Event

How to create tasks for online contexts

Sunday, August 30th, 2020, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Speaker: Jill Hadfield

In the current worldwide situation, we are having to teach increasingly online. In this webinar, I will give participants a number of instantly usable online activities plus a toolkit for designing their own online tasks.

We will discuss principles of task design and explore how the nature of task design for online contexts differs from that of classroom contexts. We will look at five categories of online tasks:

1. Critical, involving an exchange of opinions;
2. Personal, involving an exchange of personal information;
3. Factual, involving sharing information;
4. Fanciful, involving entering into an imaginary scenario; and
5. Creative, involving the creation of a 'product';

and seven types of online interaction: Confetti, Pass the Parcel, Poker, Breakout, Postal Ballot, Writers' Group and Creative Commons. Teachers can use these as templates for designing their own materials.

References Clandfield,L. and Hadfield, J. ( 2017) Interaction Online: creative activities for blended learning. Cambridge University Press.

Presenter bio: Jill Hadfield has worked in France, China, Tibet and Madagascar and was until this year Associate Professor in Language Teacher Education, Unitec, New Zealand. She is currently working freelance, writing and editing ELT materials. She has published over 30 books for language teachers including the Communication Games series, Classroom Dynamics, Introduction to Language Teaching and Motivating Learning. She has also written two travel books and a novel. She is currently interested in bringing research into practice through the Research and Resources in Language Teaching series, creativity in language teaching and online interaction. Her latest book Interaction Online, with Lindsay Clandfield (CUP) was shortlisted for the Ben Warren Prize and the ELTons Award for Innovation in Teacher Resources.

Organization: Tokyo Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Tokyo JALT)

Cost: free

Venue: Zoom; please RSVP for Zoom link, also see the Facebook event

Location: Online, Online Events, Online Event

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