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The use of Emerging Learning Technologies (ELT) It is difficult to work out when a technology is mainstream and no longer emerging. As a working definitions if people on your staff have not heard of the term (s), if they have heard of it and don’t know what it is it is and if they don’t know how to use it t then it is an emerging technology for your lyceum – even if it is mainstream elsewhere. This is unlikely to be the case if you keep up-to-date. There are a few ELTs to consider using.
Blogging
Blogs are like online journals with posts that date based, archived and enable a degree of interaction though the use of comments, pingbacks and trackbacks. You can either use blogs to search information using blog search engines and manage the updates using software such as Bloglines. There can be individual blogs and group blogs and the content is determined by the writer. Accordingly they can be official blogs of organizations or be developed and used for the teaching and learning of certain topics in a variety of subject areas. They are in the public domain and for their use in schools they can be developed internally through the school’s network protected by the firewall. It is up to you if you ant to create your own blog,
Integrated learning modules
Open source software has enabled the development of Learning Management Systems (LMS) and content management systems such a Moodle which have to capacity for forums, instant messaging, and online submission of work and the marking of such work. There is a lot of potential to assist teachers with the management of their own work by using such a system. These will require a greater involvement of the technical support of your school such as the network manager in order to get such a system operational and stream lined for teaching and learning.
Wikis
A lot of people have heard of Wikipedia and increasingly students and teachers are aware that you can create you own and use them for teaching and learning. A wiki can be set up where groups of students can add information on a topic and different students writing their own chapter. Here is a capacity for everyone to edit and add to other students work with different levels of permissions. There is wiki software that you get your network manager to install or you can make use of numerous public wikis such as wikispaces.com.
4. Podcasting
The use of audio files is not new but with the development of digital recorders, ipods and mp3 players it has become easier to create, stream and listen to audio files. Podcasts are actually the broadcasting of audio files using software supported by RSS feeds. When the audios have been made they are broadcasted by RSS feeds. Often a web page is associated with the podcasts and you can get them manually. Students can use these audio files for revision, part of project work and integrated into units of work. There is some more technical work to do to convert the Wave files from digital recorder to mp3 and get them to a suitable size to use them on the internet.
5. Online photo galleries
These galleries are often used if you want to integrate all your blog online. Photos on blogs need to be on the internet as well. You can have private or public galleries in internet based storage such as Flickr. With the addition of automatically generated scrip you can also have a little gallery on our webpage or blog. His would be very useful for adding an extra dimension to web pages constructed by students. Also galleries can be use to share photos.
6. Enhancements for Browsers
Increasingly web browsers are adding functionality for their users. Del.icio.us is a programme which enables you to store your Favourites online and then access them from what ever computer rather than having them stored on a dedicated computer. The value of this is in students being about to move around different computers and have access to their Bookmarks/Favourites. Then there are all the additional Plug Ins that add functionality to your browser
ICT appears to give both advantages and disadvantages. ICT in language learning reduces the intimacy of students – teacher relationship that it may negatively contributes to students affective feelings in the process of learning. However, ICT appears as a ‘bridge’ to break the distance and ‘survive’ the learning. In case of distance, teachers can use ICT through video conference to enable them teach or monitor the students learning process. Therefore, the development of ICT is seen as a better way of teaching and learning a certain language compared to the existing methods. Through the internet, teacher or learners can obtain as many as possible sources related to the learned – language; such as text, songs, stories, etc. Those sources can contribute as models of the learned – language use in the real context and in a proper manner. In addition, computer can also be used as a more interactive aid to support the learning of language compared to that of tape recorder, or chalk and blackboard. However, you can see that many of the technology solutions available in the world of education can lead to confusion among the teachers on how to choose the right ICT technology solutions. Let’s take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of ICT tools for education and finding a suitable ICT education solution for the needs of the lyceum.
