Welcome to EFL ONLINE in association with
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Welcome to EFL ONLINE in association with Diploma in Teaching English Online |
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Module Three
Materials and resources Just as in a traditional classroom
setting it is vital to organise and store your materials so is the case with
online learning You will need to set up files and
folders to store your photographs, audio clips, video clips, along with your
exercise, cue cards and task sheets etc You will find Kodak Photo Voice an
invaluable aid here as it provides a free library which allows you to store and
share both photographs and audio clips once you have loaded these onto your
computer. A scanner can prove a useful asset in incorporating non web based materials into your files and online library There are also companies such as www.scandoc.com which will do your scanning for
you . You just send them the documents etc and they send you back everything
digitally scanned on a c.d ready for uploading You will need to address the problem of copyright. It is true to say that everything of any use on the net belongs to someone and is subject to copyright. Before using materials you you need to
e-mail the owner asking for permission and explain who you are and how you will
be using the materials. If on the other hand you simply refer
your students to view a particular web address then you will not be infringing
anyone's copyright. You will come across free to use
materials and you can draw heavily on these Windows provide a range of clip art and
other media that can be freely used You should certain consider setting up a
web site where you can store you materials for student to be able to access
prior to, during and post their lessons. You can also use the site to post:
If you happen to be too ill to hold your
lesson you can post self study materials and other such items to hold the fort
in an emergency A useful site to visit is www.janmulder.co.uk where you will be able to download
and install a piece of software onto your hard drive that allows you to read and
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