ICT tips – using ICT effectively in English language teaching
Our ICT Tips are designed to help you to become more proficient in your use of ICT. Based on the technology you use every day – Microsoft Office – and focused soundly on teaching English, Teachit Tips are a gobbledegook-free way of genning up on some technical wizardry.
Learn the tricks that will help you save time and cut a dash in the classroom – from mastering invaluable keyboard shortcuts to using comments in Word. Create magical resources of your own – deconstruct images in Microsoft Excel, use Flash files within PowerPoint presentations, resequence texts onscreen. Discover wonderful new teaching ideas – collapsing texts, word walls and other inspirational approaches.
ICT Tips are for Teachitworld members only, but the first two, in PDF format, are free to all.
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ICT Tip 1 - Using right-click to view a drop down menu (02/04/2008)
Using the right-click menu on an interactive whiteboard is a neat conjuring trick! Tip 1 explores the features and possibilities of this facility in Microsoft Word (remember, the instructions are tailored to Word 2003, although they should work with earlier versions of Word too).
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ICT Tip 2 - Keyboard shortcuts: text selection (02/04/2008)
Flash files can be really useful for moving text around the screen. It can make it even easier if you can add the Flash file to an existing PowerPoint presentation so that it runs automatically.
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ICT Tip 4 - Deconstructing images using Excel (02/04/2008)
An amazing application for Excel! This shows you how to make a picture with a background matrix (an invisible grid), allowing you to add a note to any part of the image.
Here, the traditional process of taking some lines of poetry, cutting and shuffling them is replicated on a computer. The object of the task is to put them back in the right order.
This process involves the simple reduction of a text to its alphabetical listing. The resulting resource is a focus for language study and has some surprisingly powerful applications in creative work and text analysis.
This tip shows you how to create beautiful feint-ruled paper of your own, to your own specification and in ways that print fast with minimum printer ink consumption.
This approach explores ways of isolating target words from a text and discarding or deleting the other words. You end up with a neat list of words from the text that you may wish to examine on their own or use for a cloze exercise.
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ICT Tip 9 - Lexical sieving II: words marked by regular suffixes or prefixes (02/04/2008)
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