Audience

Learning Technologies for the Classroom can be used with a variety of teacher audiences, but it is especially intended for:

• inexperienced teachers or teachers in pre-service training who wish to receive a basic introduction to ICT
• experienced teachers who are being introduced to learning technologies for the first time through in-service training

Course Overview

The course covers the following areas and runs over:

1. Getting started – an introductory unit on how to use Moodle
2. An introduction to learning technologies
3. Evaluating and selecting websites
4. Integrating the Web
5. Searching
6. Copyright and copyright-friendly materials
7. Office applications for whole-class teaching
8. Using office applications in a computer room
9. Cyber well-being
10. Ideas for school links projects
11. Using the interactive Web in the classroom
12. Collaborative online writing
13. Online writing for students and teachers
14. Social networking for educational use
15. Practising listening and speaking with online audio
16. Practising listening and speaking with online video
17. The future and the end

Approach and methodology

Like all the British Council online courses, interaction is asynchronous, i.e. conducted over a period of time via email and discussion forums allowing for flexible learning.

The course length is around 10 weeks online.

Participants are assessed at the end of each module. These assignments form a portfolio on which the participants are given a final assessment of Excellent/ Successful/ Unsuccessful.

Participants with Excellent/Successful marks will receive certificate from the British Council in a month time after the end of the course.

Participants are expected to have a minimum Council of Europe Framework (CEF) B1 level of English proficiency (IELTS 4.0).

We also offer optional face to face one day workshop towards the end of the course conducted by British Council teacher to discuss the issues in more depth. The workshop will take place if there are at least 10 participants. It will cost an additional 50 leva and will be held in Sofia.

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