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International Conference The Future of Education

International Conference The Future of Education

The International Conference “The Future of Education” will take place in Florence on 16 - 17 June 2011.

The aim of the Future of Education Conference is to promote the sharing of good practice and transnational cooperation in the field of the application of innovative education and training strategies, methodologies and solutions.

The Future of Education conference will also be an excellent opportunity for the presentation of previous and current projects and innovative initiatives in the field of education.

The Future of Education conference focuses on the following topics:

- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methodologies

- Education and New Technologies

- Media Literacy Education

- E-learning

- Distance Education

- Human Computer Interaction

- Learning Games

- Art Education

- Music Education

The Call for Papers, in the Future of Education Conference’s framework, is addressed to teachers and experts as well as to coordinators of projects and initiatives in the field of education and training.

Teachers and experts in the field of education and trainers are invited to submit an abstract of a paper to be presented during the Future of Education Conference. The abstract should be written in English (300 – 500 words) and sent via e-mail to edu_future@pixel-online.net no later than 14 February 2011.

Important dates for the Future of Education Conference

- 14 February 2011: Deadline for submitting abstracts

- 28 February 2011: Notification of Acceptance / Rejection

- 21 March 2011: Deadline for final submission of papers

- 10 June 2011: Deadline for registration

- 16 - 17 June 2011: Dates of the conference

At the Future of Education Conference there will be three presentation modalities: Oral and poster presentations (in-person) and virtual (for those who cannot attend in person)

An ISBN publication will be produced with all the accepted papers.

For further information about the Future of Education Conference, please contact us at the following address: edu_future@pixel-online.net

or visit the conference website: http://www.pixel-online.net/edu_future/index.php

International Conference

ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRENDS IN MODERN LITERATURE:

EAST AND WEST (INCOTIML - 11)

ORGANISED BY

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES

January 4th & 5th, 2011

VENUE

L.C.T.L. Palaniappa Chettiar Memorial Auditorium,

KARAIKUDI - 630 003,

Tamil Nadu,

India

The broad areas of the Conference are listed below:

Trends in the Modern Literature of

British American

Indian Greek

German French

Canadian Malay

Chinese Language Other Languages

Trends in Modern Literature of all Indian Languages including Tamil will be discussed.

Last date for sending Abstracts : 23.12.2010

Last date for sending full papers: 30.12.2010

CONTACT PERSON (for sending Papers/Enquiries)

Dr. S. Subbiah

Associate Professor & Head i/c,

Department of English and Foreign Languages,

Alagappa University,

Karaikudi - 63o 003

Sivaganga District,

Tamilnadu,

India.

Phone: 04365-228 724, Mobile: 9442282517

email: aludepteng@gmail.com

Selected Abstracts will be published in the Conference Souvenir with ISBN

Conference Alerts (British Council)

