Internet English: Www-Based Communication Activities

Title: Internet English: Www-Based Communication Activities
Level: Pre-intermediate and Intermediate
Author(s): Christina Gitsaki and Richard P. Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 1999
ISBN: 019437226X
Pages: 81
Size: 14.74 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: English

Internet English is a WWW-based conversation course for pre-intermediate and intermediate learners. It helps them develop the skills to automonously surf the World Wide Web for information that is relevant to them, while providing a structured framework to practice their conversation skills through communicative tasks that are challenging, motivating, and fun. It can be used in traditional or computer-equipped classrooms.

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Basic English for Computing (Books+Audio)

Title: Basic English for Computing: Student's Book + Teacher's Book + Audio
Level: Beginner to Lower-Intermediate
Author(s): Eric Glendinning and John McEwan
Publisher: Oxford
ISBN: 0194573966
Date: 2002
Pages: 130 + 100
Size: 127.87 Mb
Format: PDF + MP3
Quality: Very good, well-scanned, full-color
Language: English

This course is intended for students of computing and information technology with an English level of beginner plus to lower-intermediate. In particular, targeted readers are secondary school and technical college students of 16+ who have studied general English for three years or more. The book is also intended for professionals who have not studied English formally for some time, and wish to refresh their knowledge of the language within the context of their specialism.

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Vocabulary Workbook for Computers and Information Technology

Title: Check Your English Vocabulary for Computers and Information Technology
Level: Intermediate and above
Author(s): Jon Marks
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN-13: 978-0713679175
Date: 2009, 3rd Edition
Pages: 81
Size: 5.30 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

This book has been written for people whose first language is not English, and who use or are going to use computers and other information technology in an English-speaking environment. It covers the language needed to use information technology equipment, work with computer programs, discuss problems and plan projects.

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Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works

Title: Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works
Author(s): Howard Pitler, Elizabeth R. Hubbell and Matt Kuhn
Publisher: ASCD
Date: 2007
Pages: 258
Size: 3.81 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

One of the most effective ways to implement the research-based instructional strategies from Classroom Instruction That Works is to use them with educational technologies, such as word processing and spreadsheet applications, multimedia, data collection tools, communication software, and the Internet. This book shows you how and gives you hundreds of lesson-planning ideas and strategies for every grade level and subject. Discover new educational tools that support research-based instruction, and learn ways to use technologies you already know to: [+/-]

• Create and use advance organizers and nonlinguistic representations
• Help students take notes, summarize content, and make comparisons
• Engage students in cooperative learning
• Help students generate and test hypotheses
• Support students in practicing new skills and doing homework
• Reinforce students? efforts through formative assessment and feedback

Getting this guide ensures you always know when to use educational technologies, which ones are best for a learning task, and how they help students use new learning strategies.

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Culture in the Communication Age

Title: Culture in the Communication Age
Editor: James Lull
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2002
Pages: 241
Size: 14.44 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: Good, well-scanned, readable and OCRed
Language: English

Communication technology has become decisive in sociocultural transformations taking place worldwide. This book attempts to take full account of technological developments in contemporary cultural activity, including the nuances and subtleties of computer-mediated communication, but it considers the more directly experienced and 'non-rational' sides of life too. [+/-]

Gathers leading contributors from the fields of communication, cultural studies, anthropology, media studies, sociology and psychology to provide a series of interdisciplinary perspectives on the meaning of 'culture' in contemporary society.

About the Author
James Lull is Professor of Communication Studies at San Jose State University, California, and Adjust Research Professor at the University of Colina, Mexico. He is author or editor of ten books, including Media, Communication Culture: A Global Approach, Media Scandals, China Turned On and Inside Family Viewing.

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