5th VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE Web Conference 20-22 April 2012 (Fri/Sat/Sun)

A web conference on Language Learning Technologies

http://www.virtual-round-table.com hosted by lets talk online sprl www.letstalkonline.com co-organizers Shelly Terrell, Berni Wall and Steven Herder

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Author: Heike Philp April 2012

The VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE web conference is a web conference dedicated to language learning technologies. It is aimed at educators and language teaching professionals in language schools, institutes or other language related organisations. It is held entirely online using virtual classroom technology and virtual world such as Second Life and provides a superb opportunity to profile ones company as being truly state-of-the-art in understanding and promoting Internet-based learning. The VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE Web Conference will present a number of web tools and best practise on how to use these tools in class for the benefit of our language learners.

Many appreciative comments from past conferences testify that the conference demonstrates well our efforts to provide innovative, inspiring and sociable teacher training for language teaching professionals around the globe. Our conference recordings have been viewed many thousands of times over and are now housed under the [RECORDINGS] tab on the homepage in the form of individual blogs for easy sharing. http://www.virtual-round-table.com

The previous VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE Web Conferences saw a total of 214 presenters offering 133 sessions to 2002 unique visitors and more than 1480 signed up on the conference website. These were from the following fields : Language teaching professionals Directors of Studies Teacher training organisations Programme Managers and Education Administrators Technology and Service Providers Training Consultants and Company Representatives Deans, Directors and Researchers from Universities and the Higher Education Sector

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The VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE Web Conference is unique because it is a free live online conference for language teaching professionals it takes place in a virtual classroom solution without installation, log-in nor any registration it is solely dedicated to language teaching and learning with technology

The 1st VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE web conference took place on 12-13 November 2009 and the 2nd VRT WebCon on 22-23 April 2010, the 3rd one on 8-9 October 2010, the 4th VIRTUAL ROUND web conference on 25-27 March 2011. The last VRT WebCon was a 3-day conference and so it is in 2012 again due to the many submissions we have received. The conferences saw a combined total of 214 guest speakers presenting and conducting workshops in over 133 sessions 113 hours of program and recordings with about 13,000 recording views for more then 2002 unique visitors and 1480 signed up members on the community site in more than 95 countries (average viewing time is about 1h) language experts met in 16 panel discussions discussing and elaborating on research, social media, teacher training and much more 3 unconferences as an open session which is led by participants topics 10 Second Life sessions simulcasted in Adobe ConnectPro, for easy viewing 41 show & tell presentations of products and services for language teachers 49 hands-on workshops 6 Pecha Kucha nights with a complete total of 30 Pecha Kucha presenters an innovative virtual simulcast, bridging Second Life with virtual classroom technology a poster exhibition in Second Life Open Mic session conference parties in Second Life and an own VRT conference song To date, the conference is free of charge and relies on sponsorship and voluntary donations. Your contribution may help to maintain this learning experience for language educators. Guest speakers included amongst others (listed in alphabetical order) honorable guest speakers such as Waldemar Martyniuk of ECML who presented the opening speech at the 2nd VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE Web Conference about the work of ECML in the area of language learning and technology researchers and representatives of CALL(Computer Assisted Language Learning) organizations such as Stephen Bax, Graham Davies, John Gillespie, Ton Koenraad, IngeAnna Koleff, Andrew Lian, Robert ODowd et al. Second Life experts such as Helen Myers [Karelia Kondor], Hajnalka Beck [Dorka Nemeth], Nergiz Kern [Daffodil Fargis], Ylva Lindberg, Chris Smith [Shamblesguru], Dennis Newson [Osnacantab Nesterov], Joe Pereira [Creed Juran], Shiv Rajendran [Kingsbury Yeats], Edith Paillat [Cyber Placebo], David Richardson [Davidric Rinkitink], Graham Stanley [Baldric

