Considering the economic conditions of nowadays China, I think it's very hard to achieve the free and liberated teaching and learning the article talks about in the universities in China. In my university, there are computers and projectors in classrooms for daily teaching. But these equipments can only be used at fixed location and fixed time. We can not achieve the flexibility that IT can really bring us. And also, not all teachers make frequent use of these equipments. Some teachers including me prefer using these equipments in teaching and, with the help of these equipments, I can show things to students that text books can not make an impression in students' minds. This way of teaching also arouses interests of student. But, some teachers only consider these applications of IT as a kind of distraction and text books are their only belief. It seems to me that they avoid using the equipments on purpose.
This is the general situation of using IT in my university. And as far as I know, the application of IT in my university is a lot better than in many other universities. So, there are a lot jobs to do to realize flexibility, freedom and liberation that IT can bring us in China.
2007年3月11日
Revised webography
My topic is about IT-enhanced teaching and learning of English listening
1. ABOUT
url: http://esl.about.com/od/englishlistening/English_Listening_Skills_and_ActivitiesEffective_Listening_Practice.htm
This site is sponsored by About, Inc., a part of The New York Times Company. Contact information can be found at http://ourstory.about.com/contact.htm . Students, educaters of English and researchers in teaching and learning English are among the target audiences.And the purpose of the site is clearly stated as "offer practical advice and solutions for every day life. Wherever you land on the new About.com, you'll find other content that is relevant to your interests." There are links to other sites and they work well. this is a comprehensive site which is not only for English learners but also for those who have interests in other fields like business and so on. The site is not regularly updated. there are links summarizing updates. I found that the site is clearly laid out and easy to maneuver. The site map is provided and readers are directed clearly. I think this site is more educational than commercial or political and because of the variety of ideas it collected, it's not a biased site.
2. ENGLISH LISTENING PARADISE
url: http://www.lifepop.com/view.aspx?castid=47324
This is a personal website sponsored by Roamer. Contact information is provided as
tesl@tom.com. The target audiences are those who want to improve their English listening
ability, especially junior high students . The purpose of the site is clearly stated as
"This website is trying to provide you as much the listening material as possible. " So
this site is educational.There are no links to other sites. This site is exclusively for english listening rather than comprehensive. Some of the materials are collected from other resources and some are made by the author. So the quality of the materials is good enough for target audiences. The site is regularly updated. But no links are provided to summarize updates.The organization of the site is succinct. because of the sources of the materials, I think the site is objective.
3.ENGLISH CORNER
url: http://www.cycnet.com/englishcorner/listening/index.htm
This site is sponsored by Cycnet.com. Contact information is provided as english@cycnet.com. The target audiences are those who want to improve their listening ability. The site does not state its purpose. links to other related sites are provided and they work well. This is designed especially for English learning. Many downloads of listening materials are provided, which is very convinient.No site map is provided. The listening materials and directions for improving listening ability provided are from VOA,movies and some other published resoureces, so i think the quality of these materials are good for English learners and objective.
4. THE TEACHING ENGLISH
url: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/listen/listen_frame.shtmlThis site is sponsored by both the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British Council, both of which receive funding from the UK government for their work. The project is non-commercial and as such all content and material on the site is and will always be free to access. The materials on this site are designed for non-native speaker teachers of English working predominantly in secondary education in state schools around the world. The site is designed to help teachers of English exchange their thoughts, ideas and materials and to provide materials, activities and ideas for teaching. Also, many links to English teaching are available and they work well. The content is well designed and no site map are provided.
5.TEACHING TODAY
url: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/tiparchive.phtml1/7
This is a site sponsored by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the Educational and Professional Publishing Group of The McGraw-Hill Companies. This site is designed especially for teachers. It provides them with teaching tips, web-resources of teaching materials and some research articles for references, which is very helpful for teachers in their daily teaching. This site is very neatly organized and a site map is provided. The content is not regularly renewed. No obvious bias can be found in the content.
6. OHIO ESL
url: http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/listening.html
This site is owned by Ohio University. Target audiences are teachers. Contact information is provided as mcvicker@ohiou.edu. There are no stated purpose of this site. The site is neatly organized. some research articles in pedagogy and lesson plan for teaching listening can also be found. The external links work well. Contents are neatly organized and not regularly renewed.
