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English on Line - Share and Learn
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The
Project.
This course is connected with my
distance mode studies with the University of
Southern Queensland http://www.usq.edu.au and my experience with face-to-face in-company classes
in the past. It is a 4-months on line course prepared for company
participants, but meant to be of use to a wider spectrum of people willing to
seize today´s opportunities of the www, as a source of
information and education
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The
Philosophy
Share
and Learn, according to knowledge and
experience. My intention is not teaching in the conventional mode but
motivating learners
to enjoy searching the web, learn and share knowledge. Why Share and
Learn? Because I have met so many people eager to
learn and so few
willing to teach and share. This site is an invitation to
a new vision.
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The Objective
Access to this site is obviously free (except for the
Forum) albeit my objective, at this first stage are company consumers (colleagues),
with an intermediate
command of the language, placed in a new environment of
technology-based
educational opportunities. Once started, on line will be supported by weekly face to face meetings to enhance
learning. We will first immerse into webquests (introduction and
development) as an ideal model of interactive learning.
Initial webquests will be followed by more specific ones and
our first joint activity will be building Destination Argentina,
aimed to include information about Argentina and the Argentines.
Further webquests will be job specific first, and later followed by general topics,
which will be chosen and
discussed among the participants. New York Times daily Lesson
Plan will also be used. Nobody should miss this site (see
webquests).
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The Paradigm
Shift
New educational approaches, (distance/on
line/ flexible/virtual studies)
and
the rich resources available pose new, varied and
challenging possibilities for many. Technology has been incorporated into our lives as a
powerful, useful,
inevitable tool, encouraging all kinds of learners, whatever their
age, pursuits and interests. Teachers have become
tutors, facilitators, learners. That is the feature
I want to explore further
: motivate the group to share knowledge
and become
teachers and facilitators themselves and actively, generously,
openly
participate in
expanding their own and their colleagues horizons, while practicing written and
oral English. We are all aware time is a
vital constrain. Work, family and other commitments overshadow
and sometimes directly impede fulfilling even the strongest of motivations.
This course is an invitation to study differently.
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Design Ljudmila
Hribar : hribarmila@overnet.com.ar
Drawings : JuvancicJuan@infovia.com.ar
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