Intelligent Use of Technology Plenary
Outline and Resources
Planning & teaching
- Lesson plans and articles: https://iteslj.org
- EL Easton – www.eleaston.com
Controlled material
- Breaking News English: www.breakingnewsenglish.com
- BBC Culture Lab – readings: www.culturelab-uk.com
- VOA Special English: www.voanews.com/specialenglish
Authentic material
- Sources of academic texts: www.deborahhealey.com/digitallibraries.html
- DOAJ: www.doaj.org
- Openj-Gate: www.openj-gate.com
- Literature
- Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org
- Project Bartelby: www.bartelby.com
Online teacher tools
- Readability of online texts: www.twurdy.com
- LessonWriter – vocabulary, grammar, pre-reading, post-reading from a text (800 words maximum): www.lessonwriter.com
- Hot Potatoes – create exercises to accompany readings; can be timed; download at www.hotpot.uvic.ca - use the exercises you create either online or offline
See more information: Getting Started with Hot Potatoes PDF
Assessment: Rubrics
- Sample writing rubrics: https://www.rubrician.com/writing.htm
- TeachNology rubric page: https://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics
- Rubric generator: RubiStar – join to save and edit your rubrics: https://rubistar.4teachers.org
Teacher feedback
- Word tools: Insert Comments - Track Changes - AutoCorrect– Compare documents
More information about Word: https://www.deborahhealey.com/techtips/may2009.html - Sharing with Google Docs: https://docs.google.com - peer editing, simultaneous editing from different locations
Motivation to learn: Authentic audience
- Email partners – tandem learning at https://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/etandem/etindex-en.html
- Projects to join
- iEARN: https://iearn.org/
- ThinkQuest: www.thinkquest.org/en/projects
- International Writing Exchange: https://international-writing-exchange.wikispaces.com/
- Blog – individual or class: www.blogger.com
- Web page (wiki): https://sites.google.com
See information about using Google Sites - how-to PDF and wiki. - Student Forums at Dave’s ESL Café https://eslcafe.com
- TakingITGlobal – student awareness and cultural forums: www.tigweb.org
Class discussion
- Nicenet: www.nicenet.org
Nicenet how-to - Yahoo group: https://groups.yahoo.com
- Facebook - create a class Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com
Handout for the talk (PDF format)
