Contents // Introduction - 9 // A word of advice - 9 // PART 1 DEVELOPING ATECHNOLOGY PLAN - 11 // 1 Define your teaching model -12 // What is your personal technology profile? -12 // How well equipped is your school? -13 // What you need to get started -14 // Organizing your classroom -15 // Literacy and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) -16 // Computer literacy -16 . // Information literacy - 7 6 // Multimedia literacy -17 // Copyright and plagiarism -17 // 2 Being aware of the issues - 21 // Internet security - 27 // The six golden rules of internet security - 27 // Training - 22 // Evaluating technology-based activities - 23 // Final thoughts on implementation - 24 // PART 2 USING OFFLINE TOOLS-25 // 3 Word processing tools - 26 // Working with word processors - 26 // Inserting and deleting - 26 // Cut and paste-27 // Track changes - 27 // Highlighting, circling, and underlining - 28 // PowerPoint and other presentation software - 29 // 4 Interactive whiteboards - 33 // Working with interactive whiteboards - 33 // Understanding IWBs - 33 // IWB software tools - 33 // Publisher software for the IWB - 34 // Making the IWB interactive - 35 // Choosing an IWB - 36 // 5 // PART 3 // USING ONLINE TOOLS - 39 // Contents // 5 Email, chats, and text messaging-40 // Working with email, chats, and text messages -40 // I // è // 6 The world wide web - 45 // Whatexactly is the world wide web? - 45 // Searching the web - 46 // Web browsers - 46 // Search engines - 47
Getting organized - 48 // Bookmarking - 48 // Social bookmarking-49 // RSS feeds - 50 // Internet search-based activities - 52 // Webquests - 54 // Polls and surveys - 56 // PART 4 // USING ADVANCED ONLINE TOOLS: WEB 2.0-62 // Web 2.0 - 62 // Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and digital portfolios 63 // Blogs-63 // Wikis - 65 // Wikis and the writing process - 66 // A class wiki site-67 // Wikis as collections - 68 // Podcasts-69 // Finding podcasts - 70 // Creating podcasts - 70 // Publishing podcasts - 71 // Digital portfolios - 72 // The European Language Portfolio- 72 // Creating your own portfolio - 73 // Digital portfolio using a wiki - 74 // Social networks - 75 // What are social networks? - 75 // Security on the internet on Web 20applications- 75 // Using social networks in EFL teachin g-76 // Image-sharing networks - 77 // Voicethread - 78 // Create your own social network- 79 // 6 // e // 10 Virtual learning environments - 82 // Organizing education on a VLE - 82 // PART 5 LOOKING FORWARD-85 // 11 Technology and differentiation - 86 // 12 The future -87 // What does this mean for you? - 88 // Contents // Glossary- 90 // Useful websites - 93 // 7