British Side will be organising a series of workshops during the year. If you have an idea you would like to share with your colleagues, please contact Laura Woodward at Bu e-Posta adresi istek dışı postalardan korunmaktadır, görüntülüyebilmek için JavaScript etkinleştirilmelidir .
Moving Pictures: The power of images to boost learner creativity and motivation - Merve Elbirlik and Emine Bülür Civanoğlu
This workshop offers a refreshing approach to using images in the classroom and the positive effects they can have on learner curiosity and motivation. Through a variety of activities the workshop shows how the use of images can move and motivate learners and enhance their overall learning experience.
This workshop will begin with a brief info about our teaching context and how images have helped us so far. Then it will continue with practical ideas and activities that participants can use at various levels with various age groups. The first activity will involve showing participants four doors with different colours and styles and asking participants – if you were running away from someone or something which one would you choose and why? Participants will be asked to share their answers with the group. The second activity will look at using book covers in which we are going to use Tony Humphrey’s book ‘Whose life are you living?’ We will share and exchange ideas on how we can use book covers. The next activity will introduce Picasa and MS Word as classroom resources; participants will attempt to guess the digital images which have been distorted and blurred and will be asked to put the split images into the correct order. The final activity will be ‘draw your sentence’. Participants will be practicing the target grammatical structures by drawing the sentences in a competitive race-type activity.
Saturday, 21 January, 2012, 10.00 -12.00, Training Room, 3rd floor. Please note that for this session, numbers will be limited to 16 participants only.
If you are interested in attending this workshop, please contact Serap Öz at: Bu e-Posta adresi istek dışı postalardan korunmaktadır, görüntülüyebilmek için JavaScript etkinleştirilmelidir by Saturday, 14 January, 2012 at the latest.
WWW: Web Technologies and the Wonders of WIKIS - Işıl Boy
Abstract: In this session, the presenter will explain web technologies briefly, explore the use of wikis in depth, and show some examples. The workshop will explain how to use wikis for writing classes, online vocabulary notebooks, and e-portfolios. Some of the potential problems and solutions involved in this integration process will also be discussed.
Summary: The advent of educational technology has heralded a new era in teaching and learning, the use of web tools in education boosts learning, and gives learners the incentive to participate in the lesson by engaging them more fully. This workshop will be based on the experiences and reflections of an ICT Coordinator integrating web tools into her teaching context and other classes at her institution. The concept of web technologies will be discussed along with a clear explanation of Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and Web x.0. In this workshop, wikis, as a popular and collaborative web 2.0 tool which enables users to contribute fairly easily without requiring any specialized knowledge, will be introduced; and solid examples will be provided to highlight the importance of using them in the classroom. Besides, the use of wikis for writing classes, especially for writing portfolios, vocabulary studies; for the purpose of developing online vocabulary notebooks, and ultimately for preparing e-portfolios will be put forward. It is acknowledged that the integration of technology in education is not without its challenges; hence some of the problems and solutions encountered during the integration process will be explored for the educators who intend to utilize the web tools mentioned with their learners.
Bio: Işıl Boy works as an ICT Coordinator at Yıldız Technical University, School of Foreign Languages, Istanbul, Turkey. She is studying for an MA in Educational Technology and TESOL with the University of Manchester, and this is her second year now. She is also the International Association of Technical English Trainers representative for Turkey, and International Teacher Development Institute’s Associate. You can also visit her blog: isilboy.edublogs.org
Saturday, 28 January, 2012, 10.00 -12.00, Training Room, 3rd floor. Participant numbers will be limited to 25 participants only.
If you are interested in attending this workshop, please contact Serap Öz at:·· Bu e-Posta adresi istek dışı postalardan korunmaktadır, görüntülüyebilmek için JavaScript etkinleştirilmelidir by Saturday, 21 January, 2012 at the latest.
Jazz up Your Coursebook – Laura Woodward, British Side
There’s no such thing as the perfect coursebook. If you find one, please let me know! However, there are lots of fantastic teachers who can make course materials motivating. Yes, you!This session aims to look at some simple, practical and fun ways to ways to help teachers to motivate their learners by jazzing up their lessons through drama and multiple intelligence techniques.
Saturday, 28 January, 2012, 13.00 -14.30, Training Room, 3rd floor. Participant numbers will be limited to 25 participants only.
If you are interested in attending this workshop, please contact Serap Öz at: Bu e-Posta adresi istek dışı postalardan korunmaktadır, görüntülüyebilmek için JavaScript etkinleştirilmelidir by Saturday, 21 January, 2012 at the latest.
Reading Activities: Making It Fun and Collaborative - Yeşim Çakır, Istanbul Technical University
Abstract: Reading is of great importance in basic linguistic knowledge acquisition and English language learning. However, it is a major challenge for teachers to create new and engaging tasks for reading classes. The aim of this workshop is to provide teachers with interesting ideas and motivating activities that they can use in their reading classes. Pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading activities will be presented during the session.
Saturday, 4 February, 2012, 10.00 -12.00, Training Room, 3rd floor. Participant numbers will be limited to 25 participants only.
If you are interested in attending this workshop, please contact Serap Öz at: Bu e-Posta adresi istek dışı postalardan korunmaktadır, görüntülüyebilmek için JavaScript etkinleştirilmelidir by Saturday, 28 January, 2012 at the latest.
