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1. Tips and Activities for Creating a Communicative EFL Classroom Using Online Meeting Software

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   This session, "Tips and Activities for Creating a Communicative EFL Classroom Using Online Meeting Software," introduced several communicative EFL activities for instructional sessions conducted via video-based online meeting software.

2. The Prisoner’s Dilemma – A Game of Decision-Making

   Format(s): Text, Website, Image / Poster / Maps

   How do people make Decisions? This game, presented by The National Science Foundation, is an example of decision science called “Game Theory”.

3. The Flipped Classroom: Preparing Students for In-Class Learning with Online Activities

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This webinar explores ways to enhance student learning through online activities, specifically by modeling one of the latest trends in education today: The Flipped Classroom.

4. The STAIR Framework for Interactive Online Activities

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, "The STAIR Framework for Interactive Online Activities," defines and explores the STAIR Framework, a four-part instructional design approach that builds dynamic student interaction into online or in-class activities.

5. ‘The Classroom’: Science & Technology

   Format(s): Website

   Articles, corresponding audio, and lesson plans on science and technology, produced by Voice of America.

6. CALL Me … Maybe: A Framework for Integrating the Internet into ELT

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article outlines reasons to use (or not use) the Internet in English language teaching, exploring the Internet as tutor and tool.

7. “Look Away from the Screen”: Making Online Learning Three-Dimensional

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This handbook provides specific instructions, activities, and reading materials for participants wanting to improve their English reading abilities. Topics include strategies before reading, while reading, and after reading, strategies for viewing images and interpreting visual texts, and suggested topics for English Club settings..

8. Perspectives on Professional Growth: A Study on the Diaries of Undergraduate ELT Students

   In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article reports on the author's observations of undergraduate ELT students who kept diaries about their professional development during their teaching practicum. The author analyzed these diaries at two stages and categorized the entries into two categories: a concern for the needs of the children of the information age, and a desire for self-improvement and professional growth. The author decided to develop lessons on Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) into future semesters of the course based on the student diaries.

9. Digital Stories: A 21st-Century Communication Tool for the English Language Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article lays out a 12-week digital storytelling project, describing the process in detail, including assessment, and pinpointing issues and challenges as well as benefits the project affords English language students.

10. Podcasting in the Classroom

    In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

    This webinar explores an alternative solution to the challenge of providing students enough speaking and listening time in the class.

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