Slide 1: List of Contents My Home website (includes: CV, PhD, my teaching philosophy statement, research agenda and other materials) Online Information Literacy Project (teaching critical writing and thinking skills) Teaching ICT skills to seniors – a website where I complied a multitude of free learning resources and online tutorials for learning ICT skills On-lineEnglish.com – Resources for teaching ESL (in progress) Professional development program for Mandarin teachers in the ACT (Canberra) Language teaching software Instructional Videos for preservice teachers Resources for homeschooling parents Current research agenda
Slide 2: Home of Ania Lian https://sites.google.com/site/lianania/
Slide 3: Critical Literacy Project - 2011 In this project I offer an innovative approach to teaching Information Literacy and critical thinking skills created by Ania Lian
Slide 4: Critical Literacy Project - B ackground Click HERE to watch the presentation ONLINE URL: http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/lian.ania-832594-ania-lian-critical/
Slide 5: Critical Literacy Project 2011 - Website https://sites.google.com/site/clementecanberra
Slide 6: Teaching ICT skills to seniors: 2008 - 2010 b roadband FOR seniors.com.au created by Ania Lian, 2008 Resources were compiled by Ania Lian Some ICT tutorials were created by Ania Lian. Others are in public domain.
Slide 7: Teaching ICT skills to Seniors – Tutorials and Activities URL: http://www.broadbandforseniors.com.au
Slide 8: Online Newsletters for Australia’s Seniors URL: http://www.seniorseventscalendar.com.au/e107_plugins/links_page/links.php?cat.132
Slide 9: Online Newsletters for Australia’s Seniors Creating flash websites for $0 - Online tutorials To see this video, go to URL: http://broadbandforseniors.com.au/media/screencasts/Part01_wix/Part01_wix.html Source: Newsletter 2009, page 2. URL: http://www.seniorseventscalendar.com.au/media/Seniors_Sept_2009.pdf
Slide 10: Teaching ICT skills to Seniors – Tutorials and Activities URL: http:www.broadbandforseniors.com.au The site also contains a multitude of free online resources for learning English and other subjects . Click on the embedded movie - URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGO7S5gaUx8
Slide 11: Teaching ICT skills to Seniors – Tutorials and Activities URL: http:www.broadbandforseniors.com.au The site also contains a multitude of free online resources for learning English and other subjects . Click on the embedded movie - above A listening comprehension URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FMl778vVdU
Slide 12: Teaching ICT skills to Seniors – Tutorials and Activities URL: http:www.broadbandforseniors.com.au The site also contains a multitude of free online resources for learning English and other subjects . Click on the embedded movie - above Sounds and spelling URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndDjJCSgDxI
Slide 13: Teaching ICT skills to Seniors – Presentations, invited ACT Health is the Department of Health, Canberra, Australia Presentations to ACT Health Click here to view the slideshow online URL: http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/lian.ania-502910-internet-for-seniors /
Slide 14: Teaching ICT skills to Seniors – Presentations, invited ACT Health is the Department of Health, Canberra, Australia Presentations to ACT Health with ACT Alzheimer’s Assoc. This presentation is not available online. In the next slides I offer examples of information that it contained.
Slide 15: Teaching ICT skills to Seniors – Presentations, invited ACT Health is the Department of Health, Canberra, Australia Presentations to ACT Health with ACT Alzheimer’s Assoc. Charlie Rose Series: The Ageing Brain Source: Click on the video above to listen. Here Prof. B. Milner offers evidence for distinguishing between declarative and explicit memories
Slide 16: Teaching ICT skills to Seniors – Presentations, invited Games and theories Presentations to ACT Health with ACT Alzheimer’s Assoc. Click on the video above - This is a menu of games used by researchers who found that the internet-accessible computer activities were even more successful than classic exercises of mental stimulation commonly used with dementia patients. Source : Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 10, 2006
Slide 17: Teaching ICT skills to Seniors – Presentations, invited Games and theories Presentations to ACT Health with ACT Alzheimer’s Assoc. Click on the speaker icon below. – However, the voice should start automatically. Research shows that interactive activities are critical to seniors’ wellbeing
Slide 18: On-lineENGLISH.com: Project 2011 A website for teaching ESL online Below I present my work on this website
Slide 19: o n-lineENGLISH.com – “A lesson with us” video This video can be viewed on: http://on-lineenglish.com/about_onlineenglish/about_onlineenglish.html
Slide 20: o n-lineenglish.com – Listening comprehension This video quiz can be viewed on: https://www.facebook.com/pages/on-lineenglishcom/130012343721164
Slide 21: o n-lineenglish.com – Listening comprehension This video can be viewed on: http://on-lineenglish.com/wwt_introduction/wwt_introduction.html
Slide 22: Heloo-netfriends Website I created to inspire authentic ESL activities, using authentic resources. URL: https://sites.google.com/site/helloonetfriends/
Slide 23: Professional development for Mandarin teachers Canberra, 2010 Project The slides illustrate some of my work for the program, including some original ideas, e.g. A dictionary of Chinese culture and more .
Slide 24: Professional development 2010 – For Mandarin teachers https://sites.google.com/site/lotechinese/
Slide 25: Professional development 2010 – For Mandarin teachers https://sites.google.com/site/nihaohigh/home/chinese-culture-vocabulary Site I created to inspire Mandarin teachers to create their own class websites
Slide 26: Professional development 2010 – For Mandarin teachers A website of an imaginary student of Mandarin I created this site to demonstrate the ease of such projects https://sites.google.com/site/tamaranihaohigh/
Slide 27: Professional development 2010 – For Mandarin teachers This presentation I created to exemplify how teachers can work with authentic resources in more than one way. Here students recreate an ancient Chinese tale using PowerPoint. The idea was for teachers to assists students with their Mandarin skills. When well designed, teachers can teach students how to work in groups (not straightforward). Students also learn creativity and ICT skills. URL: http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/lian.ania-380495-cn-pots-entertainment-ppt-powerpoint/
Slide 28: Professional development 2010 – For Mandarin teachers I made up this song to show teachers that using simple tunes has place in a language classroom The idea was for teachers to create such songs in Mandarin. To view this presentation, click on the link: URL: http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/lian.ania-583184-tow-pots-song-of-ania/
Slide 29: Language learning software: 1994 - ongoing created by Ania Lian and Prof. Andrew Peter Lian
Slide 30: Language teaching software https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0ZQhaFm6AWVMDlmMTZmMGMtMDEzYS00MzM5LTk5ZmItNTFhMmExZDg5NWU2&hl=en&pli=1 For details and more examples, please click on the link below
Slide 31: Instructional videos for preservice teachers created by Ania Lian, 2008
Slide 32: Instructional videos for preservice teachers – An example SmartBoard activity – click on the viedo above http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR2x0Pvf2zw
Slide 33: Support site for homeschooling parents created by Ania Lian, 2010
Slide 34: Homeschooling ICT support site Website I created to assist local families who do homeschooling. https://sites.google.com/site/fromthekidspointofview/
Slide 35: Current Research Agenda Complete and publish Stage 1 research in Information Literacy with disadvantaged students within the Clemente Program at the Australian Catholic University (currently in progress until May 2011) Continue research in Information Literacy and critical thinking / writing skills with new students. Evaluate research results against other methods developed in this study area. Produce and publish a course-book on Critical Pedagogy and second language teaching. Develop research groups, sharing research focus and complementing their work.
Slide 36: Thank you.