Topics by Day

Day 1
 “HTML, WWW and URLs”: Web presence
Explore the web as a container for your teaching.

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Day 2
“Can you hear me now?”: Audio in the classroom.
Create audio samples for your students.

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Day 3
“I’m ready for my close-up.”: Video in the classroom.
Video authoring allows students to perform authentic tasks .

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Day 4
“Culture Club”: Music in the classroom.
Use music as a way to expose students to the culture.

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Day 5
“eBooks, eMags, ePublishing”: Digital Reading
Browse magazines and other publications from around the world

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 Day 6
“How do you say...?” Vocabulary Building
Explore strategies and applications that will help build or extend vocabulary.

Translation & Grammar checking
Explore common tools available for translation and composition in the target language.

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Day 7
“On the Air”: Podcasting in the classroom.
Examine podcasting as a way to teach.

Crowdsourcing Pro-D
Discover a rich set of resources that will inform your practice as a language teacher.

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Day 8
“Drinking from the Firehose”: Curating your resources.
Curating and serving up the links you find.

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Day 9
“Works well with others.”: Collaboration Tools
Explore and share a range of applications that will allow your students to collaborate.

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Day 10
“And now, without further ado...” : Presentation Tools
What can students use to present their work other than Powerpoint?

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Day 11
BYOD in the classroom
Portable web-enabled devices in the hands of students.

“Is this for marks?” : Assessment
Tools that can help with self-assessment, tracking and reporting.

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Day 12

Final Unit Plan Presentations

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