3. Asociacion Rosarina de Cultura Inglesa
• 2.ooo EFL students
• 70 EFL teachers
• Rosario: 2nd
largest city in
Argentina
• year 2001
4. Integrating the Internet –
fighting resistance
• 1st
phase: intranet
• 2nd
phase: opening windows:
going global: yahoo group
work
• 3rd
phase: going social:
blogging, project work with stds
around the world
5. first phase:
The Intranet: our virtual classroom
PROS
• safe
environment
• offers space for
a web
• teacher
controlled
• good as
springboard
• files
• sites
• forums
• repository
• reporting
• grading
CONS
• closed space
• limited exposure to
world
• limited number of
people
• classroom like,
online
• fosters limited
creativity
• not free to join
http://campus.arci.org.ar/1/
6. First Considerations
• clear aims
• teachers selection
• room selection
• nº of pc’s : 13
• levels to include/prepare
• integration into the curricula
• tasks to work on
• material to analyze: free
software
• five skills
• exposure, practice, honing
7. Grouping teachers into levels/
task types:
• listening tasks
• games and quizzes
• videos
• webquests
9. Why a wiki?
• to allow for collaborative work among teachers
• to enable editing
• to upload images, videos, photos
• to provide workable links
• to allow students to work on individual pages
• to open as many secure pages as booths
• to provide passwords
• to disable editing for students
13. paving the way…
• blogging and tagging
• tandem projects
• projects with stds in other countries
• podcasts
• videomakers
• storymakers
• Communities of Practice