7. THE STANDARDS SITE
url: http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/rosereview/
This site is sponsored by the U.K. government to provide instructions for English teachers. Some personal ideas on teaching English are provided which can help English teachers from various angles. Different views are presented and no obvious bias can be found, so this site is objective. And the date is showed for the latest updates and the content is not regularly renewed. Many links related to teaching are provided and they work well. The content is neatly presented.
1. ABOUT
url: http://esl.about.com/od/englishlistening/English_Listening_Skills_and_ActivitiesEffective_Listening_Practice.htm
This site is sponsored by About, Inc., a part of The New York Times Company. Contact information can be found at http://ourstory.about.com/contact.htm . Students, educaters of English and researchers in teaching and learning English are among the target audiences.And the purpose of the site is clearly stated as "offer practical advice and solutions for every day life. Wherever you land on the new About.com, you'll find other content that is relevant to your interests." There are links to other sites and they work well. this is a comprehensive site which is not only for English learners but also for those who have interests in other fields like business and so on. The site is not regularly updated. there are links summarizing updates. I found that the site is clearly laid out and easy to maneuver. The site map is provided and readers are directed clearly. I think this site is more educational than commercial or political and because of the variety of ideas it collected, it's not a biased site.
2. ENGLISH LISTENING PARADISE
url: http://www.lifepop.com/view.aspx?castid=47324
This is a personal website sponsored by Roamer. Contact information is provided as
tesl@tom.com. The target audiences are those who want to improve their English listening
ability, especially junior high students . The purpose of the site is clearly stated as
"This website is trying to provide you as much the listening material as possible. " So
this site is educational.There are no links to other sites. This site is exclusively for english listening rather than comprehensive. Some of the materials are collected from other resources and some are made by the author. So the quality of the materials is good enough for target audiences. The site is regularly updated. But no links are provided to summarize updates.The organization of the site is succinct. because of the sources of the materials, I think the site is objective.
3.ENGLISH CORNER
url: http://www.cycnet.com/englishcorner/listening/index.htm
This site is sponsored by Cycnet.com. Contact information is provided as english@cycnet.com. The target audiences are those who want to improve their listening ability. The site does not state its purpose. links to other related sites are provided and they work well. This is designed especially for English learning. Many downloads of listening materials are provided, which is very convinient.No site map is provided. The listening materials and directions for improving listening ability provided are from VOA,movies and some other published resoureces, so i think the quality of these materials are good for English learners and objective.
4. THE TEACHING ENGLISH
url: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/listen/listen_frame.shtmlThis site is sponsored by both the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British Council, both of which receive funding from the UK government for their work. The project is non-commercial and as such all content and material on the site is and will always be free to access. The materials on this site are designed for non-native speaker teachers of English working predominantly in secondary education in state schools around the world. The site is designed to help teachers of English exchange their thoughts, ideas and materials and to provide materials, activities and ideas for teaching. Also, many links to English teaching are available and they work well. The content is well designed and no site map are provided.
5.TEACHING TODAY
url: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/tiparchive.phtml1/7
This is a site sponsored by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the Educational and Professional Publishing Group of The McGraw-Hill Companies. This site is designed especially for teachers. It provides them with teaching tips, web-resources of teaching materials and some research articles for references, which is very helpful for teachers in their daily teaching. This site is very neatly organized and a site map is provided. The content is not regularly renewed. No obvious bias can be found in the content.
6. OHIO ESL
url: http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/listening.html
This site is owned by Ohio University. Target audiences are teachers. Contact information is provided as mcvicker@ohiou.edu. There are no stated purpose of this site. The site is neatly organized. some research articles in pedagogy and lesson plan for teaching listening can also be found. The external links work well. Contents are neatly organized and not regularly renewed.
7. THE STANDARDS SITE
url: http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/rosereview/
This site is sponsored by the U.K. government to provide instructions for English teachers. Some personal ideas on teaching English are provided which can help English teachers from various angles. Different views are presented and no obvious bias can be found, so this site is objective. And the date is showed for the latest updates and the content is not regularly renewed. Many links related to teaching are provided and they work well. The content is neatly presented.
