ICT resources in English classroom



      Without a doubt, ICT is a valuable and innovative teaching tool enhancing EFL learning. The rapid growth of  ICT has naturally influenced every aspect of the language teaching process.  Using technology has positive effects on teaching and learning  English. Technology can be applied to teaching practices to enhance and facilitate foreign language learning. Computer, internet, smart boards, cell phones, video games, music players, etc. are used in the target language learning process to raise students’ motivation and language awareness.
  ICT shouldn't just be utilized within ICT lessons. There are many applications out there that allow teachers to dazzle their students with their ICT skills. One of these applications that I would like here to present is  Edmodo. I chose this amazing application because it takes learning beyond the classroom by providing a free, safe place for teachers and students to connect and collaborate —anytime, anywhere.

    Edmodo has been a game changer for me. It describes itself as an educational social network and it does much of what an expensive VLE does. As a teacher, you are able to set up groups for your classes and invite students in. These groups work much like groups on Facebook, teachers, and students can share information and links with each other. Teachers are also able to set assignments with their groups, collect work and mark it digitally. Resources can be uploaded and shared with whichever groups you want. You can even sync your resources with Google Docs. As well as setting assignments teachers can also create self-marking quizzes which are great. Each assignment and quiz grade are then saved in your Edmodo mark book and available to download. This is just a small part of what it can do. All in all a fantastic website.
Where can it be used? Throughout the lesson and the Edmodo app allows access from anywhere if you have a WiFi connection.
  
    The next resource that I discovered  is socrative.We are all aware that purchasing student response equipment can be extremely expensive, factoring in the maintenance costs can almost make buying the equipment prohibitive. Socrative places the response system right where you want it, into the hands of students either through the desktop or their mobile phone. The system can be used to deliver quizzes or simply to gauge the understanding of the class. There is a separate teacher and student portal with allocated group specific code. Simply set up your quiz, share the code, launch the quiz, Socrative does the rest. What's more is Socrative will even allow you to save and download the results, allowing you to analyse and plan your future lessons accordingly.

   What is Prezi ?  In most cases using PowerPoint in your classroom does exactly the job you need. However, if you want to really dazzle your audience, then look no further than Prezi. Prezi offers you an endless scroll of digital paper, offering a non-linear environment to present ideas in a different way. Prezi has changed a great deal in two years, so if you haven't tried it recently then I would urge you to revisit the site. Prezi now offers you the option to customize your presentations in a more bespoke way, so creating your own theme is now possible. One of my frustrations with Prezi in the past was its clunky editing tools. Where matching up text sizes was very difficult, the improvements now make copying and pasting significantly easier. Furthermore, they have improved the navigation options which means setting up your Prezi is now very simple to create and edit.
Where can it be used? As your main class presentation.
 Without a doubt, ICT is a valuable and an innovative teaching tool enhancing EFL
learning. The rapid growth of ICT has naturally influenced the every aspects of language
teaching process. Using technology has positive effects on teaching and learning English.
Technology can be applied to teaching practices to enhance and facilitate foreign language
learning. Computer, internet, smart boards, cell phones, video games, music players etc. are
used in the target language learning process to raise students’motivation and language
awareness Without a doubt, ICT is a valuable and an innovative teaching tool enhancing EFL
learning. The rapid growth of ICT has naturally influenced the every aspects of language
teaching process. Using technology has positive effects on teaching and learning English.
Technology can be applied to teaching practices to enhance and facilitate foreign language
learning. Computer, internet, smart boards, cell phones, video games, music players etc. are
used in the target language learning process to raise students’motivation and language
awareness

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