

Photo Gallery

Parting gifts

Awards

Needs: Voice board or podcasting site

Needs: digital camera, email, Slideshare

Needs: web, email

Needs: Course site

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Photo gallery

• Post a photo of something relevant to the course, or someone

• Post a brief explanation

• Tutor puts all the images in one presentation & adds captions: names and key words

Final project

(Bill Student )

hours of fun!

• Idea from ‘Teaching Online’, Hockly & Clanfield, 2010

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Farewell Message

• Record a message saying ’goodbye’ to the group

• Post it to a voice board

• Once everyone has left & listened to the messages, tutor rounds off with a closing email

Examples:

Congratulations on finishing the course

One memorable task Highlight of the course

• Idea from ‘Teaching Online’, Hockly & Clanfield, 2010

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Course Awards• Group comes up with a list of ‘Course Awards’ - must be same

number as participants Examples:

• Fastest poster

• Funniest comment

• Most thought-provoking question

• Best avatar

• Longest post

• Mr/Ms Tech Savvy

• Best organised

• Most visual person

• Most useful advice

• Most technically improved

• Everyone posts an award from the list on a message board of names until everyone has one.

Brought to my attention by Nikky Salmon

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Beyond the course:

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Online discussion groups

1. “Webheads is a world-wide, cross-cultural, and vibrant online-community of educators with an open enrollment for anyone who wants to join”

Practising teachers who discuss online teaching & learning. Links to lesson ideas, conferences, blogs…

http://webheadsinaction.org/about

2. SEETA (South Eastern Europe Teachers Association)

A site with a major interest in teaching online. Blogs, webinars on a variety of topics eg. Adapting your coursebook with technology, teaching with online digital games ….

http://www.seeta.eu

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Further online training

EVO free courses: (Electronic Village Online)

2012 sessions included a variety of practical topics: moodle for teachers, digital tools with a purpose in the classroom, podcasting for the EFL classroom, creating and manipulating audio

You can also access past sessions

Live sessions take place in January - February.

Register in January

http://evosessions.pbworks.com/EVO+Previous+Sessions

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Online Synchronous ConferencesA regular one is the IATEFL conference.

It takes place in a different UK city each year

Liverpool, April 2013

• Major presentations are streamed with forums for discussions and much more

• http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2012

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Blogging and Micro-blogging

Many blogs to select from:

1. We’ve already been referred to some of Nicky Hockly’s blogs.

Thought-provoking and practical. Here’s one on using video

http://www.emoderationskills.com/?p=97

2. Here’s one for teacher trainers

http://elteachertrainer.com/category/teacher-training-2/

Micro-blogging

Twitter Follow people involved in the field

Edmodo Twitter for Education http://www.edmodo.com

An Edmodo ‘class’ can be set up.

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ePortfolios

• This final project will form the start of our own eportfolios

• It is summative assessment at the end of our course, but will also stimulate ongoing development of our skills as e-moderators.