Workshop description and goals

Description

This series of workshops has been planned for the purpose of training in-service teachers in Sudan 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

There is a Yahoo Group associated with this endeavor: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SudaELTech/
If you wish to join you must please leave a comment that would distinguish you as an individual interested in this topic as opposed to a spam robot. No uncommented requests to join this group will be accepted (due to the spam problem). Among the documents available there:

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SudaELTech/files/Tutorials.doc

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