Introduction

=Introduction=

**ICT Projects for Secondary School Students of English:** **The Web 2.0 for EFL Teachers**

__**Abstract**__**:**

Development in ICT is expanding faster than most teachers can keep up with, and yet most of our students, the so called ‘Digital Natives’ (Prensky, 2001) are very much at home with new technology and are coming to expect it in the classroom. In this course, we will be looking at a complete range of tools (from blogs to electronic portfolios, computer games to wikis, and podcasts to Internet video) to help motivate and engage our 21st century learners. Emphasis will be on putting these tools into practice in your own teaching situation.

__**Overall Objectives of the course**__**:**

**1.** To introduce teachers to the wide range of ICTs available **2.** To increase teacher confidence in the use of educational technology **3.** To help teachers plan an ICT project strategy for their academic year

__**Course outline**__**: ( how you aim to achieve your course objectives )**

With 10 modules (2 per day) in total, the sessions will be divided as follows:

a) We'll begin by discussing what tools are available and what they are used for, with examples of what other teachers have done with the tools (20-30 mins) b) Then there'll be a discussion of how the tools can be put into practice in the teachers’ specific educational situation, followed by guided practice (30-40 minutes) c) This will be followed by freer practice using the tools (1 hour) d) When ready, there'll be a 'show-and-tell' presentation of the participants' projects (30-60 mins) g) Finally, we'll have a discussion/evaluation of tool and relevance to teachers' specific educational context (20 mins)

Each session will follow this pattern (based on 5 day, 30 hour course) *

* 30 minutes a day of the course will be set aside for language development for teachers, which will be negotiated with the teachers to best suit their needs.

**Timetable**

**SESSION 1 (9.00-9.50) ** **SESSION 2 (9.50-10.40) ** **SESSION 3 (10.40-11.30) ** **BREAK (11.30-11.50) ** **SESSION 4 (11.50-12.40) ** **SESSION 5 (12.40-13.30) ** **SESSION 6** (13.30-14.20)

__**Trainer Experience**__**:**

Graham Stanley is a teacher at the British Council Young Learner Centre in Barcelona and a social media consultant for the British Council in London. As part of this job, he manages //Learn English Second Life// and the aPLaNet and iTILT European projects for the British Council. He is also a teacher trainer for the British Council and other organisations (MacMillan Iberia) and has written ICT teacher training material, such as the British Council's //ICT & the Young Learner Classroom// INSET course. He has been involved in ICT training workshops for teachers in the UK, Spain, Brazil, Venezuela, and the USA and regularly presents at local, national and international ELT and e-learning conferences (IATEFL, TESOL, BRAZ-TESOL, TESOL Spain, TEA, APAC, etc) as well as developing and moderating workshops for TESOL’s Electronic Village Online, including ones on blogging, podcasting, webpublishing, and digital gaming & language learning. He has a M.Ed. in //ELT & Educational Technology// (University of Manchester) and is the coordinator of IATEFL's Learning Technologies SIG. He blogs at BLOG-EFL and DIGITAL PLAY. He is co-author of a book for teachers called 'Digital play: computer games and language aims' and you can find him on Twitter here.