My experiences of technology

My experiences of technology in the language learning context is rather limited when compared to what my students can do with computers. I must admit I rely too much on powerpoint to deliver lesson content and I seldom assign students to work with the computer as much as I ought to. Some of my classes, however, have regular online reading sessions where they log in to raz-kids.com and select and read online readers based on their own reading levels.

Nonetheless, I do use google for images and clipart, YouTube for videos (I've used Michael Jackson's 'Heal the World' song/video to stimulate discussion about the need to protect the environment from man-made destruction), starfall.com for animated stories, hkedcity & Daves ESL Cafe for lesson activity ideas. Audacity is a great audio editing software which I have been using a lot (downloadable from www.audacity.com) in my teaching.

I'm teaching and there appears to be an elearning system at my school but it's all in Chinese and all i know is it allows students to post messages to teachers and to each other but besides this that's all i know so far.

I hope to learn how to make full use of blogs and set up my own class blog to use with my 6A students.

Kiat