Last day at the course!

Audio and video tools

Hello again!

Vocaroo and mailvu are useful audio and video tools to work with the students

vocaroo.com

mailvu.com

gaoer.com to insert media such as a song. Try it!

vyou.com students can work with authentic material at normal speed. For vocabulary purpose, chunks of language...it isn't that difficult!!! Scan them before! Questions and conversation go along the class and there's a lot of interaction! You need an account, though. Also a guest speaker can be invited to your lesson.

Todays Meet

Todays Meet at IWB Canterbury

Chat room for the teachers attending the course

www.todaysmeet.com/iwbcanterbury

Teaching through TV ads

1. A superior story

2. Whats' going on?

3. Tell it like it is

MINIMAL INPUT-MAXIMUM OUTPUT (TEACHER/STUDENT)

Being creative: teachers and students

Really creative and motivating.

AFTERNOON AND EVENING WORKSHOPS

EDUCATION IS NOT A BUSINESS BUT A MATTER OF COMMON SENSE

Good stuff for IWB

Active Inspire- a good and plain tool to work with IWB, a software for Promethean but it works with other like Mimio, Ebeam, Smart. For more info visit the following link

ACTIVE INSPIRE

A learning tool for teachers and students

Is CLIL the future of English Language Teaching?

At the begining of de debate 68% of people voted in favour of the question, surprisingly, at the end of the debate the number went down to 35%. There was no loser, there was no winner. EDUCATION IS LIFE, that is what is all about.

Català is also studied in England

See what I came across in the bookshop Blackwells at the University of Kent. Veus 1 Curs de Català.

Materials

Using WORDLE.NET

Try taxedo.com and tagul.com They are fairly better

Using an IWB in skills lesson

Feeling curious about how to use IWB

Interactive White Boards

Course Summary

Many teachers are expected to use Interactive Whiteboards now because their schools have purchased them. An IWB can be a terrific tool for engaging students, but only if used at the right stages of the lesson and for limited times. In this course teachers will learn how to use an IWB, how to design a lesson where the IWB supports learning but does not take over the lesson and how to develop suitablematerials for their context using the IWB’s capabilities. Each participant will develop an e-diary reflecting on the course and describing possible applications of the coursework to their own educational context.

This course has been designed to help teachers who have little or no experience of computers in

education use IWBs with confidence.

Programme of the training activities.

· Using an IWB: What is it and how does it work?

· Setting up your IWB

· Using the basic menu

· Using the companion software

· How do IWBs support teaching and learning?

· Styles of input and practice: collaborative learning projects, interactive learning and constructivism

· Alternative IWBs

· Respecting copyright

· Lesson planning and task design

· Handling technical problems in front of learners

· Putting it together: integrating video into the curriculum