IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

This is the technology for setting up your own chat-room. If you have made contacts with another school, then it is possible to set up your own chat room using IRC with that school. This is much more satisfactory than using a general chat-room as you can be sure who your students are chatting with.

Today, setting up your own IRC is not nearly as difficult as it sounds. But it does require research and planning. Of course, you can find all the information you need on the web! Although if you have access to a computer lab there may be a person who is responsible for that room who can help.

Listening: Using the Internet in Class

× Why to use the Net? Reasons

× How to use the Net in a classroom?

× Advantages over traditional sources

× Safety precautions

× What preparation is required?

× Possible problems

× What does this type of teaching look like?

× What do students think about it?

The use of interactive whiteboard

Users can connect to a school network digital video distribution system using an interactive whiteboard.

The software supplied with the interactive whiteboard will usually allow the teacher to keep notes and annotations as an electronic file for later distribution either on paper or through a number of electronic formats.

In addition, some interactive whiteboards allow teachers to record their instruction as digital video files and post the material for review by students at a later time.

Using student presentations

• Presentations are a great way to have students practise all language systems areas (vocabulary, grammar, discourse and phonology) and skills (speaking, reading, writing and listening).

• They also build confidence, and presenting is a skill that most people will need in the world of work. The students who are good presenters are better communicators since they are able to structure and express their ideas clearly.

• Presentation skills are extremely useful both in and outside the classroom. After completing a project, a presentation is a channel for students to share with others what they have learned.

• It is also a chance to challenge and expand on their understanding of the topic by having others ask questions.

• Presentations can also form a natural part of task based learning. By focusing on a particular language point or skill, the presentation is a very practical way to revise and extend book, pair and group work.

• The audience can also be set a task, for example, a set of questions to answer on the presentation, which is a way of getting students to listen to each other.

Criticisms

• Although the newness of the technology was initially welcomed by pupils any boost in motivation seems short-lived. Statistical analysis showed no impact on pupil performance in the first year in which departments were fully equipped.

• Sometimes teachers focused more on the new technology than on what pupils should be learning.

• The focus on interactivity as a technical process can lead to some relatively mundane activities being over-valued. Such an emphasis on interactivity was particularly prevalent in classes with lower-ability students.

• In lower-ability groups it could actually slow the pace of whole class learning as individual pupils took turns at the board.

Listening: Interactive whiteboard

× The reasons for use

× Why is it more than an overhead projector?

× Cartoon effect

× Challenges and problems

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