2007年2月9日
Digital Distraction
Every coin has two sides. While we enjoy the convinience brought by Advanced technology, we also have to take a serious thinking on the problems it has brought or might bring to us. From my personal experience here at NIE, it’s really attempting to surf with my laptop rather than take notes of what teachers say, though I seem to take notes seriously and ponder on them. And I believe most of my classmates have the same experience. Mostly it is not because that the lecture is not interesting or informative enough. So in this situation as described by the writer, technology keep us away from concentrating on lecture. But, technology is not to blame. Whether it can serve classroom teaching well depends on how we make use of it. Maybe, in future teaching practice, this will be one of the prblems that I must face. I believe banning the use of laptop when it’s not necessary, when lectures are going on, is a good way to solve this problem. Or maybe, by some technological means, we can control students’ access to internet or the content they can access.
Webography
Language Learning and Teaching
URL: http://llt.msu.edu/vol3num1/hoven/
Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal which began publication in July 1997. The journal seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators in the US and around the world on issues related to technology and language education.
Language Learning & Technology is sponsored and funded by the University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) and the Michigan State University Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR), and is co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL). Language Learning & Technology is a fully refereed journal with an editorial board of scholars in the fields of second language acquisition and computer-assisted language learning. The focus of the publication is not technology per se, but rather issues related to language learning and language teaching, and how they are affected or enhanced by the use of technologies. Language Learning & Technology is published exclusively on the World Wide Web. In this way, the journal seeks to (a) reach a broad audience in a timely manner, (b) provide a multimedia format which can more fully illustrate the technologies under discussion, and (c) provide hypermedia links to related background information. Beginning with Volume 7, Number 1, Language Learning & Technology is indexed in the exclusive Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), ISI Alerting Services, Social Scisearch, and Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences. The content is regularly renewed.
About.com
URL: http://esl.about.com/cs/teachinglistening/a/a_tlisten.htm
From the description of the site, it can be found that this site is sponsored by The New York Times Company. It mainly provides practical advice and solutions for every day life. Contents related to teaching and learning English listening with the help of IT can be found. The purpose of this site is to provide various guidance to readers. The content is well organized and not regularly renewed. All the links work well. It’s useful for learners who want to improve their listening ability or teachers.
The teaching English
URL: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/listen/listen_frame.shtml
This site is sponsored by both the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British Council, both of which receive funding from the UK government for their work. The project is non-commercial and as such all content and material on the site is and will always be free to access. The materials on this site are designed for non-native speaker teachers of English working predominantly in secondary education in state schools around the world. The site is designed to help teachers of English exchange their thoughts, ideas and materials and to provide materials, activities and ideas for teaching. Also, many links to English teaching are available and they work well. The content is well designed and no site map are provided.
Learning To Read
URL: http://www.toread.com/
This is a personal site designed by John Nemes. The purpose of this web page is to improve the quality of reading instruction through the study of the reading process and teaching techniques. It will serve as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of reading research through conferences, journals and other publications. Developments in literacy, professional materials, research and critical issues are provided in the form of links. It’s helpful to English teachers and those who interested in and try to improve their English reading ability. Contact mail is provided. Links work well. Various views on reading are provided, so the site is supposed to be objective. The content is well organized and not regularly renewed.
The standards site
URL: http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/rosereview/
This site is sponsored by the U.K. government to provide instructions for English teachers. Some personal ideas on teaching English are provided which can help English teachers from various angles. Different views are presented and no obvious bias can be found, so this site is objective. And the date is showed for the latest updates and the content is not regularly renewed. Many links related to teaching are provided and they work well. The content is neatly presented.
Ohio ESL
URL: http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/listening.html
This site is owned by Ohio University. It provides listening resources for teachers. Also, some research articles in pedagogy and lesson plan for teaching listening can also be found. The external links work well. Contents are neatly organized and not regularly renewed.
Teaching today
URL: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/tiparchive.phtml/7
This is a site sponsored by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the Educational and Professional Publishing Group of The McGraw-Hill Companies. This site is designed especially for teachers. It provides them with teaching tips, web-resources of teaching materials and some research articles for references, which is very helpful for teachers in their daily teaching. This site is very neatly organized and a site map is provided. The content is not regularly renewed. No obvious bias can be found in the content.
URL: http://llt.msu.edu/vol3num1/hoven/
Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal which began publication in July 1997. The journal seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators in the US and around the world on issues related to technology and language education.
