Designing lesson plans

    Objective #4:  to assist preservice and inservice FL teachers in the creation of sample lesson plans that integrate FL communications technologies in their curricula.

    Ok, home stretch!  Look how far you have come:   you know what all those electronic communications technology terms mean, you know how to use the applications, and you have given considerable thought to how they might best be integrated into your FL lessons.  Now it's time to design some lessons around specific technologies.  Below are some examples of lessons that implement electronic communications technologies in the FL classroom.

    E-mail

    Electronic Discussion Groups

    Usenet

    WWW

    IRC

    MOOs

     

    These are just a few samples of what could be done.  I suggest you also consult a handy-dandy book called  Virtual Connections , edited by Mark Warschauer.  This book contains over 125 activities for the FL classroom that use these very technologies you have now mastered.  The activities were written by FL teachers from all over the United States and the world; many of the entries detail long-term and on-going class projects.  You might find much additional inspiration in these pages.  (Now, I also should tell you that my colleague, Bob Ponterio, and I wrote the Appendices for this book.  Think not, however, that we get any beans for hawking this book.  We just happen to think it is a valuable resource for FL teachers who are interested in using electronic communications technologies to enhance their FL instruction and their students' learning.)

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