http://www.britishcouncil.org/india-english-teachersandtrainers-development.htm STARTING, STIMULATING AND SUSTAINING ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT A conference for English Language Teacher Educators In January 2011, state sector trainers, teacher educators and members of regional and international teacher associations will come together to share best practices on teacher education programmes and to connect with other practitioners for professional development and networking. The British Council and the EFL-U (English and Foreign Languages University) are co-hosting a three-day conference on ‘Starting, Stimulating and Sustaining English Language Teacher Education and Development’ for the English Language Teacher Educators from 22-24 January 2011 in Hyderabad, India. The event is being supported by the ELTAI (English Language Teachers’ Association of India) and the IATEFL’s Young Learner Teenagers Special Interest Group (YLT SIG) and Teacher Training and Education Special Interest Group (TTEd SIG). The objectives of the conference are: to provide an opportunity for English Language pre and in-service teacher educators from across South Asia to meet and share best practice and experiences to provide English Language pre and in-service teacher educators an opportunity for professional development and updating which will enable them to become more effective to establish and build a sustainable community and network of English language teacher educators At the conference, we will announce the winners of the India and Sri Lanka English Language Teaching Research Awards. What will the conference cover? Over three days, the conference will have plenaries, workshops, panels and paper presentations on the following themes: 1 Developing English language primary teachers 2 Teacher education in difficult and rural contexts 3 Curriculum and materials development for teacher education 4 The role of technology (radio, Edusat, mobiles, ICT) in teacher education 5 Distance teacher education 6 Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for teachers and teacher educators 7 Challenges of evolving and implementing English Language teacher education policy Who all can participate? We expect 700 pre and in-service teacher educators from across South Asia to participate in the conference. The participants could be: District Centre Chief Tutors and Tutors International speakers and delegates Master Trainers/ Resource Persons state sector teacher educators Representatives of English Language Teacher Institute (ELTI) Representatives of Teacher Education bodies and agencies Researchers in teacher education/ training DIET/ SCERT Lecturers and SSA Teacher Educators B.Ed. Lecturers of English Teacher Association representatives NGO Teacher Educators Teacher education managers and leaders Teacher Association representatives How can you participate? As a pre/ in-service teacher educator, you could contribute to the conference either as a speaker or as a delegate. Prospective speakers are encouraged to complete the Speaker Proposal Form and submit their applications (refer to the Call for Papers) no later than 1 December 2010. Those English Language Teacher Educators interested to participate as delegates are requested to complete the registration formalities latest by 10 January 2011. The registrations for the conference will be accepted on a first come first served basis. To register, please submit your Application Form along with the fees mentioned below. Registration Fees Speakers and delegates from India and South Asia INR (Rs.) Speakers and delegates from other countries GBP (£) Conference fee 1000 80 Discount for ELTAI and IATEFL Members 800 75 Early bird registration fee (for all registrations received on or before 1 December 2010) 750 60 Early bird discount for ELTAI and IATEFL Members (for all registrations received on or before 1 December 2010) 700 55 The fee includes registration, conference pack, refreshments and lunch. Accommodation is not included but a list will be available from 1 December 2010. For more information, please contact: International speakers and delegates: Wendy Arnold at arnoldworld@gmail.com Indian speakers and delegates: Sam Prasanthkumar at sam.prasanthkumar@in.britishcouncil.org

IATEFL 45th Annual conference

45th Annual Conference and Exhibition

Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK
15th -19th April 2011

Plenary Speakers

Thomas Farrell	Peter Grundy	Brian Patten	Sue Palmer	Catherine Walter

PLEASE NOTE ALL SPEAKERS HAVE TO REGISTER WITH THEIR MEMBERSHIP NUMBER IN ORDER TO ACCESS THE SPEAKER APPLICATION FORM

Register online as a delegate

Conference 2011 June Brochure

We are pleased to announce that registration fees have remained the same as last year

Registration and full payment received on or before 28th January 2011

IATEFL members £125/Non members £175/IATEFL Student members* £95

Registration and full payment received after 28th January 2011

IATEFL members £160/Non members £210/IATEFL Student members* £95

Single day attendance fees

IATEFL members £70/Non members £85/IATEFL Student members* £45

Single day attendance fees on Tuesday 19th (half day)

IATEFL members £35/Non members £45/IATEFL Student members* £25

(* - you must be an IATEFL student member to pay this rate)

The speaker proposal deadline was 17th September 2010.

Getting to Brighton

The National Express has services between most large towns, and has links from London to Brighton.

The nearest airport is London Gatwick.

Accommodation

It is already possible to arrange your accommodation for Brighton - book accommodation. If you have any queries Visit Brighton can help with this as well as any other queries you may have.

Sponsorship Opportunities
The new Sponsorship Opportunities Document for the 45th Annual International Conference and Exhibition at Brighton is available on the IATEFL website now. Please download a copy below. Bookings, however, will not be taken until Friday 9th April at this years' IATEFL Conference at Harrogate. If you have any queries please contact Alison Wallis Marketing and Sponsorship Officer. See our sponsorship page for more details.

