1. Critical analysis of six technologies
1) Podcasts
2) Interactive whiteboards
3) Blogs
4) Wikis
5) Virtual Learning Environments
6) M-learning

2. Podcasts

3. Podcasts Upside Downside portability – mp3 player learner control DIY
‘wrong kind of podcast’
authoring – not for every teacher

4. Interactive whiteboards

5. Four approaches Approach one Power Point Word CD-ROM Internet
“Always-on Internet”
‘Just-in-time’ teaching

6. Approach two

8. Approach four - DIY

9. Learner response devices
Text to board
Voting

10. memorable presentations ‘savability’ review ‘heads-up’ precise answer
Benefits
memorable presentations
‘savability’
review
‘heads-up’
precise answer

11. can encourage teacher-centred classroom
Drawbacks
cost issues
need to calibrate
‘learning curve’
can encourage teacher-centred classroom

12. Web log (log = journal/ship’s diary)
(1) What is a blog?
Web log (log = journal/ship’s diary)
Hosted separately or on your own site
Linear
Can be commented on or written by those you allow to do so
Visibility
Anything else?

13. Blogs (Web + log)
Student
Teacher
Class

14. Wikis Upside Downside collaborative process writing
‘history’ to see changes
not intuitive
not everyone wishes for peer correction

15. Focus on appropriacy Synchronous Asynchronous Same time same place
Same time different place
Different time different place
Same place different time
Synchronous
Asynchronous

16. Virtual Learning Environments
Upside
Downside
information on demand
appropriacy e.g. Critical thinking
pre /post course tasks
time-consuming to learn
‘blended courses’ pleasing no-one
Features:
Assignments / Chatrooms / Questionnaire /Quizzes / Forum / Glossary / Handouts

17. M-learning - definition
“Different meanings in different communities..”
“learning that happens when the learner takes advantage of the learning opportunities offered by mobile technologies”.

18. Hardware Mobile-phone / Smart-phone iPod / iPod touch / mp3 player
PDA (personal digital assistant)
Laptop / Notebook - Netbook
Tablet PC / iPad / Samsung Galaxy
E-book readers
Learner response devices
Electronic translator

19. Software plus
Dictionaries
Grammar practice
Services
ELT material
Apps

20. Dictionaries - MED

21. Range of interpretations Range of hardware Range of software
Issues – 1. Range
Range of interpretations
Range of hardware
Range of software

22. Design - screen-size ‘Bite-size’ tasks 3. In-class or on the move?
Issues – 2. Design
Design - screen-size
‘Bite-size’ tasks
3. In-class or on the move?
4. Informal or formal?

23. Issues: electronic translators
Upside
Downside
ubiquitous / helpful
listening to lectures
cross- check bilingual / mono-lingual
review – ‘favourites’ / games
stop students guess from context
restrict fluency
mis-used for ‘production’ - writing

24. M-learning Upside Downside buzz value Over-reference to ‘apps’
Split – ELT or authentic?