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Benjamin Stewart
The Boys
Blog:	Collaborative Understandings
Employer:	Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes
Occupation:	Teacher educator/Foreign language coordinator
Other roles:	husband, father, son, and continual learner
Nationality:	American
Languages:	English, Spanish
Country:	México
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About me

I´m an EFL teacher educator and foreign language coordinator at a Mexican university. I have a BS in business administration, a Master's in Education with an emphasis in curriculum and instruction: technology, and am currently pursuing a doctorate degree in curriculum and instruction leadership. My philosophy in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) is to provide every student with a variety of learning opportunities so that each student is motivated enough to practice English to accomplish his or her own individual goals. Language acquisition that focuses on the integration of reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills through a conceptualized learning environment relies on both in-class and out-of-class activities with the dual purpose of achieving curriculum and individual goals. By establishing a student-focused learning environment that is based on the interests and needs of the students, the intent is to create a more engaging and effective learning experience for everyone. Technology provides the affordances to create contextual, conceptual, problem-solving, and project-based learning environments that will better prepare the language learner to fulfill social and professional pursuits that extend beyond the classroom.

My research interests include network learning and assessment in TESOL.

Education

Employment

Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes

Classes taught as part of the BA in ELT degree program: Analytical Grammar (2nd semester); Introductory Grammar I & II (propedeutico); English Culture (blended course: half online/half in-class)(6th semester); General English listening/speaking I & II (propedeutico); English for Business (8th semester); Advanced English Reading Comprehension (4th semester); Writing Seminar-thesis (8th semester); English Reading Strategies Course (graduate course); Public Speaking (5th semester)

CAADI - self-access center - tutor (Jan. - Jun. 2006): CAADI tours, conversation clubs, student tutor sessions, English material development

Coordinator (>35 teachers, > 1,200 language learners) Foreign Language Coordinator -English, French, Italian, and German test preparation and application; syllabus design; professional development, course development; Moodle site design

BIHE (2007)

Online writing tutor: Member of the affiliated global faculty of BIHE, using the Moodle platform to assess writing skills: sentence formation, paragraph and essay development

Presentations, Workshops, and Open Courses

Open Writing Seminar, open writing course designed for English language learners, January 25 - May 31, 2010
Language Exchanges, WiZiQ, October 27, 2009
Designing performance tasks as a curricular aim, 7th Annual ANUPI Conference, October 1-4, 2009
Macmillan Teacher's Course for UVM, July 6 - July 24, 2009
EL4C25 WE workshop, Junior Facilitator, June 15 - June 19, 2009
EL4C23 WE workshop, Junior Facilitator, May 25 - June 5, 2009
TEACH workshop on Wikieducator (blended course), Facilitator, May 18-27, 2009
Creating PLNs through the use of social software, UPTC, May 23, 2009
Designing Performance Tasks as an Alternative Form of Assessment, MEXTESOL, October 16, 2008
American Culture: Adapting to a New Way of Life, 7th Annual Academic Week, UAA, May 26, 2006

Online Open Workshops

• L4C 22 WE workshop
• Connectivism and Connected Knowledge (CCK08) - by Steven Downes and George Siemens, facilitators, Fall, 2008
• L4C 21 WE workshop

My Blog

• Conquering Your Fear of Public Speaking
• Open writing seminar for ELLs
• Blended English Language Learning (BELL)
• Language Exchange Reflections
• CCK09: Connectivism and Culture

Contributions

Distance English Language Learning (DELL)

A space for bringing English speakers at all levels together as a means of facilitating the second/foreign language learning process.

Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV | Level V | Level VI | Level VII | Level VIII | English Web

UAA at night

Research

A space for sharing and collaborating with others on information pertaining to my dissertation.

Speaking  |  Listening  |  Reading  |  Writing  |  Grammar

Live Feeds

Twitter Feed (my handle - bnleez)

• chericem: Statetris -Tetris with maps from various countries-great for geography classes Use your arrow keys to move the pieces http://bit.ly/8yRI4O
• davecormier: @gsiemens no. business conference attendees need not 'be entertained' in all conferences. In some this is required. depends.
• davecormier: @gsiemens "Rather than getting into flow and becoming an entertainer"
• gsiemens: @davecormier why do you think business conference attendees want to be entertained?
• davecormier: @gsiemens it's not your job to expect them, but to not choose them if your audience wants to be entertained (if corporate conference)

My Classes

PROPE, Spring 2009

Wikiclass

Voicethread:

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• gRSShopper: Creating the Personal Web
• Communities and Networks
• Openness in Education
• Seven Questions
• Innovation Forum

Language Exchange

These are pictures of Mexican English language learners participating in a language exchange with a US university. If anyone is interested in the details, let me know.

Language Exchange

Language Exchange

Language Exchange

Language Exchange

Software Freedom Day

You can read the Cape Town Open Education Declaration here. A fact sheet is available here.

Webinars

WiZiQ Class Description Language Exchanges October 27, 2009 11:30 to 13:00 (GMT-6) Check your time CLICK HERE

WiZiQ Class Description Language Exchanges November 25, 2009 10:00 to 11:00 (GMT-6) Check your time CLICK HERE

WiZiQ Class Description Language Exchanges December 2, 2009 10:00 to 11:00 (GMT-6) Check your time CLICK HERE

Video related to blended learning

Leave me a message

• Ben, I think it is quite obvious that I am a fan of yours. Are you on Twitter? Among all the image files, a gif file is unique in that it can be animated. It consists of several pictures that are displayed in turn. Remember when we were in elementary school we used to put stick figures in the corners of our text books, and when you showed them in turn by thumbing the corners the stick figures looked like they were moving? Same principle as the movie pictures. There is free software on the internet called gif animator, which can take a half dozen or so of your pictures, put them into one file and display them in tun at a rate you tell it. So your "signature" is just four such pictures, with the colours changed so that they look like they are moving when viewed one after the other.

• I thought you might like the animated initials. --Phil Bartle 13:00, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
  • Phil, thanks for explaining the animation image...it's very cool! My Twitter handle is bnleez by the way.--Benjamin Stewart 15:53, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

• Hi Benjamin! Thank you for the warm welcome! I am looking forward to learning from you and with you. I'll do my best

Best Wishes --elenargy 21:30, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

So very nice to see you working as a facilitator for tutorials. Cheers, --Phil Bartle 14:59, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Ben! That for the greetings.... I'll try my best to catch up with my daily tasks in this workshop. Wish me luck:-) --Hanaakhs 11:30, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

It would really be interesting to collaborate. I have initiated in some of the WikiEdu pages: http://www.wikieducator.org/Teacher_Collaboration_Suggested_Online_Projects . If you or you can suggest other teacher / researcher to collaborate with me, i would be glad to have a company. I am also interested in English for ESL. --Dilipbarad 03:26, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

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Hi Benjamin, Thanks for your message and congratulations for all the work you have done!!! Who knows, maybe we can try to develop something together in the future. Congrats again! --Mercedes Viola 20:17, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Ben Thank you for the welcome

As I become more proficient I would love to do some collaboration on educational materials --Robin 05:44, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

• Thank you for your comment, looking forward to creating wiki activities :)--Kmariann 08:44, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

• Hi Ben ,

Your wiki looks great ! There are certainly many things to learn from you .Thank you for offering to help --Mbarek 13:14, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

• Hi, thank you for nice words about my page. --vukasinbvasic 14:59, 18 June 2009 (UTC)