MOFET ITEC Calendar

 

Time: 7 pm IST, 12 pm EST, 5 pm GMT

Duration: 1.5 hours
Cost: Free

Description:
The lecture focuses on the lives and careers of excellent school teachers via the concept of 'organizational citizenship behavior' (OCB), which refers to those work tasks that are not mandatory but rather voluntary and performed at the employee's discretion.

In the lecture, the participants will be exposed to varied forms of teacher OCB such as project initiation, helping novice teachers, in-depth lesson preparation, and so forth. Special attention will be paid to the factors responsible for urging teachers to perform OCBs and to the consequences of this kind of behavior. The lecture will further foreground the link between teachers who are self-starters and leading theories of educational leadership.

The webinar will be conducted in English.

The internet presents educators with both an unlimited source of information and varied frameworks for both communication and reflection. This program exposes educators to each of these aspects of internet use and examines how they can play productive roles for teachers and pupils – in the preparation, delivery, and evaluation of lessons.

 

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In the courses, the emphasis will be placed on the didactics of teaching English as a Foreign Language. Practicing teachers will be able to update, enrich and extend their knowledge of EFL education and its application in the classroom. All courses stress how to teach English in a global world.

 

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This course will focus on the applicability of Location Based Services, which are based on Mobile Platforms, for educational purposes. It will address the radical change that mobile technology has effected as a result of the physical contextualization of learning, empowered by the Internet. This change permits Experimental Learning, which is based on Constructivist pedagogy with the Personalization of learning. It utilizes information technology that enables and/or facilitates learning while referring to a given spatial area as an LCMS (Learning Content Management System).

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This course is largely “hands-on” with the goal of learning various Web 2.0 technological tools for teaching and learning. The course will focus on free Web 2.0 tools for furthering communication, collaboration, constructivist and project-based learning, and the creation of compelling course content. Some examples of web-based tools that will be utilized include WebQuests, blogs, wikis, Voicethread, Google Apps for Education, and PollEverywhere. The application of advanced presentation tools like Smart Notebook, PowerPoint, and Prezi will also be discussed. The usefulness of cutting-edge technology models and general instruction will be debated. By the end of this course, participants should have created a number of project-based mini-learning assignments as well as one larger project to share with their colleagues and students. The tools and methods studies in this framework, are relevant to all subject matters from Judaic studies to General ones, and participants can apply them to fit their own fields of work. Example and reference will be made to both Judaic and General studies.

[An enrichment course in the program: Studies toward a Specialization Certificate in the educational Use of Information &Communication Technologies.]Visit our website for additional information.

The course will allow the participants to gradually develop their skills and expertise in the technologies required to make digital stories as well as the pedagogy to integrate the technologies as teachers.

 

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The course will examine the adaptability of classic children's and young adult literature to the English classroom, and integrate the literary analysis of the text to teaching matters such as pre - reading activities, guided reading, post-reading activities, visual dimensions and other issues.

 

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In this course we will examine the goals of education in a society with easy access to vast resources of information. We will ask how the availability of tools that help us "think" and remember influences how we learn, and how we should teach.

[A required course in the program: Studies toward a Specialization Certificate in the educational use of Information &Communication Technologies.]

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In this course, we examine varieties of texts characterizing digital environments. Defining text broadly to include its verbal, pictorial, and multimedia aspects, we analyze how new genres and types of discourse are emerging. By focusing on the interplay between developments in literary theory over the past decades and the rapid technological changes occurring around us, we consider questions such as: How are personal and professional identities constructed in a world of social networks and online interaction and communication with others? Will electronic hypertext replace the book and transform the acts of reading and writing? Are the texts produced in blogs, wikis, and forums replacing traditional literary genres? How do these changes affect the ways in which we teach and learn?

 

We shall bring our own experiences as persons living and working in the age of new media to the center of the discussion and relate to these in light of the insights we gain from the selected readings and from our interaction with fellow course participants. Marshall McLuhan’s famous expression, “the medium is the message”, applies here and connects between the “what” and the “how” in the course as we discuss the new modes of text construction and social and professional communication in and through these same worlds of text.

 

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The objective of the course is not to just expose the participants to the wealth of resources available on the Internet, but also to critically evaluate the usefulness of the materials and activities. We will use open tools whereby teachers can input their own information. We will examine the pedagogies for employing online learning in English teaching. The material will be taught by means of task-based learning.

 

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