i want to check with you all if all is going good with my new account.

i want to check with you all if all is going good with my new account. I could'nt share my contents to the community because of my settings at my google+ account. Seems now all is right, though i had to create another account. But its still me!

Good morning dear all!

Good morning dear all!

Simple and short introduction ... this is me! https://youtu.be/H2HFdP8vIec
https://youtu.be/H2HFdP8vIec

Late as usual here, I am about to watch the video of the first session, then read messages to catch up before...

Late as usual here, I am about to watch the video of the first session, then read messages to catch up before tomorrow (night for me, I am in Tokyo).

I've got a lot of experience with edtech, starting way back before the Internet, and even before Windows (I started with DOS 2.0 really, but did some Unix before that). I was 2x President of the Tokyo PC Users Group and 3x president of the JALT CALL SIG. Most of my research has been in CALL, but lately tending toward the more broad edtech.

I taught Japanese online in 2003 for US high school students through a corporate setup that was the worst of both online and classroom worlds. Learned a lot about what not to do.

I use Moodle for my classes, administer it myself, and plan to adapt it to online teaching when I retire. I have the next 3 years to get up to speed. So I am just checking out more the management end of the experience. Looking forward to workshopping with illuminaries like Heike and Vance, as well as all you guys out there. See you tomorrow!

Greetings all, Hossein and Heike and I met in Zoom to discuss our upcoming collaboration and to see what we could...

Greetings all, Hossein and Heike and I met in Zoom to discuss our upcoming collaboration and to see what we could do in the Zoom environment. We made an experimental recording and all concerned granted me permission to share it. I uploaded it to Google Drive and linked it here. Enjoy.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CkqyZkc64gUawprwqi6cKEj1TnsLdEbU

Hi everyone!

Hi everyone!

I'm a little late and happy to be able to join this course now! I'll do my best to catch up with you all.

I'm from Brazil and I've been teaching EFL for more than 20 years. I work with adults and teens. At the moment I'm living in a small town about 300kms from São Paulo where I used to live. Due to this moving, I started teaching online 5 years ago in order to keep my classes with my private students from São Paulo.
Besides that, I teach high school students at a private school here and I teach English privately to teens and adults. I'm sure this course will help me improve my online teaching skills.

How do you find a common time even if your partner is in a different timezone?

How do you find a common time even if your partner is in a different timezone?
There are two possibilities which I have been using a lot.
www.doodle.com and www.timeanddate. com
Doodle is great if you want to suggest a set of 2 or 3 or more options for meetings. The time suggestions adjust automatically to the timezone of your meeting partners.
Timeanddate is great if you already know when you would like to meet.
For this I use the time announcer of timeanddate.com

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cFUmT7-nSOkNNh3oQUj2_W5rKWhONAG3/view?usp=drive_web

Hi everyone!

Hi everyone! I'll be the moderator for the Sunday live sessions in the Adode Room. I'm here to help, and I'm looking forward to learning and sharing with you.

Just this week, I was reminded that my first "online" or video-conferencing class I did was around 2003-4 in a language school in Japan where some students bought a system that worked through their TV. My first Skype student, however, was about 10 years later - a friend's wife who needed her IELTS for a visa to go to the UK, but at that time, I just thought of a Skype lesson as being the next best option since we couldn't meet face-to-face.

Whilst completing my MA TEFL/TESL by distance learning with various elements online, I met Steven Herder who'd set up a Skype MA study group. Pooling ideas and resources with others, we collaborated via Skype and with Google docs, etc to organise events, conferences and online courses from 2007 onwards. Then in 2009, I became a tutor on the MA Applied Linguistics and TESOL programmes and have been further supporting online teacher development as a volunteer Mentor for iTDi since 2012. In February this year, Steve and I launched The Teachers Room so I've been using Adobe Room weekly since February and now Zoom in recent months.

I've also introduced Zoom to my recent online students as an alternative to Skype and the results have been very positive. So, with the rapid advances in technology and more students opting for online lessons, plus having taken online courses myself, I see more and more doors and windows of opportunity opening - and so I hope that we may all find and create new paths and dreams whilst learning together and supporting each other.

https://itdi.pro/itdihome/the-teachers-room/

Hi, there! 👋

Hi, there! 👋

My name's Sue Sugizaki and I'm a teacher of Japanese, living in Sweden at the mo.

I've been teaching since 1987 mostly at uni. in different countries such as NZ, England, Uzbekistan etc.. I've been involved in e-learning since late 90's back in NZ and work partly as an e-learning educator. I'm a Moodler!

Looking forward to the course and meeting you guys!

Dear All

Dear All,
My name is Mariia Ruban. I have been teaching English at secondary schools in Ukraine since 1984. Have had a lot of experience facilitating teenagers with the opportunity to become conscious sitizens.
Believe that the teacher has more power in their classroom than any Prime Minister in their Cabinet. So I have been doing my best to use this opportunity and make a difference in my learners' lives.
I have been thinking teaching and teaching thoughts since I graduated from the Pedagogical University in 1984.
I am here on the course to learn and share.
Hope the course will be enjoyable to all.
CU there :)

Hi!

