TESOL Virtual Seminars November 5, 2009
This seminar focuses on how teachers can maximize the benefit to students of using technology in the classroom while minimizing the burden on themselves. From the seemingly never-ending supply of useful applications, how can teachers select the best ones for our particular teaching context? How can teachers ensure that students gain maximum benefit from the applications that they select? Although highly motivated students may be able to use Internet applications effectively without the teacher’s help, what about the many who do not see English language learning as a priority? This seminar focuses on these students and provides some tried and true techniques for encouraging them to learn. Participants will also be introduced to Moodle, a learning management system that allows teachers to create discussion forums, digital materials, web links, and quizzes for students and to track their usage. Participants receive a user ID that will allow them to experiment with Moodle or even set up a working course for their students.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn
- an enhanced understanding of the basic principles for effective computer-aided language learning (CALL)
- information on specific applications that have proven useful
- techniques for encouraging students to reach their full potential with digital resources
- a basic understanding of the role that learning management systems can play when using web content and applications in the classroom
Target Audience
This seminar will be of interest to all types of English language teachers working with technology in the classroom.
Presenter
Thomas Robb, Ph.D., was an early adopter of digital technology, having started with student e-mail exchanges in the early 1990s followed by a number of student Web site projects, including the Famous Personages in Japan Project and the SL Project for email exchange. He has designed Web sites for Oxford University Press and Disney, coordinated the required computer literacy course for entering students at his university, and taught online courses on technology to teachers around the world. He has also served on the TESOL Board of Directors and has been chair of TESOL’s EFL Interest Section and CALL Interest Section, and he has recently stepped down as President of PacCALL, the Pacific Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning. His current interests including enhancing the functionality of Moodle for language learning and more effective approaches to professional development in technology.
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