Using Online Resources for EFL/ESL Teachers

1. Topic: Using Online Resources to Teach English
By: Yacouba Daouda ENS/UAM

2. Overview
 What is an Online Resource?
 Types of Online Resources
 Why Using Online Resources Important?
 Tips for Using Online Resources

3. What is an Online Resource?
 Online Resources is generally data and educational
in nature, any support software available online
 It can be a blog post, web pages, magazine a
newspaper article, a journal article, television website,
forums or an online video.
 Some other names for online sources are electronic
or Digital sources, web sources and Internet sources

4. Types of Online Resources
They are of two kinds of Online Resources
 Web pages (videos, blogs, webinar, e-collection,
apps, software, etc
 Online Documents (journals, articles, e-books,
catalogs, publish resources,etc

5. Why Using Online Resources Important?
 It helps to better assess one skills and knowledge,
 Encourages the search for new ideas,
 Gives innovative forms and methods of teaching,
 Gives props for creativity.
 Promotes Professional Development

6. Why Using Online Resources Important?
 Helps maintain productivity, because it prevents
teachers from underperforming or being
overburdened by workloads
 Makes Teaching and Learning Attractive and
Interesting

7. Tips for Using Online Resources
 Find the right technology.
 Search for the key word/words
 Download, read and make it your own
 Read and Copy the most appropriate

8. Tips for Using Online Resources
 Read carefully your draft and Select the most
appropriate
 Contextualize your content
 Collaborate with other English teachers.

9. Useful Online Resources for ELT Teachers
 1. Distance teaching and Learning Hub
Macmillan website on how-to tape videos and webinars
https://www.macmillanenglish.com/distance-teaching-and-learning-hub/home
 2. The Techie Teacher
Some great student instructions for Zoom, that can be downloaded, and also has
lots of other ideas for using technology in class.
https://www.thetechieteacher.net/
 3. One-stop-English
You can find lots of articles with ideas for teaching online, materials written and
edited by an expert team of teachers and ELT professionals
http://www.onestopenglish.com/other-pages/onestopenglish-
homepage/onestopenglish-free-access-through-june-2020/558218.article

10. Useful Online Resources for ELT Teachers
 4. Online Professional Development Resources
Check ouT free e-books about teaching online, as well as online webinars.
https://eltngl.com/assets/html/digitalresources/
 5. The EduBlogger
This blog by Kathleen Morris is really interesting and will help you find more
resources for teaching online
https://www.theedublogger.com/teaching-online-school-closures/
 6. Cambridge English Teacher Support Pack
Helps teachers with exam preparation, digital resources and general English
teaching materials.
https://view.pagetiger.com/cambridge-english-teacher-support-pack

11. Useful Online Resources for ELT Teachers
 7. CUP online seminar - Picture perfect: bringing the young learner classroom
to life!
Claire Medwell gives plenty of ideas for exploiting visuals in the Young Learners
classroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59JNKDGuIto&feature=youtu.be
 8. Liveworksheets
Liveworksheets allows you to transform your traditional printable worksheets (doc,
pdf, jpg etc.) into interactive online exercises with self-correction, called "interactive
worksheets". As well as creating your own, there is also a database of ready-made
worksheets.
https://www.liveworksheets.com/
 9. Make Belief Comix
Fun element to add to your digital classes. Students can create a comic strip choosing
characters, adding speech bubbles etc. Could be done in a breakout room if using the
platform Zoom for lessons for example and then shared via email or screenshot.
https://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

12. Useful Online Resources for ELT Teachers
 10. Digital escape room!
Organising a digital escape room – find out how with these step-by-step
instructions:
https://www.bespokeclassroom.com/blog/2019/10/4/how-to-build-a-digital-
escape-room-using-google-forms
 11. English Language Teaching from Oxford University Press
Online resources and activities to help teachers, parents and students get the
most out of learning at home.
https://elt.oup.com/feature/global/learnathome/

13. Think-Pair-Share
Instruction: Use Online Resources to define Writing
Duration: 15 minutes
 Think: 5 mn
 Pair: 5 mn
 Share: 10 mn

14. Group Work
Instruction: Use Online Resources to draft a lesson
note on how to teach writing to students in groups of
five (5)
Duration: 1 Hour

15. References
 E. Erenchinova (2017) Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities
Research (ASSEHR), volume 97 Available :
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
 Six top tips for teaching English online (17 mars 2020)
https://www.english.com › blog › six-top-tips-for-teachin..
 https://www.ihteachenglish.com/resource/11-useful-online-resources-elt-
teachers