Workshops



= Morning Workshops =

** __Workshop # 1__ -** Extreme Instructional Design

 * Workshop Description**:

If you have time and budget for multi-phased, committee-oriented, traditional instructional design, go for it. If you need a faster, more cost-effective and reliable approach, sign up for this workshop. You will learn simple, performance-based techniques to focus instructions on what learners really need and deliver it in a form best suited to your learners.

This performance-based instructional design approach can reduce the size of projects 50- to 90% while better accomplishing instructional objectives.

In this session you will learn to:
 * Focus learning on essential rather than “nice-to-know” objectives.
 * Identify (and justify) omitting what learners don’t need to learn, could better figure out on their own, or will forget by the time they need to apply it.
 * Cut the size of projects 50 to 90% while better accomplishing instructional objectives.


 * [[image:bill-framed-webinar.jpg align="left"]]Presenter**: William Horton

William Horton has been designing technology-based training since 1971 when, as an undergraduate, he designed a network-based course for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Engineering Study.

William is an internationally sought-after speaker and instructor. He has delivered presentations to the Distance Learning Conference in Madison, the Human Resources Association National Congress in São Paulo, the Information Technology Training Association conference in Barcelona, the Knowledge Management Seminarium in Stockholm, the Institute for Information Industry in Taipei, and the Asian Development Bank in Manila and Tokyo.

He is a registered Professional Engineer, an MIT graduate, and Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication. He is a recipient of ACM's Rigo Award for contributions to software documentation, IEEE's Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for contributions to engineering communications, and the IF Award (Germany) for industrial design. He served on ASTD's eCC (E-learning Courseware Certification) Committee, which drafted quality standards for evaluating e-learning courses.

William Horton is a prolific author. His books include E-learning by Design, Designing and Writing Online Documentation, Leading E-learning, Evaluating E-learning, Using E-learning, and Secrets of User-Seductive Documents. He is co-author of E-learning Tools and Technologies (with his wife Kit), Getting Started in Online Learning, and The Web Page Design Cookbook.

William and his wife Kit, the other half of William Horton Consulting, live in downtown Boulder, Colorado, just five blocks east of the Rocky Mountains, in a hundred-year old house they are lovingly restoring. The kitchen, which he and Kit redesigned themselves, was featured in the April 1999 and September 2000 issues of Better Homes and Gardens.


 * Handout file**: Extreme Instruction Design


 * Website**: @http://www.horton.com/

** __Workshop # 2__ -** Classroom Lessons & Resources with Real-Life GIS Data from Riding Mountain National Park
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** __Workshop # 5__ -** How to Teach English as an Additional Language Live Online
**Heike Philp, let’s talk online**
 * Session Description: **

Teaching an additional language live online using Skype, virtual classroom technology or Second Life is an exciting challenge for language teachers.

For English language teachers in Manitoba this could mean being able to work from home and still be able to reach remote learners in Manitoba and/or access markets in South America and Europe.

Yet, how is this technically possible?

In this workshop we will focus on the live component of teaching English at a distance using tools such as Instant Messaging (Skype, MSN, Twitter), Virtual Classrooms (Elluminate, Adobe ConnectPro, ) and Virtual Worlds (Second Life, Twinity, OpenSim) and their affordances and constraints for language teaching and learning.

**When examining Instant Messaging tools and Twitter, we will:**
 * look at ways to use synchronous and asynchronous text chat for language learning
 * discuss the pros and cons of using Twitter
 * discuss 17 reasons why Skype is not enough
 * set-up a Skype and Twitter account and explore their potential

Resources and tools
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 * While exploring virtual classroom technology, we will look at ways to use: **
 * whiteboard interactively with a group of students
 * multi-modality to engage all learners
 * error correction facilities
 * intercultural competence to deal with learners globally
 * Adobe ConnectPro and get to know its features

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 * In virtual worlds we will look at: **
 * real-life reproductions such as virtual Berlin, virtual London, etc.
 * telecollaborative projects
 * holodecks in language teaching and learning
 * the 3D virtual world of Second Life

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We will also discuss how these environments support teacher development and how these real-time internet communication tools connect teachers and help create and sustain personal learning networks.


