Main Themes of the course: This course is focused on acquiring and developing basic skills that will enable students to use electronic communication tools and Internet resources in teaching English. Students become familiar with specialized websites and interactive educational programs, learn to use, modify and create them. The main attention is focused on the use of the world wide web as a source of up-to-date information and authentic materials that need to be analyzed, modified and prepared for the study of the English language. 1. Basic Internet skills, web safety, ICT in ELT 2. Creating a website 3. HotPot software - basic methodological principles and formats 4. Images, videos, fakes; a hoax project 5. Audio editing 6. Podcasts; interview project 7. IT resources reliability, trolling, fake news 8. Kahoot, Minecraft et al. in ELT 9. Libraries and fulltext resources online 10. Excel + basic statistics 11. Developing the webpage 12. Online resources - dictionaries 13. Projects presentation and feedback Learning outcomes: - will be able to search for a wide range of professional literature on a selected topic (including the development of a high-quality bibliography), - will be able to process text, sound and image and combine them for the needs of presenting any topic, - will be able to publish the created materials online - will be active in completing individual tasks and in their creation (will demonstrate creative activity).
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