TeachingEnglish
      Open Space

      This session was very informative. The participants exchanged useful ideas and links. Here you can find some of them.
      Using Technologies with Young Learners by Irina Polyakova
      Irina presented ‘Primary I-Box’ she uses in her classroom. She demonstrated different activities to practise Vocabulary. There are also many games (spelling, beastigrams, challenge and others). Then Irina spoke about ‘Primary I-Dictionary’. She also showed an interactive DVD ‘Kid’s Box’. All these resources produced by Cambridge University Press.

      Cambridge Software for Interactive Whiteboards by Yulia Sobeschanskaya
      Yulia presented Cambridge Digital Classroom – Classware. Classware is software that goes with your course book and helps you bring your lesson to life. Yulia demonstrated how to use Classware using Face2Face Classware as an example. 

      Integrating Web 2.0 Technologies in the EFL Classroom by Svetlana Osipova
      Svetlana reported on Web 2.0 Technologies and how she uses them in her classroom.
      Tips for using Web 2.0 tools:

      • Choose carefully
      • Communicate effectively
      • Collaborate productively
      • Publish efficiently
      • Evaluate authentically

      Examples of useful resources given by Svetlana

      • Voicethread
      • Wallwisher
      • Wikis
      • Google Docs
      • Wordle
      • Letterpop

      Dictogloss in conjunction with IWB and Webquests by Ilnur Minakhmetov
      Dictogloss is a classroom dictation activity when students can reconstruct a short text. You can practice a lot of skills: speaking and writing. There are different ways of using this activity.  Ilnur also spoke about corpora and concordances and he recommended this link:  http://www.lextutor.ca. As for the webquests, Ilnur mentioned the Cutting Edge Resource that anyone can use. For example, if you have Intermediate level Students, you can go to http://www.pearsonlongman.com/newcuttingedge/intermediate/webquests.html . You can go to http://www.pearsonlongman.com/newcuttingedge/, choose the level you need and there you’ll find the webquests. You don’t have to use New Cutting Edge as the course book, but you can use the webquests with your students.

      I’d like to thank all the presenters for sharing their experience with the audience and Maureen for monitoring the session!

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