Workshops will be conducted on Wednesday, 3 March 2010, which is a day before the conference. They will be held from 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm at selected venues.
*The workshop fee includes attendance at the selected workshop and tea break.
Title: Access for all – Access, Use & Adapt Online English Language Teaching and Learning Materials
Organisation: British Council
Venue: New Town Primary School
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Many resources are available on the Internet but are they relevant and good for your needs?
This workshop will share with participants the wealth of free materials, lesson plans and ideas along with articles on methodologies from British Council’s LearnEnglish and TeachingEnglish websites, as well as active Communities of Practices.
Participants will learn how seven countries around East Asia in a Access English project used and adapted the overwhelming number of resources from the British Council websites. There will also be hands-on activities to familiarise participants with the sites, as well as use and adapt the resources for English Language lessons.
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Title: Future of Interactive Digital Media
Organisation: Personal e-Motion Pte Ltd
Venue: New Town Primary School
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Interactive digital content creation is no longer a hassle when using KooBits. KooBits, is a new generation IDM platform which instantly equips other websites and applications with advanced interactive and intelligent digital media capability, enabling them to create, gather and distribute engaging digital content easily and quickly.
KooBits brings the full potential of technology into digital learning, publishing, socia l media and entertainment. KooBits editing tools allow users to intuitively create engaging digital content within a very short period of time. Users, as young as 8 years old, can create a piece of interactive digital content in just a few hours.
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Title: Education with Smartphones
Organisation: Learning EDvantage Pte Ltd
Venue: Clementi Town Secondary School
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LEAD recently launched the ‘Trail Buddy’ that promises to enrich a student’s experience through the intelligent and innovative use of mobile technology.
The workshop will discuss how the ‘Trail Buddy’ encourages collaboration among students, build their confidence through their interaction with nature and going ‘Green’ through the reduction of paper worksheets. Participants will go through a first-hands experience of the ‘Trail Buddy’ during the workshop.
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Title: Cloud Computing with Fronter
Organisation: Pearson Education South Asia
Venue: Clementi Town Secondary School
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There is a big push for cloud computing services recently in many countries. Cloud computing lowers overall operating costs and increases reliability and scalability in positive ways. Cloud computing facilitates collaboration among users while at the same time delivering a personalised workspace. Learn about how cloud computing enables users to access systems and repositories of information from anywhere.
This workshop introduces Fronter as an application that has delivered dynamically scalable and virtual resources as a service over the Internet to over 7 million users worldwide.
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Title: Google Apps in Schools
Organisation: GSA Private Limited
Venue: Clementi Town Secondary School
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| With greater emphasis on 21st Century Skills, educators around the world now look towards the use of Web 2.0 tools to enhance the teaching and learning of such skills. In this workshop, participants will have hands-on using a suite of Google applications to facilitate self-directed learning, collaborative learning. They will explore the various functions of the Google applications, and generate ideas on how to integrate these functions into lessons. Participants will also be looking at using Google Apps for formative assessment and self-reflection, as well as project management, data analysis and relevant soft skills like setting SMART targets and monitoring of students’ progress learning. |
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Title: Foundations of the Lexile Framework
Organisation: Scholastic Singapore
Venue: Clementi Primary School |
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The Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) is a research-based, computer adaptive reading comprehension assessment based on the Lexile Framework for Reading. The diagnostic capabilities of the SRI and the scientific theory driving the Lexile Framework for Reading, facilitates teaching and learning by improving interpretability of assessment scores and enables more effective goal-setting for student achievement. It also provides a framework to inform educational decisions and instructional strategies. This information will enable schools to benchmark students’ achievement, monitor students’ development and manage the selection of instructional materials for classroom and independent learning programmes.
This workshop will explore the fundamentals of The Lexile Framework for Reading, and
provide an overview of using Lexile measures to successfully assess students’ reading fluency, measure students’ reading text difficulty, match students to resources accurately and map teaching-learning resources to curriculum requirements. |
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Title: LEGO Education WeDo
Organisation: LEGO Education (SEA, India and Republic of China)
Venue: Clementi Primary School |
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Let your students discover ICT early and add power to learning Maths, Science, story-LEC telling and language ideas with The LEGO Education WeDo. It is an easy-to-use set that provides a taste of what ICT is all about - building LEGO models charged with the power of working motors and sensors, connecting them to a computer and using a simple programming tool to programme the behaviour of these models. |
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