Using Electronic Resources for Teaching

1. Using Electronic Resources for Teaching By FadiyahAlnuways

2. Outline • Benefits of Electronic tools • Five Promising Uses of New Technology • How teachers can learn using electronic tools • The necessary tools: • Course home page • Electronic sources • Electronic publishing of student work • Multimedia lecturing • Electronic discussions

3. Benefits of Electronic Tools • Electronic tools can make classes more efficient • Lectures more compelling, informative, and varied • Reading assignments more extensive, interesting, and accessible • Discussions more free ranging and challenging • Students' papers more original and well researched

4. Five Promising Uses of New Technology

5. Teachers Learn Using Electronic Tools • Some institutions offer extensive assistance through their computer centers or their information technology services. • Some departments have staff members or graduate student assistants who are hired to handle computer-related problems. • There are also many excellent reference works to help teachers learn about various electronic tools

6. The Necessary Tools: • Course home page • Functions: • Even before the course begins, it can advertise your course to prospective students. • It can reduce demand for paper copies of course materials. • It can present a broader range of material than paper handouts would by including multimedia material and on-line sources. • It act as a twenty-four-hour communications center for news, assignments, and discussions.

7. The Necessary Tools: • Electronic sources • many classrooms can benefit from electronic resources in at least two areas: • supplementary readings • primary sources • The World Wide Web: • Many web sites can deliver primary documents, sound, and images from a wide variety of sources. • Students who explore web sites related to a course can bring compelling evidence and arguments back to the class. • Publishers are building companion web sites around their textbooks.

8. The Necessary Tools: • Electronic publishing of student work • The benefits of creating a system of on-line publications for your course: • student can engage with scholarly work. • It creates opportunities for student collaboration, and for students to take a more direct and responsible role in the learning process

9. The Necessary Tools: • Multimedia lecturing • teachers can use chalkboards, overhead and slide projectors, and audiovisual equipment. • Some schools are beginning to provide classrooms equipped with built-in or portable multimedia computer systems. • The most popular and powerful computerized classroom tool: presentation software such as Microsoft PowerPoint. • easily add captions to the images, digitally highlight or annotate them, or combine multiple images on a single "slide, and add sound, video, and even interactive charts and graphs to slides. • If the classroom computer system has Internet access, you can hyperlink your slides to World Wide Web resources, effectively incorporating that material into your lecture.

10. The Necessary Tools: • Electronic discussions • It is as a supplement to or replacement for face-to-face conversation. • It is more effective because Some students—shy people, or those who are not native English speakers—are uncomfortable in small group discussions and do not actively participate in them. • On-line discussion tools fall into two basic categories: • synchronous (chat) • asynchronous (e-mail, mailing lists, and threaded discussions)

11. Reference Brinkley, A. Dessants, B. Flamm, M. Fleming, C. Forcey, C. Rothschild, E. (1999). The Chicago Handbook for Teachers. Retrieved from http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/075125.html