Showcase of new technologies

1. The Dawn of a New Era: Web Technologies for Classroom Use www.TeacherTube.com (Pay Attention)

2. Tech vs. Teacher unknownknown ``…technology has been very effective in studentlearning,`` Zhoo 2003, TESL Journal ``…no conclusive evidencerevealed in comparative studies,`` Burston 2003, TESL Journal Agreement: Technologyis no longer a novelty Blendedlearningenvironmentisideal

3. How could the following sites beimplemented in a regularclassroom? Classroom Management Systems (CMS), Learning Managment Systems (LMS), Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) WorkShare Sites Social Networking Sites LanguageReference Sites

4. Classroom Management www.21classes.com Key features of 21Classes Class homepage to communicate with students Independent yet inter-connected blog accounts for students Central console to manage students accounts with control over accounts and content (50 student accounts per teacher with FREE version) Multiple Options for registration process Review capabilities of student entries Upload images or insert videos Make all or selected students' writings private Selection of templates, customizable headers Hosted application – no installation, automatic updates, no hassle FREE SERVICE with on demand upgrade options

5. Classroom Management www.moodle.org Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment process of lazily meandering, enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity Open source community-basedtools You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle Anyone who uses Moodle is a Moodler. 2005 (1,000 registrations) 2009 (4,800 registrations)

6. Classroom Management www.yola.com Build a website (free web-hosting & free tools) Business oriented www.focusongrammarinteractive.com - Each book comeswith a web code

7. Workshare Sites www.authorstream.com Type in subject to search and hundreds of relatedpowerpointslidescanbeviewed Audio isincluded www.ehow.com www.delicious.com - the biggest selection of bookmarks in the universe

8. Workshare Sites www.slideshare.net www.teachertube.com - sharevideos and audio

9. Social Networking Sites www.lang-8.com - writesomething in targetlanguage and itgetscorrected and translated by others www.voicethread.com group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

10. Social Networking Sites www.writeboard.com - share, revise, compare - web-basedtext documents that let yousaveeveryedit, roll back to any version, and easily compare changes www.ask500People.com -public opinion polls www.livemocha.com - L’apprentissage de langues en communauté - en ligne

11. LanguageReference Sites www.visualthesaurus.com $$ - See concise definitions and examples, and learn how words are connected through different semantic relationships. Hear words pronounced correctly www.allmyfaves.com - categorizedlists of popularwebsites www.wikipedia.com

12. LanguageReference Tools www.britishnationalcorpus.com - a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of British sources

13. Where do we go fromhere? Assign a resourceteacher to investigate new technology and send a quarterly email with links Develop a focus group to createsamplelessonplans usingsome of the new technology Findvolunteerteacher(s) to implementsome of the new technoloy in the classroom and report back on progress and observable results Add money in the budget to sign up for somewebsites (e.g. www.visualthesaurus)