Technology in teaching.

1-Modern Technology in Teaching

Introduction:

     It is something wonderful to use technology in teaching.  Learners are recommended to learn through using technology. It is called electronic learning or smart learning..

Definition:

    It is a means of teaching that attracts all the senses of the learner comfortably and attractively. They are advanced teaching aids that contribute to a great extent in facilitating the process of learning inside the classrooms. It presents the lesson through hearing, motion and visual means.

                 2-Esucational technology

                     in the EL Classroom

Technology Resources and Materials:

1-Google docs. to do:

1- research paper,

2- collaborative reading,

3-online student collaboration and

4-Online student collaboration.

5-Planning and assessment.

6- Visual communication.

7-Writing.

2-Wordpress to do :

1-Writing.

2- Blogging.

3- Blog posts.

4-Webcomposing,

3-Google forms to do:

 Plammimg and assessment through surveys and quizzes.

4-Logomaker to do            :  visual communication.

5-Videonot es to do           :  scaffolding and provide feedback.

6-Internet readings to do   : authenticity.

7-The Web Resources:

1-Voice of America Learning English

2-Corpus of Contemporary American English

3-Grammarly

4-TED Talks

5-YouGlish

.....................................................................

Modern teaching aids: 

The machine shows and presents the lesson smartly through:

1-TV.

2-Radio.

3-Data show.

4-Computer ( Word, Excel, PowerPoint and data-base computer programs.)

5-Internet.

6-The overhead projector.

7-The virtual teaching.

8-The virtual teacher.

9- Electronic Chatting.

10-E- mailing.

11-Electronic Messages.

12-Online learning.

13-Online Distance learning.

14- Cassette set.

15- Digital cameras.

16- CDs.

17- Video tapes.

18- Electronic dictionaries and maps.

19-Smart blackboard.

20- Satellite education channels programs.

21- Lap-top.

22- Classmate laptop.

23-Electronic full screen.

24- The iPad technology.

25-Interactive blackboard

26-Flash memory

27-Online Dictionaries.

28-Blogs

29-Wikis

30-Classroom network

31-Mobile phones.

32-Education Forums

33-The tablet computer.

 34-Puppets.

35-The Robots.

35-Toys.

36-Robotic education. 

37-Coding.

38-Data logging. 

39-Digital systems.

40-Magnetic whiteboards and letters.

41-Listening posts.

42-Chemistry, physics and biology kits.                        

                               3-TILO Electronic learning

 My dear colleagues, you have visited the lesson plan page and lesson presentation page to plan and present your lesson well but not electronically. Now, it is time to know about electronic lesson plan and presentation as the latest steps in this field. "TILO" Electronic programs are several and effective in teaching and learning.  You can say goodbye to the traditional methods of teaching that depend on just attainment and learning by heart. Besides, you can say goodbye to the traditional method of the lesson plan preparation that depends on just copying and pasting from other old notebooks of the previous years notebooks. 

   TILO programs tell the teacher how to do a lesson plan electronically with hyperlinks to the electronic programs that helped him  in doing such a lesson plan . The teacher must have a paper photocopy of that electronic lesson plan registered in a file to be signed by the senior teacher and the  visiting supervisors or people in charge. 

    So, the teacher must have 2 things: an electronic lesson plan on a CD and a paper copy of it, kept in a file.  The electronic programs of TILO include the following programs which you can download through the internet sites.

The electronic lesson plan programs:

1- Windows program.

2- Word program .

3- Excel program .

4- Power-point program .

5- Data-base or Access program .

6- MS pictures manager program and photo story programs.

7- Movie-Maker program.

8- Jing program.

9- Free- mind program.

10-Lingoes program.

11-Anki program.

12-Audicity program.

13-Celestia program.

14-Sight words program.

15-Hot potatoes program.

16-The Sage program.

17-Quandary program.

18-Yanka programs.

19-MS Mathematics program.

20-Electronic lesson plan must have hyperlinks to the previous programs.

21- E. lesson must be copied on a CD and printed on a paper to be kept in a file.

                                     4-WebQuest

Benefits of the Web Quest :
     The Web Quest engages students in an inquiry, problem-based learning activity that integrates teamwork, higher order thinking, and access to information on the Internet .

    The Web Quest provides learners with:

1-  A variety of learning styles

2-  A deeper understanding of concepts through:

A- The use of "case studies.

