Eurocall-SMC SIG Event - Provisional programme

Provisional programme

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Friday, April 18, 2008

Saturday, April 19, 2008

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	Thursday, April 17
9.00-10.00	Registration	PalaDei
10.00-13.00	Workshop 1/a Using Web 2.0 tools for CMC Sarah Guth, Lisa Griggio, University of Padova, Italy presentation	DEI/G
13.00-13.30	Enhancing students' learning through Web 2.0 tools Mar Camacho Martí, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain presentation	DEI/G
10.30-12.30	Workshop 1/b Collaborative Assessment of oral language proficiency based on the CEF using CMC tools Antje Neuhoff, Dresden University of Technology, Germany presentation	Aula EF9
13.30-14.30	Lunch Break
14.30-17.45	Workshop 2 Designing an Online Intercultural Exchange: Different Options and their Outcomes Robert O'Dowd, University of Lèon, Spain presentation	Aula EF9
17.45-18.30	Show and Tell of Telecollaboration Projects Hauck presentation
19.00-20.00	Walking Tour of Padova ending with a "spritz" in the main piazzas	Meeting point outside of Language Lab
	Friday, April 18
9.00-9.30	Registration	PalaDei
9.30-10.00	Opening	Aula Magna
10.00-11.00	Plenary Confronting the Issue of Assessment in Online Foreign Language Education Robert O'Dowd, University of Lèon, Spain presentation	Aula Magna
11.00-11.30	Coffee Break	PalaDei
	Presentations: Intercultural Exchanges and CMC
11.30-12.00	Critical success factors in an internet-based intercultural foreign language exchange Mirjam Hauck, The Open University, UK presentation	Aula Magna
12.00-12.30	« Qu’est-ce que vous en pensez? » How a computer-mediated intercultural dialogue can complement L2 students’ cultural learning. Marie-Therese Batardière and Catherine Jeanneau, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland presentation
12.30-13.00	The Challenges of Creating an Online Intercultural Exchange: Choosing Interculture Suzanne Cloke, University of Padova, Italy presentation
13.00-14.30	Lunch Break
	Presentations: CMC Practice in Schools
14.30-15.00	CMC and Blended e-Learning: An experience in Moodle at high school Nicoletta Cuzzolin, Padova, Italy presentation	Aula EF9
15.00-15.30	A Case Study of Work in Progress on CrossCall: Cross-sector, computer mediated communication in modern foreign and community language learning with students in London schools Terry King, UCL, London, UK presentation
	Presentations: CMC and Lifelong Learning
15.30-16.00	Developing Multiliteracies through CMC: A case study of lifelong language learning at the University of Siena Linda Mesh, University of Siena, Italy presentation
16.00-16.30	CMC in a distance English course for school teachers: a case study Katherine Ackerley and Paula DeWaal, University of Padova, Italy presentation
16.30-17.00	Coffee Break
	Presentations: Second Life and CMC
17.00-17.30	Practicing Proficiency in Virtual Space - A case study of cross-cultural collaboration in language learning Mats Deutschmann, Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall presentation
17.30-18.00	Perceptions of Learning in the CMC Environment of Second Life - A Swedish-American case study Luisa Panichi, University of Pisa, Italy presentation
18.00-18.30	'Second CLA': Second Life Opportunities for Language Learning and Teaching Alexander Maurizi, University of Perugia, Italy presentation
18.30-19.00	A Tour of the EUROCALL Headquarters in Second Life Graham Davies, Emeritus Professor of Computer Assisted Language Learning Educational Software Consultant, Camsoft, The UK Graham Davies set up the EUROCALL facilities in Second Life. He and his avatar will conduct a tour of the newly established EUROCALL Headquarters. The facilities that it offers for meetings, seminars and small conferences will be presented.
20.00	Event Dinner
	Saturday, April 19
	Presentation: Teacher Training
9.00-9.30	Teacher Training using CMC Antje Neuhoff	Aula De, DEI
	Presentations: Research into CMC
9.30-10.00	CMC and Learner Corpora: From focus on interaction to focus on form Francesca Helm, Fiona Dalziel, University of Padova, Italy presentation
10.00-10.30	Social and Affective Strategies in Online Learning Mirjam Hauck, The Open University, UK presentation
10.30-11.00	The Multilingual Internet: Exploring online written dialogues Jane Hughes, UCL, London, UK presentation
11.00-11.30	Coffee Break
11.30-12.30	Panel Discussion CMC and Language Learning: Future Directions Mirjam Hauck, The Open University, UK Jane Hughes, UCL, London, UK Luisa Panichi, University of Pisa, Italy Sarah Guth, University of Padova, Italy
12.30-13.00	Closing remarks and end of event
	CMC SIG meeting over lunch

Locations:

Department of Information Engineering in via Gradenigo, 6/A

PalaDEI: gazebo for registration and coffee break

DEI/G: meeting room on the third floor

Aula Magna

Aula De: classroom

Language Centre Lab, via Venezia, 13

Aula EF9

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