1. Critical analysis 1) Interactive whiteboards
2) Virtual Learning Environments
3) Podcasts
4) Blogs
5) Wikis

2. 1. Interactive whiteboards

4. Approach
one
Power Point
Word
Excel
CD-ROMs
Internet
Macmillan English Campus
“Always-on Internet”
‘Just-in-time’ teaching

5. Approach 2

7. Approach 4: DIY
Colour
Layers
Shapes
Group
Lock

8. Interactive whiteboards
Upside
Downside
saving flipcharts
memorable presentations
review
audio in one place
features e.g. screen reveal
precise answers
‘heads up’
need to calibrate
time to learn!
cost
business English software?
can encourage Teacher- centred classroom
technology not yet ‘invisible’

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

10. Features Features: Assignments Chatrooms Questionnaires Quizzes Forums
Glossary
Handouts s

11. Virtual Learning Environments
Upside
Downside
‘blended is best’?
information on demand
appropriacy
pre/post lesson tasks
time-consuming to learn
host issues (Blackboard to Moodle)
robustness issues (Nicenet)
‘empty’ – need content

12. Podcasts Authentic - news / academic / comedies
ELT Semi-scripted & spontaneous - conversations / discussions / interviews
Podcasts for intensive listening - with transcripts and questions
Podcasts for background listening - mp3 players / in the car
Podcasts with a specific focus - topic based / grammar focus....

13. Mp3 audio files accompany published materials Accompany graded readers.
Mp3 audio files
accompany published materials
Accompany graded readers
Teacher generated - feedback / pronunciation
Student-generated - fluency practice / project work
ELT Scripted - readings / presentations / dialogues

14. Blogs Upside Downside Creative Project work Good for reading
Good for writing
How much to correct student entries?
How to ‘enthuse’ contributions

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

16. Template for new technology
What?
Why? (so what?)
HOW?
Challenges