Effectively Integrating Technology into ELT Alicia Cundell Qatar University AUS 1 st TESOL Conference

Why use technology?

Growing up in the Digital Age is affecting today's youth in numerous ways including growing up with a constant digital stimuli physiological change in brain and changes in the their thought processes all of which have changed the learning preferences of today's youth.

Growing up in the Digital Age is affecting today's youth in numerous ways including

growing up with a constant digital stimuli

physiological change in brain and changes in the their thought processes

all of which have changed the learning preferences of today's youth.

Prepare students for their futures in the workplace and in society

integration vs isolation

Streaming Video, Podcasts & DVD Clips Streaming media highly accessible authentic English easy to find topical information that students can relate to. Digital format means no fussing with tapes; store files right on your laptop!

Streaming media highly accessible

authentic English

easy to find topical information that students can relate to.

Digital format means no fussing with tapes; store files right on your laptop!

Example tasks Prompts for writing -show a short video clip and have students write an ending As an information source for providing support to all kinds of writing. Interpretation Show a scene without the volume and have students write the dialogue (and include any sound effects) Students listen to a clip of a movie without the picture then student describe the scene and characters and later compare

Prompts for writing

-show a short video clip and have students write an ending

As an information source for providing support to all kinds of writing.

Interpretation

Show a scene without the volume and have students write the dialogue (and include any sound effects)

Students listen to a clip of a movie without the picture then student describe the scene and characters and later compare

Web sites Online dictionary -students identify unknown words and choose the correct meaning for the context Online games can be played as class or in groups. Examples : A Maze , Words in a Word and Activities for ESL/EFL Students Take virtual fieldtrips at Tramline and the Utah Education Network for ready-made field trips

Online dictionary

-students identify unknown words and choose the correct meaning for the context

Online games can be played as class or in groups. Examples : A Maze , Words in a Word and Activities for ESL/EFL Students

Take virtual fieldtrips at Tramline and the Utah Education Network for ready-made field trips

Mobile Phones & Cameras We all groan about the use of phones in class, so why not find some ways to use them productively? send students on digital scavenger hunts and bluetooth pictures to the teacher students & teachers use their cameras to take photos of the board, posters and other classroom materials video student presentations or other activities for later playback and reflection

send students on digital scavenger hunts and bluetooth pictures to the teacher

students & teachers use their cameras to take photos of the board, posters and other classroom materials

video student presentations or other activities for later playback and reflection

How did you use the Web in the past? How do you use it now? Web 2.0: A Paradigm Shift

How did you use the Web in the past?

How do you use it now?

Students “can either be passive receivers of media messages or they can be digital content creators and critical thinkers.” Source : Retrieved January 18, 2008, from video in the classroom.com : http://www.needleworkspictures.com/vic/

Students “can either be passive receivers of media messages or they can be digital content creators and critical thinkers.”

The Read/Write Web Anyone can be a Web author No knowledge of programming necessary Connecting & collaborating with others Building knowledge and gaining perspective

Anyone can be a Web author

No knowledge of programming necessary

Connecting & collaborating with others

Building knowledge and gaining perspective

Collaborative Communities: Wikis, blogs & podcasts A Class Wiki : students collaborate to create a knowledge base, post class notes Qu Tech wiki. Class wiki Student Blogs : a forum for students to express their voice to an audience other than the teacher QU Tech news Blog Podcasting Students create a digital speaking notebook for tracking (and evaluation?)

A Class Wiki : students collaborate to create a knowledge base, post class notes

Qu Tech wiki. Class wiki

Student Blogs : a forum for students to express their voice to an audience other than the teacher

QU Tech news Blog

Podcasting

Students create a digital speaking notebook for tracking (and evaluation?)

Digital storytelling, movies, multi-media projects using PowerPoint PhotoStory3 VoiceThread The Sims On Stage Digital Media Production

Digital storytelling, movies, multi-media projects using

PowerPoint

PhotoStory3

VoiceThread

The Sims On Stage

Other Technology Tasks Students use the discussion boards to publish their opinions and ideas. Students make comic strips or animated movies with dialogue boxes using Web 2.0 tools, such as make beliefs comix & Dvolver , Students send speaking task audio files via email homework through springdoo Students share poems, stories online and share with others for commenting with: PowerPoint, VoiceThread , The Sims On Stage ,

Students use the discussion boards to publish their opinions and ideas.

Students make comic strips or animated movies with dialogue boxes using Web 2.0 tools, such as make beliefs comix & Dvolver ,

Students send speaking task audio files via email homework through springdoo

Students share poems, stories online and share with others for commenting with: PowerPoint, VoiceThread , The Sims On Stage ,

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