Escuela de Idiomas

Facultad De Ciencias Sociales

Virtual Classrooms

By:

Arturo Sigüenza

Universidad Tecnologica de El Salvador

What is a Virtual Classroom?A Virtual Classroom is private online space in Blackboard that teachers can use to support student

learning. It is accessible via the Internet, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Just like your face-to-face classroom, a Virtual Classroom is a busy place.

Class activities Group and individual learning activities Discussions and chats with students, parents and guests Quizzes and surveys Homework activities and assessment documents Full online courses with modules of work Forums and synchronous chat sessions Web Quests, Hotlists, Scavenger Hunts, etc.

Virtual Classroom

Class organizationImportant information for students and

parents Calendar and timetables Unit overviews Student grade/mark book and criteria sheets Student homepages

Virtual Classroom

Virtual Classroom’ s Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdxeWRVCIXE

Virtual Classroom

Virtual Classroom

ESL teachers who teach adults in American community colleges also often incorporate teaching computer skills into their classes. A teacher

in an online program, whether ESL or EFL, uses a variety of web technologies for his/her class, which may include Skype, Ning, or other

such online tools. A teacher in Peru may not have classroom access to a computer, but have access at home so that she/he can find lesson

ideas online to use in class.

I decided to interview several ESL/EFL teachers to find out how they use technology, especially computer-based technology, in their classes,

and I will start with myself. I do not usually teach English, but this semester, spring 2009, I am teaching EFL to university students in Poland

who are studying to be English teachers. There is a computer with Internet access in the teachers’ office and I have my own laptop and

Internet access at home, so I can reproduce and create classroom materials. One classroom where I teach has a computer and projector for

showing DVDs and PowerPoint's. Therefore, I have been able to integrate some computer-based technology into lessons. Most of my

students have regular access to computer-based technology and use it regularly, so, besides my own use of the computer for presentations

and the Internet for gathering materials, I set up a Ning so students could engage in a couple of online discussions.

By : Lynn Zimmerman

“What are the uses of a Virtual Classroom in the teaching and learning of ESL/EFL?”

Refection

As can noticed the uses of visual classrooms are very important because whit that tools we can teach as many people as we can in the same time. By using computers especially internet. As the mean tool for this purposes . we can try to apply these king of tools in order to many our life easy and comfortable.