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Chris Smith

Twitter Chat vs Second Life (Virtual World)

http://shamblesnews.blogspot.com/2010/09/twitter-chat-vs-second-life-vir

Twitter vs Second Life from Chris Smith on Vimeo.

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Chris Smith

Weekly Classroom 2.0 Saturday Webinar

http://shamblesnews.blogspot.com/2010/08/weekly-classroom-20-saturday-we

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Sebastian Gasse

Mail Merge with Gmail and Google Docs

http://elgg.norfolk.e2bn.org/news/weblog/17253.html

Now that we are rolling out the use of Gmail as part of the NSIX (Norfolk Schools Internet Exchange) provision, we need to turn our attention to updating curriculum content to take advantage of the new features. We are also very keen to ensure that we bring the concepts right up to date. Whilst we may have been teaching mail merge letters to ensure pupils know how to be efficient in their use of ICT, this is no longer the most efficient way to communicate. The concept remains the same, but we now communicate mostly via email rather than printed letter. There is a great tutorial by Mark Wagner showing just how to do this. It may take a little while before pupils have got their contact list populated, but a separate lesson on this may provide the right starting point.

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Nicholas Peachey

Survey Results: Mobile learning for ELT

http://quickshout.blogspot.com/2010/08/survey-results-mobile-learning-

The purpose of the survey was to ascertain the level of awareness and openness to mobile learning among English language teachers. I also wanted to find out to what degree and how teachers were already using mobile learning both in their teaching and and professional development and to establish whether they would be willing to pay for and use mobile content. The survey also collected information about the teachers’ existing access to mobile services and the kinds of device they are using to get access to mobile Internet.

The survey was carried out during June and July of 2010. The survey was answered by over 500 English language teachers.

The results of this survey were collected online using a web based survey site called SurveyMonkey.com. The online survey was distributed through:

My Twitter Network (3k teachers world wide)
The British Council’s ELTeCS list (15k teachers world wide)
A number of email based ELT discussion lists (these are long established lists from around the world. They are teaching rather than technology focused)

The respondents are likely to be early technology adopters as they are mostly people who are already involved in some form of online teaching network. However the majority of the networks used to distribute the survey were not focused on the use or discussion of technology in teaching, but are mainly forum to discuss mainstream teaching.

You can access the complete survey results at: http://tinyurl.com/3ayyhnb
You can download the tabulated data with a brief analysis and summary from: Technogogy.org.uk

I hope you find this information useful. Many thanks to all those people who took the time to answer the questions and share information.

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