TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGYKeep it simple! Keep it short!

STARTING POINTS

Things you need: A Google or Yahoo account A good browser (e.g.Firefox, IE8, Google

Chrome, Opera, Safari) Broadband and/or a good network

Teaching with Technologyhttp://tiny.cc/fo5hvOnline Diarypenzu.com/home

TELLING STORIES

Digital Storytelling Ten tools for digital storytelling in class: http://tiny.cc/sk93b Make digital book/photo book http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/Animation www.xtranormal.com Traditional drawing: http://www.pencil-

animation.org/

SHARING & DISPLAYING

Blogging/Postingposterous.com (blog + Twitter, Blogger & Facebook updates)Google+ http://youtu.be/hC_M6PzXS9g http://mashable.com/2011/07/16/google-plus-gui

de/ Alternatives to Blogger? http://www.tumblr.com/exploreNoticeboardhttp://www.wallwisher.com/Slideshare.comhttp://prezi.com/

AUDIO VIDEO

Alternatives to YouTube http://vimeo.com/ * http://www.edutube.org/Simple Audio recording & Sharing http://audioboo.fm/Instant Screenshots/Screencasts:

http://www.techsmith.com/jing/Listening Resourceshttp://www.esllistening.org/Podcastshttp://www.esllistening.org/listening/

podcasts.html

TIPS

Create short links: http://tiny.cc/ Avoid very large media files  Always edit text offline Use the simplest optionWord Tricks Always use Grammar Check & Readability

Statistics When copying and pasting from web use

paste special>unformatted text

LINKS

For reading/listening resources http://eslreading.org/ http://www.esllistening.org/ Young Learners http://younglearners.eslreading.org/Ebooks/Readers http://esolebooks.com/ Kieran McGovern: http://eslreading.org/

July 21, 2011

Key ELT Concepts presentation: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18286293/euroacademypresfinal.pptx