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Things changed in the 2000s‌
Think of your experience… How did you (or your teachers) • get information, • find new ideas, • get useful updates for your profession until (quite) recently? (Well, not so recently… happy New Year, by the way…!!!
PLN Personal Learning Network Up to the 1980s ďƒ Teachers at our / other schools, workshop presenters; information from articles or books , conferences ‌ and lots of photocopies
PLN Personal Learning Network
The “online era” (Warschauer 1998: 4)
The (late, at least, in Italy) 1990s All of the above + e-mail messages, and some Internet websites The 2000-2010s: the Web 2.0 Web Portals, Blogs and Social networks will CALL became GALL??? (Chinnery, 2008; Conroy, 2010)
Readytoteach.it - the difference? small community virtual but also real network (“Multimedia tools for teachers of English”, a course held at Università della Valle d’Aosta between 2004 and 2006 )
collaborative ‘upload’ / ‘download’ environment on a free ‘creative commons’ licence basis Specifically meant for Italian teachers (and for “digital immigrants”) Collaboration with academics (cf. Bajetta & Grandi, ‘ReadyToTeach.it: bridging the gap between academia and school’ European English Messanger, 2012, forth.)