Welcome to…

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 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.)