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the lives of teachers
I talked to Larry at the JALTCALL conference in Kyoto about his career, technology, the future of higher education and had a great time! Please enjoy!
His presentations, via Prezi, are here… and worth a look.
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an interview with larry davies from darren elliott on Vimeo.
www.livesofteachers.com
an interview with joy egbert from darren elliott on Vimeo.
the lives of teachers
Joy Egbert was in Kyoto, Japan for the 2010 JALTCALL conference and gave the keynote speech on student engagement. In this interview we talked about that, teacher training, creating ‘flow’ and ‘micro-flow’ situations, and working in limited technology contexts. Joy has a book coming out this year on the last topic, which I am very much looking forward to reading.
I had read a little about flow and the name Csikszentmihhalyi (which Joy can not only pronounce, but spell without reference to notes) but it was good to hear about the relationship between flow and teaching from someone who has been working in that area. Check google scholar to find Joy’s articles. But in the meantime, watch Tina Weymouth playing bass in this clip… that’s flow, I think ; D
The Japan Association of Language Teaching is over thirty years old now, and currently numbers around three-thousand members. One of it’s larger special interest groups is the CALL sig with an internationally peer-reviewed journal, and last weekend I attended it’s annual conference. Paul Lewis, one of the co-chairs and someone with a longstanding involvement with the sig, details the history of the conference here.
What is the JALTCALL Conference? from darren elliott on Vimeo.
As well as making two presentations of my own, I did a few interviews, went to plenty of great presentations and plenaries, and met a lot of very nice people. Like most conferences, this one had a theme, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on it as I walked around the campus. The question is “What’s your motivation?”, and like most conference themes it is open to interpretation.
jaltcall 2010 – what’s your motivation? from darren elliott on Vimeo.
So, what is your motivation?
