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Integrating Technology into a Business English Course
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Integrating Technology into a Business English Course

Part 1 (Professional Development for ESL/EFL Teachers)
Created byEJ Sepp
Last updated 5/2016
English
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What you'll learn

  • Integrate technology into their Business English courses seamlessly.
  • Improve student engagement and retention of lesson material.
  • Introduce and model basic software to students.
  • Be able to (specifically) integrate social media into an ESL course (for Part 1) and produce a mini lesson plan doing so.

Course content

2 sections • 7 lectures • 47m total length

  • Integrating Technology: An overview of Technology in the ESL Classroom5:24

    In this course, Integrating a Technology-based Project into a Business English Course, participants will be guided through various applications that can be used in and out of an ESL Business English classroom.  They will also be asked to think creatively in order to find the most appropriate ways to use these tools to enhance the student experience and improve learning.

  • Course Layout3:31

    This course is divided into 2 Parts and 5 sections, including this introduction. (Part 1 includes the first 2 sections of the whole course.):

    1. Introduction to instructional technology and its potential for enhancing Business English courses
    2. Social media for educational purposes
    3. Google applications for collaboration
    4. Digital marketing applications
    5. Creating a technology-enhanced lesson plan
  • Creative Uses of Technology Applications2:00

    Here we will go over some common applications that instructors may already use begin thinking of new ways to use these applications to enhance the student experience.

    For example, using "Skype reporting" as an in-class exercise that will not only perk your students up but allow them to engage English speakers outside of the classroom.

    This last part of the introduction will also ask participants to come up with a similar idea of their own on how to use an application they are already familiar with to engage students.

Requirements

  • Access to a smartphone and a g-mail account are highly recommended for participants in this course.
  • All the software we will use in this course is free.

Description

This course was created to help ESL and EFL teachers - particularly Business English teachers, navigate technology choices, select appropriate applications for their students' development and execute lessons that are relevant to their students' needs. 

We will be discussing various applications and how they can be used in ESL/EFL classes.  Part 1 (this course) will introduce all topics and thoroughly cover social media applications: how to set up accounts, examples of how they have been effectively integrated and discovery of creative ways to use Twitter, Skype and Facebook Pages.

Who this course is for:

  • Experienced Business English teachers will be able to improve their courses by implementing relevant technology into their courses, thereby engaging their students and enhancing the learning experience.
  • Less experienced ESL teachers who are just getting into Business English teaching will be able to seamlessly transfer their ESL knowledge into a Business English course with the help of online tools and common software that their students already use or can learn to use easily.
  • If you are teaching in a non-tech environment to an immigrant population without access to technology, this may not be the right course for you.

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