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Twitter Discussion Group for teachers
If you use Twitter and you want to take part in a weekly discussion group it's simple:
Just do a search for #eltchat and you can take part. The best way to do it is from a free programme called Tweetdeck that you can download onto your desktop then you can look at different columns and read tweets whilst adding your own thoughts and insits. You can also meet likeminded teachers in this way and start following them on Twitter too.
When you finish your course you may not want to hear your tutor's voice again!! But if you do, you can listen to the podcasts below:
Activity One: Professional Podcasts

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On this wiki there are various pages related to the Celta course currently being held in Verona Italy. You can see a film of the group, meet one of the tutors, listen to words of wisdom and much more! So take a tour of our wiki.
The Symbolic Image of the 2011 Teaching with Technology training morning
Here is an image I have made of the things you wrote on Twtter during the morning. It is similar to the Wordle image we looked at at the beginning of the session but it was made with a tool called Tagxedo. I hope you like it. Remember that if you want to read the full Tweets do a search on Twitter for #celtaVerona:
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Made on Tagxedo-Tag Cloud with Styles
Navigation Links
The links below will take you to videos, podcasts and photos and you can add your own if you want to simply by editing the page you are on.
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How are these podcasts useful?
Go to this site to make your own vocaroo which you can then save or embed on a wiki or simply send to someone by email. How could you use this in your teaching?
the right. (In your vocaroo tell us quickly how yuo could use the tool with your TP students.)
Activity Two: Sharing ideas after your course
You may be working in a very creative environment where people want to share their ideas, lesson plans, activities and thoughts with you... but you might not. If you don't have support where you work one place to find it is on the Internet. Look at these different ways of staying in touch and extending your knowledge and expertise. Decide which ones you would like to do when you finish this course and comment below saying what attracts you to this (To modify the text click on edit and then you can type. Please use a different colour when you type so that we can see where each comment begins and ends):

Do the activity and then decide:
What type of class would you use this with? What sort of language would the learners be using?
use it for self access
What woud the next step be after the learners recorded their comments?
(Write your answers below, but please use a different colour so that we can see where one comment finishes and another begins)
what they had been working on before they did this;
whether you could use it in in class, in a self access centre, online or all of these.
the Cambridge School.School). You can TP lessons. (If you are not in the Cambridge School you can download this software free on your own computer.)
Save it on the desktop when you have finished.

This is the classroom where we have lessons. Well, part of it! And...when coffee break comes around, here's a comfortable place to relax!
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students and some trainees from

a blog
a wiki
online space choice:choice to find out more:
Using VLEs in blended learning: which one shall I use?
http://screencast.com/t/OhU5nYmcN6
HowLook at this video for instructions on how to usenavigate the Hartledistancelearning
**http://www.screencast.com/users/SharonHartle/folders/Jing/media/8d18cc5a-f5ec-413f-8cbe-0cecd586953b**
One of the easiest spaces to use is one like the wiki you are on now. You can do this now to set up a space for your learners:

a wiki
Look at this short video describing online space choice:
Using VLEs in blended learning: which one shall I use?
http://screencast.com/t/OhU5nYmcN6
How to use the Hartledistancelearning wiki:
**http://www.screencast.com/users/SharonHartle/folders/Jing/media/8d18cc5a-f5ec-413f-8cbe-0cecd586953b**
One of the easiest spaces to use is one like the wiki you are on now. You can do this now to set up a space for your learners:
1) Go to the top of the page, and look at the "Join" (accedi) tab on the right;