Interactivities

The Internet in Teacher Development

The Internet is a great source of information for teacher development. Test your knowledge of what the Internet can offer with these activities based on the task files from How to Use the Internet in ELT by Dede Teeler with Peta Gray.

Using the Internet for reference

Newsgroups

Are you a member of any newsgroups? Do you know what they are?

Choose the right answer to see how much you know.

a) Newsgroups are:	discussion groups of current events discussion groups, organised by subject discussion groups conducted in real time
b) Messages in newsgroups are organised:	alphabetically by subject
c) a newsgroup can be read:	by everyone on the Internet only by other members of the newsgroup only by those to whom you send it
d) To join a newsgroup you need:	your own website a newsreader program
e) Access to different newsgroups is limited by:	your news server your newsreader

Mailing lists

Which of these options would you use in the following situations?

Digest	Index	Archive	Nomail	Mail	FAQ
a) Before you send off a query to the mailing list you want to check if there is any information about it in the list already.
b) You don't want any messages for the next two weeks.
c) You want a list of today's messages.
d) You want to check if other people have already asked the question that you need an answer to.
e) You want all today's messages sent to you as one message.
f) A week ago you asked for no mail to be sent to you. Now you want to receive messages again.

For more information on what is available on the Internet and how it can be used as a resource read How to Use the Internet in ELT. To order a copy, please contact your local Longman representative.

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