Dear teachers,
On this page we would like to give you some
useful information on our learning portals as well as some suggestions
on how to use the portals in class.
General information
Find general information about our projects and
our team at About Us
.
In addition to our learning portals we have two
blogs which we would like to introduce:
- The Blog Learning Languages Online provide general news and background information on our learning portals. The blog is a platform for exchange with learners.
- The Blog Learning Languages Online – Dicactics informs you and anyone interested in didactics and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) about the didactical composition of our learning portals. Use this blog to exchange didactical ideas with us and other teachers.
Our learning portals need the contribution of
many different people. We invite you to contribute as well! Please send
us your ideas and suggestions on existing or new learning contents.
If your school has a website, a link to our
learning portals would be appreciated. That way you can support us in
reaching a lot of learners.
As it is our goal to get as many learners as
possible interested in our portals, we permit a broad distribution of
the learning contents. Please see Copyright
to learn more.
Using the portals in class
Please use our various learning portals in class.
There are many different ways to do so:
- Let your students work independently on computers. Let them explore our learning portals, choose learning contents they are interested in/according to their needs, or work on learning units which you have given them.
- You can also use the learning portals without computers. For example, print out the contents and hand them out to your students. You may also download audio files and burn them onto a CD in order to play them in class. To save the files, just click on the link "audiofile as mp3" which can be found below every player.
Suggestions and ideas on how to use the learning contents in class
The following suggestions are exemplary and
supposed to give you a first impression on how to use the learning
contents in class. If you have any further ideas, we would appreciate
you sending them to us or sharing them on our Didactics-Blog.
We are also interested in hearing about your experiences with using our
learning portals in class.
- Encourage your students to use the learning portals at home in order to give depth to various subjects or to study further according to their interests.
- Present entire learning units or selected videos to your class by using a beamer and add a follow-up discussion on the respective topic. If your class is experienced in working autonomously, include a internet research on the topic.
- If you have access to a sufficient number of computers, let the students work independently on a learning unit. They can choose the learning units according to their needs and interests. Afterwards you can discuss and reflect on the learning units with the whole class.
- Use learning units for pair work: the students can work on a learning unit together and talk about the video.
We hope we could give you some suggestions for
using the learning portals in class. Our ideas are only a sample of
possibilities of what the portals can offer. In any case the use of
computers in class as a new learning medium can be motivating to your
students. You can foster autonomous learning and adapt your teaching to
your students' needs.