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Commons], Dr. Doris Molero [Pionia Destiny], Paul Sweeney [Paolo Inventor], Amparo Cervantes [Amparo Delvalle], Kae Novak [Kavon Zenovka] and others. teacher trainers and teacher training organisations such as Shaun Wilden of International House, Gavin Dudeney of The Consultants-E, Pete Sharma and Kevin Westbrook of Pete Sharma Associate, Russell Stannard of TeacherTrainingVideos, Marisa Constantinides of CELTAthens, Holly Longstroth of LANCELOT SchoolTM GmbH, Lindsay Clanfield Marina Petrovic of EduCo, Karenne Sylvester of KalinagoEnglish. EU funded projects and other organisations, NGOs such as MUVENATION, AVALON, NIFLAR, ARGuing, eCLIL, IATET, Chain Stories, Lullabies from the Cradle, Dont give up, EduComics, EuroLib, Web2.0ERC, TOOL for Online and Offline Language Learning, AVATAR, APLaNet. ELTons winners and nominees such as Lindsay Clanfield, Nicky Hockly, David Warr, Marcos Benavides, Philip Gienandt and Charles Goodger webservices, publishers, products vendors and industry representatives such as Graham Stanley and Sirin Soyoz of the British Council, Deborah Capras of Business Spotlight, Bernhard Niesner of Busuu.com, Tim Darling of digital publishing AG, Brad Patterson of EduLang, Stace Wills of Elluminate, Kenny Christian of English Profi, Valentina Dodge and Emma Watson of English 360, Paul Maglione of English Attack Site, Carol Rainbow of Learn4Life, Andrew Donnelly of Mikogo, Simon Beeston of Oxford English Testing, Lukas Palecek of Fronter, Arkady Zilbermann of Language-bridge, Philip Gienandt of LinguaTV, Ben Palmer of OURLesson, Jeff Evans of MindSnack, Lars Gyorvari of phase6, Paul East of Pyramid Group, Ben Buckwold of Red River Press, Duane Sider of Rosetta Stone Inc., Janusz Hamerski of SolarNet, Henry Hon of Vyew, Anthony Green of VOICEBook, Karenne-Joy Sylvester of Voxy, Gagan Biyani of Udemy and others. Live online language schools and individual live online teachers such as Shiv Rajendran of LanguageLab, Gerhilde Meissl-Egghart von Talkademy, Stefan Booy of Myngle, Lukas Palecek of WebSchool, Monica Thomas of AdLib, Stephen Jones, Soaad, Hala ELKhawanky, Vyara Daskalova. bloggers, web 2.0 enthusiasts and individual language teachers such as Burcu Akyol, Sean Banville, Tara Benwell, Genevieve Besser, Antonella Berriolo, Janet Bianchini, Isil Boy, Paul Braddock, Paul Breibisch, Neal Chambers, Andy Chaplin, Kalyan Chattopadhyay, V Anitha Devi, Nataly Eydelman, Seth Dickens, David Dodgson, Carl Dowse, Guido Europeaantje, Alexandra Francisco, Mike Harrison, Judie Haynes, Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto, Vicki Hollett, Ozge Karaoglu, Cornelia Kreis-Meyer, Tamas Lorincz, Sue Lyon-Jones, Miguel Mendoza, Helen Myers, Henrick Oprea, Nik Peachey, Marina Petrovic, Nicholas Provenzana, Ed Russell, Greta Sandler, Bjrn Sauerhammer, Vicky Saumell, Tyson Seburn, Faisal Ibrahim al Shamari, Bethany Smith, Shelly Terrell, Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, Berni Wall, Kirsten Winkler. networkers such as Kenny Christian (EnglishProfi), Angelika Gttl-Steinhofer (DaF Community) and Maeshell West-Davies (sosocial club) Webheads such as Teresa Almeida dEca, Carla Arena, Daniela Cuccurullo, Michael Coghlan, Erika Cruvinel, Barbara Dieu, Dafne Gonzalez, Elizabeth Hansen-Smith, Evelyn Izequierdo, Miguel Mendoza, Dr. Doris Molero, Miguel Mendoza, Patrick Murphy, Vance Stevens, Jennifer Verschoor,

