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Highlights from Beykent University ELT Conference Episode 1;Developing Materials and Practices for the Digital Generation by Nik Peachey

April1

This Saturday Elif, Burca, Sultan, Nurgul, Beyza and I attended Beykent University 6th International ELT Conference. Although it was too good a day (sunny & bright) to spend in doors and we needed a nice good break (because we are on the new module verge of a new teaching module and we spent the whole last week extremely busy; marking and getting prepared to teach our new levels and students, going over the syllabus, schedule, course materials, supplementary materials…etc.) we attended the conference.

There were many other teachers who were keen on their professional development and were interested in the theme of the event as well as the speakers (like us).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the first plenary session Nik Peachey focused on the necessity of adapting our teaching to the needs and learning styles of “digital natives” and outlined some web applications and teaching suggestions that can impact on language learning and cater for the needs of the new generation. I will never ever forget this talk because for the first time as an audience I was able to interact with the speaker from where I was sitting thanks to TodaysMeet.

 

TodaysMeet is an application may help teachers or presenters in this case to deal with the backchannel and connect with your listeners/audience/students through the live stream by asking them to make comments, ask questions and engage in a virtual conversation. later on all these conversation could be used as feedback. So here is our conversation with Nik while he was presenting on the stage. So, a new era is coming: Multi-tasking audience and multi-tasking presenters…!!!

Then to support digital study skills, web research and interacting with the text, Nik introduced Scrible and Storify. The best part of these tools are that they lead themselves to further exploitation because they can operate with generic tasks such as summarizing, responding to the text..etc.) and help teachers to plan their activities by benefiting form vast internet resources. He suggested couple of web applications for video communication including VYou and Keek and demonstrated how he used these in order to communicate with his students. To be honest, VYou terrified me a bit; when a student wants to ask you a question s/he sends you an e-mail, iphone application accompanying Vyou sends you a warning message, and you can click on the record icon on your i-phone and respond to your student, giving the message “your teachers is available any time any where”.

On the whole I learned a lot from this talk and it gave me lots of ideas and web applications to experiment with. He also curated a collection of articles about educational technology and its best uses which can be seen at this link.

You can access the presentation of this plenary session by clicking here.

THANK YOU NIK PEACHEY. (You rock!)

Also, many thanks go to Beykent University for this beautiful and smoothly running organisation as well as their hospitality.

 

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