1. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Introduction The Virtual Journey – and Its Limits Questions

2. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Virtual... Reality

3. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Why ICT at school: a legal requirement ! (…) In particular, the curriculum should: promote high standards, particularly in literacy, numeracy and ICT capability promote and pass on essential knowledge, skills and understanding valued by society to the next generation be relevant to children and prepare them for the here and now, for the next phase of their education, and for their future

4. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Benefits of ICT at school (Steve) Kennewell 2004, p. 15: (Meeting the standards in Using ICT for Secondary Teaching) Benefits for Learners: wide range of up-to-date information sources within and beyond school; process information and develop higher quality reports; produce dynamic images to represent relationships; hypothesise and test ideas for themselves; engage in activities similar to those by professionals in the subject; work together in teams; work independently of their teacher;

5. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Benefits for Teachers: Access wide range of up-to-date information sources within and beyond the school; prepare high quality material for pupils to see as a class and to interact with individually; organise a variety of resources in advance of a lesson that can be accessed easily and rapidly for class use; communicate with students outside school hours (email, platforms) [!?!];

6. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Teaching English in 21st Century This is what google says…

7. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com School Kids Today... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8

8. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com And THIS is the ANSWER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4g5M06YyVw&feature=related

9. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com CALL at Beginners‘ Level Even the ABC may be more interesting to learn... Sparky's ABCsSparky's ABCs / game “alphattack”“alphattack” Basic beginners’ conversation as “chat”“chat” Make a mini-movie for “introductions”  youtube Use a free “cartoon-maker” programme on internet: e.g. dfilm.com or digitalfilms.comdfilm.comdigitalfilms.com Create a group for a class on a social network, or on a wiki, e.g. http://www.golivewire.com/http://www.golivewire.com/

10. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Why using ICT at this level? Not because CALL is better than other methods… But it adds variety, creativity, learner independence Often students are better at technology than teacher  motivation Language as such at beginners level is not that interesting  embedding in ICT comes in handy to make it interesting More internet sites: post-it stickers can be produced here: https://linoit.com/session/login https://linoit.com/session/login postcards can be sent from here: http://www.postcards.org/http://www.postcards.org/ comics can be created here: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

11. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Vocabulary... Learn words with slide.com Exampleslide.comExample Or use “wordle”wordle

12. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Intermediate and Advanced 1. Language practice: http://iteslj.org/links/ http://158.132.164.193/CILL/grammar.htm http://www.english-4u.de/grammar_exercises.htm http://a4esl.org/ (there is even a special English-Russian page: http://iteslj.org/v/r/ )http://a4esl.org/http://iteslj.org/v/r/ http://english-zone.com/index.php http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/ (Swiss made )http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/ My collection: http://perino.pbworks.com/EFL+grammar+links http://perino.pbworks.com/EFL+grammar+links

13. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Making Quizzes / Authentic Input Quizzes: http://www.wiziq.com/ http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/http://www.wiziq.com/http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/ Authentic Language Sources: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/teach/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ http://ireport.cnn.com/ (watch reports from contributors or upload your own)http://ireport.cnn.com/

14. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Youtube for Grammar -ly movie by Tom Lehrer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2Ff8H7oVo-ly movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2Ff8H7oVo “silent –e” by Tom Lehrer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91BQqdNOUxs“silent –e” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91BQqdNOUxs Go to youtube and find more about any subject of grammar you like… (but careful: some films are extremely boring!)

15. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Webquests To find out what webquests are, go to this page: http://webquest.org/index.php http://webquest.org/index.php “prefabricated” webquests on the net, such as these: http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer- ramazani/Links/webquests.htm#Templates%20for%20cr eating%20Web%20Quests http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer- ramazani/Links/webquests.htm#Templates%20for%20cr eating%20Web%20Quests A grid for evaluation of webquests can be found here: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquestrubric.html http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquestrubric.html Examples by trainees: http://landtwing.pbworks.com/Webquests http://landtwing.pbworks.com/Webquests

16. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Working with Stories Picture or photo stories using presentation software (PowerPoint, Keynote, Open Office) or “bubblr” : http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/ http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/ illustration, animation and sound are the enriching elements Try a “mini-saga”: lesson plan by another teacher trainee here: http://mkistler.pbworks.com/http://mkistler.pbworks.com/ Here’s a story task, by yet another trainee: http://myersale.pbworks.com/The-Short-Story-Project http://myersale.pbworks.com/The-Short-Story-Project Storybird: http://storybird.com/ / “MailVu.com”http://storybird.com/“MailVu.com”

17. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Literature / Collaboration comprehensive SwissEduc English Reading List: http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/readinglist/:SwissEduc http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/readinglist/ A wealth of information awaits you there. Collaboration Tools (amongst many other): Googledocs: watch explanation / go there… (www.google.com)watch explanation http://pbworks.com : full-”wysiwyg” Wikihttp://pbworks.com

18. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Where Traditional Settings Beat Technology Rule: the higher the language level the more traditional settings, especially for speaking. W H Y ? Language is spontaneous; it is often ambiguous and often needs immediate clarification, or the correct understanding of the underlying intention of ambiguity, which can be deliberate non-commitment, irony, humour, or even intentional verbal abuse. (cf. Also Peter Grundy‘s opening plenary speech!)

19. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Where Traditional Settings Beat Technology Real discussions invariably beat virtual forum discussions. (“real life blogs” have a different function) Role-play, acting, laughter, passion, shouting, … Non-verbal factors hard to imitate: gestures, tone, body language, facial expression Even with a thousand “friends” in “Facebook” … you might still be alone .

20. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Conclusion: a lot of new tools Teachers have a lot of new tools at their disposition to present materials in a professional way, or to create exciting learning environments. Learners are given unheard-of opportunities and means(up to only little time ago) to practise and use their foreign language. And yet, with all this, we must not forget what language is ultimately made for: the direct exchange with our fellow human beings. There is nothing that can replace the kicks that we get out of a face-to-face encounter with an interesting person made of flesh and blood …

21. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com And that is why the journey to virtual places, fascinating and most useful as it is for practising wildly, should not turn into a purpose of its own, but eventually lead us back to the enjoyment of REAL LIFE. Thank you for your attention – The End

22. 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, hperino@mac.com Contact / Downloads M.A. Hansjürg Perino, University of Zürich, hj@kfr.ch hj@kfr.ch Download materials from: http://perino.pbworks.com/IATEFL-Brighton-2011 http://perino.pbworks.com/IATEFL-Brighton-2011

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