Hello! Here I am at last, but better late than never. We are going through a very hot (directly & indirectly) period of time at the institute: state & semester exams are in progress. ;)

This is my 1st experience as a serious blogger. I mean I use ICQ, blogs, chats quite often, for the 1st time professionally. J It was said in the introduction, my special interest is IT technologies in language teaching.

This year, inspired by the works of prof. Alla Leonidovna Nazarenko, prof. Svetlena Vladimirovna Titova & all the seminars conducted by British Council, I decided to introduce the so-called method of web-projects into my course “IT Technologies in the Language Classroom”. One of the main points of a quality web-project is to follow the copyright rules. That’s why students have to summarize, retell the existing information on the subject & give their  own view on the studied problem, then they have to annotate all the references & links used etc. And here comes my worry…

In spite the fact that student are highly motivated & eager to work with the Internet making sites, but they cannot work with the received information without assistance & make their research original.

I believe it’s our mutual problem. Dear colleagues, what shall we do to make our students share their view & present the received information more openly & independently & not just, so to say, quilt their works without even sometimes references? Make them more autonomous? I think that our subject is ideal for developing our students’ speaking skills & independent thinking.

Besides I’m interested whether it’s effective to use IT technologies in school & our children are ready to receive information & present it by means of the computer & the Internet?