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Introduction
Technology exists in almost all the fields and has always been there to help us do tasks with
ease. But, when we look into the educational field, the presence of technology is not up to the
mark. Many educational institutions are failing to know the effective implementation of
technology in the classroom. Implementation of technology doesnt only include basic
computer learning in a separate computer class, it happens across the curriculum to provide
students with a highly engaging learning environment.
Educators consider technology as a great tool to design their classroom curriculum. Every
educator creates a lesson plan which shows a detailed description of the course of instruction
for one class. Creating a lesson plan is easy as well as effective if we use technology to do so.
Weve had many interactions with educators about their ways of creating digital lesson plans
and their implementation in the classroom.
We know about the lack of value in the ICT curriculum in Bangladesh, since which has been
misapplied. I have created this digital unit from EFT book for increasing digital fluency
among young people, hailing this as innovation-led growth and explore the proof, promise,
and potential of using digital technologies to improve learning.

Useful tools for Digitalizing

Over the years, many of us have personally experienced the growth of technology in todays
classrooms. Instead of taking notes, students are now occupied by surfing the Internet,
scrolling through Facebook, and messaging their friends on their smart phones, tablets, and
laptops. Todays students are using more technological devices, it is imperative that teachers
have access to the resources to keep pace with the growing tech culture.
The use of smart phones, tablets, and other tech items in the classroom do not necessarily
have to have a negative impact on student achievement. On the contrary, the increasing
accessibility and growth of technology presents teachers with the unique opportunity to take
advantage of those once distracting gadgets, and use them to facilitate academic achievement
in new and innovative ways. In this capacity, teachers do not need to be constantly fighting
for student attention, but can freely accept it, by introducing a new educational environment
that will automatically encourage student participation.
The designed unit is taking from class 8. The name of the unit is Unit 13: Media and ecommunications. There are 3 lessons under this unit: lesson 1: media and e-communications,
lesson 2: Social network services and the lesson 3: E-learning. Below are some resources that
teachers may find useful when attempting to implement technology into their classrooms.
Google Image, Gmail/yahoo mail, Audacity, Hot Potatoes, MS word, Facebook, Edmodo,
Prezi.com

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Overview of the Report

Learning English is an international language for communicating locally and globally.
The English For Today textbooks have been developed to help students attain
competency in all four language skills, i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing.
But the digital unit will give interest to students. This will help them to learn better as
well as they will be master in network uses. This is reason for creating digital unit.
There are varieties of internet tools which helps a lot to create this unit. We are very
much thank full to Zohur Ahmed sir to give us the opportunity to explore such a good
tools. These tools are really helpful fot teachers as well as students.
The class room will need internet, computer and multimedia projector to fulfill its
requirement. The development of curriculum, syllabus and textbook is a continuous
process. The contents and illustrations of this unit have been developed in order to suit
the learners' age and cognitive level. The unit emphasizes practicing language skills
through a variety of meaningful and enjoyable activities. The teacher's guide will help
teachers plan lessons more effectively and teach students communicatively through
teaching learning activities.
Level- Secondary
Method- Communicative Language Teaching
Number of Students: 25
Time allocation: 45 minutes
Objectives: Students will learn to:
1. Write under a time constraint.
2. Use their imaginations to produce their own narratives.
3. Gain useful practice of MCQ items from a listening content.
Materials:

1. PowerPoint slides
2. Listening CD content
3. Flashcards containing group name to take notes.
4. Practice session on Edmodo.
5. Practice session on Hot Potatoes
6. Practice session on Podomatic
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Instruction for Teachers

Time

Interactio
n

Stages

Task

Warm-Up

The T will greet the class and

asks the S if they have taken
their breakfast. Next the T
will ask the S what they think
5 5
S
about the term proverb and
minutes S-T
the common proverbs that
they come across in everyday
life.
Then the T will instruct the S.
Then the T will give some 5
links or instruct the S for Minutes
using digital things for study.

Body

Wrap-up

T will play the audio clip for

the learners and while they
are listening and taking notes
the T will inspect them
closely. T will play the audio
clip twice so that the entire
class can come up with the
production.
After that, the T will ask the S
to open Hot Potatos or
Edmodo to complete fill in
the gaps, MCQ and Quiz.
Students can complete these
things in the classroom or at
home.
T will ask some of the S to
give summary of the class and
finish class.

