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English360Collaboratively co-creating Business English courses & content

BESIG Rome25 June 2010

BESIG Rome 26 June 2010

PLN – Personal Learning Network

http://www.linkedin.com/in/valentinadodge

http://www.diigo.com/user/vale24

My edublog http://lifelonglearning.edublogs.org/

Example of sharing from http://aleksandraluczak.edublogs.org/2010/05/10/quiet-hours-disturbed/

A business trainer I followhttp://twitter.com/evanfrendo

Follow me on twitter @vale360

A community of ELT Bloggers http://beltfree.ning.com/

Understanding more about online learning ..

…getting material and ideas to use in class...

Discussing and sharing pedagogical concerns

Blending

Connections to real world

Roles and relationships

Access

Availability of content

Media formats

Predictability / unpredictability of language

Contributions

Decisions

Ownership of learning space

Sharing

Exchanging

Another view of collaborative content“360 degree content creation”

Teacher

Publisher

Student

School

Business

World

Content repository

Authoring toolsSocial software

Light, flat LMS

English360 toolslog in and deliver online, blended learning

Collaborative materials design for authentic personalisation

Collective course design

• Analyse needs

• Find content from needs

• Copy into course

• Re-sequences content

• Share within school

photo credit: Mahalie Stackpole

Decide on privacy and copyright licence settings…

Choose settings for course…

Creative commons – copy, attribute and edit

CUP content– All rights reserved

Allow others to use, but not change, my All Rights Reserved content.

Copy content into your course…

Draft

Learner path

Page comments

Starting out...

Create Needs Analysis

Needs Analysis

Business English Needs Analyses

Use your learners’ needs to direct the content of your course…

See collective needs of learners on your course…

Tags serve multiple purposes…

Tags at course and item level facilitate searches…

Prepare learners for real-life tasks

Thank you!Any questions?www.english360.com

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