IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG would like to invite you to their online conference to explore the studies published in our recent book Digital Innovations and Research in Language Learning (2020). The authors will present their studies, which explore the pedagogical potential and realities of learning technologies in a wide range of language education contexts, and […]
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Voices from around the World – a podcast
The LTSIG was contacted recently by Mariella Sorrentino, who wanted to share a couple of podcasts recorded during the major lockdown which happened in many cities and countries around the world earlier this year. As she states: “The podcast is the final product of the etwinning project “Language, media and communication” which engaged three schools […]
Tech It Easy: WordEngine
This guest blog post, jointly written by three Ecuadorian student-teachers focuses on a recent international vocabulary tournament using one particular browser-based tool, WordEngine. The idea for the post was submitted by Elizabeth Bekes, who is a teacher trainer and volunteer mentor for the Action Research Mentoring Project at the Universidad Nacional de Educación in the […]
Flipping a Pre-sessional Course – Manchester Showcase Preview
Cobden 3: Our showcase room in Manchester Can you flip a summer pre-sessional? And how? These were the questions posed at the University of Sheffield over two years ago, in the quest for a solution to the (not unpleasant) issue of having more students than classrooms. Guest blogger Claire Basarich, alongside the Director of Technology […]
‘Teacher for a Day’
Teaching teenagers is not so easy as you could imagine, they get bored so fast and as teachers we are always looking for new strategies which can trigger their motivation, boost their interest, writes Mariella Sorrentino in this guest post. The etwinning project, entitled, ‘Teacher for a day’ was a successful attempt to make my […]
LTSIG Archive Recording Series
Every Thursday for next 10 weeks, the Learning Technologies Special Interest Group will be publishing a recording of a presentation from the archives. These will mostly be for Members only, accessible via the Members’ Area of the website. We will share news via our social media channels of the latest video every Thursday, with the […]
2020 Vision into Artificial Intelligence
We have a plan. We have a poster. We are very excited about this. Our Pre-Conference Event (PCE) in Manchester next year, as previously announced on our social media channels, is going to take an in-depth look at Artificial Intelligence (AI). We touched upon this topic in our PCE in Liverpool earlier this year. This […]
Machinima, potential teaching learning materials for EFL classrooms
by Sagun Shrestha Machinima Machinima is a word derived from machine animated cinema. It is a short-animated screencast video created in video games or multi-users virtual environments (MUVE) such as Second Life (See. Rainbow and Schneider, 2014; Shrestha, 2017). The machinima [i] that I am dealing with in this brief write-up are the ones created […]
