USING THE INTERNET IN

THE CLASSROOM

By M.A. Cinthya Olivares Garita

Thoughts on the
Internet

What Is This Tool About?

What Is This Tool About?

Beginnings of the Internet

Beginnings of the Internet

Exploring Endless Resources

Advantages to the Use of

Internet
Incorporates
increasing resources
Enhances skills of its
users
Contributes to
critical thinking
skills, collaborative
and group work.
Expands the
resources available
to the users

Makes the process of

acquiring materials
much quicker than
traditional methods
Offers diverse looks
to a subject
Helps browse
numerous sources in
one sitting
Integration of
different materials

Advantages to the Use of

Internet
Helps access information
in a timely manner
Contributes to get to the
core of the information
relatively quickly
Allows for both
independent projects and
collaborative undertakings
Poses a different, possibly
greater, responsibility as
learners (the risk of being
sidetracked)
Plays a significant role in
fighting some of the
gender biases of today's
education

Requires skills of logic

and inference for the
navigation of sites
Improves the quality of
their projects
Helps engage in projects
with people from around
the world
Offers exceptional
opportunities for
practicing their newly
acquired language
Raises awareness about
the world's diversity.

Disadvantages to the Use of

Internet
Includes any type of
information people can
give out about themselves
to the unknown public
Exhibits an increasing
presence of commercial
sites
Inevitably, it allows room
for incorrect information
(question the reliability of
the available information).
Takes away the time from
more traditional means of
information retrieval such
as reading a book

Entails more than just

finding a source
(involves comparing,
evaluating, and making
decisions)
Some Web services may
be harmful because of
the ways in which they
offer students
alternatives to doing
their work
Includes numerous
issues concerning
plagiarism and work
ethics

Simple Searching Rules

Use the word AND
when you want
information about
two or more key
words together.
Use the word NOT
when you want
information about
one key word but no
information about
the other.

Use quotation marks

around the names of
people, places, or a
phrase. This makes
sure that the words
appear right next to
each other in the
Web site.
To find a picture of
something, type in
image: (what you
are looking for).

Nuggets on the Internet

Speaking
englishcentral.com
Fonetiks <
http://www.fonetiks.org/
> -- "The online resource
for pronunciation and
language study.
RealEnglish <
http://www.real-english.
com/reo/index.html
> -- online videos that
are useful for Oral
Interaction at Beginner
level, Intermediate I,
Intermediate II,
Intermediate III, and
Advanced; free
registration

Teaching English: Spea

king Activities
<
http://www.teachingen
glish.org.uk/try/spea
ktry/speaking_activit
ies.shtml
> -- by the BBC/British
Council on Teaching
English
Conversation questions
for ESL cl
http://www.eslgold.com/
assrooms

Listening
Randall's ESL Cyber
Listening Lab
(www.esl-lab.com)
Apple - Movie
Trailers
(www.apple.com/trail
ers)
elllo.com
eslpodcast.com

http://www.jw.org/inde
x.html
http://www.loquendo.
com/en/democenter/interactive-ttsdemo/
http://www.oddcast.co
m/home/demos/tts/tts
_tran_example.php
http://www.voanews.c
om/learningenglish/ho
me/