Future-Proofing Your ELT Publishing Skills in the Digital Age
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Future-proofing your ELT publishing skills in the digital age
Saturday 21 May: State of play
09.00 Arrival (Tea / Coffee)
09.15 Welcome / housekeeping / getting to know each other
Session 1.1 (Pete Sharma): 09.30–10.00
A changing world • Changes in technology • Changes in education • Introducing the course programme
Session 1.2 (Pete Sharma): 10.00–10.30
The future classroom (Part 1) • Hardware: interactive whiteboards, projectors, screens, laptops • Software
10.30–10.45: Tea / Coffee
Session 1.3 (Pete Sharma): 10.45–12.30
The future classroom (Part 2) • An introduction to materials for use with the interactive whiteboard • Hands-on task (group work): exploring and evaluating published materials for classroom use: eg New Inside Out Digital (Macmillan Education), Cutting Edge Digital (Pearson), iPack (OUP) • Report back • Bringing it all together: exploring implications
12.30–13.30: Lunch break (Packed lunches)
Session 1.4 (Pete Sharma): 13.30–15.15
On the move learning and DIY learning tools • What is M-learning? • Hands-on task (group work): exploration of three M-learning products; feedback • Podcasts • Blogs and wikis • Sum up
15.15–15.30: Tea / Coffee
Session 1.5 (Byron Russell): 15.30–17.15
Virtual Learning Environments and Learning Management Systems • What is a VLE / LMS? Discussion task • Brief look at the main VLEs: Blackboard, Moodle, etc. • Benefits and challenges of VLEs, plus a note on SCORM • Hands-on task (group work): What are the implications of a VLE for authors / publishers / teachers / learners? • Demonstration of Macmillan English Campus
17.15–17.30: Day assessment and close
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Future-proofing your ELT publishing skills in the digital age
Saturday 28 May: Practical implications
09.00 Arrival (Tea / Coffee)
09.15 Key points from Saturday
Session 2.1 (Nick Robinson): 09.30–11.00
Digital publishing: the big picture • Digital publishing in 2011: where are we? • Who’s who in the digital publishing team? • Common terminology • Digital publishing workflow and project management: tools and techniques
11.00–11.15: Tea / Coffee
Session 2.2 (Nick Robinson): 11.15–12.30
Working with digital content • The author’s changing role • Preparing content (authoring tools, templates, style, etc.) • Testing digital content • Editing digital content
12.30–13.30: Lunch break (Packed lunches)
Session 2.3 (Nick Robinson): 13.30–15.00
Common problems and issues • What can go wrong and how to deal with it • Getting the team working right • Copyright in the digital age • Questions and answers
15.00–15.15: Tea / Coffee
Session 2.4 (Byron Russell): 15.15–17.00
The future of publishing • What is coming next? The emerging roles of published and user-generated materials • What other technologies do we need to be aware of? • Bringing it all together: what is already available and where publishing might be going • Tasks: user-generated materials; learning objects; e-workbooks • Questions and answers
17.00–17.15: Day assessment and close
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