B- Role-playing.

C- Access to online links.

  Teachers may use Web Quests in the classroom:

(a) As a collaborative activity in which students create a product,

(b) To teach students how to be independent thinkers since most of the problems encountered in a Web Quest are real-world problems,

(c) To teach critical and higher order thinking skills,

(d) To increase competency in the use of technology, and

(e) As a motivational techniques to keep students on task. 
Students learn by classification, inducing, deducing, abstraction, and comparing . 

  Advantages of Web quest method:

1-WebQuests promote time and task management skills while scaffolding the learning process .

2-WebQuest projects integrate critical thinking, cooperative learning, authentic assessment, technology, schema theory, scaffolding, and novice/expert models of teaching .

3-WebQuests can include problem or inquiry-based learning activities that provide teachers with the opportunity to use the Internet and integrate technology into the course curriculum by allowing students to experience learning as they construct knowledge.

4-WebQuests can be identified as quests for knowledge since students are actively engaged in acquiring knowledge by exploring and processing information.

                          5-Other modern teaching aids

1-Camtasia Studio

Camtasia Studio is screen recording and video editing software that captures what you see and do on your screen along with your voice. It can be used to create videos for training, demonstration, tutorials, and many other uses.

2-Canvas:

Canvas is UNC Charlotte’s new learning management system (LMS).  It is available immediately for faculty to begin working in and faculty may begin teaching courses in Canvas beginning Summer 2016

3-Clickers

Clickers enable you to involve and interact with an entire class, while capturing real-time assessment data. Clickers automate and streamline administrative tasks such as taking attendance, grading quizzes and tests, and tracking student and class performance. Data collected from the clickers can be easily integrated with Canvas grades.

It is important to emphasize that any instructor who wishes to use clickers is asked to schedule time for attending the Teaching with Clickers Workshop or a consulting session with a support person from the CTL for the purpose of learning how to use the Turning Technologies system. During training, instructors who wish to use Clickers in their class will receive a clicker and a USB receiver (for practice), and access to a Canvas site (Teaching with Clickers) from which they can learn how to create their Turning Account License, get the TurningPoint Cloud software, receive support, view How-To guides, link to a student support page, and many additional resources. Instructors generally find these workshops as instructional opportunities to support their students.

4-Magara:

The word Mahara is a Maori word meaning "to think." Mahara is an e-portfolio system developed in New Zealand that allows professors and students to store, organize, and display a variety of data. Artifacts can include word documents, pictures, videos, journals, forum posts, assignments, resumes, contact information, and more. Mahara accounts are accessible through your Moodle2 home page.

5-Saba Meeting:

Saba Meeting is a web conferencing program which lets people interact with one another "live" in a virtual online meeting environment. You can meet, learn and collaborate from anywhere you have access to a computer and an Internet connection using multi-way audio and video, application sharing and content display.  All Saba Meeting sessions are automatically recorded, so those unable to attend the live meeting can playback the session at a later time.

Professors and students can open live sessions directly from their Moodle courses for classes, virtual office hours, problem-solving sessions and more. Students can view and download recordings from Moodle courses as well.

In addition, UNC Charlotte faculty and staff only can create Saba Meeting events that can be used to host meetings with remote colleagues.

6-SurveyShare:

Survey Share is a web-based tool designed for:

assessment of teaching and learning

survey research.

evaluations

It is available to all UNC Charlotte faculty  for your courses and research.  You can create and compile your own questions, or you can use or modify any of the 100 available templates.  Survey Share has many powerful features for designing online surveys, yet it is extremely user-friendly.  We encourage you to give it a try!

7-Turnitin

Turnitin is plagiarism prevention system that makes it easy to identify students who submit unoriginal work. It acts as a powerful deterrent to stop plagiarism before it starts.

All work submitted to Turnitin is checked against three databases of content:

a copy of the publicly accessible Internet,

millions of published works,

every student paper ever submitted to Turnitin.

Students can upload the following documents:

Microsoft Word™ (DOC and DOCX)*

Corel WordPerfect®

HTML

Adobe PostScript®

Plain text (TXT)

Rich Text Format (RTF)

Portable Document Format (PDF)

OpenOffice (ODT)

Hangul (HWP)

Internal Links:

1-Click here to go to teaching aids. 

 2- Social media inside classrooms   

                                                       Prepared by :   G .H. H.