ICT INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

TECHNOLOGY

Let’s use technology!!

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL EXPERIMENTAL“FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA”

LICDA. EVELIN PEÑA J.

It is the means of generating, processing, transmitting, and presenting

Information (Edwards, 2000).

involvesinvolves

INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGY

NETWORKINGTECHNOLOGY

TELECOMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY

Using computers

Using telephones, radio, T.V..

Using the Internet

Student’s needs andInterests.

Pedagogical aim

Resource availability

Technical support andIntegration with the

course program

Teacher Training

Syllabus integration

Up to date

Planning for content

Clear on-linetask

Clear instruction

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

TEACHER CANAccess authentic reading material

Different kind of texts/genres

Make communication

projects

Have students publish their

activities

Make games

There are some tools teachers can use with

the Internet

Chats

Wikis Blogs

Podcasting

It is real-time communication between two or more people

using computers

The use of chat can improve reading and writing skills, also some chats offer the use of microphones so

students can develop their speaking and listening skills.

Activities using chats include:

Oral quizzes

Language study

Transcripts as a study tool

Brainstorming sessions

Small groupwork Guest

speakerVirtual

Office hour

It is a webpage or set of WebPages that can be easily

edited by anyone who is allowed access (Ebersbach et al, 2006).

The use of Wikis enable students and teachers to review drafts, post comments about content and

publish final reports.

Activities using Wikis include:

Collaborativewriting

Group organization

Peer reviewPeer

editing

It refers to a simple webpage consisting of brief paragraphs of

opinion, information, personal entries, or links, called posts.

The possibility to use blogs in classroom or as an activity during a semester is considered a great strategy to promote writing, comprehension and critical thinking

and other skills.

Activities using Blogs include:

Student’sfeedback

Class examples

Student’sevaluation

Paper topics

Student/teacherconferences

Podcast is like a radio show. It is recorded and then distributed over the Internet, so that you can listen

to it whenever you please.

To improve the listening and speaking skills the use of voice software, podcasting, voicemail and others, help

teachers create activities in order to get students involved in the foreign language

Activities using Podcasting include:

Classroomnews

Interviews

Recording of student’s works

Topic writing/recording

LICDA. EVELIN PEÑA JEREZ