Welcome to the ColomboTech Wiki.  This is a real wiki.  Please create pages, invite others to use the wiki, and enjoy these resources.

 

Erin Lowry is a language teacher currently working as an English Language Fellow at Centro Colombo Americano in Manizales, Colombia. This site is a nexus of information about projects and activities related to this time. Click on any one of the links to discover more!

 

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September 27-29, 2009

1st National Conference on Bilingualism

 

 

 

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May 8 & 9: SLanguages 2009 Conference

 

 

How to Attend

SLanguages is free to attend and free to present. You only need a Second Life avatar, which is also free. Please register on the EduNation islands in Second Life.

 

Find more information at: http://www.slanguages.net/home.php

 

 

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Free Professional Development Webinars 

 

Check out these free webinars from Macmillan: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/BlankTemplate.aspx?id=43108

 

UPDATE: Los detalles de las demás presentaciones programadas para esta temporada son:

 

1. Miércoles 13 de mayo – Lindsay Clanfield (autor para OneStopEnglish) dará una charla sobre como enseñar el inglés a través de actividades basadas en hacer listas.

 

2. Miércoles 10 de junio – Scott Thornbury (autor de Uncovering Grammar en la serie Macmillan Books for Teachers) propondrá una nueva metodología coherente para la enseñanza del inglés en el siglo XXI.

 

3. Miércoles 8 de julio – Gwyneth Fox (responsable para la publicación de los diccionarios Macmillan) dará una presentación sobre como aprovechar al máximo todo lo que contienen los diccionarios modernos.

 

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April 2009: Earth Day

 

Click  here for more information about Earth Day to use with your students.

 

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March 2009: Women's History Month

 

Click  here for more information about Women's History month to use with your students.

 

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January 28, 2009: Poster Contest for Colombo Students

 

BLACK HISTORY MONTH: FEBRUARY 2009

POSTER CONTEST

 

WHAT?     Poster Contest to celebrate Black History Month

WHO?     Colombo Americano students in the Adults and Teens Programs, Individuals or groups of up to 3 students

WHEN?     February 2nd to February 28th, 2009

WHERE?    Centro Colombo Americano Manizales

 

GRAND PRIZE: PIZZA PARTY FOR YOU AND SEVEN OF YOUR CLASSMATES AT THE COLOMBO & DICTIONARIES FOR THE CREATORS OF THE WINNING POSTER!

 

Click here to see the rules and here for more information about Black History month to use with your students.

 

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January 19, 2009: Lesson plan format for using the computer lab & for tech-enhanced classes to be observed

 

During the first two class cycles of 2009, you need to plan an activity using technology in some way, shape, or form with one of your classes.  This doesn't

necessarily mean that you have to take your students to the library to use the computers.  This class (or activity) will be observed by Erin.  You do need to

have an activity/lesson plan for the class that will be observed, which you need to present to Erin before the class.  Remember to use the class plan format

that is available in the library (or download the format here). 

Please let Erin know at least 2 days before the class so that she can include you in her schedule! 

 

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December 5, 2008: Upcoming Video Contest (For your students, for you...)

 

Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Goli Ameri, in conjunction with the Adobe Foundation, will launch an online video contest to amplify U.S. public diplomacy using web-based outreach campaigns and social media platforms on Monday, December 1.  You are invited to participate!

 

The “My Culture + Your Culture = ?  Share Your Story” video contest is part of a Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) initiative to encourage cross-cultural community building and mutual understanding via the web and social media platforms.  The contest also highlights the newly designed website, exchanges.state.gov, which serves as a portal to ECA’s Facebook page, its ExchangesConnect social network (connect.state.gov), and the State Alumni website (alumni.state.gov). 

 

 

The Department of State and contest co-sponsor, the Adobe Foundation, invite members of the ExchangesConnect online community to submit a short video (up to 3 minutes) on the contest’s theme.  Video submissions will be accepted December 1, 2008 to January 26, 2009.  The ExchangesConnect community will vote on video entries and an expert panel of judges, all ECA exchange alumni, will rank the “top 40” videos. Two foreign and two American winners will be selected by ECA.  International winners will be eligible for a two-week all-expenses paid exchange trip to the United States; the American winners will receive the same to an overseas destination.

 

The expert panel of contest judges includes: 

• Toni Blackman - Musician, Performer and Writer (U.S. Cultural Envoy and The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad alumna);

• Fran Drescher - Actress; Founder, Cancer Schmancer Movement (American Public Diplomacy Envoy);

• Milton Glaser - Graphic Artist (Fulbright Program alumnus);

• Raafat Khalid - President , Cultural Civic Education Organization, Egypt (International Visitor Leadership Program alumnus);

• Bob Shaye - President and Co-Founder, New Line Cinema (Fulbright Program alumnus); and

• Bob Simon - CBS News Correspondent (Fulbright Program alumnus).

 

The “My Culture + Your Culture = ?  Share Your Story” video contest is co-sponsored by the Adobe Youth Voices initiative of the Adobe Foundation, a private foundation created and funded by global technology company Adobe Systems Incorporated.

 

Visit exchanges.state.gov for more information.

 

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December 1, 2008- TESOL Electronic Village Online Free Courses

 

 

For six weeks , participants can engage with ESOL experts in collaborative, online discussion sessions or hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly benefit. These sessions will bring together participants for a longer period of time than is permitted by the four-day land-based TESOL convention and will allow a fuller development of ideas and themes of the convention or of professional interest in general. The sessions are free and open to all interested parties. You do not need to be a TESOL member to participate.

 

Sessions are organized by TESOL's CALL Interest Section and run wholly by volunteers who have donated their time to serve the profession.

TESOL EVO 2009 Wiki: http://evosessions.pbwiki.com/Call_for_Participation09

 

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