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ICT and Teacher Training


Trainee teachers should get involved in using ICT in order to include them in their future ELTeaching.

This term I had my students open blogs to post some reflections in their process of learning and to use different features in their entries.

Some of them got really enthusiastic, and some others where even teaching their less expert classmates to use some applications.

The interaction "behind the scenes" (comments) was encouraging. I'm really happy with the results, eventhough not many of the students got to expand their blogs.

One thing we didn't have time for was to set up lessons/activities in their blogs to learn how to use them for teahing/follow up of the lessons they teach in class. Maybe next time...

Some drawback still persist:
not being able to use class time for ICT ,
students' lack of time and internet access,
not having the teacher with them to work with their blogs and other online activities set for the course were some of the obstacles my students reported for this strand of the course.

Click below to see their blogs.


InterCultural Resource Pack



It's been a long time since I updated this blog.
Among several projects I was working with, the Intercultural Resource Pack is the one I'd like to show everybody in this online community.

An over-a-year- long project, worked completely online (5 people in the team: 1 in Argentina, 2 in Brazil, 1 in USA, and 1 in Venezuela) has finally come out to the public, especially for teachers of English who want to develop intercultural awareness in their classes.

Visit

our website and download the pack

use any of the activities and give us a little feedback in our forum

I hope it's of great help.