Our partners in Barcelona organised a multiplier event on 15 June 2022 at Sala de Graus, Faculty of Education Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Please see the programme below and a brief outcomes report attached.
The celebration is part of the Refugee Week 2022 events. Please see the event flyer and programme attached.
Learning languages through culture with the ENACT app
View the recording of the interactive session on 16th March here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1cHtAPkOKU
Read more about the workshop on the Express Yourself website here: https://expressyourselfne.com/2022/03/30/enact-16mar/
Learn all about our app using cultural tasks for digital language learning: https://fltmag.com/cultural-tasks-enact/
Read the latest Newcastle University press release about our co-production workshops and initial results!
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2021/11/enactxmas/
How to learn language through culture?
Watch the video of Paul Seedhouse's talk at Oxford University on the ENACT app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zpvms5yyJw
Our latest newsletter is available and has all the details of our workshops at Newcastle, Helsinki and Boğaziçi Universities. Don't forget to hit subscribe if you'd like more information!
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We feature on two external websites already!
Read the Newcastle University press release and information about ENACT on the International Newcastle pages.
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2021/02/enact/
https://internationalnewcastle.org.uk/enact-learn-language-through-culture
Our first newsletter is available now and gives you all the information you need on the launch of the ENACT web app! If you'd like to receive regular updates on the ENACT project, hit the subscribe tab in the newsletter.
Download Newsletter 1: February 2021 or read it below.
As the summer ends, we look forward upcoming collaborations within the ENACT team. We are finalising our assessment and recognition tools (Output 3) and getting ready to launch our web app! Watch this space!
The summer has been very busy and at times turbulent for most of us. As we tried to adjust to new ways of working online, conferences we planned to attend also moved online and we delivered two virtual presentations.
Many thanks to our Helsinki team for hosting our second transnational project meeting virtually!
Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, we were unable to visit the beautiful city of Helsinki and meet, eat, and connect in person. Yet, despite all the challenges of remote working and increased workload, all our project consortium members joined our meetings on 4 and 5 June, and we made a lot of progress for our assessment and recognition tools and frameworks, research and impact as well as dissemination work.
Following the recent concerning and uncertain events happening in the world we may expect at least one sure thing: the needs and demands for the interactive technologies for education, work, communication and entertainment will only rise. Today we continue our story about the technologies we used during our workshops with the ones that our participants were particularly curious to try – as itself 360/VR video is.
After having 7 participants talk and share their own cultural activities and thoughts about creating content for the app, Barcelona is ready to analyse their data.
Our students at Newcastle University studying MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL visited the iLab: learn last Tuesday as part of their Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) module.
During the needs analysis workshops in January-February, our participants introduced to a variety of different media tools: interactive image, interactive slide, interactive video, normal video, 360/VR video, and 360 picture. One of the workshops’ result will be assessment of those technologies to understand the requirements of our prospective ENACT app users.
We have completed two more workshops in order to understand the requirements of our prospective ENACT app users: one in Newcastle and one in Istanbul.
On January 9, 2020 the understanding requirements workshop took place in Helsinki, Finland. The workshop was organised by University of Helsinki and Cultura Foundation. The aim of the study was to find out the users’ cultural and digital needs to guide the app design.
We are pleased to share that we are running our understanding requirements workshops in January in all partner countries: UK, Finland, Spain, and Turkey!
We have already run a pilot study in the UK in December, which helped us finalise our procedures and materials.
It has been about two months since the ENACT project started, and we have already made a lot of progress!
We had an online project meeting on 20 September, and our project kick-off meeting in Newcastle Upon Tyne on 24-25 October 2019. We had two full meeting days and covered lots of detail. We discussed our outputs, planned for dissemination, identified ways to evaluate impact, and made key decisions. Of course, we did not forget to have some fun and socialise!
