UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre Events in Iceland UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre

UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre Event 1: Quality online resources from Socrates: how to find them, how to use them Target group: language teachers in secondary schools in Iceland. Objective: Aid language teachers to find good quality online resources: A) to use in classrooms and/or enhance learner autonomy. B) regarding methods of implementing ICT in language teaching Example: http://www.hi.is/~ems/INSPIRE/INSPIRE%20FSU%2020%20August%202007/INSPIRE_%20FSU.htm UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre

UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre Event 1: Quality online resources from Socrates: how to find them, how to use them Organisation: 4 schools: 2 schools in Reykjavik and 2 schools in the countryside. 4 small workshops taking place on workplace with language teachers from a given school (6-12). 40 participants in 4 events. Electronic forms used for registration, need analysis, evaluation and follow-up. UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre

UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre Event 1: Quality online resources from Socrates: how to find them, how to use them Organisation (cont.): 2 hours workshops followed by coffee break and discussion: 40 min. presentation of the INSPIRE project and Lingu@net Europa. 40 min. teamwork (target language) exploring selected SOCRATES projects. 40 min. reporting from groups. Task: what is it?, Is the project useful for me/my pupils? If yes: how ? (examples) If no: why not? (argue) UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre

UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre Event 1: Quality online resources from Socrates: how to find them, how to use them Summary of feed-back: 31/40 collected so far (77,5%) Expectations met entirely or up to a certain point. Almost all participants pleased with the workshops activities and organisation. A majority has NOT used the projects in teaching (21/31) Due to: lack of time, lack of interest, technical problems and for curriculum reasons. Also simply because they have enough resources. Most of them have talked to colleagues about projects. None have contacted NA or applied for EU grant. All would like to participate in another event. UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre

UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre My impression: Small workshops: informal and relaxed atmosphere. Emphasis on teachers evaluation on projects. Less enthusiasm than I thought. Not very useful for this target group who seem to have too much workload to work on innovating resources/methods? Difficult to collect feed-back. UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre

Event 2: Resources for autonomous language learners Target group: Language learners in the University of Iceland Language Centre. Objective: to present quality on-line resources to autonomous language learners and encourage them to use them. UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre

Event 2: Resources for autonomous language learners Organisation: 4 small workshops (6-10 students per group). Students divided into groups depending on target languages: French, German, Italian and Spanish. Each workshop led by the language advisor for the target language in question. 32 participants in 4 workshops. Electronic forms used for registration, need analysis, evaluation and follow-up. UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre

Event 2: Resources for autonomous language learners Organisation (cont.): Workshops take place in the L.C. Part of language courses: time restrictions. A short formal presentation on how to find quality online resources by using Linguanet Europa. Projects presented: DIALANG, Lingu@net Europa, IGLO and Babelnet. Students where encouraged to continue to use these resources in their self-directed studies during the semester. UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre

Event 2: Resources for autonomous language learners Summary of feed-back: 27/32 collected so far (84,3%) Expectations met entirely or up to a certain point. Almost all participants pleased with the workshops activities and organisation. A majority HAS used the projects in their learning (20/27); Most of them have NOT talked to colleagues or friends about projects. None have contacted NA or applied for EU grant. Almost all would like to participate in another event. UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre

UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre My impression: Useful for students (according to feedback) especially since this was in the beginning of the University year. Further follow-up necessary: interviews with students. 1 hour is too short; some participants commented that they would had appreciated more hands-on. Difficult to collect feed-back. UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND Language Centre