15
Minutes

15
Minutes

5
Minutes

SS-T

SS-SS

S-SS and
SS-T

SS-SS and
SS-T

response of the
Learners
The S will share
their
opinions
with the T and
thus
get
a
glimpse about the
lesson.
The S will try to
understand
the
task and ask
questions about
the doubts.
The S will listen
carefully to the
clip to write
down
the
proverbs and add
their
reactions
and ideas about
the proverbs.
S will read them
and will perform
them. Sometimes
ask questions to
the T.
S will ask
questions and
give comments
on their peers
writings.

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Unit Thirteen
Media and e-communications

After we have studied this unit, we will be able to

surf the Internet.

read and write emails.
narrate incidents in a logical sequence.
understand texts.
read intensively and extensively.
participate in debate.
present chart
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Lesson1: Media and e-communications

A. Find media and e-communication image by using Google image. Say what you see
in them.
Open the Google Images website. Visit images.google.com in your computer's web browser.
You cannot "Search by Image" using Internet Explorer 8 or earlier. You must be using
Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explore. Type media and e-communication and click
the search button. Then comes the site link of images and you have to enter there and collect
images.

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B. Use Facebook chat. Discuss the following words with your group member. Which of
the following words you are familiar with? How are they related to ecommunications?

Facebook, e-mail, web site, blog, twitter, e-learning, iPod, Tablet, smart phone
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C. Go to Podomatic and Listen and watch the text carefully.
Podomatic is a site where you can listen anything of the world. I order to listen lesson text in
podomatic, first you have to open an account there, second your teacher will give the link
address https://www.podomatic.com/episodes/7709705 , finally you just have to click it and listen
the lesson text. Follow your teachers guideline.

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The text
Lets imagine a citizens ordinary day at work. The morning probably starts with a
cup of coffee/tea, followed by greeting the colleagues. Then comes the inevitable,

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Which is the logging in the

computer? For many of us the third
step has become an automatic
behavior and it dominates the rest of
our work day, receiving and sending
dozens of emails.
An e-mail is an electronic mail. It is
a computer-aided way of exchanging
digital text messages from a sender
to one or multiple recipient/s. Emails
operate through a network of
computers linked by the Internet. There are commercial server agencies such as
Yahoo, Gmail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail, etc. that accept the text message from the
sender, forward it and deliver instantly to the digital mailbox of the recipient. If the
recipient is not online, the message is stored and delivered later when the recipient is
online. It works instantly just with the click of your mouse. It has been a powerful
communication tool in modern life.

Now answer the following Questions by using Edmodo

After listen the text you are able to answer some question. Here your teacher will prepare
quiz by using Edmodo. Edmodo will give you the opportunity to give the quiz in school or at
home because it is a site like Facebook. He/she will provide the group name like-chfe3z, you
have to inter into Edmodo by using this group name and; your name and password. You dont
have to open any account there. www.edmodo.com/home#/group?id=14948273

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Questions
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

What is an email?
How do emails operate?
How do emails affect our daily work schedule?
How do the commercial servers serve in the process of an email?
It has been a powerful communication tool in modern life. Explain the
statement.

D. Complete the Pair work by using www.virtualwritingtutor.com Read the following

email exchanged between two friends. Like an informal letter, an email to a close
one is casually written. Identify the mistakes in the main body of the message,
discuss with your partner, and correct them.

Subject: Details of Dhaka Tour

FROM: Alexa Dowson<[email protected]>__
TO: Moutushi Laboni<[email protected]=_
Monday, May 21, 2012 6:20 AM
Hi Moutushi!

Thanks for your mail. Ill fly from Ottawa on 7:36 hours local time on 13 July with
Qatar Airlines via London-Doha and land Dhaka on 15 July around 13:41hours local
time. Wish to stay 2 days in the Coxs Bazar and 1 day in khulna. Return flight on 21
july at 3:04 hours local time.

Keep fine and in touch. Hope to see you soon!

Alexa

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E. Complete the pair works by using www.gmail.com . The email in section E is a reply
by Alexa to Moutushis previous email. Imagine what Moutushi might have written
to Alexa. Write that email.

