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5. How to use email Email is one of the most used and useful Information and Comunication Technology (ICT) tools around today. Most of us probably write email in both our personal and proffesional lives, and the same thing is true for many our learners. Before starting to use email with learners, you will need to check that your learners have cartain basic skills in place. Learners need to be familiar not only in mechanics of sending and receiving email and attachments, but also the kind of language used in email, as well as the ‘rules of engagement’, or netiquette, required in email use. Basic skills may be considered in two groups: communication skills and technical skills. There are many ways of using email with learners out of class, learners can submit classwork attachments by email, whic can be marked by teacher, and returned by email. The teacher can email learners a summary of classwork, plus homework or extra material, or updates on classes, after each class or on a...

4. Internet-based project work Why do Internet-based project work? To prepare for Internet-based project work, you will need to do following: ·          Choose the project topic Will your learners be researching famous people, an event or issue? ·          Make the task clear What information will they need to find – biographical, factual, views and opinions? ·          Find the resources Which websites will your learners need to visit? Do these websites contains the information they need and they at the right level? ·          Decide on the outcome What is the final purpose of the project? For example, will your learners be making a poster, a presentation or holding a debate? You can set basic project which is a low-level project and a high-level project. The level of project must suitab...

3. Using Websites Using websites in the classroom Using websites is one of the easiest and least stressful ways of getting started with technology in the classroom. There is a large and constantly expanding collection of resourches on the web, at a variety of levels and covering an amazing array of topics. You can choose from authentic source or ELT-specific sites, minilingual or multilingual sites, sites in multimedia, or just simple text, for those on slower connection. The web is a source of content which can be used as a window on their wider world outside your class, and is – of course – a readily available collection of authentic material. As such, it is a much larger repository of content than would previously have been readily available to you and your students. ELT websites or authentic websites? There are plenty of ELT websites which provide content that your learners can use, for example language practice activities they can do on their own. They provide val...

2. Word processor in the classroom Why use word processors? Word processors can be used in many inventive ways, by both teachers and students. Teachers can prepare, create, store and share materials for their classes by using a word processing program, and learners can use a word processing program both in and outside the classroom, to practice writing skills, grammar and other language points, as well as to present their work. Word processors for teachers: creating materials In this section, we will look at both of these two ‘teacher’ uses of word processors. In uses of word processors for creating materials, you can inserting images and links. Two of the things you will probably want to do when creating materials are to incorporate images into your worksheets to brighten up, and to include links to websites which your students can go to for further research or practice. You also can create form with word processors. For example you can easily set text and multiple ch...