This is my Final Report of CALL course

1. Southern New Hampshire University
Vietnam National University
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EFL 537- call
By Jeffery Alan Lebow
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Final Report
APPLYING COMPUTER AND INTERNET
IN TEACHING ENGLISH AT HIGH SCHOOL
By Do Thi Binh Giang (Peaceful River)

2. TABLE OF CONTENT
I- INTRODUCTION:
II- DEVELOPMENT:
1. What have I been doing to approach computer in
teaching English at my High School?
1.1. With Preasentation (Powerpoint)
1.2. With Activities ( Hotpotatoes),
1.3. Audio Recording and Editing (Audacity), With Image Editing
(Irfanview)
1.4. Connection the skills/tools above in a lesson
1.5. With Slideshare and Youtube.
2. What have I achieved when applying computer in
teaching English?
3. My future plan of CALL
III- CONCLUSION:

3. I- INTRODUCTION:
Two weeks of EFL537- Computer Assisted Language Learning
(CALL) course in Cohorh 4 classroom seem to go faster than usual. It is
hard to believe that I have finished 10 days with the course. The courses
really provides me a hands-on, collaborative environment in which I can
learn about and explore the use of computer and the varous technologies to
develop learning materials that are relevant to my teaching context. I am
very happy with the course by Jeffery Alan Lebow. I have real chance to
learn by doing practically because of my NEEDS and my own INTERESTS,
not GRADES. After the first day of the course, I really overcame the
anxieties of learning CALL course with Jeff’s timely help although he is far
from me. The most important thing I achieve from the course is that I am
now more confident to learn and practise how to explore and approach
computer in teaching English at my High School. I am sure I can do my
teaching better with the help of computer.
There are many CALL tools and resources available evolving rapidly
day by day, so I want to know how to use them as much as possible, then I
choose some suitable tools to apply in practically teaching English at my
High School in Hoa Binh province, Vietnam. There is a computer room for
the students in my school, but there is no internet connection there, so I can
only teach English by one computer and projector. As a result, I choose to
master Presentations ( with powerpoint ), and Activity ( With Hotpotatoes),
and some other relevant academic fields, as: Audio Recording and Editing
( Audacity), Image Editing ( with Irfanview) to degine my lessons. And I
sometimes use Slideshare and Youtube to share my lesson and my teaching
experiences with my colleagues or some my students ( who have their own
computer and internet connection at home).

4. II- DEVELOPMENT:
1. What have I been doing to approach computer in
teaching English at my High School?
1.1. With Preasentation (Powerpoint):
There are many options to create Presentation, but I choose
Powerpoint because of effectiveness. I usually teach my students with only
one computer in the classroom, so I use Powerpoint software to design my
lesson and then use projector to show in the classroom. Here are some
examples of my lesson presentations:
http://www.slideshare.net/dothibinhgiang/englh-11-unit-6reading-a-
nice-lesson-see-it
http://ww.slideshare.net/dothibinhgiang/englh-11-unit-16reading
When I create a lesson presentation, I always try to find more
informations, and pictures to make my lesson more interesting, not only the
content and the picures in the textbook. I search on internet to find suitable
things to add my presentation. And I can see my students are are more
interested in my lessons created by powerpoint than the lessons presented by
only blackboard and chalks.
1.2. With Activities ( Hotpotatoes),
Hot Potatoes is one of the best known programs (for Windows and
Mac) for creating activities. I usually use Hot Potatoes to create activities
presented at the “Warm-up” or “Production” of the lesson in the classroom (
The class using only one computer. Students can stand up to do the
activities, or to work in groups, pairs, or dividually to look at the screen and
do activities at the same time. Hot Potatoes is specially useful for the

