[Free] Integrating Technology Into A Business English Course
Part 1 (Professional Development for ESL/EFL Teachers) – Free Course
What you’ll learn
- Integrate technology into their Business English courses seamlessly.
- Improve student engagement and retention of lesson material.
- Introduce and model basic software to students.
- Be able to (specifically) integrate social media into an ESL course (for Part 1) and produce a mini lesson plan doing so.
Requirements
- Access to a smartphone and a g-mail account are highly recommended for participants in this course.
- All the software we will use in this course is free.
Description
This course was created to help ESL and EFL teachers – particularly Business English teachers, navigate technology choices, select appropriate applications for their students’ development and execute lessons that are relevant to their students’ needs.We will be discussing various applications and how they can be used in ESL/EFL classes. Part 1 (this course) will introduce all topics and thoroughly cover social media applications: how to set up accounts, examples of how they have been effectively integrated and discovery of creative ways to use Twitter, Skype and Facebook Pages.
Author(s): EJ Sepp