This document discusses using technology both inside and outside the classroom. It provides examples of tools teachers can use, such as RSS feeds to stay up to date, Diigo for collecting resources, and Jing for providing feedback. It also discusses tools for classroom presentations and student tasks like wikis, web quests, and apps. Suggestions are made for podcasts, talkgroups, and websites to check language and collocations outside of class.

1. usıng technology
inside and outside
the classroom

2. warmer
please dıscuss:
● what are the technologıes you use at the
moment
● what do you hope to achıeve by usıng more
technologıcal tools
● what problems do you antıcıpate when
usıng more technology ın the future

3. content
part 1: tools for us teachers
part 2: tools in the classroom
part 3: internet-based student tasks
(homework and projects)

4. p1: keeping up with developments
with RSS feeds you can:
● keep abreast of latest developments
● safe time looking for information
this is how you do it
● use googlereader or other services
● subscribe to interesting service, e.g. my
trainers ICT blog

5. p1: resource collection
with diigo we can ...
● highlight points of interest on a webpage
● organize relevant information by list or tag
● share information with colleagues so we can
collaborate
>>> LIVE DEMO
>>> why not create a diigo for us?

6. p1: screen recordings
with jing we can:
● give students individual
feedback
● create our own videos or tutorials

7. p1 / p2 / p3: animations
with domo goanimate we can ...
● create our won animations and
slideshows
● have students do their own animations to
practice chunks, funktional language etc.

8. p1: classroom presentations
with powerpoint and googledocs we can ...
● enhance our teaching by using graphics,
animation, or sound
● easily modify and recycle our tried and
tested material for each lesson
● quickly find and adapt online material for
use in our classes
● help save the rain forest

9. classroom presentations
a few ideas
● show flash cards
● present grammar structures
● mimic popular quiz games like 'Jeopardy!'
● ...

10. p3: wikis
with wikis we can:
● have an online meeting point with our
students
● do collaborative writing exercises

11. p3: idea sharing
with lino we can:
● share our ideas with
colleagues
● have students collect vocabulary, ideas

12. p3: web quests
with zunal we can:
● integrate classroom work and homework
activities
● use existing online material
● create our own web quests

13. p3: useful websites for students
Some useful website for your students to
check language, collocations, chunks etc
● twurdy
● googlefight
● british national corpus (BNC)
macmillan online dictionary

14. p3: useful apps for students
iphone and android apps that can be used
inside and outside the classroom
● sounds - macmillan pronunciation app
● ankidroid - flash cards

15. p2/3: record podcasts
● can be used by teachers to prepare
customised material
● can be used by students in class and at
home, i.e. students prepare a script, record
it and embed it in a WIKI
Just use vocaroo

16. p3: talkgroups
with voxopop you can:
● have students do speaking exercises when
you didn't get to production phase in class
● create (international) voice discussion
groups
here is an example from my ICT course

17. lexis and chunking
did you know?
about 74 % of all text is made up of the 1000
most commonly words
about 8 % of all text is made up of the next
1000 most commonly words

18. Lexis and Chunking
check out these websites
● lingo to word
● googlefight
● corpus concordance english
● british national corpus
● sketchengine (30 days password)