Hi! I'm from Ukraine. I've been the English teacher at school for 10 years (6-17 year old students) and I want to create my own online school. I've been teaching via skype for a year. I'm not so experinced as others here, but I hope I'll be like you are! I'm really interested in this course and I think my dreams of having an online school will come true!

Hello all!

Hello all! My name is Edwin Lam Choong Wai and I am the co-founder of My SKOLA+, a learning centre in Malaysia. Nice to meet all of you across the globe!

Hi everyone!!

Hi everyone!!

I'm from Montevideo, Uruguay. I have currently lived in Tacuarembó- in the north- for 11 years. I’ve been teaching English for more than 20 years now. I worked for different institutions, both in primary and secondary schools, always in the private sector. Nowadays, I prepare students for Cambridge First, Advanced and CPE. I work in Company, also teaching beginner and advanced adults. My experience with online teaching is scant, through Skype and always combined with face-to-face classes. I would like to broaden my field of work in the future to come. See you all on Sunday!

Hello. It's very nice to meet you all!!

Hello. It's very nice to meet you all!!

I am originally from Japan and have been teaching Japanese at various schools including colleges, high schools, etc. since 1994. I started teaching online last year, using VoiceThread, Adobe Connect, and Zoom.

I have taken Heike's online class several month ago and really loved it, so I can't wait to join this course!

Hello everyone.

Hello everyone. I am Shi Min, but you can also call me Eunice. I teach English to students aged 13-17 in a Malaysian secondary school. I am entering third year of teaching in the school. Being a newbie in this field, I look forward to learning from all of you here! :)

This isn't my last word, but I created an introduction using an app for iPad I've used often to record sessions at...

This isn't my last word, but I created an introduction using an app for iPad I've used often to record sessions at TESOL conferences, where you want to move around from station to station and record whatever you can stick your tablet in front of. For some reason it didn't come out well in portrait view, I think maybe at conferences I was using landscape. Anyway, it recorded live on my YouTube channel so you can have a look here, https://youtu.be/nC5bkM56irg, and I'll record a better one later.
https://youtu.be/nC5bkM56irg

Hi everyone!

Hi everyone!
I’m Maria Anna and I live in Bozen. Although I live and work in South Tyrol, I come from the south of Italy and my family still lives there. I studied English at the University of Bari and got my degree in foreign languages (German and English). I like foreign languages very much. I teach English as a foreign language to teens in a Professional School. I have been teaching for 11 years and I like doing this job.

Hi

Hi,
I've just recorded my introduction using zoom for the first time (as you will see I couldn't work out how to turn it off! :-) I couldn't work out how to attach the video to this post either so I uploaded it to Google Drive. I imagine there is a more direct way...?
Looking forward to the course, see you Sunday!
Lisa
https://drive.google.com/open?id=16wxkizR2xC9PQPewRG1-07VCo6QQPiVI

Hi everyone!

Hi everyone! My name is Anne. I teach very young learners (ages 2+) at an eikaiwa (private conversation school) in Japan. Mainly, this means I get to read stories, sing songs, and be a human jungle gym for a living. It's exactly as much fun as it sounds.
I don't currently teach online at all. A few years ago I had a regular online student who I taught through Skype. I taught her for about four years. It was ok, but I always got the feeling I wasn't fully exploiting the potential of online teaching. I also have experience of online learning as a student in my distance MA course.
The rest of my online teaching knowledge comes secondhand from friends who create curriculum and teach for companies and friends who run their own Moodle LMS.
I'm looking forward to learning more about how to teach online even though it's not part of my current context. You never know what the future will hold. I'm especially interested in learning about ways to make online learning accessible to people in areas with slow internet or limited access. I'm also interested in online learning as it applies to young learners - since in the face-to-face classroom they need a faster pace and plenty of time to move and exercise their motor skills. How does that work online?
I am excited to learn from this community - iTDi course members always come with a wealth of information. See you on Sunday!

May I give this a start with an introduction of myself in video format.

May I give this a start with an introduction of myself in video format. If you want to try this too, please go to Zoom.us and create an account and host your first meeting and hit record. You will find the recording in a folder called 'Zoom' under 'My Documents' and you still need to double click it to convert. But it is not that difficult, give it a try.
If you want to write an introduction this is fine too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JetKBAntito&feature=youtu.be

I'll mostly be in the background during this course, along with Phil Brown, Steven Herder and Gareth Knight.

I'll mostly be in the background during this course, along with Phil Brown, Steven Herder and Gareth Knight. You'll get email messages from me after each live session with a link to the recording, a transcript of the chat, Heike's slides, and any resources shared. Those will also be added to this community for your convenience.

If you run into problems figuring out how things work, you can always send me a message by email, or here. Just post your problem in the "Help" category. You can make sure I see your message by putting a "+" in front of my name.

I'm excited to have a chance to learn along with you!