Integrating the Internet into the Classroom

1. Integrating the Internet into the Classroom facilitator: Alexei Andreev a_andreev@gorodok.net Novosibirsk State University June 17, 2004

2. Integrating the Internet into the Classroom • Using the Internet in EFL Teaching: Why and Why Not? • About the Course • Browsing On-Line Content Materials • Searching Techniques • Web-based Activity Formats • Creating a Web-based Activity

3. Using the Internet in EFL Teaching: Why and Why Not? • Learner-Centered Approach • Roles of the Teacher • creating a learning environment, • shaping Web-based activities, • facilitator rather than instructor

4. About the Course Integrating the Internet into the Classroom • 3-week distant learning course at Lewis & Clark College, Oregon, USA • 49 participants from Russia, USA, Canada, UAE • Russian participants sponsored by the English Language Office of Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Embassy • Daily assignments, e-mails from the course facilitator Michael Krauss • Workshop discussion page • On-line chat with other participants and course facilitator • Grading grid

5. About the Course Integrating the Internet into the Classroom Course web page www.lclark.edu/~krauss/usia/ Click the “Daily Assignments” link

6. Browsing On-Line Content Materials Marco Polo, WorldCom, Inc. www.marcopolo-education.org • Choose a content-area of your choice • Locate one individual site that could be useful in your teaching. • Describe and evaluate the site you chose so that others can make use of it too.

7. Searching Techniques Searching Engines • Yahoo! www.yahoo.com • Google www.google.com • Alta Vista www.altavista.com

8. Searching Techniques Searching Tips • Use relevant keywords for your search • Use “+” to mark the words that must be in the text; Use “-” to mark the words that must not be in the text Example: +magazine +EFL +teaching • Use quotation marks to search for whole phrases, not single words Example: “go Dutch”

9. Searching Techniques What is the first line of the Beatles song, "Ticket to Ride"? www.yahoo.com www.google.com www.altavista.com

10. Searching Techniques Find a recipe for apple pie which MUST include cinnamon and nutmeg www.yahoo.com www.google.com www.altavista.com

11. Searching Techniques Who won the first Academy award for best actor? www.yahoo.com www.google.com www.altavista.com

12. Web-based Activities Formats

13. Web-based Activities Formats Topic Hotlist Example - China on the Net www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/hotlist.html

14. Web-based Activities Formats Multimedia Scrapbook Example – Exploring China www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/scrapbook.html

15. Web-based Activities Formats Treasure Hunt Example – Black History Past to Present www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hunt_quiz.html

16. Web-based Activities Formats Subject Sampler Example – My China www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/sampler.html

17. Web-based Activities Formats WebQuest Example – Tuskegee Tragedy www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/tuskegee_quest.html

18. Creating a Web-based Activity Filamentality Project (“combining filaments of the Web with learners’ mentalities”) www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil

19. Acknowledgements: • English Language Office of Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Embassy • Department of Information Technologies, NSU Special Thanks to: • Elena Nikitina, vice-dean of the Department of Information Technologies • Alexei Romanenko for technical support

20. to be continued…Integrating the Internet into the ClassroomPart 2June 24, 200412.30 pm – 3.50 pmroom #310, main building • Creating more Internet-based activities • Telecollaboration • Internet-based projects and scenarios

21. Integrating the Internet into the Classroom facilitator: Alexei Andreev a_andreev@gorodok.net