Effective Use of the Internet in Language Teaching: What & How 
Sunday, August 13, 2006 - Sunday, August 20, 2006
In conjunction with the University of Amsterdam, Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO)
In this intensive course participants will acquire specific knowledge about Internet applications and resources relevant for foreign language teaching. It will help them create language materials that they can use in their classroom practice.
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Applicant Profile
This course is intended for newly qualified and practising foreign language teachers interested in the possibilities of the Internet for their classroom practice. A basic knowledge of computers is necessary: participants should at least be familiar with Windows platforms and word-processors.
Application 
Applicants should submit their completed application form (by post or fax) as soon as possible, and no later than Friday, June 30, 2006.
AMSU Course Name: LANG-2.
Details
Date: Sunday, August 13, 2006 - Sunday, August 20, 2006.
Application Deadline: Friday, June 30, 2006.
Capacity: 25 participants.
Language of Instruction: English.
Location: This course will be held in one of the building equipped with computer rooms of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) located in the city centre.
Computers: For this course, only the use of Windows computers is supported, there will be no facilities available for Mac users.
Fee: € 745,- (including course materials, welcome drink, access to the cultural evening programme on the AMSU, coffee/tea breaks on Monday to Friday).
Course Dinner (Optional): € 35,- for the Course Dinner on Thursday evening.
Please specify if you wish to participate in the Course Dinner, either on your (pre)registration form or when confirming being awarded a Comenius 2.2/Grundtvig 3 grant.
Grant: COMENIUS 2.2/GRUNDTVIG 3 In-Service Training Grant of the European Union.
Grant's Course Code: NL-2006-004.
Initiators: ILO - Graduate School of Teaching & Learning, University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU).
Coordination: The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU).
Registration: Confirmed participants are expected to register between 15.00 PM and 17.00 PM on Sunday, August 14, 2006 at the Felix Meritis building, located at Keizersgracht 324 in Amsterdam. Registration will be followed by a welcome drink.
Course Leaders
Ton (Anton) G.M. Koet (Netherlands) - Teacher Trainer; Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Ton Koet is a teacher trainer at the Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA). He is particularly interested in the teaching of pronunciation and in the application of speech technology in language teaching. Related: Articles: New Technologies & Language Teaching; Organisations: Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA); People: Willem Verberk.
Links: Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Bart Bonamie (Belgium) - Philologue.
Bart Bonamie (Belgium) has an MA in Germanic Philology. After finishing his studies at the University of Ghent, Belgium, he worked at the same university for the Teacher Training Department at first, and later on for the Department of Education, specializing in digital literacy, youth cultures and integration of ICT in English language teaching. He is currently a lecturer of English at the Department of Tourism and Travel Management at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey. Related: Organizations: Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey).
Links: Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey).
Willy H. Weijdema-Pieterse (Netherlands) - Linguist; Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Willy Weijdema studied linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. She has worked at the teacher training college of the Amsterdam Faculty of Education (EFA), as ICT co-ordinator in the department of languages. She has worked also as ICT co-ordinator in the Institute for In-Service Training in Amsterdam (CNA). She manages a virtual community of Dutch language teachers on the Internet. She participated in projects for creating teachers' portfolios: language portfolios for language teachers and digital portfolios for the evaluation of educators, in the EDIPED Comenius project. She is particularly interested in the application of new technologies to language teaching. Related: Organisations: Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Links: Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA); Vakcommunity Nederlands.
Programme
Sunday, August 13, 2006
12.00 PM arrival
15.00 PM registration
16.30 PM International food testing exercise, welcome drinks and Social and cultural programme
Monday, August 14, 2006
09.30 AM Welcome and getting to know the course location
11.00 AM A first look
- General information about the Internet
- Multimedia, hypertext, hypermedia
- Search engines (I): what & how
13.00 PM Lunch
14.00 PM Finding and using websites
- Search engines (II): using the Internet as a corpus
- Using text, pictures and audio from websites for language activities
- Using HTML editors (like FrontPage, Dreamweaver) to develop web-based language activities
17.00 PM Summary of today's session
18.00 PM Social and cultural programme
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
09.30 AM Websites with 'ready to use' activities for language teaching
- Examination and evaluation of websites
- Possibilities for use in the classroom practice
- Activity: make a list of interesting websites for the language you teach
13.00 PM Lunch
14.00 PM Use of web-based authentic materials
- Examples of use of websites for language activities
- WebQuest: a pedagogical model for the use of websites in language activities
17.00 PM Summary of today's session
18.00 PM Social and cultural programme
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
09.30 AM Create your own activity
- Create one or more (multimedia) activities with web-based materials for the language you teach
13.00 PM Lunch
14.00 PM Concluding the preparation of the activities
- Presentation of the activities to the group
17.00 PM Summary of today's session
18.00 PM Social and cultural programme
Thursday, August 17, 2006
09.30 AM Web-based CALL-programmes
- General introduction: the principles of CALL-programmes
- Freeware software for language teaching: how to work with Hot Potatoes
13.00 PM Lunch
14.00 PM Create your own language exercises
- Create two or more exercises for the language you teach
17.00 PM Summary of today's session
19.00 PM Course Dinner
Friday, August 18, 2006
09.30 AM Synchronous and asynchronous communication
- Use of e-mail in foreign language teaching
- E-mail projects
- Evaluation and design of e-mail projects
- Use of programmes for synchronous communication in foreign language teaching: chatting, audio and video conferencing, programs for virtual reality (MOOS)
13.00 PM Lunch
14.00 PM Presentation of the Hot Potatoes exercises to the group
16.00 PM Seminar wrap-up and evaluation
17.00 PM Certificate award and farewell drinks
18.00 PM Social and cultural programme
Saturday, August 19, 2006
10.00 AM Social and cultural programme
Sunday, August 20, 2006
12.00 PM departure
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