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Online teaching and learning communities: materials and beyond
Eric BaberEducational [email protected]
Overview
• Introduction• Community tools• Types of online materials• Online communities, resources and
providers• Challenges
Community tools
• Email discussion lists• Web-based discussion forums• Blogs• Wikis
Types of online materials
• Text (Word, .pdf)• Audio (streaming, podcasts)• Video (streaming, vodcasts)• Activities
Text
• Lesson plans• Worksheets (grammar, vocabulary,
skills-based…)• Webquests• Role plays• … anything you can find in printed
form
Audio & Video
• Interviews• Discussions• Debates• News• Topic-based programmes• Teaching/learning tips• Adverts• YouTube/Google videos
Activities
• Quizzes• Matching activitie
s• Jumbled words• Cloze activities
Online communities, resources and providers
• Quia.com• BBC Learning English• British Council Teaching English• english360.com• Cambridge University Press
Quia.com
• www.quia.com• Hundreds of activities to choose from –
mostly online-only• Authoring tools that allow you to create
your own activities• Student tracking facilities• No social networking facilities though
BBC Learning English
• For learners and teachers• www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish • www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/tea
chingenglish
• Lesson plans, quizzes, peer-to-peer discussions, blogs
• The Flatmates soap-opera. Audio files, text, worksheets for use in class
British Council Teaching English
• http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk• Methodology articles• Lesson plans• Activities• Moderated comments and Questions
& Answers
english360.com
• Platform for teachers to produce materials for use with learners
• Teachers can put together “projects” (learning paths) for their learners
• Teachers can use each others’ materials for their own students. Materials authors receive payment
english360.com
• Can incorporate text, images, audio, video, quizzes & range of activities
• Courses can be public or private• Courses currently available include
Sales & Negotiation and Business Presentations in English
• Range of social networking tools (internal e-mail, forums, blogs…)
Cambridge University Press
• www.cambridge.org/elt/resources• Good range of worksheets, infoquests,
articles, podcasts, wordlists and activities• Largely materials that supplement
coursebooks, but can be used on their own• New website specifically for professional
English: www.cambridge.org/elt/pro
Other providers and sites
• www.tes.co.uk/resources (cross-discipline)
• www.teachingideas.co.uk (Primary)• www.eleaston.com (index of websites
dealing with ELT)
Challenges
• Finding good quality materials• Finding materials for your teaching
situation• Balance between bottom-up/free-for-all
and moderated content (example)
Challenges
• Finding good quality materials• Finding materials for your teaching
situation• Balance between bottom-up/free-for-all
and moderated content (example)• Finding one site that does it all: social
networking, professional materials, materials-sharing…
Thank you for attending!
Eric Baber
www.cambridge.org/elt/prowww.cambridge.org/elt/resources