Focus on three technologies

• Podcasting

• Wikis

• Interactive whiteboards

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Podcasts - benefits

• portability – mp3 player• learner control• authentic materials – ESP

Podcasts

• Course book - mp3s• Graded readers• Universal podcasting worksheet• DIY

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Podcasts - downside

• “Wrong kind of podcast”• DIY – not for everyone

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Wikis

Wikis

• collaborative• process writing• ‘history’ to see changes

Wikis

• Branching stories• Vocabulary • Essay

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Wikis - downside

• not always intuitive• not all students want peer

correction

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Interactive whiteboards

• The basics• Features• Issues• Approaches

The basics

Hardware

PrometheanSMARTMimios / e-beam

Features

• Icons – pen tool / highlighter tool• Erase• Draw tool – shapes• Screen reveal

Spotlight tool

Software – four approaches

Software

• Power Point • Word • Excel• CD-ROMs• Internet – embed hyperlink• Macmillan English Campus• “Always-on Internet” • ‘Just-in-time’ teaching

IWB software

Courseware – ‘whiteboardable’ / “content +”

Listening

All audio on one place

Highlight the script to hear a chunk

Learner response devices

Text to board

Voting

Courseware

• Promotion of ‘heads-up’• Reveal specific answers

DIY

Issues

• The ‘digital divide’• The IWB is NOT ‘interactive’• Teacher-centred approaches• Over-use• Calibrate

Overview

• Provide an over of NT• Describe new pedagogies• Critically analyse three

technologies– Podcasts– Wikis– Interactive whiteboards

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What to do now……?

• www.te4be.com• www.psa.eu.com

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