Tuesday 2 March 2010

New technologies. Fancy a ride?

Web-liography

Blogging:

Video-broadcast:

http://www.youtube.com/

http://www.teachertube.com/

http://www.teachers.tv/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

http://www.grapheine.com/classiktv/index.php?lang=uk

http://goanimate.com/

Audio-broadcast-podcast:

http://www.efl.net/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

http://www.elllo.org/english/Songs.htm

http://www.last.fm

http://www.radioblogclub.com/

http://www.goear.com/index.php

http://www.divshare.com/

Images & presentations:

www.flickr.com

http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/

http://www.slide.com/

http://www.slideshare.net/

Other suggested sites & Blogs for ELT

http://www.teflclips.com/

http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/celebra.htm

http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html

http://www.teach-nology.com/

http://jjavieringles.blogspot.com/

http://englishisallaround.blogspot.com/

http://englisharound.blogspot.com/

http://www.teach-ict.com/

Reading: Texts & videos



THE WORLD IN NUMBERS

1. Only 7% are ____________ at a secondary level (TRAINED, TAUGHT)
2. 13% _____________ different other religions (BELIEVE, PARTICIPATE)
3. 6% of _________ own 59% of wealth in the world (INDIVIDUALS, PERSONS)
4. Catholics, protestants, orthodox and Anglicans are all __________ and make up 33% of the religious people in the world. (MOST PRACTICED RELIGION)
5. The less populated continent is _________ (ALSO KNOWN AS AUSTRALIA)
6. Only 12% have a ___________ (ELECTRONIC MACHINE FOR INFORMATION)
7. Those who practice the world’s second-largest religion are _______ (ISLAM)
8. Less than half of the population live in an urban ________(ZONE)
9. 1% of ___________ (GROWN-UPS) in the world suffer AIDS
10. Half of the population in the world are _____ (MALE)
11. 18% live without an improved _________ source (LIQUID TO DRINK)
12. 6 out of 100 believe in Buddha. They are ___________
13. Still 14% can’t __________(UNDERSTAND WHAT’S WRITTEN)
14. 43% of people live without basic _________(SEWAGE AND WATER SUPPLY)
15. 13 % of children are _________(IN NEED OF FOOD) or malnourished.
16. Just 3% have an Internet ___________ (ACCESS, LINK)
17. (PEOPLE IN EUROPE)__________ make up just 12% of the population.
18. Most of the people practising a set of religious, philosophical and cultural systems that originated in the Indian subcontinent are called ____________
19. The 9% of people in the world who are physically-challenged ____________
20. If you __________ (OWN, POSSESS) a bed to sleep in and a roof over your head, you are _______(WEALTHIER) than 75% of the entire world population.

Listening: Songs exploitation



FREE-Lighthouse Family

COMPLETE:

• I wish I ______ how it would feel to be free
• I wish I ________ all the chains holding me
• I wish I ________ all the things that I should say
• Say 'em loud say 'em clearFor the whole wide world to hear

REORDER:

• And I wish you could know how it is to be me
• Remove all the bars that keep us apart
• All the love that's in my heart
• Then you'd see and agree that every man should be free
• I wish I could share

SENTENCE REORDERING:

• could -be -I -like -bird -I -a -in–sky -the -wish
• How -found -be -would -I -if -I -could -fly -sweet -it
• Well –the -to -I'd -sun -and -at -down -the -sea -soar -look
• And -it -I -know -sing -how -to be -cos-free -I'd -feels

CHORUS

I wish I knew how

it would feel to be free

I wish I could break

all the chains holding me

And I wish I could say

all the things that I wanna say

Say 'em loud say 'em clear

For the whole wide world to hear

Say 'em loud say 'em clear

For the whole wide world to hear

Say 'em loud say 'em clear

For the whole wide world to hear

PHONETICS:

• / wʌn lʌv / / wʌn blʌd / / wʌn laif /
• / juv_gɒtə du: wɒt ju ʃʊd /
• / wʌn laif wɪð i:tʃ 'ʌðər /
• / sist'ərs br'ʌðər /
• /wʌn laif bət wi_ə nɒt d seim /
• /wi gɒtə 'kæri i:tʃ 'ʌðər /
• / wʌn /

I knew how it would feel to be free

I knew how it would feel to be free



Writing: Definitions


Welcome to “My Planet, My Space”
My name is _______________
I am ____ and I live ____________________
My number one of everything:
Colour:________________________________
Possession:_____________________________
Time of the day:_________________________
Season of the year:______________________
Fragance:______________________________
Writer:_________________________________
Fictional character:_______________________
Music group / artist: ______________________
TV show: ________________________________
Film/movie: ______________________________
Actor / actress ___________________________
Time in history:___________________________
Place:___________________________________
Food: ____________________________________
Sports: ___________________________________
Here's some more information about me:
I love _________________ but I hate ________________
The person / thing, who / which annoys me most __________
Sometimes, I'm scared of ______________________________
If I were an animal, _________________________________
My best friend would describe me as ____________________
If I could change my name, it would be ___________________
My idea of happiness is________________________________
My idea of misery is___________________________________
I can't resist __________________________________________
My favourite words in the world are______________________
My aim in life is_______________________________________
My message to the world_______________________________

Speaking: Glossary of ICT terms


Guess the word:

