Pre-conference workshops' tentative agenda
Venue: Room 504 HCMC Open University, 35-37 Ho Hao Hon St, Dist. 1, HCMC
Time: 8h-16h30, Friday, 25 May, 2018
Tentative Agenda
8h00-8h30: Registration
9h00-10h30: ER: Extensive Reading, Effective Reading (Prof. Marc Helgesen)
10h30-10h46: Teabreak (Room 703)
10h45-11h45: The Brain-Body Connection: Let’s get physical (Prof. Marc Helgesen)
13h30-15h00: Do-It-Yourself NeuroELT: Making your textbook more brain friendly (Prof. Marc Helgesen)
15h15-16h15: Creating information gap activities in Moodle (Assist. Prof. David Campbell)
Note: Certificates of Attendance will be issued.
Time: 8h-16h30, Friday, 25 May, 2018
Tentative Agenda
8h00-8h30: Registration
9h00-10h30: ER: Extensive Reading, Effective Reading (Prof. Marc Helgesen)
10h30-10h46: Teabreak (Room 703)
10h45-11h45: The Brain-Body Connection: Let’s get physical (Prof. Marc Helgesen)
13h30-15h00: Do-It-Yourself NeuroELT: Making your textbook more brain friendly (Prof. Marc Helgesen)
15h15-16h15: Creating information gap activities in Moodle (Assist. Prof. David Campbell)
Note: Certificates of Attendance will be issued.
Pre-conference facilitators
Facilitator 1:
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Session 1:
ER: Extensive Reading, Effective Reading
Extensive Reading – reading a lot of easy, interesting texts – is an important way to help learners increase both their reading skills and their enjoyment of English. And the payoffs are many. ER students see an increase of not only reading abilities but also their vocabulary, understanding of grammar, listening and speaking skills (even when those aren’t directly taught)! This workshop will introduce reasons to use ER and ways to implement it in and outside of class. One more important thing about ER: with most language learning techniques, the benefits are later, once someone has achieved a certain level. Because ER uses easy-to-understand stories, the students experience pleasure while they are reading.
Session 2:
The Brain-Body Connection: Let’s get physical
When we sit for 20 minutes, blood flows downward to the feet and legs. Standing and moving for just one minute causes a 15% increase of blood (and therefore oxygen) to the brain. That’s just one reason to get students up and out of their seats regularly. There are many more. This session will look at reasons and ways to have students moving their bodies, while moving their English abilities up at the same time. In addition to major physical activities, we’ll consider short “5-minute energy breaks.”
Session 3:
Do-It-Yourself NeuroELT:
Making your textbook more brain-friendly
Brain Science in education pioneer Leslie Hart famously said “Designing curriculum without knowing about the brain is like designing a glove without knowing about the hand.” But whoever wrote your textbook was thinking about grammar and vocabulary, hopefully tasks and motivation – and was probably not focused on brain science. But the brain is where learning occurs. This session will introduce 7 quick and easy ways to make your textbook more appropriate for brain-compatible learning. We’ll look specifically at modifying textbook tasks to make them better. They include (1) emotion, (2) providing choice, (3) novelty, (4) multi-sensory learning (5) challenge (6) creativity and (7) personalization. All the ideas are based on established science and replicable studies. More on brain science in ELT is available on the presenter’s website: tinyurl.com/DIYneuroELT
Facilitator 2: Assist. Prof. david Campbell
David Campbell is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Sciences at Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine in Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan. He has over 35 years of experience teaching English to all ages and levels of students . His current research interests are Moodle, a learning management system, and the use of ICT in tertiary education in Japan. He is a member of the Japanese Association of Language Teachers (JALT) and its CALL special interest group, and the Moodle Association of Japan.
Session 4:
Creating information gap activities in Moodle
Information gap activities are popular with language teachers, but how do you use them in a CALL setting. Moodle is a powerful and flexible learning management system and by combing many of its elements it is possible to move your favorite info gap activities online.
In this workshop attendees will learn how to create groups/groupings quickly and easily. They will also learn about how to set the different access restriction and completion criteria to guide students through an activity and allow them to access only their part of the information gap. Finally, they will create an information gap activity using the database module.
Having some knowledge of Moodle (high beginner to intermediate) would be helpful.
In this workshop attendees will learn how to create groups/groupings quickly and easily. They will also learn about how to set the different access restriction and completion criteria to guide students through an activity and allow them to access only their part of the information gap. Finally, they will create an information gap activity using the database module.
Having some knowledge of Moodle (high beginner to intermediate) would be helpful.
