0.75 out of 4!

Ridiculous!

paper on teaching:An ICT-based approach to ELT: Web2.0 and its applications

This paper adopts the format of a review paper and while introducing new technologies based on the notion of Web2.0 tries to identify potential applications of these technologies in ELT.

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Web-based unit: Advertisement

This web-based task is a combination of a webcast, powerpoint, and articulate studio software. The main theme of this task is cenetred around advertisement.
view the task here.

Paper review: CALL-past, present and future by Stephen Bax

In this entry I reviewed the paper "CALL-past, present and future" by Stephen Bax. The original paper can be viewed here.

Paper review: the death of Cyberspace and rebirth of CALL by Mark Warschauer

In this entry I made an attempt to review the paper "the death of Cyberspace and rebirth of CALL" by Mark Warschauer who is a major figure in field of educational technology.

The original paper can be viewed here.

Paper Review: The Internet for English Teaching: Guidelines for Teachers by Mark Warschauer & P. Fawn Whittaker

This entry is a review of the paper "The Internet for English Teaching: Guidelines for Teachers"
by Mark Warschauer and P. Fawn Whittaker. The original paper can be viewed here.

Diary: Presentations: Laptops, new softwares, green movement and other stuff: part two

Presentation is definitely an art. It is a skill that should be developed. The presentations that we all have had have provided us with a very clear message: We all should work more on the art of presentation. Americans are good examples. They are real experts in turning everything into a show, even a war. I can vividly remember the very first day The United States attacked Iraq. They had live reports from inside the tanks heading towards the battlefields. They successfully transformed reporting a naturally dirty stuff into something exciting. There are useful sources available online on tips and points about making an effective presentation. A simple search on the World Wide Web will definitely show us some.
In this entry I have tried to review another paper in the book Innovation in English Language Teaching which I was supposed to present but I couldn't because of lack of time.

Diary: Presentations: Laptops, new softwares, green movement and other stuff

I have acquired something unbelievably valuable. You can perform something relatively well on stage without having the mastery you should essentially have. I owe this great achievement to my own efforts towards finding a new presentation software within the last few month resulting in finding Articulate software. Unfortunately I just could find the free trial version of the software which is a fully functioning version but limited to a 30-day use.
I was supposed to present three papers in the book Innovation in English Language Teaching. But what I did out of the classroom was working on only two of them and what I did in the classroom was presenting just one. This entry deals with the first paper which I presented in the last session of the class:

Designing the Discourse Syllabus by Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter