Technology: selecting and usingequipment for the task at handProjects and Products
- Using the Answering Machine
- Students record a message on an answering machine that is understandable
- Students call the instructor when absent leaving a voice mail message
- Students check the machine voice mail for messages left and report to theinstructor
Appropriate for beginning levels
- Using the Overhead Projector
- Students learn how to create overhead transparencies
- Students practice developing presentations using the overhead projector
- students visit classrooms delivering their presentations using the overheadprojector
Appropriate for intermediate/advanced levels
- Using the Camcorder
- Students develop a short autobiography using photographs of their life.This autobiography is videotaped. Each students video project is combinedon one tape for publication.
- Students roleplay scenarios and videotape each other.
- Students interview each other in small groups.
- Students describe certain parts of their life in small groups.
Appropriate for beginning levels
- Using a camera
- Students take pictures of class members and develop a photo roster of theclass.
- Class keeps track of photo roster adding pictures of new class membersand deleting pictures of dropped classmates. Pictures can be used as partof writing projects or for a class mural.
Appropriate for literacy/beginning levels