---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicky Hockly - nicky.hockly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: Colleague <etaioffice@xxxxxxxxx> Dear Colleague, I'm writing to you again in your capacity as a key committee member involved with your association ETAI in Israel. Your association members may be interested in our upcoming online teacher development courses for the first quarter of 2008 - could I ask you to post the following information to your association's mailing list if you think it would be of benefit to your members?. ----------------------------------------- Online Teacher Development Courses: January - March 2008 The Consultants-E are offering the following online training and development courses for teachers of English in early 2008. All the courses are run entirely online, in Moodle, and have a limit of 15 participants per course. The Consultants-E have trained up over 500 hundred teachers online, from over 50 countries - see the participant map for which countries past participants have come from! http://www.theconsultants-e.com/courses/clientmaps/ ICT IN THE CLASSROOM Dates: 9 January - 26 March 2008 Time: 50 hours over 10 weeks Course Fee: 475 Euros / 330 GB pounds This course is quality assured by Trinity College London, and won a 2007 British Council Innovation Award (http://tinyurl.com/3e2c54 ). The ICT in the Classroom course looks at a range of useful technology- related skills which are immediately applicable in the classroom and have the opportunity to put them into practice over the duration of the course itself. Areas covered in the course include: lesson planning for using the Internet, social bookmarking, using chat and blogs with learners, WebQuests, and podcasting. Participants are required to produce a final ICT-based lesson to use with their own learners. See http://www.theconsultants-e.com/courses/trinityict/ MOODLE STARTER: An introductory course to learn how to use Moodle Dates: 9 January - 12 March 2008 Time: 40 hours over 8 weeks Course Fee: 595 Euros / 425 GB pounds Our Moodle training course teaches you to set up and use Moodle with learners, in any discipline. The course is hand-on and experiential - from the first week of the course itself you will be setting up and developing a sample course for your own learners, in Moodle. You will add new elements to your sample course as you learn about them each week. By the end of the course you will have created a sample course for your learners. See http://www.theconsultants-e.com/courses/moodle/ Our popular two-week short courses on Wikis, Podcasting, and Second Life for Educators, are running again in February and March 2008 Full details at: http://www.theconsultants-e.com/courses/shortcourses/ SECOND LIFE: An introduction for educators Dates: 1 - 15 February 2008 Time: 10 hours over 2 weeks Course Fee: 165 Euros / 110 GB pounds WIKIS Dates: 14 - 29 February 2008 Time: 10 hours over 2 weeks Course Fee: 125 Euros / 84 GB pounds PODCASTING Dates: 1 - 15 March 2008 Time: 10 hours over 2 weeks Course Fee: 125 Euros / 84 GB pounds Also in March, our 'Teaching Business English' and 'E-moderation Skills' courses: TEACHING BUSINESS ENGLISH Dates: 1 - 30 March 2008 Time: 30 hours over 4 weeks [ + optional one-week add-on about Second Life] Course Fee: 475 Euros / 330 GB pounds http://www.theconsultants-e.com/courses/be/ E-MODERATION: A TRAINING COURSE FOR ONLINE TUTORS Dates: 1 - 30 March 2008 Time: 30 hours over 4 weeks Course Fee: 435 Euros / 310 GB pounds http://www.theconsultants-e.com/courses/em/ See http://www.theconsultants-e.com/courses/ for more information on all of our online courses. [ Past participants from our courses are entitled to a 10% discount on the course fees for any four-week or longer course above] We hope to see you online in 2008, and wish list members all the best for the New Year! Best wishes, Nicky Nicky Hockly - Director of Pedagogy The Consultants-E, www.theconsultants-e.com | nicky.hockly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - www.etni.org ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------