Learning2gether Episode 77

This week’s event comes courtesy of Nicky Hockly, Online Events Co-ordinator, IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG 

What and where?

Come and join us this weekend online for a free IATEFL LT SIG webinar with Caroline Moore on mLearning apps, on Sunday 18 Dec 16h-17h UK time (check times in your part of the world on the LT SIG page: http://ltsig.org.uk/online-events/46-future-online-events/228-1812-mobile-learning.html). 

18/12 – Mobile Learning

Apps for mobile  learning: from theory to real world  application
with Caroline Moore

When: Sunday 18 December 2011, 4pm GMT
(Note this starts one hour later than usual to avoid an Adobe Connect room clash with GISIG)
Find the time in your time zone by clicking this link.

Where: The event takes place in the IATEFL online conference room.
Click here to join the webinar (this link will be live a few hours before the webinar is due to start).

Before entering the room you will be prompted to “Enter as a guest”. Please use this model to enter your name:
Jane Smith (Italy).
This will make it easier for the webinar speaker to identify you and answer your questions.

Caroline will report on a survey of language learning apps carried out with Paul Sweeney, and the features that we liked and those we didn’t.  I will describe how I have applied this learning in two mobile app projects that I am working on. The first is an arcade style iPhone vocab game and the second is a highly ambitious project to adapt existing Adobe Flash-based course materials originally designed for CDROM for learners of English, French, Spanish and German. I will describe the challenges that had to be overcome, including decisions about what technologies and platforms to adopt, copyright and intellectual property issues, and how to make such projects sustainable and commercially viable.

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Director of Constellata Limited and Co-Founder of LearnAhead Ltd providing consultancy, training and product development services in the use of technology and language teaching to publishers and course providers. I started as an ELT teacher and then worked for the British Council in various ELT-related roles. Seewww.constellata.com