5. grammar exercises, which makes students more active and interested in
doing. Here are some my own created Hot potatpes Activities:
http://www.efl537.com/blog/hot-potatoes-3-vnu4b
http://www.efl537.com/blog/hot-potatoes-2-vnu4b
If there is a lab for my students at Lac Thuy B School in the near
future, I will use these activities to let my stucents to do in their own
computer. I think it will be more effective and useful.
1.3. Audio Recording and Editing (Audacity), With Image Editing
(Irfanview)
To make my presentation more interesting, living, and attractive, I use
“Adacity” to record and edit Audios, and “Irfanview” to edit images. I can
record any Audios which are suitable for my teaching presentation. It is very
interesting to make my Audios myself. It seems to be more professional
when my students can see my name on the top of Audio when it is playing.
Here are is an example:
http://www.efl537.com/audio/peaceful-river-vnu4b-introduction-do-thi-
binh-giang
But I think I want to focus on another role of this sotfware is editing
Audios. When I want to teach listening, I want to help my students to focus
on each part of listening ( or sentence by sentence depending on the
understanding questions of the listening), I can export every selection. I can
give an example here:
http://www.efl537.com/audio/audio-editing-orignal-listening
And I cut it into 8 tracks for my students to check their understanding
after they answer the comprehension questions:

6. http://www.efl537.com/audio/audio-editing
I sometimes see the images are not suitable with my lesson
presentation, so I want to edit to meet the needs of my lesson.. In this case, I
use “Irfanview” to edit the images which are suitable with the practical
context of the lesson. Here are some example:
This is the Orignal Image ( Unit 12- English 10), as here:
http://www.efl537.com/blog/orginal-image
And I cut the image into 3 single pictures to meet the needs of my
presentation, as here:
http://www.efl537.com/blog/imageedit
I always feel satisfied with the audios and images editted by the
Audacity and Irfanview which make our presentations more living,
effective, and attractive.
1.4. Connection the skills/tools above in a lesson
To make my lessons more meaningful and professional by adding
audio, videos in powerpoint presentations while creating Presentations, as
the following (I use irfan to have this pictures to illustrate this):

7. I also Reload Hot potatoes and powerpoint in the same package by
using reload editor sotfware : http://www.reload.ac.uk/editor.html . I have
used it to reload:

10. 1.5. With Slideshare and Youtube.
When I want to share my presentation with my colleagues, I use
Slideshare to upupload my presentation. My colleagues can download and
share their ideas with me. I am happy with any comment from them. I feel
sorry that most of my students do not have computer and internet at home,
but some of them have, so they can see my presentation on Slideshare, and
Youtube. I think in near future, there will be enough labs with modern
equipments for my students to learn English via computer. Especially in
case they may be ill and miss some lessons, they can learn by internet and
computer by “Slideshare” and “Youtube”.
http://www.slideshare.net/dothibinhgiang/englh-11-unit-6reading-a-
nice-lesson-see-it
http://ww.slideshare.net/dothibinhgiang/englh-11-unit-16reading
http://www.youtube.com/user/dothibinhgiang
I will sometimes records my presentation in the classroom, and
upload the video on Youtube so that my colleagues can download to see.

11. And I also download theirs, and we can share personal experiences of
teaching English.
2. What have I achieved when applying computer in
teaching English?
When I apply computer in teaching English, my students are more
interested in my lessons. They are more active to involve in my lesson, and
enjoy taking parts in doing activities. As a result, I often achieve the
objectives of the lessons with the help of computer. I also am happy when I
can motivate my students to learn English by create interesting and useful
presentation. Here are some photos taken in my classroom:

12. 3. My future plan of CALL
I know that I am not really good at enternet exploring, so I have to try
my best to practise some skills usful to my teaching as much as possible. So,
I will go on improving my skills of using Powerpoint and Hot potatoes to
create more interesting and useful lessons with the relevant fields, as: audios
and image edit. I have a dream that in the near future, I can have a chance to
use Slideshare and Youtube to teach English. At that time, I do not also
teach English with one computer but also can teach with one computer for
each student. So, I have to try my best to focus on the skills of CALL above
and some othe skill to explore internet, as: Social Boomarking, Blogging
and RSS, Social Network.
III- CONCLUSION:
As my teacher, Jeffery Alan Lebow says, CALL is an unusual course. The
course is the beginning of my CALL learning, and never ends. I learn much
from the course, not only the knowledge of CALL, but also: how to work
with the others, how to do something myself, how to be creative in learning.
And I also learn much from my teacher (I call him Jeff): how to motivate
students in learning, how to encourage students in doing creative things,
how to help students, how to treat students.ect. He has just opened a now
world for me. And I have been trying to do well in the new world of
teaching. I am sure that I will continue his course until I stop breathing
because of its benefits to my work and my life. Thanks Jeff so much and
give him the best regards. And I also thank to Tuan who helps me much
during the course. CALL COURSE NEVER ENDS!