 * Presenter: Heike Philp **



Heike Philp aka Gwen Gwasi is founder and CEO of let’s talk online (founded in 2003) and previously held the position of managing director of LANCELOT SchoolTM GmbH (2006-2010), an accredited teacher training center for language teaching in real-time via the internet by means of virtual classroom technology and virtual worlds. With over 20 years experience in education and with Germany’s first live online language school, Philp co-initiated two European funded projects and worked with 35 European partners including 17 universities to develop accredited and certified teacher training courses. These EU Projects are LANCELOT (LANguage learning with CErtified Live Online Teachers) and AVALON (Access to Virtual and Action Learning live Online. Philp runs her own online conference, the Virtual Round Table conference and is co-organizer of the SLanguages conference in Second Life. She co-owns EduNation islands in Second Life and her blog let’s talk online is a rich resource for language educators who want to work online.

**Contact details** Skype ID: letstalkonline Twitter: @heikephilp LinkedIn: http://de.linkedin.com/in/heikephilp Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/heike.philp XING: http://www.xing.com/profile/Heike_Philp Email: heike.philp@letstalkonline.com

http://www.letstalkonline.com (main website/ blog, founded 2003) http://www.lancelotschool.com (managing director LANCELOT School GmbH, 2005-2010) http://www.avalonlearning.eu (co-initiator EU funded AVALON project) http://www.lancelot.at (co-initiator EU funded LANCELOT project) http://www.lancelotters.net (community LANCELOTTERs.net) http://www.virtual-round-table.com (organiser Virtual Round Table Conference) http://www.slanguages.net (co-organiser SLanguages Conference) http://edunation-islands.wikispaces.com (co-owner Second Life Island) http://www.telecoaching.org (board member European Telecoaching Institut)

= Afternoon Workshops =

** __Workshop # 6__ -** Collaborative Tools and Other Online "Gems"
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** __Workshop # 7__ -** Activating e-learning
**Presenter**: William Horton


 * Workshop Description**:

Does the "e" in your e-learning stand for "excruciatingly boring" or "effectively engaging”? E-Learning should put people into action, transforming passive reading and watching to active seeking, selecting, and creating knowledge. Learn how to make e-learning as engaging and effective as the best classroom training—maybe even more so.

See easy and inexpensive techniques that require little technology or advanced expertise. Learn to design and specify games and puzzles, brainstorming sessions, Webinars, drills, scavenger hunts, virtual field trips, story-sharing sessions, virtual laboratories, online museums, hands-on practice, role-playing scenarios, social simulations, e-consultants, job simulations, and other engaging activities. In addition to seeing dozens of live, working examples, you will actually design several activities yourself.

This workshop will teach you how to:


 * Replace effective classroom activities with even more effective Web-based activities.
 * Identify new ways of learning beyond those possible in a classroom.
 * Dramatically increase the meaningful interactivity of your course.

About this workshop:

These workshops are fast-paced, yet structured, heavy on examples and light on academic theory. They are brains-on rather than merely hands-on. Instead of learning to operate a particular brand of software, you will engage concepts and procedures directly. You will examine and critique dozens of live real-world examples, view animated presentations of crucial concepts, discuss design approaches with fellow students, and practice applying your skills in realistic design activities.

What else will you receive?

Besides the knowledge and skills you acquire, you will receive:


 * Over 50 pages of handouts, notes, design forms, and job-aids.
 * Access to hundreds of live, online examples of design techniques.
 * Access to William Horton by e-mail or discussion group for follow up questions after the workshop.

Example Web site: William Horton Consulting examples Handout file: Activating e-learning

** __Workshop # 9__ -** JOLTS - New Rapid Interactive Learning Activities for Face-to-Face and Online Learning - They Pack a Wallop!


**Visit the [|MADLaT] Website for more information about the 2011 MADLaT Conference**