The seminar looked into the issues of using new technologies for teaching English and will be exploring digital products available from Cambridge University Press and British Council.

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June 8 from 14.00 till 18.00
Plenary talks from key speakers:

• Paul Colbert, Global Director, Digital ELT, Cambridge University Press
  Blended Learning for ELT - a new way forward
• Gavin Dudeney, Director of Technology, The Consultants-E
  New Literacies: From Theory to Practice

June 9 from 14.00 till 18.00
Practical workshops featuring British Council “Learning Technologies for the Classroom” course, CUP “English 360” learning management system and other interesting practical ideas for teachers of English.

Paul Colbert
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Paul Colbert is Global Commercial Director for Cambridge University Press, Digital ELT. Paul has responsibility for ensuring Cambridge University Press ELT profits from any migration from print materials to online. Paul is an e-learning industry veteran with over twenty years experience successfully working with Corporate, Government, and Educational clients to deliver technology based learning programmes worldwide.

Abstract
Blended Learning for ELT - a new way forward Blended learning can be defined as learning that is facilitated by the effective combination of different modes of delivery, models of teaching and styles of learning.

Paul Colbert, Global Commercial Director for Digital ELT with Cambridge University Press will introduce a wholly new approach to blended learning for ELT. Paul will demonstrate how Cambridge University Press is integrating technology based learning with classroom based teaching to enable delivery of time and cost effective ELT programmes.

Paul will demonstrate how blended learning when properly applied can reduce the preparation burden for teachers, engage students, optimise classroom time for teachers and students alike, and deliver quality pedagogical improvements. Paul will illustrate this session using examples from Cambridge University Press’ groundbreaking Touchstone blended course.

Gavin Dudeney
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Gavin has worked in education for the past 20 years, as a teacher, materials developer, IT manager and web/user interface designer. Until the end of 2003 he held two posts: the first as Head of the New Technologies Department at International House Barcelona and the second was Lead Developer for the online training centre Net Languages. In 2003 Gavin set up The Consultants-E with Nicky Hockly. He is a past coordinator of the IATEFL Learning Technologies Special Interest Group and also past editor of the SIG newsletter. In 2007 he was elected Honorary Secretary of IATEFL.

Publications include: "The Internet & The Language Classroom" (CUP 2000, 2007) and "How to Teach English with Technology" (Longman 2007, with Nicky Hockly - winner of the International House Ben Warren Award 2008). He has also recently published a chapter for a forthcoming book on Second Life in further and higher education, with Howard Ramsay. Gavin's company (www.theconsultants-e.com) works primarily in online teacher development and training and their Cert ICT course won a British Council ELTON in 2007. Among other courses the company also offers the only online Cert IBET course. When not working on all that, Gavin looks after his three islands in Second Life and spends time building and scripting for the education community - his Second Life project EduCation@EduNation was shortlisted for a second British Council ELTON award in 2009. You can follow Gavin's blog at http://slife.dudeney.com

Abstract
New Literacies: From Theory to Practice

This talk examines how the traditional 'three rs' (reading, writing and arithmetic), long considered the cornerstones of basic literacy, have changed as we advance into the digital age.

We will discover what it means to be digitally literate, explore the new types of literacy that have emerged alongside the advent of Web 2.0 and analyse why it is important to work with these literacies on a daily basis in our teaching.

We will then examine how to take the theoretical framework and look at how teachers can put it into practice in the classroom. Taking real-world examples of classroom techniques and mapping them on to easy-to-use technologies, we will see how teachers can easily address the new literacies of the younger generation without relying too heavily on technologies themselves, or significantly changing their current methodologies or teaching approach.