The Virtual Round Table Conference is an annual web conference for language learning technologies.
6th Virtual Round Table Web Conference
17-19 May 2013
Twitter hashtag: #vrtwebcon
Come join us for the 6th Virtual Round Table Web Conference, 17-19 May 2013 for language educators held entirely online in a web conferencing solution called Adobe Connect, with the main sessions being live-streamed on facebook.
Some 60 guest-speakers look forward to presenting in 48 hours over a period of 3 days the latest in this field on teaching and learning a language with
and much more.
Keynote speakers are Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney, Thomas Strasser, Sirin Soyoz, Angelika Guettl-Strahlhofer, Evelyn Izquierdo, Miguel Mendoza, Joe Dale, Steven Herder, Paul Driver and Shelly Terrell.
Highlights of the conference are...
The program overview has been published:
http://www.virtual-round-table.com/page/6-vrtwebcon-conference-program
The web conference is free of charge and we thank our sponsors for making this possible.
If you wish to participate, please sign up on our main website www.virtual-round-table.com. The room links to the sessions are posted on the program and all you need to be is early, because the rooms have a capacity of 100 seats each. We will also live-stream all of the main plenaries and keynotes on facebook, so you do not need to miss out.
https://www.facebook.com/vrtwebcon
Feel free to pass this email on to your colleagues, language educators, language schools, universities and colleges.
Your conference organizers
Heike Philp, let’s talk online sprl
Shelly Sanchez Terrell
Berni Wall, RLI Gapfiller
Steven Herder, iTDi
Jennifer Verschoor, ARCALL
Welcome to the 6th Virtual Round Table Web Conference. Here are some tips to get the best out of the the online conference.
Registration
You can sign up for the conference here on this NING site. You do not need to sign up for individual sessions. When you register, we will send you all the information and related links to the virtual classrooms.
Adobe Connect
The web conference takes place online in a web conference solution called Adobe Connect. For an Adobe Connect system and connection test click here. There are different rooms so watch out for right link. Links are mentioned on the conference program. Seats are limited in Adobe Connect and it is advisable that you come early.
ARTHUR (Main Venue): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/arthur
MERLIN: http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/merlin
TRISTAN: http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/tristan
AVALON: http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/avalon
CAMELOT: http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/camelot
When you click on the links mentioned in the program, you do not need to
install any software. Please enter as guest. Simply type your name and your
city, for example 'John Smith (Illinois)'. You can also enter with your Twitter
handle, even better.
Program
The conference program can be found under the tab [PROGRAM]
Livestream
For the keynote sessions, there will be a livestream on our Facebook page for
teachers http://tinyurl.com/vrtlivestreamonfacebook.
You need a Facebook account to access this page. If you do not have a facebook account, you can access this livestream here http://www.livestream.com/letstalkonline
Recordings
All of the sessions are being recorded. The conference recordings will be available on the Virtual Round Table website.
Mobile Apps
Adobe Connect provides a mobile app for iPod, iPad and Android devices, livestream can be watched as is on mobile devices.
Twitter hashtag
When you update your status simply include the tag #vrtwebcon and it will show
up when people search for tweets, which contain this hashtag.
Facebook
You can join our Virtual Round Table Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/vrtwebcon)
where you can get updates about our conference and watch the keynote plenary
sessions live.
Certificates
If you wish to receive a certificate of attendance, please
sign up on this Eventbrite page with your email and you will be send the
certificate via mail within 2 weeks of the conference. The certificates are
free of charge (but not free of cost, a donation is welcome).
FAQs (Frequently asked questions)
For more help click here to get to our FAQ page.
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Co-organizer
Shelly Terrell
VP of Educator Outreach for Parentella.com, Germany
shellyterrell[at]googlemail.com
Steven Herder of ITDI, Japan
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