A Weekend of CPD!!

Put the following dates in your diary right now, and you can look forward to a weekend full of fantastic talks, workshops and plenaries!

The Virtual Round Table will host its 6th free e-conference on the weekend of 17th - 19th May.
You can read the schedule and programme at this link here. 

I am delighted to be presenting at the conference again, and I will be talking about Apps and Tools to Spice Up Your Teaching.  

My talk is on Sunday 19th May. 

I am really looking forward to attending the conference, as it promises to be action-packed.

The following information was written by the event organizers, and reproduced in full as follows:

Event Description:
Twitter hashtag: #vrtwebcon
Come join us for the 6th Virtual Round Table Web Conference, 17-19 May 2013 for language educators held entirely online in a web conferencing solution called Adobe Connect, with the main sessions being live-streamed on facebook.
Some 60 guest-speakers look forward to presenting in 48 hours over a period of 3 days the latest in this field on teaching and learning a language with

• educational tools
• video
• learner resources
• mobile learning
• young learners
• virtual worlds
• online testing
• songs

and much more.

Keynote speakers are Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney, Thomas Strasser, Sirin Soyoz, Angelika Guettl-Strahlhofer, Evelyn Izquierdo, Miguel Mendoza, Joe Dale, Steven Herder, Paul Driver and Shelly Terrell.
Highlights of the conference are...

• a Southamerican Symposium organised by Jennifer Verschoor
• a panel discussion on CEFR 'Is your B1 my B1?'
• a presentation by EAQUALS (pending)
• two presentation by NGOs: the Disabled Friendly Access Campaign and the NO Human Trafficking project
• the Asian symposium (pending)
• the LT SIG event with Paul Driver
• an unconference/ barcamp hosted by Vance Stevens
• a musical performance (pending)

The program overview has been published:
http://www.virtual-round-table.com/page/6-vrtwebcon-conference-program

The web conference is free of charge and we thank our sponsors for making this possible.
If you wish to participate, please sign up on our main website www.virtual-round-table.com.

The room links to the sessions are posted on the program and all you need to be is early, because the rooms have a capacity of 100 seats each. We will also live-stream all of the main plenaries and keynotes on facebook, so you do not need to miss out.

https://www.facebook.com/vrtwebcon