Week+1

= Week 1 = Friday March, 13th. [|Time in Venezuela and around the world]


 * Introductions and getting familiar with our Ning and our Wiki:**
 * 1) Participants will get acquainted with [|Integrating Technology for Instruction and Learning] our Ning platform and with [|EFL 2.0], our wiki. Once they have been accepted to join this session in our environments, they should:
 * Write a brief intro about themselves. Work on their profiles
 * Upload a picture on their Ning Page
 * [|Take the survey]
 * Add more [|photos] or interesting [|videos].
 * Participate in the different [|conversations]
 * Offer to help. [|Become a Mentor]
 * Say hello to all [|friends] and make new ones... :)
 * Participate in the challenges
 * Join a [|group]

If you have already done so, skip this task.

2. Sign up and try tools for synchronous or asynchronous communication to be used during the session. Please sign up and explore these tools:
 * [|Twitter]
 * [|Diigo]
 * [|Wiziq]
 * [|Gmail]

To do so, go to Communication Tools. Skip those you have already signed up to. You can check tutorials to become (more) familiar with these tools.

Presenters will be discussing the following topics:
 * Discussions for this week:**
 * What is Web 2.0?
 * Multiliteracies in the EFL class
 * Learning in the 21s century


 * Readings ( recommended )**
 * [|Web 2.0 technologies for learning]
 * [|Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?]
 * [|Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age]
 * [|What's Connectivism?] presentation with audio by George Siemens
 * [|What's Connectivism?] Blog post by stephen Downes with Diigo annotations
 * [|Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens]
 * [|Learning and Knowing in Networks: Changing roles for Educators and Designers]
 * [|Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning]
 * [|Network Learning]
 * [|Rethinking Knowledge]
 * [|Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course] support wiki.