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Dr Paula Hodgson, Faculty of Education, HKU
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2j9qw-A0NM&feature=related
Paula’s profile Roles: School teacher; staff developer;
researcher Experiences:
▪ Hong Kong – Schools, IVEs, universities▪ New Zealand – University of Auckland
Expertise: using IT for learning, teaching and assessment
Course outline Approaches to teaching and learning
Three-credit course: blended mode of learning experience
Face-to-face: lectures and interactive seminars
Online: discussion (forum & NanoGongs) in Moodle
Individual blog writing Assessment:
Weekly online contribution (individual) – 50%
Project (group) – 50%
Develop skills in designing language tasks (i.e. reading, listening, speaking and writing) for blended learning through using ICTs;
Develop global perspective when students are connected through using ICTs; and
Develop problem-solving skills when acquiring technical knowledge and skills when designing English teaching and learning activities through ICTs.
Login through FLMS of Fac. of Edu.:http://web.edu.hku.hk/http://web.edu.hku.hk/flms.phphttp://babed.edu.hku.hk/Year 2010-11 Semester 2
2010-11: EDUC2010. Information technology for language education
Moodle: http://babed.edu.hku.hk/login/index.php
Course resources: PowerPoint files, web links Graded activities:
Forum (textual) NanoGong (oral)
YOUR EXAMPLES MY EXAMPLES
http://e3learning.edc.polyu.edu.hk/examples.htm
http://eldss.edc.polyu.edu.hk/showcase
Using electronic dictionary (web-based, digital device, mobile phone)
Learning grammar with computer language games Listening to English songs/audio clips downloaded to iPod, mp3 Doing exercises with Grammar eBook Learning more English outside the curriculum through Siu Sir
http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/siu82english Reading archived and current news and international affairs
through Wisenews Doing exercises with online English Builder Reading Wikipedia (building vocabularies and sentence
patterns) Writing blog entries in English Reading English online newspaper Writing with Word.
AdvantagesImproved writing fluency [frequency and accuracy]; phonetic awareness [phone testing depending on how it is taught]; self-directed learning [online exercises; mp4]
Disadvantages:Developing dependence [auto-correction]; developing inaccuracy in spelling; not the convention in public exams; limited interactions/responses
Writing argumentative essayhttp://goodpoint.elc.polyu.edu.hk/
Practising journalism by writing news articles in bloghttp://ettl.edc.polyu.edu.hk/~egdora/newsblog/2010_1_sem3/
Doing language activities with iPadhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4VWXI4zYPU&feature=related
1. Teacher readiness versus student
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8&feature=fvw
2. Agehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/
hi/uk_news/education/8468351.stm
Content knowledge Creative writing English grammar
Pedagogical knowledge Communicative approach Blended approach
Technological knowledge Using Web2.0 iPad
