Learning Technologies for the Classroom is an online development course for teachers of English focusing on using learning technologies effectively in the classroom. Participants will learn how to use the web as a resource, how to evaluate and select websites, how to set up school link projects and much more. The course is delivered using Moodle (a web-based environment for delivering course content and managing students) in which a group of teachers and a trained moderator work together. Find out more…

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.

Course participants will need to have a computer with a reliable internet connection and up to 60 minutes each day including weekends in order to take part in this course. The course length is around 10 weeks online.

All participants will receive a certificate upon successful completion of the course.

To log on and have a look around, click below and use the username and password

			Go to this page
			Username: demotrainer
			Password: D3mo
			Click on the admin option in the menu

and/or visit our Teaching English website (you need to be logged onto Teaching English first) and try some of the modules for free.