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Using technology (Ch. 14) - Coggle Diagram
Using technology (Ch. 14)
Presentation software
Making better inputs
Minimal text
Be demanding on your clip art
Make a show with only pictures
Animated grammar
Drills
Download shows
Students using presentation software
Present a current news story
Research an unlikely topic
Make a vocabulary lesson
Presentation warnings
Interaction! Do not interact with your own words and activities on screen instead of interacting with your students
Too many slides, too many words ☹️
Do not use the same presentation for years
Learning online - Vitrual Learning Environments
Forums for students and teachers to send and read messages
The ability to attach text documents, videos, etc.
A facility for students to post their work, have it marked
Automated exercises, activities, tests
Add-ons such as Wikis
Blended course: combination of face-to-face and online
Improving skills
Listening and speaking
Instant language lab
Podcasts
Video conferencing
Integration
Writing
Emails
Word processors
Wikis
Blogs
Social networks
Websites
Forums
Online noticeboards and walls
Text and voice messaging
Reading
Treasure hunts and web puzzles
Interactive Whiteboard (IWB)
Fixed IWB
-fixed to the wall
-projector
Functions: create flipchart, add a blank page, choose pen type, highlighter, hide/reveal an item or page, calibrate
How to teach with an IWB?
Teach as normal
Work live with texts
Share learners' work
Integrate Internet-based materials into the lesson
Run automated exercises
Portable IWB
Typical functions: write or draw, save, show, annotate, access the Internet, revisit saved digital boards, use commercial IWB materials
Students and technology
Classroom layouts
Pair work is better when using computers in class
IT skills audit
Research your students' capabilities with technology
can-do questions
Can you cut and paste a piece of text?
Can you spell-check an essay?
Can you send a tweet?
Research better, search better
Key tips
Use two or three words rather than one
Use 'apple fruit' instead just 'apple'
Use quote marks
To search for a whole phrase 'Learning teaching'
Use the minus sign
Tom Jones - singer
Use wild cards
Analyse text
Word clouds
wordle.com
worditout.com
Visual dictionaries
Corpora
Database of real language as it has been said or written by people in conversation or other genres
Teaching in virtual worlds
Virtual classroom
set up a virtual classroom - use this as your meeting place for discussions and lessons
Virtual field trip
Choose an interesting location to visit
Virtual simulations
Train a group of pre-experience waiters - set up a restaurant
Virtual task-based learning
Create a location (eg hotel) and set students a specific task (eg design a better reception area)