Language Learning & Technology is sponsored and funded by the University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) and the Michigan State University Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR), and is co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL). Language Learning & Technology is a fully refereed journal with an editorial board of scholars in the fields of second language acquisition and computer-assisted language learning. The focus of the publication is not technology per se, but rather issues related to language learning and language teaching, and how they are affected or enhanced by the use of technologies. Language Learning & Technology is published exclusively on the World Wide Web. In this way, the journal seeks to (a) reach a broad audience in a timely manner, (b) provide a multimedia format which can more fully illustrate the technologies under discussion, and (c) provide hypermedia links to related background information. Beginning with Volume 7, Number 1, Language Learning & Technology is indexed in the exclusive Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), ISI Alerting Services, Social Scisearch, and Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences. The content is regularly renewed.
About.com
URL: http://esl.about.com/cs/teachinglistening/a/a_tlisten.htm
From the description of the site, it can be found that this site is sponsored by The New York Times Company. It mainly provides practical advice and solutions for every day life. Contents related to teaching and learning English listening with the help of IT can be found. The purpose of this site is to provide various guidance to readers. The content is well organized and not regularly renewed. All the links work well. It’s useful for learners who want to improve their listening ability or teachers.
The teaching English
URL: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/listen/listen_frame.shtml
This site is sponsored by both the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British Council, both of which receive funding from the UK government for their work. The project is non-commercial and as such all content and material on the site is and will always be free to access. The materials on this site are designed for non-native speaker teachers of English working predominantly in secondary education in state schools around the world. The site is designed to help teachers of English exchange their thoughts, ideas and materials and to provide materials, activities and ideas for teaching. Also, many links to English teaching are available and they work well. The content is well designed and no site map are provided.
Learning To Read
URL: http://www.toread.com/
This is a personal site designed by John Nemes. The purpose of this web page is to improve the quality of reading instruction through the study of the reading process and teaching techniques. It will serve as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of reading research through conferences, journals and other publications. Developments in literacy, professional materials, research and critical issues are provided in the form of links. It’s helpful to English teachers and those who interested in and try to improve their English reading ability. Contact mail is provided. Links work well. Various views on reading are provided, so the site is supposed to be objective. The content is well organized and not regularly renewed.
The standards site
URL: http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/rosereview/
This site is sponsored by the U.K. government to provide instructions for English teachers. Some personal ideas on teaching English are provided which can help English teachers from various angles. Different views are presented and no obvious bias can be found, so this site is objective. And the date is showed for the latest updates and the content is not regularly renewed. Many links related to teaching are provided and they work well. The content is neatly presented.
Ohio ESL
URL: http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/listening.html
This site is owned by Ohio University. It provides listening resources for teachers. Also, some research articles in pedagogy and lesson plan for teaching listening can also be found. The external links work well. Contents are neatly organized and not regularly renewed.
Teaching today
URL: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/tiparchive.phtml/7
This is a site sponsored by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the Educational and Professional Publishing Group of The McGraw-Hill Companies. This site is designed especially for teachers. It provides them with teaching tips, web-resources of teaching materials and some research articles for references, which is very helpful for teachers in their daily teaching. This site is very neatly organized and a site map is provided. The content is not regularly renewed. No obvious bias can be found in the content.
2007年1月19日
Comparison and Contrast (task 1)
Similarities
1. The classroom instruction is teacher-centered.
2. Texts, images, sound, video and animation are included as part of the curriculum.
3. There is a movie projector in the classroom to display visual materials.
Differences
The Road Ahead
1. Classrooms are connected to the network..
2. A large screen replaced blackboards.
3. Teachers spend time with small groups of students working together using a personal computer.
Local circumstances
1. Network is not accessible in the classrooms.
2. There is a blackboard as well as a screen in the classroom.
3. Teachers give lectures to a large group of students without the help of PC.
1. The classroom instruction is teacher-centered.
2. Texts, images, sound, video and animation are included as part of the curriculum.
3. There is a movie projector in the classroom to display visual materials.
Differences
The Road Ahead
1. Classrooms are connected to the network..
2. A large screen replaced blackboards.
3. Teachers spend time with small groups of students working together using a personal computer.
Local circumstances
1. Network is not accessible in the classrooms.
2. There is a blackboard as well as a screen in the classroom.
3. Teachers give lectures to a large group of students without the help of PC.
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