Technology and Teaching Languages

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Technology and Teaching Languages
D. Deubelbeiss School of TEFL
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Whats on tap?

• Why use technology? - Discussion
• What makes a great EFL Teacher?
• Sharing Ideas
• Using Technology to Teach English
• Examples and The BEST
• Using Video in the Classroom
• Dos and Donts, examples

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ftefl.com http//eltandtech.pbworks.com

• one teaches, two learn.

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What the Wordle
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Example

• Download the Generator

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You and the computer

• How do you use the computer in your classroom or
  in teaching?

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What are some benefits of using technology in
language teaching?
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What are our students like?
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Using a Language Lab
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Planning the Curriculum
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Enacting the Curriculum
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Adapting the Curriculum
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Assessing the Curriculum
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Extending the Curriculum
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Why Adapt Textbook Content?
The textbook is / isnt ..

• The textbook is not real!
• The textbook is outdated.
• The textbook is boring!
• The textbook goes too fast!
• The textbook isnt social or pragmatic!
• The textbook is culturally biased!
• The textbook is too hard / too easy!

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Adapting Textbook Content

• Vocabulary Activities
• FSW / Surveys / Post it / Mindmaps
• Cloze and Role plays
• -- Disappearing dialogue / Grammar Poems
• -- Prompts
• Review Activities
• -- Games / Storyboards / Guessing

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How to use technology

• Music in your classroom

How to make one!
MixTube
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How to use technology

• Games in your classroom

20 questions / Akinator / Guess the
Google / Free Rice BAAM / Top 5
/ The Price is Right / Not like
the other things Transl8it.com / Fling the
Teacher / Mystudiyo / ESL Video /
Jeopardy
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How to use technology

• Pictures, Visuals, Vocabulary

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How to use technology

• Piclits.com / Tarheel Reader / PPTs
• Photographs

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HOMELESS
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HOMELESS
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ENGLISH FOR EVERYONE
Making a Powerpoint Powerful
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How to use technology

• Community / Web 2.0 / The Social Web

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Listening / Speaking Online
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Chatterbots
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English Tutor
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Listening / Speaking Online
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Recommended PLAY!
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Teachers? Who needs them?
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How to use technology

• Video in the Classroom

Silent Videos Mr. Bean Wallace and
Grommit Nat. Film Board of Canada Shorts
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A vision of students today
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Can you be a 21st century teacher?

• Learning 2.0

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