Call ii task 4
- 1. MANAGING A MULTIMEDIA LANGUAGE CENTRE FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING
- 3. Personal Aim: By the end of this task i will learn how to manage a multimedia language centre to support English language learning.
- 4. What is it? The Multimedia Centre boasts a variety of dynamic study spaces. This unique learning environment incorporates: ● A cinema suite available for student booking ● A recording studio ● Computers with language-specific programmes
- 5. Wanna take a Look? Enter this link and you will see a multimedia centre in 360° http://www.bris.ac.uk/sml/about/mmc/tour/ 👆 👆
- 6. “What can you do in a Multimedia Centre? “
- 7. A LOT ● Engage and stimulate students to learn languages by doing ● Develop lessons easily with predefined activities ● Individualize teaching ● Monitor and record students’ progress ● Improve even the most difficult to teach elements, pronunciation and intonation, with model imitation and a wide array of discussion activities ● Important self-evaluation enabled by recording student speech and exercises ● Stay in control with features such as Internet blocking and Application control ● Assign and collect homework ● Use a wide selection of media sources ● Convert existing materials easily into mp3s or create new material on the go ● Collaborate with students by using the interactive whiteboard and marker tool ● Optimized wireless performance
- 9. Student involvement Students play a key role in reviewing and updating the learning resources and study spaces of the Multimedia Centre. We regularly collect their feedback and encourage them to sit on the Committee to take part in staff- student projects focused on the ongoing improvement of the Centre.
- 10. A multimedia language center is a very useful way to learn another language because you have all the tools and technology at reach and it is easy for you to learn by a lot of different methods and in a more interactive way by listen to songs, watch movies, or videos, by talking with your classmates, by doing online research, etc.
- 11. it is a great tool but it is also a great responsibility because it is expensive equipment and for you as a teacher you are responsible for all the equipment and if something breaks or damages it's your responsibility so you have to be careful.
- 12. it is also easy for the teacher to teach a language in a multimedia center because you got the facilities and the tools and technology to make easier and interactive activities for your students.
- 13. to manage a multimedia language center it is important to know to use the equipment, and also you have to be familiar with the different software that exists nowadays because if you don't know how to use the equipment you will lose time and you can get to damage the equipment.
- 14. also you have to be in control of the students because it is easy to get distracted with a computer in front of them so you may get to install a safe net to avoid distractions like unwanted websites or anything else.
- 15. Some of the things that you can do if you are teaching in a language multimedia center is to have your activities ready at time to not waste any time and also you can recycle your activities with other students!
- 16. thanks! ANY QUESTIONS? You can find me at: mozhka@gmail.com