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TESTIMONIALS The recent VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE Web Conference resulted in a powerful exchange of ideas among accomplished peers that belied its comfortable, intimate ambience. The Ning was well managed to present information needed by participants such as events and forums in an easily navigable format. The events were carried off flawlessly using Adobe Connect, and the recordings make a substantial contribution to the burgeoning multiliterature on the field of language learning through technology. The organizers are to be thanked and congratulated. Vance, UAE Ive spoken at many conferences and conducted workshops in the "real world", but the best response Ive had is still from Virtual Roundtable. Lets do it again! - Mauricio, Australia To join such a conference, from the comfort of home, at times which suited me, was a delight. I made contact with others around the world who had interesting opinions and were happy to share them. I would love to take part in another virtual conference. - Sue, USA Acquiring such talented presenters and panelists, yet having the content accessible and of interest to all-comers is an art. The balance of topics and depth of this conference and the quality of the many speakers showed the skill and confidence of the curator and her team. Anyone missing out on taking part in this conference would want to make sure that they kept the time clear when the next virtual round table conference is announced. Taking part live - it just makes sense! - Nigel, Australia The people of Lancelot have done an amazing job pulling this off. The pioneering work of Lancelot and its partners will be written about in the history books of language education. Im not joking. These people just blow my mind with their knowledge, passion, and dedication. They are just as excited about technology as they are about the fundamentals of language learning. The combination of both, drives them always to the cutting edge of our trade. Stefan, US An excellent overview of the wide range of opportunities now available to teachers who really want to get into an online environment. The presenters and moderators struck a fine balance between providing interesting and informative content without overselling their concepts and services. - Brent, Germany A nice way to be a student again. We could chat and enjoy learning things. We spent some very nice moments sharing our understanding of our work, the questions we have and the ideas. A positive and highly enjoyable experience. - Dominique, France The best thing about the Virtual Round Table Conference was the fact that at any given moment we had the chance to swap ideas with more than 40 people from around the world. This gave me the opportunity to put my own experience of teacher training and technological issues in ELT here in Brazil in perspective with colleagues around the world and this has subsequently led me to re-think a number of issues. It couldn't have been a more enriching experience. - Valria, Brazil

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Author: Heike Philp April 2012

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Position your organisation as an e-learning industry leader by sponsoring the VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE through one of our exclusive sponsorship packages! All sponsorship packages include the positioning of your logo/ visual identity, top sponsors logos will receive distinctive positioning: On the Sponsors page with a link to your website In all conference mailings from the delegates database On all virtual classroom conference slides In the post-conference report sent to the press May we thank our previous conference sponsors for their support to keep the Virtual Round Table free of registration fees, which, due to the global nature of an online conference and the various exchange rate difference would exclude some to benefit from this timely information.

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Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE Web Conference

Author: Heike Philp April 2012

The CONFERENCE SPONSOR of the VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE Web Conference is the main supporter of the conference. Besides the general logo placement benefits stated on page 6, this sponsorship includes: A special mention in the Opening Plenary Session The possibility of providing a speaker in one of the conference plenary sessions (to be coordinated with and approved by the conference organisers) An opportunity to moderate and organise a (theme relevant) workshop/ product presentation session within the conference programme, fully integrated into all pre-conference announcements A recorded interview with the CEO A logo/ visual identity placement at the beginning and at the end of each of the conference recordings The integration of your company in VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE PR activities The insertion of your company information in press reports Price: 800 / $1000 [This is where your logo could be displayed prominently]

A current favorite at conferences worldwide, and also very popular at VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE Web Conferences is the PECHA KUCHA NIGHT and the OPEN MIC SESSIONs. These popular events of a number of speedy presentations Pecha Kucha style (20 slides auto-advancing every 20sec) and a VRT got Talent show gives you the perfect visibility and promotional opportunity to profile your company as a sponsor of creativity, innovation and fun. Besides the general logo placement benefits stated on page 6, this sponsorship includes:
A special mention in the opening plenary session A secured slot as a Pecha Kucha presenter or Open Mic moderator A logo/ visual identity placement at the end of each of the recordings A detailed INSIGHT analysis of viewings of recordings A special mention in the description of the playlist on YouTube The integration of your company in VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE PR activities The insertion of your company information in press reports

Price: 150 / $200

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Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE Web Conference

Author: Heike Philp April 2012

WEBSITE ADS are a prominent eye catcher on the main conference site and visible the whole year. Throughout the conference, participants access the schedules frequently and see your advertisement over and over again in a rotating banner. This could mean reaching hundreds of participants in a short period of time and many more due to the recordings being displayed on the site. This advertisement remains active for 12 months until the next VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE Web Conference.This way they will be noticed by the many thousands who view the recordings.