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F. Go to Hot Potatoes and Read the following text. It gives the information about the
origin of the email. Choose the appropriate forms of the verbs from the box to
complete the sentences. You can use a verb more than once.
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You can complete fill in the gaps and get immediate result by Hot Potatoes. Your teacher will
prepare the fill in the gaps and give it to you. Then you will be able to complete it.

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Fill in the gaps

send

say

use

remain

call

expand

allow

develop

spread

Sending text messages electronically could be . to date back to the Morse code
telegraph of the mid 1800s and the 1939 New York Worlds Fair. In the fair, IBM
. a letter of congratulations from San Francisco to New York on an IBM radiotype, . it a high-speed substitute for mail service in the world of tomorrow.
Teleprinters were . in Germany during World War II. The use . until
the late 1960s when there was a worldwide Telex network. Additionally, there was the
similar American system . TWX which . important until the late
1980s.
With the introduction of MITs Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) in 1961, for the
first time multiple users were . to log into a central system from remote dial-up
terminals. They were also able to store and share files on the centraldisk. Informal methods of
using this to pass messages . and were . to create the first true email
system.

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Lesson 2: Social network services

A. Look at the following logos. Search them in Google and collect information about
what they are and how they are related to the field of e-communications. Discuss in
pairs.

Many of you familiar with the following logos but dont know the actual information about
them. To collect information you have to go to Google home page and search Facebook and
Twitter then several site links will come. You have to enter any of them and collect
information.

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B. Go to Podomatic. Listen and watch the text carefully

Podomatic is a site where you can listen anything of the world. I order to listen lesson text in
podomatic, first you have to open an account there, second your teacher will give the link
address
http://tanzilaafrin2846349.podomatic.com/entry/2015-08-20T00_04_22-07_00,
finally you just have to click it and listen the lesson text. Follow your teachers guideline.

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The Text
The advantages of the Internet technology have made it possible to emerge a good number of
web sites to facilitate social relations among people around the world. These are known as
social networking services or social networks. At present, Facebook is the most popular.
Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. are other frequently used social services. Social network
services are web-based and hence, provide ways for the users to interact through the Internet.
These services make it possible to connect people sharing interests and activities across the
borders and thus have made a lot for the users to feel that they really live in a global village.
Why are social networks expanding so fast? The answer is simple. Firstly, Most of the social
networking services are cost free. You can make use of them free, paying a very little to your
Internet service provider. Secondly, you can make your personal profile public before the
entire online community. It is like presenting yourself before the entire world. You can also
look into other peoples profile if you are interested. It is simple and easy. Thirdly, social
networks allow users to upload pictures, multimedia contents and modify the profile. Some
like Facebook allow users to update their profiles. Fourthly, networks allow users to post
blog entries. User profiles have a section dedicated to comments from friends and other users.
Finally, there are privacy protection measures too. A user himself or herself decides over the
number of visitors/viewers, and what information should be shared with others.
Now answer to the Questions by using Edmodo
You are familiar with Edmodo as you have completed it in previous lesson. In the same way
you have to complete this quiz too. www.edmodo.com/home#/group?id=14948273

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Questions
1. What do you mean by social networks?
2. What are some uses of social networks?
3. These services have made a lot for the users to feel that they really live in a global
village. Do you agree with this view? Why/ Why not?
4. Make a list of the arguments as to why social networks are expanding so fast? Whats
your view regarding them?
C. Read the second paragraph of the text in section B again. Notice the words in italics
and write how they work in maintaining logical sequence in the paragraph by using MS
word.

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D. Go to Hot Potatoes and choose the best answers.

You are familiar with Hot Potatoes as you have completed it in previous lesson. In the same
way you have to complete this quiz too.

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Choose the best answers.

1. The __________ technology has made social networking sites to emerge.
a LinkedIn
b Google+

c Internet
d Twitter

2. Users have to pay for

a social networks.
b their online connections.

c multimedia contents.
d uploading pictures.

3. User accounts have ----------- protection measures.

a virus
b identity

c personal secrecy
d network

4. User profiles have a section for

a others remarks.
b outsiders editing.

c outsiders moderation.
d outsiders uploading

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E. Go to Google and fill in the following dialogue box to open Facebook account.

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F. Now complete the following dialogues about Facebook and MySpace by using Hot
Potatoes.

