1. Technology Tools Overview
Deborah Healey, dhealey@uoregon.edu
University of Oregon, American English Institute
https://sites.google.com/site/techtoolsforbusyelteachers/
http://www.deborahhealey.com

2. Your tool collection?

3. Agenda
 Beliefs about teaching, learning, and
technology
 Resources
 Planning tools
 Teaching/learning tools
 Assessment and feedback
 Motivators

4. Starting us off
What are your beliefs about teaching and
learning?
Thumbs up/thumbs down
 The Internet is a great
resource for English language
material.
 Students always do exactly what
teachers want them to do.
 Teachers always make the right choices
about online material.

5. Thumbs up/down
 Teachers need to create a good
environment for learning.
 Technology is a distraction in the
classroom.
 Students would rather talk to other
students than to their teacher.
 Teachers always have lots of time.
 Students are experts in learning with
technology.

6. Beliefs => use

7. Planning tools
Lesson plans and articles:
iteslj.org lp art tech
List of topics:
eleaston.com
Organizing your links:
www.delicious.com

8. ITESLJ Lesson Plans

10. Internet TESL Journal

11. EL Easton
EL Easton – www.eleaston.com
 More links than you could ever imagine
 Business English sample page
 For language learners?
NO!

12. EL Easton

13. Delicious.com
 Organize and find your web links
From any computer
 Tap into what others have found and
saved
 “Social bookmarking”

14. Delicious Sample

15. Controlled material
www.breakingnewsenglish.com
sample search
Ready-made activities for use in class or
outside of class – Everest mp3
Easier: Football sample mp3
Special English:
www.voanews.com/specialenglish advice ...

16. Authentic material
Sources of academic texts:
www.deborahhealey.com/digitallibraries.htm
 DOAJ: www.doaj.org/ ol
 Openj-Gate: www.openj-gate.com/ (not
now)
Literature – why digital?
 Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org home
audio popular

17. ConcepTest
When learners use a website, the teacher
should do which of the following:
a) Give them the web address and tell them to
try it.
b) Give them a list of suggested activities and
have them choose one.
c) Assign a specific task related to information
on the website as homework.

18. Online teacher tools
readability
www.twurdy.com ol – critical thinking
authoring
www.lessonwriter.com ol TIBSample
visual vocabulary
www.visuwords.com screencast

19.  Register to create lessons
 Add a text; choose vocabulary,
grammar points, pronunciation from the
text
 It’s a machine- read carefully to be sure
grammar and vocabulary are correct
 Add graphic organizers, comprehension
questions
 Save or print

20. Assessment
 Rubrics with
rubistar.4teachers.org sample1 sample2-revised
 Surveys with Google Forms
docs.google.com => Forms

21. Feedback and sharing
 Word tools – sample - video
 Insert Comments
 Track Changes – Compare documents
 Sharing with Google Docs:
docs.google.com
 Simultaneous editing from different locations
 Screencasting: ScreenR, Jing,
Screencast-o-Matic
 Sample writing conference

22. Motivation to learn
 What motivates people to learn?
 What motivates students to learn?
 Your ideas...

23. Authentic audience
 Tandem learning
 www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/etandem/etindex
ol
 Projects to join
 http://www.iearn.org/ ol

www.thinkquest.org/en/projects/ ol

24. Authentic audience
 Blog – individual or class:
www.blogger.com
 Web page (wiki): http://sites.google.com
ol
 Student Forums at Dave’s ESL Café
http://forums.eslcafe.com/student/ ol
 TakingITGlobal – student awareness
and cultural forums: www.tigweb.org/ ol

25. Class discussion
 Focus on writing
 Any topic – chosen by the teacher or
the class
 Plan ahead
 Have students work in groups
 Use as homework due in a week
 “Inverted classroom” ...

26. Class discussion
 Nicenet: www.nicenet.org
 Yahoo group: groups.yahoo.com
 Google group: groups.google.com
 Facebook - create a class Facebook
page: www.facebook.com/
 “Inverted class”

27. Time to reflect…
Best use of technology in YOUR
classroom?

28. Overall..
 How much time could you save with
good tools?
 How much motivation could students
gain?

29. QuickWrite
 Take 2 minutes and write down three
things that
 You learned and
 You will share with someone else
 Write another two things that
 You will try to use

30. “It’s not so much the program,
more what you do with it”
(Jones, 1986)

31. Thanks!
Deborah Healey
dhealey@uoregon.edu
www.deborahhealey.com
https://sites.google.com/site/techtool
sforbusyelteachers/