Breathing life into eLearning

This article summarizes the presentation given on blended and elearning at the University of Verona for the teaching of English to undergraduate an post graduate students. The presentation evolved into a snapshot of the author's personal experience with online teaching over the previous decade. This presentation was part of the innovative Interactive Language Fair, which was held for the first time in an IATEFL conference in 2010. As the format was interactive so was the presentation designed in three parts to encourage particpants to engage with the material on three different occasions. The multimedia approach to conference presentations adopted here involved video, a face to face session, where particpants completed and discussed a guided discovery questionnaire and finally a space was created on an online wiki for the presentation to be extended beyond the time and place of the actual conference event. This experimental approach to conference presentation was both useful and well received.