Webquests & Podcasts

On the 4th April, during the last session, we learned about :
- types of search tools
- search engines like google http://www.google.com/ in various languages and
 Yahoo  http://www.yahoo.com/ among many others.
We were also taught how to look for information in different search engines at the same time, meta search engine WebCrawler http://www.webcrawler.com/ with images, news, videos ...
 Webquests
 This type of information gives you a structure approach with different pieces of information together combining them in new ways.
The project may obey to the structure:
- Introduction
-Task
-Process
-Evaluation
-Conclusion
 Building Blocks for Webquests: http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/buildingblocks/p-index.htm
We were given some examples of webquests. Here you have only one to have a look: List of webquests http://www.bestwebquest.com/.

Podcasts for ELT

Podcast which means i-Pod + broadcast is a series of digital media files (either audio or video).
You can find them on the web or create your own to use in class.
We were given some tips on the use of technology and videos in ETL : Russel Standard's Website http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/  and explored the software Audioboo iTunes and PodOmatic.
You can find some Podcast examples in:
BBC Podcasts :http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcast
ELT Podcast http://www.eltpodcast.com/
This session was long with lots of interesting material to use in our classes so, to finish up this training course, we were given some bibliography and sitography.