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This paper explores how teacher training and development are taking place online. Framed within social constructivist and critical reflection theories, the chapter attempst to situate practices in relation to research in teacher learning and focuses on blended and distance learning, computer mediated communicaction (CMC), and the applicability of Web 2.0 applications to teacher development. The paper addresses the following questions: 1. Are online teacher trainers and trainees fully utilizing the potential of current technologies? 2. Is it possible to successfully deliver teacher training through Web 2.0 technologies, and if it isn't now then might it be possible in the future? 3. Is the Internet transforming the way teachers learn to teach, or learn about teaching? This is a concept map of the paper that Margarita and I designed for our online presentation of the chapter. Elliott, D. (2009). Internet technologies and language teacher education. In M. Thomas (Ed.), Handbook of research on Web 2.0 and second language learning (pp. 432-450). New York: Information Science Reference.

This is Margarita and Adriana's video on the presentation of the chapter from the Handbook of research on Web 2.0 and second language learning.

This online textbook in basic writing offers students three approaches to becoming more confident writers. Part One examines how sentences work, giving students a structural understanding of the language they use every day. Part Two focuses on errors that commonly appear in written English. Part Three suggests techniques and topics for developing ideas in writing. Students may move back and forth among parts, using the resources collected in Part Four as support.

A web-based story sharing forum has been established to provide students in Bogotá, Colombia, New Brunswick, Canada and Dundee, Scotland with the opportunity to exchange cross-cultural stories as a complement to the regular ELT Curriculum

the collaborative work of two teachers of in the teacher education program at the School of Languages of the Universidad de Antioquia. They decided to include new information and communication technologies (ICT) in a contrastive grammar course. This was an attempt to improve their teaching practices and facilitate their students' learning process

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This ongoing case study investigates whether introducing WebQuests as part of the Teacher Training curriculum at the university level can facilitate the integration of English language teaching and technology while simultaneously promoting a more student centered, constructivist approach to teaching