Sponsorship 2011

ELT Exhibition at Conference
The details for the exhibition to be held at Brighton, including prices and deadlines can be found on our exhibition page . The floorplan, price list and exhibition manual are available to download . If you have any queries please contact Alison Wallis Marketing and Sponsorship Officer.

http://www.iatefl.org/brighton-2011/45th-annual-conference-and-exhibition-2011

Workshop in Tanjore

NATIONAL WORKSHOP

ON

TECHNOLOGY, TEACHING AND TESTING: COMMUNICATION SKILLS

OCTOBER 2 and 3, 2010.

organized by

BON SECOURS COLLEGE

VILAR BYPASS

THANJAVUR

In collaboration with

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION OFINDIA (ELTAI)THANJAVUR CHAPTER

AND COMP.TECH.SIG

CHENNAI-40

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ELTAI 5th International Conference

Twittering – Instant Learning to Communicate Online and Offline

Twittering is a very popular instant messaging system that lets a person send brief text messages up to 140 characters in length to a list of followers. Launched in 2006, it lets you micro-blog your life by dashing out very short notes to a select group of friends or other subscribers, who can receive them as text messages even on their cell phones. It helps the students to message in sound bites and about what they are up to. Twittering as a useful classroom-communication tool had been experimented successfully.

To start with, the student can create a twitter account. It is just like setting up an email account. Twitters are in reverse chronological order, according to time, with the newest at the top. Students can be asked to follow the persons or community they like or their classmates, teachers and the links of their tastes. So that they can view what is going on with their classmates and other organizations. For example, Microsoft keeps updating its twitter every minute. The followers could be updated with these instant messages. Important companies like CNN and BBC also use twitter to post their news.

As twitter answers the question “What are you doing?” the first assignment can be some fifteen messages to be posted in a week saying what they are doing by the time they login. This will be a good assignment for the students and it helps to get to know twitter, better. Scrolling through random Twitter messages can't explain the appeal. You have to do it — and, more important, do it with friends. This assignment of posting a minimum of messages will make them access it, and find out what is going on around. The teacher can make corrections in the posted messages. The immediacy of the messages help the students feel like more of a community. One thing should be remembered here is that you cannot edit the posted messages. Care should be taken to avoid any errors before posting. Think before you post is the rule. If the post exceeds the limited 140 words, never mind to tweet again.

The next step can be posting of the messages like what they are doing at present. This will be more in present continuous tense to be instant. This will make the teachers to know the students more personally and help them in building activities based on this accordingly. Then they can be asked to reply or comment over their friend’s post. They develop a kind of intimacy in this way over one another, even outside the classroom. The students can reply not only their followers and the links they are following, they can also comment on other public links using @reply services. They can act more or less as a critic.

Teachers can make timely announcements without need for reliable internet service. It hardly takes a second for a message to appear on Twitter, just like group messaging in mobile services. Moreover, as the twitter services are linked to their cell phones, it serves a big time saver for the students as they don’t have to visit the blog/website/mail on a daily basis. It helps to make connections to people in our field and points out to articles and blog posts, we wouldn’t have found otherwise. The tinyURL.com which allows to fit any url within your tweet enables us to log in to some interesting links.

Twitter allows you to find learning partners through finding someone who share the same interests/subject area as you. You can just click on their picture and choose follow and you can click on their network and explore/follow some of their contacts. If someone does not “live up to your expectations”, remove them from your network. You can at some time or other write a story collaboratively with people across the world.

Twitter is actually good for teaching grammar. Because of its short form those who tweet often abbreviate and abuse grammar rules, developing their own unique “twitter rules.” This helps to demonstrate, both how all communication needs rules/structure and how important something like a comma or a period can be. Some Tweets become really ambiguous because of their lack of punctuation.

‘Yammer’ is another micro-blogging site designed exclusively for business purpose. And it is quite a good thing to know that yammer also tweets. Yammer can be updated by linking it to twitter. ‘Edmodo.com’ is another micro-blogging site which is specially designed for teachers and students. The link between students and teachers is rightly done, which avoids other interruptions. Here the posts can be edited, commented, replied as well. ‘Buzz’ of google is another micro-blogging application which is more or less like a twitter. And twitter updates are as well updated in the google buzz.

Tweeting helps one to know the social media which keeps one in pace with communication technology. So much of learning is going on inside a student’s head and you don’t know what they’re getting and how they apply what they’re learning. Twitter can give insights about the process and that can help educators make teaching more relevant. It increases the habit of writing in oneself. It opens our eyes to new topics and reading materials. Twitter is a quick way to network with colleagues. You can ask and answer questions, learn from experts, share resources, and react to events on the fly. Critics argue that it's nothing but a high tech distraction. Meanwhile, new ideas for using Twitter in education continue to emerge and evolve. The best way to weigh the pros and cons of this free tool is to try it for yourself.