Dear visitors,
If you are interested in
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
or Learning Technologies for the Classroom,
you are welcome to ak me for some materials
of the 10-week 41-hour course provided by the British Council,
which I successfully finished . It was an online course that lasted from 01.02 to 16.04.12
http://www.britishcouncil.org/ru/russia-english-learning-technologies-new.htm
Topics of the course:
- Week1. An Introduction to Learning Technologies.
- Week 2. Evaluating and selecting websites. Integrating the web.
- Week 3. Searching. Copyright-friendly resources.
- Week 4. Cyber well-being. Using LT for school links projects.
- Week 5. Using office software for whole-class teaching.
Using office software in a computer room.
- Week 6. Using the interactive web in the classroom.
Online writing for students and teachers.
- Week 7. Collaborative online writing.
Social networking for educational use.
- Week 8. Practising Listening and Speaking with online audio.
- Week 9. Practising Listening and Speaking with online video.
Please request the summaries of the units at vassilevitch@mail.ru
Learning Technologies for the Classroom aims to help English language teachers
integrate learning technologies (ICT) into their lessons.
By following this course, teachers will be able to:
* Comprehend how learning technologies are being used in education and why
* Develop an awareness of the learning technologies available today
* Develop an ability to critically evaluate what is available on the Web
* Develop a knowledge of practical applications of the technologies
* Develop a technical understanding of the tools and the technical skills necessary to use them in class
* Apply this knowledge to integrate learning technologies into syllabi and lessons
* Use learning technologies in a safe, engaging, effective, efficient and transformative manner
* Recognise the potential of new Web tools as learning technologies.
Relevant information is given in Tutti Frutti