making the most out of technology
DESCRIPTION
This is the presentation I made for my workshop at the IATEFL Teacher Development and Learning Technologies SIG Conference in Istanbul, May, 2012.TRANSCRIPT
Making the most out of
technology
IATEFL Learning Technologies
&
Teacher Development SIG
Conference
Istanbul, May 2012
collecting email addresses
EDTech overload
No time to work out how they work
More time is spent on working with technology than achieving the language aims
Difficult to find one that fits my teaching/training aim
My own criteria
OUTLINE OF WORKSHOP
What?Why?
How?
What are your top three tools?
Your criteria for choosing them?
This is how techy I am:
typing up feedback
Survey on the same questions
WHY?
Screencasting tools
SpeakingListeningWriting
ReadingPronunciationANY discourseANY language
Explaining&showing anything
Jing
Snagit
Analysing examples
What would you do if ...?
What are the aims of the screencast?
What skills and language are being covered?
How does it benefit the learner and the teacher?
http://www.screencast.com/t/nJBNw4SgSR
Word document instead of W/B
Building further on the lesson content
What skills and language are being worked on?
What would you do in the next lesson?
Today: http://www.screencast.com/t/pFYDo6LsAO
Combining it with another tool - storybird
What would you focus on in the lesson before
this was sent to learners?
How else can you adapt the same tool?
http://www.screencast.com/t/Ybq4q7kk
Teaching
Teacher Training
Educational Management
Case studies
www.technology4elt.blogspot.com
LANGUAGE WORK Reflecting on lesson content – word document typed up during the lesson/workshop
Building further activities on lesson/ws content Combining screencasting with other tools, e.g.
Storybird/online photo albums, etc.
Learner TRAINING
Explaining how to and why use other online tools (online dictionaries/just-the-word; learning sites)
Giving feedback on a piece of writing orally highlighting important points
TEACHER TRAINING Giving feedback orally to written work while
showing
Showing how to use the moodle/wiki course
EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT
Explaning how to use in-house progammes,such as checking and filling in online registers, etc.
An example of a 13-year-old boy
School by Balu Formanek
http://www.screencast.com/t/ahJXSpTD6u
Language and skills?
Lesson staging before and after?
FREEDOM
Creating art and craft
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE41YPdPuis
www.erikaosvath.com
http://technology4elt.blogspot.com/
THANK YOU!