Team 4 - Sayonara, Jairo A, Edinson and Kevin

Welcome Team 4,
Your mission should you choose to accept it is to go through the following 4 steps individually (20 minutes), then with the rest of the team discuss the use of the different tools in EFL teaching (10 minutes) and finally present your ideas to the rest of the groups (10 minutes). As always, should you or any of your team be lost surfing the internet or caught visiting other webpages, the teacher will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck!!

Step 1
Visit the following site: http://prezi.com/
What is prezi? Do you think this makes a difference when presenting information to students?

Step 2
Check the following site: http://wordreference.com/
Is there anything a teacher could do with his/her students in class using this site?

Step 3
Visit the following online translator: http://www.freetranslation.com/
What are the advantages or disadvantages of using a site like this?

Step 4
Find out what a wordle is. What could teachers do with this tool?

Team 3 - Lina Maria, Flor, James and Bryan V

Welcome team 3,
Your mission should you choose to accept it is to go through the following 4 steps individually (20 minutes), then with the rest of the team discuss the use of the different tools in EFL teaching (10 minutes) and finally present your ideas to the rest of the groups (10 minutes). As always, should you or any of your team be lost surfing the internet or caught visiting other webpages, the teacher will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck!!

Step 1
Go to google and find a page that can tell you a little more about what a wiki is. Think of some ways of using this with your students

Step 2
Check the following online dictionary: http://www.merriam-webster.com/
Keeping in mind the different possibilities in the site how do you think a teacher could include a page like this in his/her lesson plan?

Step 3
Check the following translator: http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
Is a site like this of any help for a student?

Step 4
Find the name of two online encyclopedias. take a tour of the site and make a list of advantages and disadvantages of using a site like these with your students.

Team 2 - Mathew, Alvaro, Mario, Brian T

Welcome team 2,
Your mission should you choose to accept it is to go through the following 4 steps individually (20 minutes), then with the rest of the team discuss the use of the different tools in EFL teaching (10 minutes) and finally present your ideas to the rest of the groups (10 minutes). As always, should you or any of your team be lost surfing the internet or caught visiting other webpages, the teacher will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck!!

Step 1
Go to the following link and listen for a while:http://splendidspeaking.podomatic.com/player/web/2006-10-26T05_07_12-07_00
This is an example of podcasting. How do you think a teacher can use this tool with his/her students?

Step 2
Check the following online dictionary: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Take a look at the different dictionaries they have in there. How could a teacher maximize the use of a tool like this with his/her students?

Step 3
Check the following translator: http://translate.google.com/#
Do you think this is of any use for students?

Step 4
Check the nfolowing example of a webquest: http://its.guilford.k12.nc.us/webquests/harry/harry.htm
Be ready to explain to your partners advantages and disadavantages of this type of activity.

Team 1 - Yenny, Catheline, Jina and Jairo Emilio

Welcome team 1,

Your mission should you choose to accept it is to go through the following 4 steps individually (20 minutes), then with the rest of the team discuss the use of the different tools in EFL teaching (10 minutes) and finally present your ideas to the rest of the groups (10 minutes). As always, should you or any of your team be lost surfing the internet or caught visiting other webpages, the teacher will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck!!

Step 1:
Watch the video on the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
Think of what language skills a teacher could promote using blogs.

Step 2:
Check the following online dictionary: http://dictionary.reference.com/
Go over the site and its categories. What kind of activity (besides looking for vocabulary) could students do in this site?

Step 3:
Go to: http://translation.babylon.com/
How could an English teacher use or not a site like this one?

Step 4:
Find out what concordances are. Are there of any use for an English teacher or student?