Learning Technologies for the Classroom is an online 17-module course for teachers of English in state and private schools. The course is also available face-to-face.

The course covers the following areas:

1. Getting started
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 (available free - follow link below)
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

The course is delivered using Moodle (a web-based environment for delivering course content and managing students) and is intended for moderated courses with a trained e-moderator.

Each unit of the online course consists of:

• articles, videos and presentations on the uses of learning technologies
• teaching ideas, lesson plans, ‘how to’ tutorials
• forums and wikis for participants to collaborate in
• exercises to test and extend knowledge
• links to further resources
• opportunities for reflection and learning through practice
• an end-of-level quiz to test the learning outcomes have been met.

If you express interest in the course, please contact Karlygash Tussupbekova, e-mail: Karlygash.Tussupbekova@kz.britishcouncil.org.  We will collect this information for planning purposes and announce the course as soon as a group is formed.