Audio-mp3
It is a digital encoding format using a form of data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, encoding for the transfer and playback of music on digital players.
Blog
is a Website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video
Compact Disc
It is a storage medium capable of storing programs and data. They are available in two formats CD-R and CDRW.
Downloading
It is the transmission of a file from one computer system to another, usually smaller computer system.
Search Engine
It is a site designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. Information may consist of web pages, images and other types of files. Google is the most famous one
Firewall
Software that protects the computer from persons accessing the services and data held on a computer for malicious purposes.
Google
It is the world's most popular search engine which looks for Web pages not just by content and keywords, but by how many other pages linked.(Also, the large number 10100 )
Hacking
Term used to describe the unauthorised access of a computer as a means to gain information that the hacker is not entitled to or to access services and facilities for malicious purposes.
Internet bookmarks
They are stored Web page locations (URLs) that can be retrieved. They easily catalog and access web pages that a user has visited and chosen to save
JPEG
It is a compressed image file format which can contain colourful, high-resolution image data
(Containing K)
WIKI
It is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Backronym for "What I Know Is".
Login
If you are ever asked to enter your username and password, you are being asked to enter your information. It is a combination of information that authenticates your identity.
Microsoft (Powerpoint)
It is a presentation program developed by (Name of the company). And it is widely used by business people, educators, students, and trainers and is among the most prevalent forms of persuasive technology.
(Social) Network
It is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as visions, ideas, friendship, kinship, dislike, conflict or trade.
Online
The term usually means being connected to the Internet through a phone line via a cable modem, or through a wireless connection
Podcast
It is a series of audio or video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal computers. ("Personal On Demand broadCASTING")
(Containing Q)
Webquest
It is a learning activity used by educators in which learners read, analyze, and synthesize information using the WWW. (an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet)
RSS
It is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video – in a standardized format. : "Really Simple Syndication”
Streaming (multimedia)
It is multimedia that is constantly received by, and normally presented to, an end-user while it is being delivered by a provider (e.g. radio, television)
(Information, Comunications,)
Technology
It is an umbrella term that includes all technologies for the manipulation and communication of information.
Uploading
It is sending a file from your computer to another system.
Video
It is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of images representing scenes in motion.
Web 2.0
It is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web.
(Containing X )
(internet) Explorer
It is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and probably the most widely used web browser
Yahoo!
It is one of the Internet's leading search engines and the largest Web portal, providing links to thousands of other websites such as mail, messenger, shopping, news,…
Zip file
A compressed file which involves compressing one or more items into a smaller archive- it takes up less hard drive space and takes less time to transfer to another computer

techi or newbie?

New literacy, new media ,new challenges:
Foreign Languages is skill-based as well as knowledge-based.
With regard to pedagogy and methodology, a “shift of paradigm” is necessary in teacher / learner roles.
New media become increasingly integrated into everyday life. Improved pedagogy which will facilitate “blended” learning to become increasingly time and place independent.
Impact on learners:
• Pupils, teachers and parents consider that ICT has a positive impact on pupils’ learning.
• Pupils’ subject-related performance and basic skills (calculation, reading and writing) improve with ICT, according to teachers.
• Teachers are becoming more and more convinced that the educational achievements of pupils improve through the use of ICT.
• Academically strong students benefit more from ICT use, but ICT serves also weak students.
Motivation:
• Pupils are more motivated and attentive when computers and the Internet are used in class. Multimedia and interactive content is engaging and motivating and students pay more attention during lessons.
• ICT has a strong motivational effect and positive effects on behaviour, communication and process skills.
• Collaboration between students is greater when they use ICT for project work. Teachers consider that pupils work more in cohesion with their own learning styles, resulting in a favourable impact on both academically strong and weak students.
Independent learning:
• Pupils state that they do assignments more their own way when using a computer and their parents consider that they solve assignments more at their own level.
• Teachers consider that pupils work more in cohesion with their own learning styles, resulting in a favourable impact on both academically strong and weak students.
• Pupils with special needs or behavioural difficulties gain in different ways from the use of ICT.
• ICT use at schools can help to minimise the social divide by reducing the digital divide.
• Students assume greater responsibility for their own learning when they use ICT, working more independently and effectively.
• ICT offers learners assignments better suited to individual needs and makes it easier to organize their own learning.
Impact on teaching:
• Increased enthusiasm
• Increased efficiency and collaboration
• Specific ICT uses
Barriers:
• Teacher-level barriers: Teachers’ poor ICT competence, low motivation and lack of confidence in using new technologies in teaching are significant determinants of their levels of engagement in ICT.
• School level barriers: Limited access to ICT (due to a lack or poor organisation of ICT resources), poor quality and inadequate maintenance of hardware as well as
unsuitable educational software are also defining elements in teachers’ levels of ICT use.

Presentation of the session


The new technologies are breaking down borders and barriers. English Language Teachers are confronted with new choices, opportunities and challenges. Thanks to the Internet, access to authentic materials has never been easier; linguistic resources and an exhaustive range of materials are available and ready for immediate exploitation. “Blended” learning is making skills acquisition a time and place-independent task. Although increasing use is being made of ICT for content research, the so-called WEB 2.0 becomes the key to success to exploit these resources on-line and make ELT more motivating and attractive.