Integrating the Internet into the Classroom

facilitator: Alexei Andreeva_andreev@gorodok.net

Novosibirsk State UniversityJune 17, 2004

Integrating the Internet into the Classroom

1. Using the Internet in EFL Teaching: Why and Why Not?

2. About the Course

3. Browsing On-Line Content Materials

4. Searching Techniques

5. Web-based Activity Formats

6. Creating a Web-based Activity

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

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

About the Course Integrating the Internet into the Classroom

Course web page

www.lclark.edu/~krauss/usia/

Click the “Daily Assignments” link

Browsing On-Line Content Materials

Marco Polo, WorldCom, Inc.

www.marcopolo-education.org

1. Choose a content-area of your choice

2. Locate one individual site that could be useful in your teaching.

3. Describe and evaluate the site you chose so that others can make use of it too.

Searching Techniques

Searching Engines

Yahoo! www.yahoo.com Google www.google.com Alta Vista

www.altavista.com

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”

Searching Techniques

What is the first line

of the Beatles song,

"Ticket to Ride"?

www.yahoo.com

www.google.com

www.altavista.com

Searching Techniques

Find a recipe for apple pie

which MUST include cinnamon and nutmeg

www.yahoo.com

www.google.com

www.altavista.com

Searching Techniques

Who won the first Academy award

for best actor?

www.yahoo.com

www.google.com

www.altavista.com

Web-based Activities Formats

TOPIC

New to the Web? Web-experienced?

TOPIC HOTLIST TREASURE HUNT

WEBQUEST

SUBJECT SAMPLERMULTIMEDIA

SCRAPBOOKS

Web-based Activities Formats

Topic Hotlist

Example - China on the Net

www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/hotlist.html

Web-based Activities Formats

Multimedia Scrapbook

Example – Exploring China

www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/scrapbook.html

Web-based Activities Formats

Treasure Hunt

Example – Black History Past to Present

www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hunt_quiz.html

Web-based Activities Formats

Subject Sampler

Example – My China

www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/sampler.html

Web-based Activities Formats

WebQuest

Example – Tuskegee Tragedy

www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/tuskegee_quest.html

Creating a Web-based Activity

Filamentality Project(“combining filaments of the Web

with learners’ mentalities”)

www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil

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

to be continued…

Integrating the Internet into the ClassroomPart 2

June 24, 200412.30 pm – 3.50 pmroom #310, main building

• Creating more Internet-based activities• Telecollaboration• Internet-based projects and scenarios

Integrating the Internet into the Classroom

facilitator: Alexei Andreeva_andreev@gorodok.net