With the spanking development of science and Technology, more and more educational institutions and teachers would like to spread a new kind of teaching which called E-learning, it’s a new kind of online teaching and teachers generally use some new technical tools like Blog, Wiki or weebly and so on. These lead a new teaching style that will be more fit the new century.

E-learning provides a new way for learners, provides learning anytime and anywhere thus offers a possibility for lifelong learning. E-learning also changes the teachers’ effect in education and the relationship between teaching and learning, thus changes the essence of education. And another piont of E-learning is save time. But do these new technical tool really good for our modern teaching and E-learning , or how does teacher use these tools to make the E-learning prefect?

For me, I think teachers should use these modern technical tools when teaching, and it will make a big change in our old teaching system and make the study and teaching more easier and interesting.

These modern technical tools are easy to use for both teachers and students,

And all the data is online, shared with a wide group of people, it’s good for exchange ideas and chat with others online. Some tools are really powerful like google earth, it show us a real world in 3D view, it’s the ‘superman’ of Geography teacher. Teachers can leave message online for students and can also store teaching files online, students can review the subject by just download files from website. Teaching materials turning into digital materials (for example, Audio, Video, Images, E-books, Slide show….)from books, more convenient to carry and getting. By using these tools we can teaching and learning everywhere anytime if we have website or Wi-fi.

But on the other hand, these tools may also have some weaknesses.For example, we cannot use these tools without internet, the files can be deleted by mistakes and it’s not easy to restore.Another problem is that our data is opened to all people online, so there must have some problems of data security.

I will show my ideas of using technical tools in teaching and learning by some examples.

The firest tool is the Wiki, WIKI is a kind of website that let teachers and students add, modify, or delete its content by using a web browser.

I really like to use WIKI to teaching my students if I am a teacher cause I like the way how it show, exchange and share the different ideas between teachers and students. I can open it and easily find what my students studing and working on their subject, and also I can help them by leaving messages on it or edit some information for them directly. It's so easy and convenient to supervise and control the studys’ study online.Another point that i like WIKI is that I would like to know each step of my students doing and how they doing their subject, WIKI is a good tool to do that. And for my students, I also want them working together, share their ideas, solve problems together by themselfs. So WIKI is good for students' cooperation and also high-order thinking.

I am very happy to let my students working on WIKI doing their group work, help other members by themselve, they can editing and checking others work,and help others by finding mistakes and editing tasks. All these work in under my watch,I can easily find their problems and help my students fix it up instead of asking every students and checking everyone’s work.

The second tool is BLOG, Blog is another kind of website that can let teachers and students creat their own pages,and they can updated new content anytime online. I use my personal BLOG nearly everyday, it is so easy to share my new content with my friends and seeing what my friends doing by visiting and checking their homepages.But for teaching or learning, I dislike to use BLOG because I need to check everyone’s homepages to get the information and it will cost lots time. In another words, I will not use BLOG to be the main tool for teaching as a teacher, but I do not disavow it can be an aid tool, I can share new content for my students on BLOG if they need personal assistance.

And there are more technical tools, Weebly is an amazing tool that teachers can use to make a classroom website, easily and quickly ‘drag and drop’ content into the currently open Web page. As the reason of WIKI, I can use Weebly to share information with my students by using it. It’s better to teaching if I creat a classroom website and add all my students in.

Prezi is another amazing tool that easy for us to making a slide show instead of powerpoint. And it can be saved online, the effect is beautiful and not hard to make a prefect slide show. I will use it to improve my teaching quality, making lectures in slide show and share with my students, both of me and my students will feel comfortable with this.

In my summary, to be a E-learning teacher, It is very important to use these tools to improve the teaching, I will use Wiki in group work to exercise stydents’ team cooperation skills and communication skills. And use blog to share some messages and give students individual help. Weebly is necessary to use, a online classroom website can be used to store teaching lectures and mainly used of share all my files. And a nice slide show is also important in modern online teaching. Differend types of lecture files is important because for different learners have different habit, audios,videos,images,text files are all need to be shared to the learners. The best way is to use different kinds of technical tools together and put them in different use in teaching. If we mix these tools well, our modern E-learning system will be more practical and have better results.

Reference:

Wiki as a teaching tool:

http://ijklo.org/Volume3/IJKLOv3p057-072Parker284.pdf