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Fill in the gaps

1 Q: __________ social network is the most popular ?

A: Facebook is ______________________________ .
Q: _____________ individual users use Facebook?
A: About 793 million.
Q: __________ part of the world is Facebook mostly used in?
A: Worldwide. Its popular worldwide among individual users.
2 Q: __________________________the least popular?
A: MySpace is ______________________________ .
Q: _____________ individual users use MySpace?
A: ______________________.
Q: __________________________________ mostly used?
A: __________________________among individual users.

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Lesson 3: E-learning
A. Go to Google image find out the following picture and discuss with your partner and
say what it is.

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B. Discuss the following question in group by using Facebook chat.

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Questions
Have you ever heard of any online education course?
Have you ever seen a classroom teaching program on TV?
Have you ever experienced any digital education program in multimedia or
CD/DVD?
Have you ever used any digitized educational resources such as Oxford
Dictionary, Bangla pdedia and IELTS/TOEFL practice materials?
C. Go to Podomatic. Listen and watch the text and answers the following questions.
Podomatic is a site where you can listen anything of the world. I order to listen lesson text in
podomatic, first you have to open an account there, second your teacher will give the link
addresshttp://tanzilaafrin2846349.podomatic.com/entry/2015-08-20T07_47_42-07_00, finally you just
have to click it and listen the lesson text. Follow your teachers guideline.

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The text
Can you think of a classroom where there is no blackboard or desks? Do you believe that you
can be a student without a traditional book or writing pad or even pen/pencil? Are you not
thrilled to imagine that you have asked a question and your tutor is answering that while
flying midair in a Boeing from California to Tokyo? These are all possible in a virtual
campus in the system of e-learning. No kidding! For quite a long time, educationists have
been utilizing the advantages of computer technology. The social networking services have a
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huge potential to help educationists in this sector. They have access to millions of people
worldwide. Educationists have noticed that a large number of social network users come from
young generation and especially belong to student community. So side by side with computer
assisted teaching-learning software, online education programs are evolving fairly rapidly to
assist conventional education system. But is that eLearning?
We may confuse distant education or computer-based learning or computer-assisted training
or even online education programs with e-learning. But we should be cautious about the mixup. What happens in an online education program? Maybe you get some materials online
from your tutor. Maybe you submit your assignment through email. Or even you may take
your test online. But there must be some conventional campus, a department/institute from
where your certificate will come.
But in e-learning, as said by global e-learning guru Dr Badrul H Khan*, every step such as,
registration, admission, classroom entry and exit, class work, attendance, discussion with
course mates, feedback, exams and finally certification must take place electronically through
computer and the Internet technology in a virtual campus. Everything is digitized and
conducted by a system called Learning Management System (LMS). So, online education
programs blend various components of e-learning.
The revolutionary concept of e-learning is already in its practice phase in many parts of the
world. Professor Khan has developed a framework and important literatures on e-learning
which have been praised by pundits worldwide including Bangladesh. Professor Khan is
especially enthusiastic about the prospect of e-learning in Bangladesh. How would you feel if
Bangladesh contemplates South Asias first virtual university? Wont it be a pioneering step
for us in the world of e-learning? Lets keep our fingers crossed.

D. Suppose Badrul Huda Khan has come to visit your school and intended to meet
students for a presentation on e-learning. Write a text message to invite your friend
to attend that presentation by using your mobile phone.

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E. Write an email by using Gmail to your teacher expressing your feelings and opinion
regarding the next mode of education - e-learning. Also ask your teacher to clarify
if anything in the text is not understood by you.
To email someone is an easy thing. For do so you need an email account in yahoo
mail/Gmail. Enter in Gmail with your Gmail ID and password. Then click on compose
button. Then the compose window will come and you will be able to write an email. Put
email ID to whom you are sending the mail and subject, add your email and finally click send
button. In this process you will be able to send email to anyone.

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F. Complete the following sentences by using Hot Potatoes.

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Complete the following sentences.

1. Education experts . utilizing the advantages of computer
technology . a long time.
2. In e-learning, everything from admission to certification must .
.............. Electronically through computer and the Internet technology in a virtual
campus.
3. In some online courses, you . your test online.
4. In case of online programs, there some conventional campus
from where .
5. In e-learning, all activities .. . by a system called
Learning Management System (LMS).

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