Free Online Conference

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Free online mini-conference September 11, 2009 via Dimdim The conference will be held in Dimdim and it will be possible to click on the meeting links here closer to the actual time of the virtual conference. No need to pay, no need to join Dimdim, just click on the meeting link and have your headphones plugged in and tested beforehand. More detailed instructions here. You can pre-register below to ensure your place and to get an email alert when the meeting is due to start (this means you are joining Dimdim) or you can just turn up on the day without joining Dimdim. In that case when it’s time for the session you are interested in go to www.dimdim.com and click on the blue ‘Join Meeting’ button. Insert the meeting room name ‘foxdenuk’ and your own name then click on Join. The programme is below. Click on the time to find out what time that is for you in your part of the world.

9:00 GMT Helen Keegan (University of Salford) Wiki treasure hunt on the topic of mentoring.

10:00 GMT Teachers and Technology Nicky Hockly, Director of Pedagogy, The Consultants-e This session looks at some free Internet-based resources and tools, providing practical examples of how they can be used by language teachers in the classroom.

11:00 GMT Ups and downs Niels Damgaard, senior advisor Biblioteksentralen, Oslo What works and what doesn’t when teaching teachers and librarians information literacy and Web 2.0 in Norway via internet over the last 10 years.

Lithuanian strand 12:00 GMT Social software for teaching and learning (in Lithuanian)Gytis CIBULSKIS, e-learning expert, Socialinės tinklaveikos priemonės mokyme bei mokymesi. Not in Dimdim

13:00 GMT Roundtable

VITAE partners discuss questions and issues raised by the project and conference participants. You can add a question or raise an issue in the project discussion area here at http://vitaeproject.ning.com