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Making the most out of technology IATEFL Learning Technologies & Teacher Development SIG Conference Istanbul, May 2012

Making the most out of technology

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This is the presentation I made for my workshop at the IATEFL Teacher Development and Learning Technologies SIG Conference in Istanbul, May, 2012.

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Making the most out of

technology

IATEFL Learning Technologies

&

Teacher Development SIG

Conference

Istanbul, May 2012

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collecting email addresses

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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

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OUTLINE OF WORKSHOP

What?Why?

How?

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What are your top three tools?

Your criteria for choosing them?

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This is how techy I am:

typing up feedback

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Survey on the same questions

WHY?

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Screencasting tools

SpeakingListeningWriting

ReadingPronunciationANY discourseANY language

Explaining&showing anything

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Analysing examples

What would you do if ...?

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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

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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

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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

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Teaching

Teacher Training

Educational Management

Case studies

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www.technology4elt.blogspot.com

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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

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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.

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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?

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FREEDOM

Creating art and craft

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE41YPdPuis

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www.erikaosvath.com

http://technology4elt.blogspot.com/

[email protected]

THANK YOU!