Thursday, April 1, 2010

Tools to explore for next week

Wordle
Please check this link to learn about Wordle

Dvolver
For Dvolver, go to this link and explore the tool.

Blogs
This video describes the process of opening a blog briefly.


You are also supposed to explore Microsoft Office Publisher and Wikis for next week.

For each tool, please think of an activity that we can use to teach English. 

Slides

Dear Students,

I am posting the slides of our course below (Please go to the following links and view and/or download the files).

Week 2: Technology and teaching English language learners 



Week 5: Teaching reading and writing skills


The slides of the course were prepared using the following sources:

- Butler-Pascoe, M. E.  & Wiburg, K. M. (2003). Technology and teaching English language learners.   Boston, Mass: Allyn & Bacon.
- Dudeney, G. & Hockly, N. (2007). How to teach with technology. Pearson/Longman.