From 1st to 12th August, Teresa Lessa Santos and Ana Clara Santos, our teachers of English, attended the course "Educational Technology Today for Language Teachers" at Bell Institute, in Cambridge (England).
Both teachers considered the course as extremely useful as it helped them to upgrade their skills and familiarise themselves with the latest developments in educational technology.
These were some of the topics covered during the course:
- Blended learning: making the most of an online learning platform;
- The flipped classroom: creating and curating video material;
- Using current mobile apps for language learning;
- Using authentic mobile apps for language learning;
- Using games and games features to gamify your classroom;
- Adaptive learning and adaptive learning products, big data;
- Augmented reality;
- Tools for tracking student progress;
- Digital test-creation;
- Using your interactive white board to the maximum;
- Online project work and e-portfolios;
- Cloud computing and collaboration tools;
- Using social networks to create a personal learning network.
