Effective Use of Web-Based Applications in Language Teaching 
Sunday, June 17, 2007 - Sunday, June 24, 2007
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 
Only a few places are still available. Applicants will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis.
Contact us to enquire about availability.
AMSU Course Name: LANG-2.
Details
Date: Sunday, June 17, 2007 - Sunday, June 24, 2007.
Application Deadline: Only a few places are still available. Applicants will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis.
Contact us to enquire about availability.
Capacity: 25 participants.
Language of Instruction: English.
Location: This course will be held in one of the building equipped with computer rooms of the Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey).
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).
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 on Sunday, August 12, 2007 at the Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey): exact location to be specified.
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.
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.
Alessandra Corda (Netherlands) - Coordinator; Faculty of Arts, University of Leiden.
Alessandra Corda holds an MA in Classics and General Linguistics from the Università di Torino (Italy). From 1989 until 1997 she taught Italian at several Dutch institutions, among which the Faculty of Arts at Leiden University. Since 1996 she has been working at this Faculty as coordinator for CALL and ICT in education projects. She is particularly interested in the use of the Internet for foreign language teaching and has published and given seminars on this subject. She has been a tutor for the AMSU courses since 2001 and has worked together with Bart Bonamie, Ton Koet, Willem Verberk and Willy Weijdema.
Willem Verberk (Netherlands) - Consultant in ICT and Languages; Amsterdam Institute of Education.
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. Programme
Sunday, 17 June, 2007
12.00 PM arrival and registration;
05.00 PM Welcome drinks;
07.00 PM Social and cultural programme.
Monday, 18 June, 2007
Morning General technical skills: working with digital resources and web pages;
Presentation of sites with relevant information for language teachers and with language teaching materials;
01.00 PM Lunch;
Afternoon Introduction to collaborative software (e.g. blogs, wikis);
Developing a task with web-based materials;
06.00 PM Social and cultural programme.
Tuesday, 19 June, 2007
Introduction to digital audio and video;
01.00 PM Lunch;
Afternoon Introduction to audio editing software;
Developing a task with digital audio;
06.00 PM Social and cultural programme.
Wednesday, 20 June, 2007
Morning Introduction to freeware web-based software for interactive language exercises;
01.00 PM Lunch;
Afternoon Developing interactive exercises;
06.00 PM Social and cultural programme.
Thursday, 21 June, 2007
Morning Design and develop tasks and activities using the acquired technical skills;
01.00 PM Lunch;
Afternoon Design and develop tasks and activities using the acquired technical skills;
Introduction to synchronous communication software;
07.00 PM Course Dinner.
Friday, 22 June, 2007
Morning Finalizing the tasks and activities;
01.00 PM Lunch;
Afternoon Presentation of the activities to the group;
Seminar wrap-up and evaluation;
06.00 PM Social and cultural programme.
Saturday, 23 June, 2007
10.00 AM Social and cultural programme.
Sunday, 24 June, 2007
12.00 AM departure.
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