Integrating ICT into English Teaching discusses key aspects of effectively integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) into English language teaching. It outlines ICT core competencies including technical skills, teaching, networking/communication, creating, searching, and evaluating. Specific tools are described for each competency area like PowerPoint for technical skills, online project-based learning for communication, and websites for finding teaching materials on the internet. The document emphasizes that ICT provides many opportunities but can also waste time if not used strategically and that the key to success is effective teaching practices.

1. Integrating ICT into
English Teaching: More than PPT
Secretary & English Teacher, CSGHS
Chiu Shu-chuan (Alice Chiu)
2006.05.10

2. Introduction
 ICT: What?
 ICT: Why?
 ICT: When?
 ICT: How?

3. Technical
Teaching Networking/
Communication
ICT Core
Competencies
Creating Searching
Evaluating

4. Technical Competence
 Basic Computer Literacy
 Browser
 Word Processing
 PowerPoint (?)
 Multimedia software (?)
 Web-page building (?)

5. Technical
Teaching Networking/
Communication
ICT Core
Competencies
Creating Searching
Evaluating

6. Communication: tools
 Synchronous communication
 CMC such as Yahoo Messengers / MSN
 Video Conferencing
 Asynchronous communication
 E-mail Exchange (Epals.com Classroom
Exchange)
 Forums (I*EARN Youth Forum)
 Mailing List
 Blog

7. Communication: Mailing List
 ELTeCS
 NETEACH-L: teaching ESL/EFL on the
Net (listserv@hunter.listerv.cuny.edu)
 Join the feedback and communities in
“Teaching English” website.
You can subscribe the mailing list and
take part in the message board.
 Learn more about ESL/EFL mailing lists

8. Communication:
Online Project-Based Learning
 I*EARN (US)
 Global Gateway (UK)
 TakingITGlobal (Canada)
 Friendship Through Education (US)

9. Communication:
Online Professional Development
 I*EARN professional Development courses
 Integrating the Internet into the Classroom
instructed by Michael D. Kruass in Lewis and
Clark College
 Using the Internet in the K-12 Classroom
from Indiana University
 Net learning

10. Technical
Teaching Networking/
Communication
ICT Core
Competencies
Creating Searching
Evaluating

11. Searching
 2-3 billion pages;
 Constantly changing.
Easy to search...
Easy to waste time

12. Searching: google/wikipedia
 Just about the worst thing you can
do is to sit down and type things
into a search engine…. A search
engine should be the last, rather
than the first thing that you think
about using. (A Googling Lesson)

13. Websites for Teachers
Effective Internet Search
 Searching the Internet: Recommended Sites
and Search Techniques
http://library.albany.edu/internet/search.html
 Effective Internet Searching Techniques
http://uwgb.edu/helpdesk/docs/search.htm
 Internet Search Tools & Techniques
http://www.sci.ouc.bc.ca/libr/connect96/search.htm
 Using Web Search Tools
http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/les5/

14. Teaching Materials on the Internet
 Interesting things for ESL Students
 Activities for ESL/EFL Students
 Online Reading Comprehension
 The Change Agents
 Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
 BBC Online Soap Opera
 CNN Student News

15. Technical
Teaching Networking/
Communication
ICT Core
Competencies
Creating Searching
Evaluating

16. Evaluating
 Accuracy
 Authority
 Currency
 Navigation
 Design Evaluate Web Pages
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingL
 URL ib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

17. Technical
Teaching Networking/
Communication
ICT Core
Competencies
Creating Searching
Evaluating

18. Creating
 Handouts/worksheets
 PowerPoint Slides
 Web pages for web-based Lessons
 Webquest

19. Technical
Teaching Networking/
Communication
ICT Core
Competencies
Creating Searching
Evaluating

20. Teaching: Activities
 Tasks
 Language Awareness
 Research Projects
 Intercultural Projects
 Online Activities

21. Technical
Teaching Networking/
Communication
ICT Core
Competencies
Creating Searching
Evaluating

22. Conclusions
 The new technology offers a good
deal. However, it can waste
enormous amounts of time and
resources. Remember, the key to
success is not hardware and not
software, but…