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Collaboratively co-creating Business English courses & contentTRANSCRIPT
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