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4:09

Penny - Welcoming all of the attendees. There are about 40 educators from Finland joining us. The room is packed with standing room only for late-comers.

4:10

Penny - Big thankyou to the MLTANSW team for their work.

4:12

Penny - "Minimum experiences for you at this conference. I will convinced you will:

Meet new friends
Take home new ideas
Marvel at important Australian (and other) research in Languages education
The dialogues and discourses you'll participate in will convince you more strongly than ever that diversity is a cause for continued celebration"

4:13

Penny - Welcome by the conference organisers. Respect given to the Aboriginal language and welcome.

4:16

Penny - The MLTANSW really have done a stellar job. The fact that there are hardly any seats left is testament!

4:17

coutasconf - Testing the Twitter feed for CoverItLive #AFMLTA09

4:19

Penny - Professor Miles Turnbull - "Open the windows and sweep out the cobwebs" - Initiating dialogue on the L1 in second and foreign language teaching - a Canadian perspective that challenges traditional views.

From the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

4:20

Steve Collis - Hey there Penny I managed to get a free wireless connection.

4:21

Penny - Hi Steve!! I was hoping they would give us the WiFi password during the housekeeping. I have some Twitterers who want to join in but haven't really used it before.

4:22

Penny - MT: Deeply touched by the honouring of the Aboriginal peoples and the connection with "home".

4:23

Steve Collis - What are their IDs? Frankly, establishing links with other teachers that will outlast the conference is my main aim for being here.

4:25

Penny - MT: Warmup activity of Musical Trivia. Connect the title of the music to the content of his talk.

4:29

Penny - I got the composer of the song :) <3 Google

4:30

Penny - Song from "Anne of Green Gables" musica.

What do AnnE Shirley and Miss Stacey have to do with code switching and language learning?

4:30

Steve_Collis - CoverItLive session and wiki for #AFMLTA09 Language conference http://bit.ly/yJDUJ

4:33

Penny - @Steve: tried that before but it wouldn't connect me :(

4:34

Penny - Giving history of French speakers in Canada. Many Francophones changed their last names to change their "identity".

Madame White, his teacher, "ran a tight ship." In her class, there was no English. They had to pay 5c each time they spoke English.

4:35	[Comment From jshe ] Just want to say " HI'' to everyone!

4:35

Penny - Hello jshe! :)

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