Call for Presentations for Tech Day +Plus 2013, deadline Sept. 16

The call for Presentations for Tech Day Plus 2013 submission deadline has been extended to Sept. 16. Submissions should be made via http://tdp.osakajalt.org/home/submission

 
Mini-Conference Date and Time:
Saturday, 28 September 2013 - 9:30am - 5:00pm

After a year's break, Tech Day Plus is back! Tech Day started as a casual get together in 2005 but has grown to become one of Osaka JALT's biggest and best loved events of the year. Our goal is to share ideas on a wide range of topics, both tech-related and non-tech alike. This year we're teaming up with Kobe JALT and are holding it at Otemae University in Itami, just 75 meters from Inano station (about 15 minutes west of Umeda on the Hankyu line, or 10 minutes east of Nishinomiyakitaguchi station).

This year's keynote speaker is Thomas Robb, of Kyoto Sangyo University, who will be presenting "Considerations for the Effective Use of Technology for Language Learning"

Learner autonomy is an attribute that we should attempt to foster in all of our students. When, however, we are faced with a large number of students who wish that they didn't have to take our required English course, what are we to do? This presentation will focus on ways to deal with the non-autonomous learner so that they can and will learn despite their own low motivation to do so. This, in fact, is one of the greatest benefits of technology allowing the teacher to provide extra work for students and then to be able to view electronically whether they have done it or not and with what success. We will first focus on how the use of MReader site for Extensive Reading has achieved this goal for many teachers and schools in Japan. We will then focus on our specific teaching environments and how technology can help foster better learning for our own students.

Thomas Robb has taught at Kyoto Sangyo University for over 30 years and is Chair of the Department of English as well as coordinator of their computer literacy program. He is a past president of JALT and Pacific CALL and a past Executive Board member of TESOL. He is currently organizing the GLoCALL 2013 conference in Da Nang, Vietnam, and is on the steering committee of the Extensive Reading Foundation and TESOL's CALL Interest Section. He has been Co-Editor of TESL-EJ, the first electronic journal for ELT, since it was founded in 1994.

The rest of the program is shaping up to be another good one as well, and details will be out soon, so mark your calendars and plan to join us on the 28th. It's going to be a great day!

Location:
Otemae University - Itami campus, 75 meters from Inano station
http://www.otemae.ac.jp/ english/university/location/index.html

Fee for JALT members:
1000 yen (Free for student members)

Fee for one-day members:
2,000 yen (500 yen for student non-members)