We welcome the new members of the Learning Technologies Special Interest Group 2021 Coordinator: Vicky Saumell Joint Event Organisers: Maria Diakou & Letizia Cinganotto Online Content Editor: Amin Neghavati Webmaster: Belén Albarracín Social Media Manager: Serrana Muniz
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LTSIG Virtual Showcase on June 21st: Speakers and sessions
Inclusion through Technology
Online Event organized by IATEFL Inclusive Practices and SENSIG (IP&SEN SIG) and Learning Technologies SIG (LTSIG). May 29th 2021 1PM London
IATEFL LTSIG Research Book Conference
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 […]

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 […]