Actually there's been a lot talk on using technology in EFL teaching. Linda Roth from University of Sheffield made a presentation on using MOLE to complement her face-to-face classes. The attendees were presented with a number of students' and teachers' views on using this technology. Students usually feel much better about it then teachers. Probably because Ss are much technology-friendlier and teachers realize that using a new technology often presupposes lots of extra preparation work.

Marico Miyao from Japan talked about Effective use of information technology in college EFL courses. She showed a number of student-centred activities that her students created using Hot Potato, a free tool inside Moodle that has a wide range of opportunities  for creating colourful interactive exercises like quizzes, gap-fillings, crosswords, etc. Visit this sites for more information and ideas:

http://www.kasei.ac.jp/

http://moodle.tsukuba-g.ac.jp/

Valentina Dodge (University of Naples L'Orientale & The Consultants-E) presented a wide variety of resources to be used in the web-based classroom. What are the pros and cons of each resource? Try these ones and form your opinion:

Wikis: http://www.wetpaint.com/ and http://www.pbwiki.com/

You'll find excellent TEFL video-clips on http://www.teflclips.com/

As an alternative visit http://www.omnia.samsungmobile.com/ or adsoftheworld.com

You can also search TeacherTube and http://www.weheadsinaction.org/

Don't forget about http://www.voicethread.com/, http://www.twitter.com/ and http://www.diigo.com/

If you still have any questions email valentinadodge@24hours.it