Technology in class. How to adopt it successfully

A WORKSHOP FOR CREATIVE TEACHERS IN LARISSA

Aphrodite Gkiouri reports

Την Κυριακή 27 Νοεμβρίου, στο ξενοδοχείο Imperial στη Λάρισα, πραγματοποιήθηκε ημερίδα της ELT News με θέμα “Technology in class. How to adopt it successfully”.

H Χρυσάνθη Σωτηρίου σε συνεργασία με τον Δημήτρη Πριμάλη έχουν δημιουργήσει ένα πρακτικό εργαστήρι για τη χρήση της τεχνολογίας στην τάξη, με πολλές ιδέες για την ενσωμάτωση τεχνολογικών εργαλείων στην εκπαιδευτική διαδικασία.

Ο Σύλλογός μας, εκπροσωπήθηκε στην ημερίδα και ενημερώνει τα μέλη μας με το σημερινό report.

A workshop for teachers of English who wanted to learn how to incorporate efficiently technology in their lessons and make them more motivating and engaging. The workshop focused on easy-to- use web 2.0 tools and applications that can:

• motivate learners,

• boost reading, writing, listening and speaking skills,

• facilitate collaboration and communication,

• accommodate personalized feedback,

• encourage creativity and critical thinking in a foreign language context,

• help students immerse into culture and be exposed to authentic language.

A few words about the presenters:

• Dimitris Primalis is an EFL teacher, author and oral examiner. He has been teaching for more than 20 years and applies his knowledge and experience to introducing innovation and change into the daily teaching practice. His views and work are shared in his columns in the ELT News, the BELTA Bulletin and in his presentations in many conferences in Greece and abroad. Dimitris was awarded the 2013 IATEFL Learning Technologies scholarship and he has been selected as Expert Innovative Educator by Microsoft (2014-15). He is working at Doukas Primary school in Athens.

• Chryssanthe Sotiriou has obtained a BA in English Literature from the English Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a postgraduate diploma with distinction in Translation from the University of Mons-Hainaut in Belgium, being a scholar of the ‘Alexander Onassis’ Foundation. She has been involved in the Leonardo da Vinci Sectoral Programme: “Mobile and Wireless Technologies for Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (ΜW-TELL)” and in “Digital School”: Greek Ministry of Education. Her research interests include Project Based Learning (PBL) and the use of social media in Education. She has given lectures in seminars and conferences for teaching and the use of technology to teachers of primary and secondary education. She has more than 20 years of teaching experience, working as an EFL teacher in a Doukas School in Athens, Greece, recently holding the position of Language Coordinator in High School.