Workshop description and goals

Description

This series of workshops has been planned for the purpose of training teachers attending the 6th International TELLSI Conference to be held at Guilan University on October 8 & 9, 2008 in techniques for maximizing the potential of latest developments in Internet technologies in their teaching through application of constructivist methods in designing appropriate Web-based tasks for students and implementing them through the use of free Web 2.0 tools.

Goals

By the end of this workshop, participant teachers should understand the following concepts:

• Constructivism and how to apply its principles in teaching
• Social networking and its impacts on collaboration in constructivist learning environments
• The design of appropriate Web-based tasks for students
• Web 2.0 and its use in the design of appropriate constructivist tasks for students

By the end of the workshop, participant teachers should have significantly enhanced their skills in:

• Creating blogs, creating posts, editing posts, tagging them, and understanding blog settings
• Creating wikis, editing them in conjunction with others, using them to design learning environments for teaching
• Designing learning environments appropriate to eLearning
• Finding and utilizing Web 2.0 tools for setting up and enhancing the learning environments designed
• Managing efficiently the collaborative environment through use of bloglines, tags, and other social networking devices

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