Your logo/ visual identity and a link to your website in the banner A product or services or company description under the TOOLS and SERVICES offering The integration of your company in VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE PR activities The insertion of your company information in the press information

Price: 160 / $210 for 12 months

The SPEAKERS RECEPTION group on the conference website is an exclusive group of guest speakers, panelists chairpersons, moderators and conference organisers. Besides the general logo placement benefits stated on page 6, this sponsorship includes:
Your logo/ visual identity and a link to your website in the speakers reception group A special mention in the opening Plenary Session An opportunity to moderate and organise a (theme relevant) workshop/ product presentation session within the conference programme, fully integrated into all preconference announcements The integration of your company in VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE PR activities The insertion of your company information in the press pigeon holes

Price: 100 / $130

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Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE Web Conference

Author: Heike Philp April 2012

As an important and popular element of the conference, promotional FREEBIES are an essential sponsorship opportunity. This is what in a traditional sense would be the inserts in a conference bag. Besides the general logo placement benefits stated on page 6, this sponsorship includes:
A special mention of your companys products and services promotional offers of tools and services (i.e. free digital teaching & learning material, free books, free CD-ROMs, free 1-year membership etc.) The integration of your company in VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE PR activities The insertion of your company information in press reports Insertion into the following website [FREEBIES]

http://www.virtual-round-table.com/page/freebies
Past examples

http://www.virtual-round-table.com/page/conference-sponsors http://www.virtual-round-table.com/page/sponsorship-and-donations Prices page 70 / $90 page 100 / $130 full page 150 / $200 as well as your promotional offer (i.e. free digital teaching & learning material/ course/ CD-ROM/ membership/ site access/ software etc.) Please note: Each sponsor is responsible for the distribution or shipment of the products or services each they wish to sponsor. Usually during the product presentation participants may leave their email addresses or other contact information.

Would you like to promote a project, research information, announce an event or any other relevant information which pertains to language learning technologies? Then perhaps the EXHIBITION is the best website to do so. Your company information may have many different formats, a description with links to the project website, a slideshare powerpoint, an embed to s scribd document, an image, a youtube video. Feel free to be creative.
Positioning on the highly visible [EXHIBITION] page on the conference site. The insertion of your company information in press reports The integration of your company in VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE PR activities

Insertion into the following website [EXHIBITION]

http://www.virtual-round-table.com/page/exhibition Prices: page 70 / $90 page 100 / $130 full page 150 / $200

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If you are interested in any of the exhibition, sponsorship and/ or marketing items mentioned above, please contact us at: Organiser and Host

lets talk online sprl

Heike Philp 34, Boulevard du Souverain 1170 Brussels Belgium Mobile Belgium +32 (0) 49 226 1377 Mobile Germany +49(0)172 494 3092 heike.philp@letstalkonline.com www.letstalkonline.com Twitter @heikephilp Skype letstalkonline Co-organiser Shelly Terrell, VP of Educator Outreach for Parentella.com shellyterrell@gmail.com www.parentella.com http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org Twitter @shellterrell

Co-organiser Berni Wall, RLI-Gapfillers +44(0) 1609 748 175 www.language-tuition.co.uk www.gapfillers.co.uk Radical Language a blog for English learners Twitter @rliberni

Co-organiser Steven Herder iTDi International Teacher Development Institute steven.herder@gmail.com itdi.pro stevenherder.org Twitter @iTDipro Twitter @stevenherder

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Author: Heike Philp April 2012