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The Chacao project
Stages of the British Council-Chacao Municipality project
Results
Reference
Blog samples
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Unidad Educativa Andrés Bello (1 teacher/6th graders)
Unidad Educativa Juan de Dios Guanche (1 teacher/7th graders)
Informatics coordinator from Escuelas de la Alcaldía de Chacao
ICT teacher trainer
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Stage
Planning WorkshopGiving the workshop
Giving mini-class Feed back / planning stage 2
What for? Activities
Giving support (F2F and online)
Designing WBL (F2F and online)
Supervising
Using WBL in the labT
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Educativa Andrés Bello y Juan de Dios Guanche
Place
Workshop 1British Coucil
2 Application of learnt skills in schools
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Wokshop Mini-class Feedback
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Session 1 Session 2
ICT and CALL
ICT in the language classroom
Web-based lesson (demonstration)
Web-based lesson (teachers’)
Authoring software
Blogs and podcasts
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Web-based lesson design
Pedagogical approach (Task-based approach)
Stages of task-based activities
Types of web-based lesson
A Web-based lesson is simply a lesson that includes online resources like blogs, wikis, webquests, podcasts, authoring tools, websites, etc. It is student centered and task-based.
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Printed web-based lesson
Digital web-based lesson
Off-line web-based lesson
Blog web-based lesson
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Lesson plan External material
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Lesson plan (Word document)
External material (Word document)
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Task
AspectsListing
Ordering & sorting
ComparingProblem solving
Sharing personal
experiencesCreative tasks
Outcome Completed list or draft mind map
Information or data ordered & sorted according to specified criteria
Matching or assembling/ identifying similarities or differences
Solution(s) to problem
Social Projects
ProcessesBrainstorming,
fact-finding
Sequencing, ranking, categorizing, classifying
Matching, finding similarities / differences
Analyzing real or hypothetical situations, reasoning and making decisions
Narrating, describing, exploring & explaining attitudes, opinions, reactions
Brainstorming, fact-finding, ordering & sorting, comparing, problem solving
Starting points
Words / Things / Qualities / People / Places / Job-related skills
Jumbles lists / Set of instructions / Sorting according to specific criteria / Half completed charts/ Lists of items
Matching to identify someone or something / Compare to find similarities or differences
Short puzzles, logic problems, real life problems / incomplete stories / Poems / Case studies
Anecdotes / Personal reminiscence / Attitudes, opinions, preferences / Personal reactions
Small group activities / Creative writing / Social or historical research / Media projects / real life rehearsals
Sample tasks
List things found in a particular place / everyday things / things you can do / qualities needed for a particular job
Organize days of the week / Rank items in order of importance / Complete a chart / think of 5 ways to classify clothes you wear
Listen to descriptions of people & identify which person is / Compare ways of doing things in different countries/ Spot the differences
Give advice in response to a letter from an advice column / Guess what’s in a picture / Social studies of young offenders
Talk about things you own, past routines/ preferences and find people with similar ones / What generally makes you annoyed?
Take part in a dressing-up competition / Write a poem / Talk or write about past customs/ Produce a class magazine / Perform interactions
Follow upMemory challenge games / ordering and sorting tasks
Spot the missing item/ reach consensus from rankings/ justify decisions / Odd one out
Students design parallel tasks based on data
Students do a comparing, present, justify & discuss solutions for the class to vote on the best one8s)
Students select the funniest experience, tell the class and give reasons for their choice
Learners keep a diary describing their progress on a project
Six types of tasks (Willis, 1996)
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Pre-task Warming up ; activating background knowledge
Task
Post-task (Follow-up)
Students do something to express themselves in response to an activity.
Further practice to make sure students reached lesson objective(s)
Ask students to match pictures from a menu with a list of words
Go to site play a game (food groups) correct suggestions about food groups organize food using “a lot”, “some”, “little”
ask which food from the group
classmate eats a lot, some or little report
Choose one food from the group in the game. Write about it. Send it to your teacher by e-mail.
Stage Example Description
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Identify topic from lesson or unit
Find sites related to topic
Plan/design pre-task, task
and follow up activities
Lesson plan & external material
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Scan the text
Search skills needed
Task-based approach
Print or store on the computer
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Apply, evaluate and edit (if need be)
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The Maker
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Sheduling lab hours
On-line & F2f support
(technical / class design)
Class observation
Lab support
Feedback
Printed/ Digital WBL Blog WBL
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Logistic
strips of paper with URL’s
Technical
Problems (week 1)
Teacher’s solution
Results
URL mistakes (Mispellings)
Chaos
Time consuming
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A blog is a website that allows an author to publish instantly on the Internet from any Internet connection .
Skills required:
Classroom uses:
(Richardson, 2006)
Definition:
The ones you use for sending an e-mail
A reflective, journal-type blogA class blogA shared blog
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A class blog (website)
easy access (Inside and outside the lab)
Easy to edit lessons
Teacher trainer check and edit well in advanced
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They got engaged
They became aware of things they were learning
(metacognition)
They developed IT skills
They worked at their own pace
Children’s behavior changed
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surprised with students' behavior (less disruptive)
developed IT skills
were in tune with the way their students are learning outside the classroom.
accepted and undertood the student-centered approach
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Egbert, J. (2005). CALL essentials. TESOL. USA
Chapelle, C. (2001). Computer applications in second language acquisition. Cambridge University Press
Information and Communications technologies for language teachers (ICT4LT). Retrieved information January 10th, 2006. http://www.ict4lt.org/en/index.htm
Richardson, W. (2006). Blogs, wikis podcasts and other powerful web tools for classrooms. Corwin Press
Dudeney, G. (2005). The internet and the language classsroom. Cambridge University Press
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